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May 13, 2010
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I would recommend a juice fast
by: Jenya

Hi Claudia
I think to overcome your food addiction it would be better to do a juice fast. This site has links to show you how. Water fasting I think will mess with your metabolism too much. You can go a lot longer on a juice fast and your body will be healing itself of addictions and toxins. I am on day four of my juice fast. Hoping to go 14 days. I have a carb addiction. God bless you.

Feb 14, 2010
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Hi, Claudia; Fellow Recovering Food Addicts
by: Anonymous

HI, Claudia,

I am a chronic food addict who has just started to get really "sober" from the food addiction. I am experiencing success for the first time in my life at refraining from eating when eating is not Ok with me...

I am trying to learn to take the next step and fast. I, like your other respondent, and really impressed by the weight loss you have achieved.
I'm just under 4' 11" tall, so in your post your height caught my eye. I know I also encountered pressure to overeat, growing up.

I have been on raw foods only for about 2 years and for the past almost 14 years I have been as thin as I always wanted to be... from following a food plan... though problems remain, hence my need to fast.

I am trying to learn how to commit to a fast and am often scared to do it -- not really, but my mind invents excuses, if you know what I mean -- I'm scared mainly by being thin and scared that others will reject me or worse (imprison me? force-feed me?) if I do the fast I need to do.

I have recently come under some control in my eating and am not suffering so much, since I am overeating less. It is really, really hard, a hard way of life, a discipline I just have to accept and get used to.

I know that fasting would really lift and heal me, and that I really need to do it. And I want to do it for my own sense of dignity and empowerment. I want to achieve the fasting because it would

I know it is safe. I just need a lot of support, and someone who will not participate in my false fears about the thinness that will result from my fasting. I need to be able to vent my fears about my thinness so that I keep trusting the fast and keep on it, so that at last I can get some healing, after many, many wasted years, of having no relationships, no job, nothing, no engagement in life; all because of my compulsion to use food as a fix.

I need support to make the life choice to clean up my diet, too -- to get off fruit and other triggering raw foods. Actually, fruit is the only really problem food I eat. I can only say that it makes me insane, in a sense... this is what triggering food does... What I need support to do is start producing sprouted items that would constitute a truly better, non-triggering diet for myself. This is work, and I have to become resigned to doing it -- or, committed to doing it.

The problem is how sad and grim it all feels as I write all this. But it is truly sadder and grimmer to be a slave to food... and be ill and tired all the time... bingeing on raw food does not make me gain weight, for which I am grateful, but it does make me dysfunctional.

So, what is my goal? I need to fast at some length, several days, regularly. I need therefore to learn to fast for such a length of time. I can get to about 2 days but am victim to thoughts of its not being in some sense "worth it" to continue. My life needs to become more compelling and worthwhile to me...

Feb 14, 2010
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LAURA's comment , continued
by: Anonymous

I have set up, tentatively, or, sort of vaguely, a program of lengthening my fasts gradually. I took a 24 h fast the other day. I have this plan to begin a 36 hor fast tomorrow, then take a 48h fast at some point quite soon... but... I don't know... I am conflicted about fasting starting tomorrow since, again, I am thin.

But if I let too much time elapse I will get out of the practice of fasting. Won't it be harder then? i wish I could put down food firmly for a long time until I were well. This would probably be better for my body. I am just suffering right now because I really want to get this fasting going and fast 36 h starting tomorrow but have this feeling (real? false?) that this is "too much" or "too soon."

I am vulnerable writing this because it is important to me to judge my desire to fast as a valid desire. I know that whenever a person says "don't fast" it is HORRIFYING to me. I don't want to rush myself, though. I , again, so wish I could just put down food right now and stay off it for 2 weeks.

So, I guess I have to get myself to the place where it is easier to put down the food. In other words, I have to get some triggering foods out of my diet. This means starting my sprouting. With the less triggering diet I will be able to fast more easily. I won't be as addicted to eating. ... I have to trust that I will indeed be

Feb 14, 2010
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food addict, too; recovering now
by: Anonymous

(Laura's comment, continued)
ready for my 36 h fast soon, if tomorrow seems too soon. I am so vulnerable talking about this, but I have to say that I MUST fast, for my dignity and sense of empowerment -- there are simply no two ways about it; and my healing requires the fasting, too. I guess I just have a little work to do (sprouting, diet cleanup) to facilitate the fasting and I guess I have to be patient and the time will come when I KNOW it is OK to fast and I will do it. I want to make a 36 h fast then a 48 h then a 60 h then a 72 h and so on. i want to make a firm schedule for these fasts and longer ones. i want to work out a time frame for this series of fasts which really does feel Ok and healthy and good...
I am making a blog about this process which is intended to track my behavior and my achievement of this action of fasting, which will be my empowerment and healing.
Please write if you would like to be in touch!!! I hope to hear from you. I am at lcathf@gmail.com

Feb 14, 2010
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Hi Claudia!
by: Anonymous

Wow! You are living proof that through fasting, great things can be achieved! You need to give yourself a big hug from me on the fact that you have done so well at overcoming alcohol addiction and have continued on a positive path with your weight control! I know this has not been easy for you....please give yourself the credit that you deserve!!!

I am beginning a new (1 week) fast tomorrow and have 2 friends that will join me...for me, it's easier to take fasting in 5 day increments (vs looking at 30 days, though that would be a goal I would like to get to).

Please join us as we start tomorrow, 2/15/10! I plan on fasting for 5 days, then will judge where I am and will continue from there accordingly.

If you would like to join us, please contact me at jb521@aol.com

You and I have a lot in common where depression and alcohol are concerned, I would love to help you through this!

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