yes eithiopians do it all the time... Is that racist?

Not unless youre muslim.Get some food down you ,you silly sod!

why you protesting or something.
eat somthing we need it for energy

No! why are you fasting. Eat and get in the gym girly man

its normal. but dont do it for more than like 4 days or youll get realy sick.
actually youll probably pass out when your at 3 days.

heres why: your probably doing this to get thin right? well when your finished with the 52 hour fast your going to be realy hungry and youll scarf down whatever you see. You might gain back more than you lost!

dork. good job though.

Yeah, basically I gorged myself when I was done. I wasn't doing it to lose weight. The thing is, living off of dorm food, sometimes you just feel like crap and you need to get away from it for a bit. Awhile back I did a 24 hour fast, and once the hunger died down I felt great. When I broke the fast I was feeling like I could have done another day without any trouble. I'm already thin, so weightloss is not one of my goals. I would not recommend a fast of much longer than 24 hours to anyone, more than two days sucks ass. In the morning of the last day before I went to brunch I felt weak, and was experiencing other effects that I won't describe here.

dammit rogerr. tell more effects.

What happens when you have to go poopie but there's nothing in your digestive tract but grapefruit juice?

hmmm fisting..don't think i have..

haha. rogerr. thanks for that.

Is normal if you do it once in a month or so, because it will actually cleanse your organism... But donīt do it too often or your stomach will shrink like a raisin, and on the long term you will probably have digestive problems or something worst like stomach cancer.

"cleanse your organism"...

WhAt?ŋ?

There are over 25 million animal species on the planet, and virtually all of them fast when not well enough. You may have witnessed this first hand if you've ever had a cat or dog. Like other animals, when they are ill or injured badly enough, they will lie down and refuse food, not moving until they have substantially recovered.

Often, when people are sick, they lose their appetite. In our culture, we often encourage them to eat to 'keep up their strength.' Unwittingly, we are further teaching them to Not follow their instincts and intuition.

Unlike medicine - both conventional and alternative - fasting is about actually healing the body, rather than simply treating symptoms. It's not that fasting actually 'does' anything. It doesn't. Healing is an inherent power of every living organism. Fasting simply provides the body - any body - with the optimal conditions and opportunity to cleanse itself of accumulated toxins, and heal any prior damage. In this way, it's evident that fasting is the best way to deal with almost every condition.

Though there is much misinformation out there, the body will never injure itself when fasting. It knows exactly what it is and is not capable of handling, and though we sometimes detoxify faster than we might like to, this is rarely if ever dangerous.

Your body temperature is also virtually guaranteed to drop while fasting. Again, this is not inherently a problem, though it means you will need to take extra precautions to maintain your body temperature, especially when fasting in the winter. Don't wait until you're chilled to warm up. Doing so means that you are wasting your body's precious energy - energy that could be used for cleansing and healing. Rather, seek to stay warm. This may mean wearing more clothes than you would if not fasting.

Fasting is often thought of as abstaining from food, but this is really only part of the picture. To provide the body with the optimal conditions in which to heal, it's important to provide complete rest. Because the digestive tract uses approximately 50% of the body's daily energy, complete rest necessitates not eating. It also necessitates minimizing unnecessary brain function, as the brain is the second highest consumer of the body's energy, using about 35%. You can certainly read, write, and think if you choose to, but your process will be more effective if you don't do any more of these things than necessary.

Research has proven the amazing benefits of meditation, which provides a level of rest that is in some ways, deeper than sleep.

The liver's glycogen stores will last between 8-12 hours, at which point the body, maximizing efficiency, goes to the next most readily available source of glucose - muscle tissue. In a process called neoglucogenesis, the body converts muscle tissue to glucose. Don't worry -- if you're fasting correctly and minimizing your activity, (and therefore your caloric needs), you won't consume muscle tissue during this stage of the process.

The keys, as mentioned earlier, are to eliminate or minimize all unnecessary activity, to provide your body with the deepest levels of rest possible, to drink enough water (covered later in the book), to maintain your body temperature, to rise slowly to minimize the likelihood of passing out, and to relax in the knowledge that you are providing yourself with an amazing gift.

The benefits of fasting are numerous and include not only a much higher-functioning physical body, but also more mental clarity, and a deepened sense of connection to all life.

Drink enough water is approximately 2 Quartz per day.

hmm.

I've starved myself daily from october to now and i was "big" back then, but not now.

I've lost about 50 lbs since then.. and uhh.. i wanna eat soo bad sometimes, but when i do i feel it actually makes me fat.. :|

i gotta fix this problem.

Yea man, that is not fasting for good as I say, you got yorself a problem (probably know that), but is not uncommon, nor healthy.
The thing is, the problem is in your way of thinking, you need to love your body more, it is your temple.
People tend to think temples are like those made by the Vatican, but that is an ugly mistake, our temples are our own bodies, made by God for our souls, not made by men for greed.

PS: eating doesnīt make you fat, the lack of physical activity does.

yeah, it's pretty bad now.. :

even my parents noticed it.. they say i'm destroying my immune system, etc.. i feel fine, but i DO get sick pretty easily nowadays..

i just can't stop doing it.. as bad as i would like it, i can't

As I said, the problem is in your way of thinking, donīt ever say: "I canīt do it", because you are the master of your own body.
You need to get in touch with your body, tell your brain:"Iīm your master, now and always".
Your body will do as you wish, so you CAN do it, if you really want to.

But as stargirl said, (and she is right on the spot): "youīll be big again"; donīt feel disencouraged, if you manage to get a good diet and exercise, youīll get a balance; you canīt have one without the other without having bad consequences.

eh, i don't plan on getting big again.. i'll just keep going like this before i go back to 200-ish lbs.

i eat here and there, though. not everyday, more like every other day, or 3.. i'm not gaining weight back, because i run around and walk home from school (no license yet..) i skate, ride my bike, etc. feels much better to have a flat stomach, no stretch marks, etc. than to have a gut.. :D

Not eating sucks man

ohh.. or eat more often.. and like.. yeah.

hmm.. i'll eat lotsa fruits everyday. and low calorie foods. :D

OR, i could be like Anna Nicole and eat a lot take that lose weight pill thing.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with weighing 200 lbs, I weigh 200 lbs, and I'm definitely not fat. And as far as starving oneself goes, forgive the huge logical fallacy in this, but I rarely deprive myself of food, and I've only been sick twice in the past year. *knock on wood*

Eh, i didn't like being 200 lbs.. had to go and it's gone.

let's hope you don't get sick, though? :P

yea it is only cuz people have it imprented in their minds that they have to look a certain way.. and others aren't right.. so I guess you could say it is normal..

i hope u die