All returns
More than a third of those who tried fasting did it for the purpose of weight correction. Nothing to eat - an effective way to lose weight? No, it's an illusion. If within a week we do not get any calories, we lose about 10% of our initial weight. However, it is only necessary to return to the usual diet, as we at least regain the former kilograms, or even gain superfluity. When fasting, a person usually loses more weight than with different diets, but this lasts only until he again begins to eat. " According to observations, after fasting, weight is restored much faster than after diets. Prolonged (more than six to eight days) fasting reduces the basal metabolism, and when we start to eat, for the first time the body manages much less energy than before. And everything that is not spent, goes into fat stores. Fasting in the treatment of obesity is used, perhaps, only in Russia, it is already proved throughout the world that this is absolutely inefficient from the point of view of long-term results.
Upgrade from inside
Most often, those who want to become healthier turn to the method of curative fasting. Traditional medicine uses so-called unloading and dietary therapy for bronchial asthma, coronary heart disease, hypertension, vegetative-vascular dystonia ... It is reasonable to prescribe fasting in autoimmune diseases, as it suppresses the activity of the immune system. In the manual for doctors on the discharge and dietary therapy of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, there are 16 diseases in which a temporary refusal of food can bring relief. How long the patient will need to be without food, the doctor decides, he also controls his state of health and prescribes accompanying procedures, and if necessary - and medicines. When fasting, the effect of temporary improvement occurs. Passes pain, the general condition stabilizes. But all this lasts while a person is starving, then everything often returns to normal. " The method of curative fasting is necessarily accompanied by daily cleansing enemas and water procedures. The result, as they say, is obvious: many who at least once hunger, talk about the effect of external rejuvenation: someone is missing bags under the eyes, someone - flabbiness of the skin. Often the condition of hair and nails improves, sweating decreases. Usually I always have pimples on my face, but after three days of starvation and cleansing enema my skin became smooth and this remained for about another month. The external effect of starvation was obvious. Skin condition is inextricably linked with the activity of the intestine. From it, toxins are absorbed into the blood, which are the products of the decomposition of substances and the vital activity of microbes, as well as those harmful substances - for example, the dyes and preservatives that come with food. Therefore, for healthy skin it is important that the intestines work. Starvation activates digestion processes, reduces the load on the digestive system.
Change habits
Even those who suffered a predictable fiasco in the fight against excess weight, due to the experience of starvation, received some important knowledge. For me, the most important effect of fasting is that after it became much easier to give up bad habits. So, last year I stopped drinking coffee in rabid amounts (which had a positive effect on my gastroduodenitis) and became much less sweet and floury. It turned out that after starvation it is easier for me to switch to a healthy diet. After several days of such food asceticism, it becomes possible to take a fresh look at your attitude to food, to realize your dependence on it, or to analyze your fear of losing something. Food in modern society satisfies not only the need to physically nourish our body - it has a direct relationship to our social rituals, values, family traditions. Sometimes we are too guided by the norms imposed on us, because of what we hear badly the signals of our bodies. Fasting makes it possible to revise our food stereotypes, to hear and interpret these signals, because at that time sensitivity to one's body increases, we become open to the information that comes from it. Often such an experience changes eating behavior. 30-year-old Natalia under the guidance of her gastroenterologist starved three times a week, but she could not learn to eat less. But it partially coped with its food dependencies. Now, instead of having to completely eat a chocolate bar per day, I eat only a quarter, and that's enough for me. During fasting, there is an opportunity to distinguish between their need for food and to receive emotional pleasure, to find other sources of it.
To become a gourmet
Many who have tried fasting say that, in psychological terms, abstinence from eating gives a lot. Correct starvation, which necessarily implies a smooth entry into it and even more smooth exit, helps to learn more subtly to feel the taste, smell and texture of food, pay attention to nuances. Before I started starving, I ate mostly meat. My therapist advised me to go out of starvation on light vegetable food - and now I am surprised every time how much taste in those products that to me at usual time seem almost tasteless! After the first week of starvation, I fell in love with green salads, and before that I ate them, probably only in my childhood. During fasting or diet, the taste buds "rest". After this, our patients often begin to perceive more subtle nutritional nuances.
Be yourself
After starvation, pride appears for myself: I was able to do it, I manage my life. This has a positive effect on self-esteem and very much helps the development of willpower. For her, the main sensation in the period of fasting is not the "ease" described by many, but a feeling of complete control over the situation: over the body, over emotions. But do not experience false illusions: not all people refuse to eat smoothly. With food, a lot is connected in our existence. It is not only pleasure, it is the rhythm of life itself. A person who has started fasting often discovers that he has been liberated for a very long time, and a separate problem becomes the need to understand what to do with this time. Often he is confronted with the fact that he is not satisfied with what life offers him. Fasting also puts us before the need to abandon the pleasure that food brings us: from taste sensations, smells, associated positive emotions. And from the support that we are used to finding in it. I was like a drug addict during the break-up, terribly frustrated with others. I had not even thought about what a great place food takes in my life. As it turned out, when I eat, I stop being nervous. And here there is no food - and I can not calm down.
Change the rhythm
Outside the city, I was hungry for a week, in the city - usually no more than two or three days: longer it was hard because of the growing sense of smell. In nature, it turned out what is usually given with difficulty: to slow down the flow of thoughts. In meditation, I entered almost without difficulty. During the walk, inhaling the forest smells, I realized how happy my dog feels when running on a soft needle. A key condition for successful fasting is an environment that will not be associated with the usual daily routine and meals. The ideal place is a specialized clinic. However, experienced "starving" with a good state of health doctors sometimes allow for an independent short-term fasting.