I plan on a 3-4 day fast... page

[Loneketo]

I'm planning on a 3 to 4 days fast soon... I was wondering what could get me into deeper detoxing to get as much as possible out of the fast? Like the last few meals before.

I was thinking something like:

Breakfast:

3-5 apples
3 or more kiwi fruits
Cup of spinach
50 mg Zinc Gluconate(antioxidant)

Lunch:
3 apples
2 kiwi fruits
Cup of spinach

Dinner:
2 apples
2 pears
Kiwi fruits
Cup or two of spinach
50mg Zinc Gluconate

I will be sick of the apples, but I'm in it for that pectin phytonutrients(and I don't have a great variety of fruits) to help clean my colon. Also want pears to help clean me out and kiwi fruits for their craploads of Vitamin C, and also The zinc for obvious reasons.

For the sake of arguement:

I don't care about:
Protein, I want as little as possible to not slow my digestive system.
Muscle loss, if there is any
Weight loss
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I care about:
Detoxification
So anything I can add to help with detoxification? I don't know if I'll have what you suggest but anything conventional or at least some what conventionally found in an average household.

Other questions I have:

Will bananas help? Or will they slow my system because of their texture?
Since I will mostly likely will not be doing anything except nothing for 3 days, will the little to no stress speed up detoxification?
And if you can point me to any link that can also assist me that would be greatly appreciated.

[Betorq]

Dude, sugar & oxalic acid does not make a detox go any better in my experience with therapeutic fasting, which began in the 1980s when I was in college.

How much fasting have you done in the recent past? How many successful 18, 24 & 48 hour fasts have you done? I generally do 42-50 hour fasts once a week, but I'm not new to this sort of stuff. With only breakfasts & dinners the other 5 days of the week, no lunchs (generally) & little to no snacking.

I recommend that you fast on lots of healthy fats & lay off the listed examples of sugary fruits & spinach the day before. Like loads of avocados, minimally salted olives, some celery sticks, cukes, liberal amounts of fresh fermented foods like kimchi & sauerkraut, kombucha etc.

[Crabbcakes]

You haven't said what kind of fast you are doing. Is this a water-only fast? A freshly-juiced produce / broth fast? There is a difference between them.

I am a veteran of a couple of 10-day lemon-juice fasts, some inadvertent short ones, like the 18-hour ones, just because life got in the way of food here and there, and regular 24-hour ones because the church I belonged to for most of my life fasted for 24 hours once a month all year round.

Yeah, a low stress level helps. If you have never done a fast before, being under stress is no way to see how you react to a fast, and I mean that psychologically as well as physically.

And for detox, one fast definitely isn't going to be enough. You will need to make this a lifestyle feature. So think of this as an initiation.

[Warmbear]

Frankly with all that sugar loading up front, your fast is going to be a misery. As for detoxing and cleansing the colon, I dont know anything about that but it seems to me rather unnecessary as the body can clean itself out pretty well. If I fast after a carb heavy day man is it hard. fasting after a fat heavy day and it just flows by.

[Drumroll]

I'd say one or two days of eating VLC is in order to ease your body's transition into the fat burning mechanism that it will be forced to use and not have it expecting carbs when you're giving it none.

By the way, for the first two days or so, you can get away with absolutely no nutrients (even by supplementation) and I'd recommend it to increase the results you get from autophagy. By day three you might be feeling a little out of whack from low electrolyte levels however, and I'd recommend you get some just to help regulate fluid levels and muscle function. Continue to drink water during the fast (obviously) and a little caffeine can be added in to enhance fat loss. Just be aware that caffeine is more readily and efficiently absorbed on an empty stomach, so you don't need as much as when you are consuming it alongside a meal, keep that in mind.

[Damiana]

Why are you fasting? Weight loss? Health in general? Unless you're trying to lose a lot of weight, I don't really see the point in doing a fast that long. Detoxing is not a good reason, our bodies have livers and kidneys for a reason, and they are marvelously efficient at what they do if one eats a good balanced diet, or he'll, even a crappy one. If you've never done a fast for that long before, it's probably going to be pretty hellish. Why not start with 1-2 days and then work your way up?

[Knifegill]

First, list what toxins you are trying to eliminate. If you can do that, then you can start considering methods for chelation or other degradation methods. If you cannot list any specific toxin you are trying to eliminate, take a step back and ask yourself what you're doing. A given fast may or may not aid in the elimination of any given toxin.

[Loneketo]

Why are you fasting? Weight loss? Health in general? Unless you're trying to lose a lot of weight, I don't really see the point in doing a fast that long. Detoxing is not a good reason, our bodies have livers and kidneys for a reason, and they are marvelously efficient at what they do if one eats a good balanced diet, or he'll, even a crappy one. If you've never done a fast for that long before, it's probably going to be pretty hellish. Why not start with 1-2 days and then work your way up?

Health in general an detoxification. Sorry I forgot to mention I did many fasts of 1 or 2 days before.

Frankly with all that sugar loading up front, your fast is going to be a misery. As for detoxing and cleansing the colon, I dont know anything about that but it seems to me rather unnecessary as the body can clean itself out pretty well. If I fast after a carb heavy day man is it hard. fasting after a fat heavy day and it just flows by.

Thanks, I'll lay off most sugars then.

You haven't said what kind of fast you are doing. Is this a water-only fast? A freshly-juiced produce / broth fast? There is a difference between them.

I am a veteran of a couple of 10-day lemon-juice fasts, some inadvertent short ones, like the 18-hour ones, just because life got in the way of food here and there, and regular 24-hour ones because the church I belonged to for most of my life fasted for 24 hours once a month all year round.

Yeah, a low stress level helps. If you have never done a fast before, being under stress is no way to see how you react to a fast, and I mean that psychologically as well as physically.

And for detox, one fast definitely isn't going to be enough. You will need to make this a lifestyle feature. So think of this as an initiation.

I have done many fasts before, just. Ever got past the 2 day mark.

Dude, sugar & oxalic acid does not make a detox go any better in my experience with therapeutic fasting, which began in the 1980s when I was in college.

How much fasting have you done in the recent past? How many successful 18, 24 & 48 hour fasts have you done? I generally do 42-50 hour fasts once a week, but I'm not new to this sort of stuff. With only breakfasts & dinners the other 5 days of the week, no lunchs (generally) & little to no snacking.

I recommend that you fast on lots of healthy fats & lay off the listed examples of sugary fruits & spinach the day before. Like loads of avocados, minimally salted olives, some celery sticks, cukes, liberal amounts of fresh fermented foods like kimchi & sauerkraut, kombucha etc.

Thanks, yes I have done many 18,24,48 hour fasts before. I'll keep in mind to lay off the sugar then. Sorry that's just how I use to do fasts before Primal haha.