Fasting

Last night I was having a read of Steve Pavlinas's Forum and I found a number of threads on fasting and its health benefits. There appears to be a number of ways to fast, but the 2 I mostly read about were water only and juice fasting. Water only fasting, is just that you only drink water during the fast and nothing else, where as juice fasting is only drinking water and juiced fruit and vegetables, no solids. Apparently fasting allows the body to rid itself of toxins and heal itself, the theory is that because the body doesn't have to use energy digesting food it can use that energy to heal instead. Fasting is supposed to leave you feeling energised, invigorated and clear headed, this is probably because your not taking in any additives or sugar etc that can affect your physiology.

I decided to give fasting a try, just for 1 day to see how it goes, I settled on a water only fast as I thought it would be easier on short notice than buying loads of fruit and veg and juicing it up. I started today, the last food I had was about 22:00 last night, so at the time of writing this it's been just over 24 hours without food. To be honest today's been pretty easy, I've only felt hungry a couple of times and not for very long. The hardest thing about the fast is breaking the habit of eating, a few times even though I wasn't hungry I wanted to eat anyway.

As I write this I'm starting to feel hungry, I think I'll go to bed in a minute and I'll have something to eat tomorrow morning.