There’s a Thai restaurant literally 3 minutes away from my house. I live just 10 minutes away from food, really good food. But, the fridge would be right there 100 steps away.

I would start with the best of intentions, I’m sure. In fact, I knew I couldn’t successfully water fast at home. I’m one of those people who, if something hurts, or I’m hungry, everybody around me is gonna know about it. I don’t just do every hard thing, because it’s a challenge.īesides being raised Mormon, where we fasted Saturday night to Sunday night one Sunday every month from the age of 8, I have absolutely no reason why fasting for 40 days would be easy for me. I’ve never run a race longer than a 10k and don’t plan to. I’m not a biohacker, constantly using technology on myself to experiment. When water is readily available, it is hard for most people to abstain from it. Let’s talk about the crazy, slightly disgusting, and amazing things that happen in the human body when you fast for a long period of time, why I keep doing this, what I get from it, and why you might want to consider a fast of your own, whether with or without food. I don't honestly believe that most people can or will go completely without food for a week or more, like I did. (By “fasting-mimicking,” I mean you can eat, but food is completely prescribed and scheduled to achieve similar benefits to fasting.) I developed a modified fasting kit this year, as well as what could be described as a fasting-mimicking detox five years ago, which 13,000 people have now done. Now, my research into fasting-including doing it myself 4 times in the past 2 years (for 12 days, 9 days, and 7 days twice, and some shorter fasts in between)-has less to do with spiritual fasting or purification and more to do with the health benefits. What I Learned From Fasting Without Food.How Can I Get the Benefits of Fasting Without Actually Fasting?.Is Water Fasting Without Food Good for Weight Loss?.What Does Research Show the Benefits of Fasting Are?.What Are the Side Effects of Fasting Without Food?.Why I Didn’t Do My Water Fasting at Home.After all, some sects in those religious traditions used to fast at length, even for weeks at a time. I’m talking about 'eating absolutely nothing for a long period of time.' (With water, it's called “water fasting,” or without water, it's called “dry fasting.”) And, I’ve always felt that when Christians, Muslims, and Jews quit fasting routinely, we lost something important.

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Moses fasted 80 days