We as a collective are rarely hungry when we eat, we mainly eat out of habit, boredom and also to suppress our emotions and traumas instead of dealing with them in the moment (Same with many drugs). Many of the negative, stressfull and anxiety inducing things that have happend to you or you have put into the world are stored within you and you carry them around with you in your mind and body. They may manifest as toxins, disease, inflamation and dead water weight within the body and they manifest within the subconscious as negative, limiting, and self destructive states of mind.
More so than your consciousness our subconscious creates our reality, our little pocket of the earth. When you dry fast long enough these negative things that have been affecting your life and that are suppressed with in you for possibly a very long time, will start to come to the surface for you to deal with them and let them go for ever (This can manifest as bad dreams, negaitve states of mind and having to relive these things you have been suppressing). You will be purifying your body and mind at the same time and it will pour over into you outer world which will be becoming more purified and refined aswell.
I believe this is why fasting is pushed so much in almost all religious cultures. it is the ultimate tool to purify yourself and to have a less distorted way of living and perception of the world. A clean slate.
This is my ultimate motivation to do a prolonged dry fast. 11 days is something I’m building up too. I’m rooting for you friend.
Every Monday and Tuesday I dryfast. I lose about 10lbs give or take during that time. It gets tough but it’s doable.
Just a few months ago it was every mon/tue/wed but I know longer have the discipline for Wednesday. It’s not that I must eat or I’m starving it’s just that I’m bored and truly miss my coffee and snacks (mostly healthy)
So here I am again. Monday dryfasting feeling fine but already thinking of wed afternoon to join the living again. Lol
I think it is easier than water fasting because you can avoid all thoughts about consuming anything. I have only dry fasted for 4 days just to see how I felt. I felt like I did on water fasting, clear, energetic until the end of day 4 I was low energy. I didn’t weigh, because I knew it would be a short fast and the initial weight you lose is glycogen/water, which will come back once you eat/drink again. Today I am starting intermittent dry fasting, mainly because I find it easier to not drink. I will do 21:3 at first and see how it goes and work out dry fasted. I might alter it to 23:1 if all goes well. I have heard of others alternating dry and wet fasting days as well successfully. I have wet fasted for 20 days 3 different times. All great experiences regarding energy and mental clarity, skin was glowing, raised scar smoothed out, fixed a health issue I have had since I can remember (digestive related). If you are doing this for weight loss, you will lose weight faster including some sort of dry fasting, but you can’t go back to the eating habits that created your weight in the first place.
I want to do a dry fast starting tomorrow until Thursday. So just 2 days. How do you prepare beforehand? I’m very used to water fasting and typically do at least 18/6 every day. But most days I find myself at upwards of 24-36 hours. Do you hydrate a lot before? Like would i be drinking a lot of water today?