Mary said:
Jojosparkles: please be careful! I have done water only fasts before but the most I did was 7 days and it's tough! Have you considered maybe a partial water fast and then the rest of the days add some vegetables and maybe fruit or juice's?
Yes, eat vegetables at least, and real fruit or fresh juice. Otherwise you will run out of vitamins etc...
Anyway, best of all would be to avoid this completely, if you don't mind. Fasting leads to your body destroying MUSCLES much before fat, which, besides being undesiderable in itself, causes a lot of waste from protein methabolism to build up in your blood stream, much the same effect as when you eat too much meat (and that is what you are doing, in effect, you are eating proteins and nothing else for days. Proteins from your own muscles). This is damaging and intoxicating, not puryfing at all. The "puryfication" only occurs during the first day or so, when you are still using up the energy reserves in your liver, and you burn toxins with them. But after that, you are on a diet of pure meat.
My source is a professor of medicine in a main university, explaining this on television on the main national channel, I happened to hear it just a couple of weeks ago. I'm not an expert in these matters, and I have no prejudice about fasting or diets, but what that guy explained was really convincing, and as I said it is a reliable source, I wouldn't trust much of what you find on the internet, where anybody can write anything. (this is actually quite ironical, as I find myself being a voice over the internet as well...)
I know it's easier to be drastic sometimes (psycologically, I mean), but you would probably do yourself more good by just reducing a little your calorie intake, without excesses.
