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> How long would you be comfortable fasting for without medical supervision? One week if you don't have any major health issues. Not even a day if you're suff
by Florin_Andrei 13y ago
> How long would you be comfortable fasting for without medical supervision?
One week if you don't have any major health issues.
Not even a day if you're suffering from some serious condition.
Plan for less physical activity than usual, but do not become a vegetable. Take some short walks, do some small work with your hands. Meditation is great during this time, but you have to be somewhat accustomed to it.
Restart eating step by step. Begin with some fruit juice or clear soup. Then graduate to very soft, almost overcooked rice or something like that. A vegetarian diet for the first few days is beneficial. The longer you're fasting, the more cautious you have to be with restarting your diet.
- ibdknox 13y ago> The longer you're fasting, the more cautious you have to be with restarting your diet. Do you have any experience on what happens if you don't? It certainly makes intuitive sense that you need to ease yourself back into "normalcy", but what are the potential risks that everyone is very explicit about trying to avoid?
- masklinn 13y ago> what are the potential risks that everyone is very explicit about trying to avoid? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome (fluid disorders, neurologic, muscular and hematologic complications, gastrointestinal disturbances, can culminate in coma and cardiac arrhythmias or failure)