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Your First 24-Hour Water Fast
If you have not read the Water Fasting Main page, I encourage you to go there now and read the introduction so you can better follow the pattern of this water fasting tips discussion.
In short, the main focus of our talk up to now has been on the spurt of bowel movements that will likely strike when you start drinking larger amounts of water than your body is used to.
To me this was crucial because of the large amount of intestinal toxicity that I carried around from years of unhealthy and binge eating.
The debris coming out of your body may shock you. We are now going to get into much more water fasting tips detail.
I strongly recommend that you print this page so that you can go over it and mark it as you need. It will help you to refer back to it time and again as you begin and traverse your water fast.
Power of Water Fasting
Water-fasting is a very old and amazing practice used for thousands of years as a form of recovery from a diversity of ailments.
In its strictest form, water fasting is to be practiced with purified water.
But we are not going to say that you will receive no benefits "unless" you use purified water.
One of the water fasting tips I always mention is that: Purified Water is optimal, but do not let that stop you if for whatever reason you do not have access to a purifier at present.
Body Functions While Fasting
Not eating solid food for a season via water fasting gives the human body an opportunity - especially the digestive system - to rest, flush out toxins and repair itself.
While you are water fasting, the body will switch its energy usage from that of constantly digesting daily food intake to cleansing.
The digestive system goes into hibernation and the body focuses on ridding itself of built-up toxins and on actually repairing and healing damaged cells and organs.
As water fasting tips, remember that as you move deeper into the process, your body will basically start to devour everything in its path that is not part of its normal functions.
This includes toxins in the blood stream, toxins and other derelict build-ups inside body fat and joints, fibroid tumors, viruses and bacteria - among others.
The First Three Days
Most of the amazing changes take place while fasting happen on the first three days of abstaining from solid food.
The reason is that it is during this time that the body is moving over from feeding mostly from daily food intake, to feeding from stored fat.
We have talked about this in other pages of this website, but it is worth mentioning again so you can fully understand what your body will be going through.
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One of the most important water fasting tips is to understand what you are going through, so that you do not become alarmed when you begin to experience the changes your body will undergo.
The Process of Ketosis
Under normal eating circumstances, the body will use the food you eat to extract the sugar "glucose."
Glucose is thus used by the body as "gasoline" to get you through the day and provide the energy you need to function.
But all of this changes drastically when you stop eating. When you are water fasting, the body amazingly shifts its fuel production from that of glucose from food, to that of "ketones" or fuel extracted from stored fat.
As part of water fasting tips I want you to be aware that: this reorganization of fuel production (from glucose to stored fat) starts the second day of food abstinence and is usually completed at the end of of your first 72 hours.
In some cases it may take up to four to five days, but three days is the average.
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By the third day, the production of ketone will become enough to deliver pretty much all the fuel it needs.
From the third day on, the body accelerates its consumption and breakdown of fatty acids and fat. This miraculous process hits is peak usually from the ninth to eleventh day.
This seven-day period, after the body has shifted completely over to ketosis, is where the maximum breakdown of fat tissue occurs.
It is also when the most significant healing begins to occur.
Let us not continue our water fasting tips discussion and go to Benefits of Water Fasting where we will talk more about fasting and healing.
Return from Water Fasting Tips to Water Fasting MAIN.
Robert Dave Johnston
Fitness Through Fasting - Editor
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