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We are also going to emphasize the importance of this precious liquid, and how drinking enough of it on a daily basis can not only help you slim down, but it can assist your intestine in staying clean and free of toxins.
Let us first look at the difference between water fasting and the so called "water diet" that many persons ask me about.
With water fasting, a person abstains completely from solid food for the purposes of weight loss and detoxification.
A water diet, on the other hand, involves the consumption of at least eight-to-ten 8-ounce glasses of water daily as part of an overall nutrition and health regimen.
These are two separate disciplines yet, in our minds, they should be used hand in hand to optimize your health and weight loss goals.
In various parts of this website I talk about the 40-day water fast I did some years ago and how it literally saved my life.
To this day, I continue to water fast once a week, followed by three-to-seven day fasts at least once a year.
1/2 Gallon of Water Daily For Life
The scientist-developed Water Diet asks you to commit to drinking half a gallon of cool water (no ice) daily - for life. This breaks down to eight, 8-ounce glasses per day - totaling 64 ounces - half a gallon. That's it!
Drinking half a gallon of water per day, it is indicated, can foster gradual weight loss over time, without exercise or special diets.
The premise is that cool water forces your body to burn roughly 60 calories more per day because it has to "warm" the water up to body temperature. Cool water means refrigerated – period. Not frozen or full of ice.
To be sure, there are two things that are vital for human life that often are either neglected or taken for granted: water and air.
Consider that the only liquids most people get around to drinking these hectic are juices, sodas, coffee or powdered diet drinks - anything except pure, unadulterated WATER. I was one of them.
But if you are truly serious about fasting for weight loss and health, then the water diet is imperative.
Water fasting is for a season of detoxification, healing and spiritual reflection.
The Water Diet is for keeps. It says: continue to drink half a gallon of water every day once the fast is over.
This, we believe, is quite possibly more important than the fast itself.
Drinking half a gallon of water every daily after you fast will take care of any toxins that linger in your body.
97% Water
Since the human body is 97 percent water, proper hydration is vital to keep the organs functioning properly - especially the digestive system and colon which can be so easily clogged when we eat the wrong types of foods - like I did.
The water diet does not imply fasting of any type. It is designed to support any conventional diet you may be following.
Our opinion is that every person should definitely follow the water diet.
Water fasting, however, can produce much faster and dramatic weight loss, while also cleansing your body of stored filth and toxins that could literally kill you.
Then, AFTER you fast, by all means continue to drink at the very least half a gallon of water per day.
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I DO NOT believe that simply drinking water while continuing to gorge and NOT change your eating habits will produce desirable results. I don't think that is what the water diet scientists had in mind either.
I DO know, however, that a diet IN ADDITION to the water diet, can indeed help keep you in track once you complete a fasting and detoxification process.
I use MediFast. It is among the very best and I highly recommend it.
Water - Not Coffee & Cigarettes
One key point I always emphasize to people I work with is that water fasting and the water diet are comprised of exactly that – WATER.
Many people argue and say that tea and coffee are made up of water and therefore should be allowed while fasting.
This is hogwash. The whole point of water fasting (and the water diet) is to help flush toxins with the indivisible power of water only.
There are various types of teas, however, that we do recommend to assist you in your fasting and cleansing efforts.
When you have time, visit our Green Tea Weight Loss page to read how oolong tea can accelerate fat burning and also give you energy while you fast.
Extended Water Fasting
Having practiced a partial fast of at least three days as talked about in water fasting, you can now start looking at a longer one of three to seven days - up to 40 days.
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Y! MyWebI do not recommend you go on a water fast longer than 40 days without including your physician. Juice Fasting can be extended beyond this point, depending on your body weight.
With water fasting, nonetheless, it is approximately on the 40th day of water fasting that the process of starvation begins.
This means that the body has begun to eat its own tissue. The fast must be broken immediately.
Start Water Diet One Week Before Water Fasting
I can tell you from first hand experience, that water fasting can be quite challenging.
You will face pretty much every human weakness you knew you had, and DID NOT know you had.
Visit Fasting and The Mind and Weight Loss Fasting for more on fasting, weight loss and the challenges and benefits involved.
Your body may go through notable discomfort for seven to 11 days, depending on how overweight and toxic you may be.
But do not shy away from the task at hand just because it will be uncomfortable, please.
The best way to launch an extended period of water fasting, I have found, is to actually start using The Water Diet at least one week before you begin.
Also, I suggest you taper off heavy and greasy foods during this time.
If you can drink as much as one gallon of water per day one week before starting the fast – so much the better. This will start the detox process.
Stay close to a toilet, is all I can say - especially if you NEVER have been much of a water drinker.
Moreover, cut out steaks, pastries and anything with a high sugar or fat content. If you are a coffee drinker, I strongly suggest that you move to decaf before launching the fast.
If you do not, the headaches can become quite nasty. I do not recommend in any way that you fast and continue to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes.
Why dump the garbage with one hand, and continue to pollute with the other?
If you are facing nicotine addiction as I did, I recommend you visit the CigArrest Official Site for motivation, tips and products that can help you stop for good. It did me!
In short, 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 juice or water fasting is over.
The water diet is one key component that can help you sustain the weight loss and improved health that you have accomplished.
Let's now talk more specifically about Water Fasting for Weight Loss and the dramatic changes it can produce in your life.
Remember:ENJOY YOUR PROCESS! - ENJOY YOUR LIFE
Return from Water Diet to Water Fasting MAIN.
Robert Dave Johnston
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