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Are you saying you didn't eat or drink anything during 9 days? What was your initial and final weight?
by arkitaip 7y ago
Are you saying you didn't eat or drink anything during 9 days? What was your initial and final weight?
- AmericanChopper 7y agoThe fasting discussion in this thread seems to be about caloric fasting, rather than religious fasting. The latter tending to prohibit drinking, while the former doesn’t.
- Someone1234 7y agoThey said nothing about drinking. It is pretty common parlance to use "fast" to mean "without food/calories" (i.e. water is completely kosher, and some argue "black" tea/coffee/diet soda is too as it is 0 calories/negative calories).
- copperx 7y agoOne warning - tea isn't necessarily kosher, because some artificial flavors are made from non-kosher ingredients.
- selectodude 7y agoI don't think he's referring to kosher as confirming to kashrut. I think he's using it more literally as hebrew for "fit".
- foxyv 7y agoMost medical fasts recommend avoiding artificial sweeteners during extended fasts as they cause the release of insulin through the incretin effect.
- gbear605 7y agoI can’t speak for OP, but most fasts of this kinds allow drinking water at the very least, and sometimes even light broths like chicken broth. Religious fasts, on the other hand, often don’t even allow drinking water.
- ip26 7y agoHowever it turns out some religious fasts allow you to eat whatever you want after dark, or something like that. The discovery of which tempered my awe somewhat.
- ben509 7y agoYeah, a lot of Muslims gain weight during Ramadan.[1] And I think they'd point out that the intent is spiritual. [1]: https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/cairo-the-sun-slips-beyond-the-nile-and-the-fast-is-broken-as-they-have-done-for-centuries-during-the-holy-month-of-ramad.html https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/cairo-the...
- javagram 7y agoFWIW this depends on the religion, traditional Christian fasts usually did allow water even in their strictest forms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Fast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Fast Although as others pointed out, Ramadan in Islam does not.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoThe terms set tasting and dry fasting are sometimes used to distinguish between fasting from food and fasting from eating and drinking. For weight loss fasting, it's usually wet fasting if not specified.