What foods do I break my fast with (in order) and is this a good breaking dry fast plan?

After many YouTube videos I've come to this conclusion, I want to truly help myself and others who struggle with the issue of not knowing how to break the dry fast with soo many different videos out there promoting either doing it with fruit to rehydrate or eggs for keto (Dr. Eric Berg). Each has a different view and it becomes extremely difficult to follow and make a decision. My goal is to keep the weight I lost during the fast off, I want to also go back to eating normally for a while as this is the 4th long dry fast I've done and it's not doing me well (I've become anorexic and a little unhealthy) So I wrote the following: Day 1- Hot/Warm Water 1 hour then another hour and after 3 hours I drink water normally but sips and in moderation (Only water fasting for the first day) Day 2- Warm Lemon Water (for kidneys) then Picari Sweat (It contains all ions to replenish Electrolytes and what not and is not high in sugar and I find it better than pink salt and baking soda the last time I tried something like that I puked) and then ginger tea to reactivate digestive system. Day 3 - Warm Lemon Water, and I start solid with Cucumber and Avocado (Healthy veggie and fat) as well as Ginger Tea again for better digestion Day 4 - I start incorporating fruit (Watermelon and etc.) Day 5 - Cooked Food  Is this alright? I am open to suggestions.

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The way to think of it is just, the stomach and gut is powered down, you are low on water and food and nutrients and your gut bacteria will be small.

The stomach needs time to power up. So eat a tiny bit at a time. Whatever you put in first is going to be the gut bacteria that grows - so if that’s coca cola and pringles, then you will get a tonne of coca cola and pringles gut bacteria - that wants more and more coca cola and pringles, and you will be back to bingeing. Eat what you intend to eat in your ‘healthy’ diet going forward, VERY slowly - mouthful at a time with some delay (10+mins) between mouthfuls. Yoghurt if its yoghurt, porridge if its porridge, potato if its that - something with fibre. Fatty meat is good. You definitely want salt which will be depleted. Fruit juice will cause insane sugar buzzes - it is worse than soda - the exact opposite of what you want. After 8 to16+ hours of eating NORMAL food of your normal diet going forward to re-establish your gut bacteria, eat some very nutritious food. Liver, organs, bone broth etc. to restore nutrients and add fruit and things. Most people on YouTube are idiots.

If you eat very small amounts over a long time, there isn’t that much that can go wrong. The point is to redefine your gut and not to overpower the stomach which is in a powered-down mode.

Anything that follows those principles can’t be that bad.

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This is a perfect plan to help ease transition, allow for easy digestion and keep refeed weight down.

I should have done this but I ate some meat and cheese two days after I broke my 5 day dry fast and just felt like utter crap as a result. I ended up going back to the watermelon, cucumber and broth soup with veggie protein I was eating prior. I’ve added kombucha and low sugar greek yogurt.

Btw, I don’t have a gallbladder so I really should have been more careful about this.