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The Liquid Fasting Diet Challenge
This was something that only a fast could accomplish. The power of fasting is huge, like a roaring King Kong. Destroying garbage and toxins in your bloodstream an digestive system.
At first, one of the things I did not realize was that my digestive system was severely polluted, and that no matter which diet I tried, the withdrawal symptoms and cravings for the wrong foods would always sabotage or limit my progress.
I fought this fact tooth-and-nail for years, but eventually I had to surrender and, grudgingly, start a liquid fasting diet and thus find lasting healing. Why did I fight it? I was scared of fasting really.
Or at least I was unwilling to abstain from eating for a season. In essence, I was so addicted to food that not eating, even for a few days, seemed to me like the most horrible torture I could endure. Today I realize this was just the toxicity and addiction taking. My mind, thoughts and belief systems all supported overeating, sloth and apathy.
A liquid fasting diet was the artillery that zapped both my mind and body out of this slavery and has given me a whole new perspective on life, health and fitness. It is my sincere hope that through this website I can transfer this message to you and be of support as you explore ways to improve your health.
Fasting Paths
When we say, "Liquid Fasting Diet," we are referring to various fasting disciplines in which you abstain from solid food for a pre-determined period of time for the purposes of weight loss and digestive system detoxification. A liquid fasting diet can be water fasting, or it can be juice fasting.
We are constantly expanding content to give you a wider spectrum of fasting alternatives. For quick weight loss of one pound per day, you can read up on Water Fasting.
It is fast, but tough because you are giving your body no calories at all.
I personally completed a 40-day water fast some years ago and it transformed my life. The hunger and withdrawal pains can be very acute during the first 11 days.
For weight loss of three to five pounds per week, you may opt for the discipline of juicing or Juice Fasting. For specific mixtures you can use to get started right away, visit our Fasting Juice Recipes page.
For shorter term yet very effective internal cleansing, you may opt to follow The Lemonade Diet - Master Cleanse Diet. If you already have all the information you need related to the Lemonade Diet, you can visit The Lemonade Diet Store for kits and supplies so you can get started.
When you have some time, read our discussion on The Water Diet.
If your interest in fasting is of an esoteric nature, go to Spiritual Fasting for a growing discussion on how various religions use fasting as a means to liberation and enlightenment.
Fasting is Blunt
Fasting is blunt and makes no excuses. Right from the start, it gives you a clear indication that -- for its duration -- you will not be eating solid food ... period. This presents the challenge head on and without reservation.
It does not try to "hide" the fact that hunger WILL be involved. A liquid fasting diet does not attempt to comfort me with "all you can eat" fruits, vegetables, meat or "sugar free" cakes and pastries.
This, to me, is like the alcoholic who is offered so called "near beer." Guess what will likely happen in the end? Yes, that is right...the person will probably end up drunk with the real thing.
That is why I always emphasize the difference between dieting and fasting.
Fasting Breakthrough
Fasting, for me, is like Dumbo the flying elephant finally becoming airborne without the feather in his trunk. It forces the person fasting to face fears and weaknesses head on. It provides no cushions, alibis or excuses.
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It deals with the root cause of the problem - toxicity in the blood stream and digestive system serving as a catalyst to lethargy, depression, isolation and all types of physical illnesses including diabetes and cancer.
For more on this, go to Fasting Health Information and Fasting and Diabetes. I knew I had to master my appetite with a liquid fasting diet, a period of not eating at all.
Diets placed me on a similar path by reducing my food intake, but only fasting gave me the sharp incisive instrument I needed to cut the roots of food addiction and usher in my transformation.
I am not saying here that all diets are worthless. We do recommend various programs in this website that are very efficient.
A well structured diet combined with exercise makes an indivisible combination that leads to sustained weight loss, health and fitness.
What I am saying is that fasting is ONE path at your disposal that will help you lose dangerous pounds quickly. It also gives your digestive system much-needed time to rest and rid itself of disease-causing intestinal toxins.
Withdrawal
Weight loss with dieting and exercise - at least at the very beginning - takes too long and often requires consistency and sacrifice that most obese people simply do not have.
If I am full of toxins constantly attacking me with cravings for sugar, fat and/or carbohydrates, a diet becomes a very uphill fight. Being nearly 70 pounds overweight, this was the primary cause of failure after failure when I attempted to diet. It was the reason why year after year I would always relapse and fall back into destructive eating.
What we're conveying is that, if what you seek is profound and dramatic change, personal experience has shown me that a liquid fasting diet (be it water or juice fasting) can take you there faster than anything else.
But you must be willing to go through the often painful and uncomfortable cleansing and detoxification process.
Quick Weight Loss
Concentrating efforts on a 30-day juice or water liquid fasting diet, while also challenging, can usually be more reachable than six months of dieting.
And the amount of weight that you can lose in 30 days will be radical - totaling about one pound per day if you are water fasting and three to five pounds per week during a juice fast.
This rapid weight loss with a liquid fasting diet is one of the key differences between dieting and fasting.
For me, the results from fasting were pretty drastic both in health and fitness. I no longer woke up wishing I had died in my sleep.
I actually could run up a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing. I could think more clearly and work longer hours. It was amazing.
As I said before, I was so trapped by food and obesity that anything less than a liquid fasting diet for total detoxification would have been more wasted time and money.
What we are presenting here is fasting as a viable alternative to losing weight. A pathway that can give you a brand new start in life and lay the foundation for permanent changes in your eating habits.
Dieting and fasting can work in your life if you approach each at the right time and for the proper reason. It is my opinion that a diet can be most effective after you have undergone a proper fasting and cleansing program to free your body of waste and toxicity.
Lasting Change
Fasting for weight loss only to return to poor eating is counterproductive and not what we are advocating here. You must be ready to undergo a profound and lasting change once the liquid fasting diet is over.
Dieting and fasting, whichever path you choose, or even if you decide to embrace both, will require resolve toward permanent shifts in the way you view and relate to food.
But you are not alone.
For additional support while you are fasting, please visit Fasting Motivation and Fasting and the Mind.
Also, if you are serious about fasting for fitness and to lose weight, you may also want to consider starting a Fasting Journal to record the thoughts, feelings and positive changes that will certainly materialize in your life. Dieting and fasting are life-changing events that should be recorded.
Return from Liquid Fasting Diet to Dieting and Fasting MAIN.
Robert Dave Johnston
Fitness Through Fasting - Editor
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