Fasting For Health

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Eat Stop Eat Review

2010-03-17T17:34:00.001-07:00

What I liked about my Eat stop eat review

So i did it, even whilst working i managed to do a fast while doing hard manual labor, i even drank green tea, and i lost probably more than 2 pounds of fat per week doing what eat stop eat proposes we do.

to choose 2 days a week when we abstain from food for 24 hours, this is actually easily done if you do it in a clever way, like eating until 2pm on a said day, then not eating until 2pm the next day, that way you eat every day yet are fasting! brilliant hey!

The Verdict

If you try it in the morning you may feel sleepy
once you are further into it your fat burning kicks in and your brain becomes super sharp and focussed, and awesome feeling!
you lose 2 pounds of fat easily
you lower your blood pressure if its high
you have a general feeling of wellbieng
scientists say you live 40% longer and age slower

If you want to check out more read about it on my website: lose fat body

Eat Stop Eat lifestyle Review coming up

2009-06-14T04:03:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,
Im about to undertake an awesome venture for my own health, its the exciting eat stop eat lifestyle.

As you may know if youve read my other posts, i have already cured my high blood pressure through doing a 5 day water fast.

As before i am going to track my progress and chart it in a graph, i will measure my BMI, weight and blood pressure, and it is also my goal to keep this as a lifestyle as the benefits are significant

eat stop eat's system is a form of alternate day fasting,
the benefits are:

weight loss(permanently as you live this lifestyle)
makes you younger- literally
sharper mind(improved intelligence, cognitive function and focus)
significantly lowers your risk of high blood pressure
reverses high blood pressure and related ills
longevity (life expectancy of up to 50% longer)
reverses insulin resistance(reverses type 2 diabetes)

All i can say is WOW where do i sign up!, so i got hold of Brad Pilon- the author of Eat Stop Eat, and i am reading through his material and i cannot stop being in awe of the guy, hes a nutritionist and his findings debunk most of the fitness and health dogma that the muscle building worlds supplement companies promote in order to sell their products. Anyhow, i am still reading Brads Eat Stop Eat guide, and i will only start the lifestyle once i fully understand what i am about to do.

So check back here for the daily updates as i go through the alternate day fasting lifestyle.

Fasting the Aftermath

2009-03-06T09:17:00.000-08:00

Firstly allow me to apologize for not continuing this blog for some time.

The aftermath of my fast is that I ended it after 5 days, as my pulse was going crazy and scared the dickens out of me. (it was 120 bpm). It returned to normal over the space of a day and a half. I still achieved my goals for going on the fast however: this was a few months ago and Ive kept most of the weight off, (my weight stabilised around 112kgs) and my blood pressure is cured, gone! completely! - I am really glad about that.

I am steadily trying to lose weight with more traditional means now, exercising regularly with a daily walk,and a kettlebell workout programme and watching what i eat(most of the time - i do slip up now and again.)

Another thing the fast did for me was returning my appetite to normal levels, I actually get full when i eat, before this for years i never got the trigger to stop eating and i was CONSTANTLY hungry, so somehow this seems to have also addressed a leptin imbalance,(hormone that controls just about everything in your system-most noted for your desire for food)

It is my Intention to also do mini fasts (2 day) every now and then to help detoxify my system and i am considering doing a full on Panchakarma detox(ayurvedic Detoxification program that lasts around 2 weeks and Thoroughly detoxifies your system.

Day 5 OUCH

2009-01-15T00:42:00.000-08:00

Whew I seem to be going through a healing crisis after all, I am getting flu symptoms, sneezing and producing loads of mucus- this may be part of the healing process however and it may be the way kapha ama is leaving my body.(Toxins)

I am concerned over my continued elevated heart rate as well as a mild state of needing to breathe a lot(breathlessness).

I am trying to research the causes for the elevated pulse rate and hope to find reasons etc so i can stop stressing, as high pulse rate (resting pulse rate) is a bad sign heart wise.

I was hypothetising that it may be due to the lack of glucose in my systom that the body is working harder to burn the fat and create glycogen -that coupled with mild insulin resistence could be the cause(as i did not do a proper walk yesterday. I am considering taking chromium picolinate to mitigate insulin resistance, that should quickly indicate if its insulin resistance related.

I am going to ask my Mentor the Venerable Losang Jinpa who taught me ayurveda for advice on this http://www.ayurveda-school.net/ Also I will ask Edie my Ayurvedic partner and Mentor as well regarding this http://www.ayurvedaireland.net/

The symptoms i am experiencing are:
1 an undue awareness of my heartbeat
2 I wake at night and can hear /feel my heart beat/pulse.

I dont want to Quit, i think this is just a hurdle on the way to health, all research points to fasting being beneficial for health. I have lost 5 kgs on the wii since i set my goal, I set another 5kg loss over a month as my goal.

	Sun 11-01-09	Mon 12-01-09	Tue 13-01-09	Wed 14-01-09	Thurs 15-01-09
Systolic	132	117	112	106	124
Diastolic	87	76	75	74	77
Pulse	68	73	72	87	100
Time	11H00	08H30	08H30	08H00	07H30
BMI	32.95	32.60	31.99	31.55	31.33
Weight	119	118	115.5	114	113kg

Day 4 Woohoo

2009-01-14T11:50:00.000-08:00

Gosh I am quite proud of myself for doing so well, I imagined I would be craving food all the time and hungry but I have no hunger, sometimes I smell food and really appreciate the way it would taste, but really no hunger, its more a mental /emotional appreciation, no grumbling tummy no hunger pangs.. I got a headache yesterday evening Methinks it was part of the Detox crisis they speak of(when loads of toxins are being released into the blood stream) But no it went away after a pint of water! maybe I was just a bit dehydrated , the drinking so much water seems to really have helped.

Today I went to visit Edie my more experienced Ayurvedic Therapist whom I am proud to call a friend, we were practicing one of the Ayurvedic massage therapies (called abhyanga)and shirodhara(a warm stream of oil pouring onto your 3rd eye area), and after that we did some Sivananda Yoga Asanas(Edie is a qualified yoga instructor)It was a tough but rewarding work out, as my back was hurting when I was giving the massage- but after the yoga my back was completely fine. Anyway I write this due to the fact that I was able to do the Yoga (and its not easy yoga trust me!) after all these days with no food and only water!

So im a bit proud of this.

Regarding the results today of my tests I have been a bit concerned as my pulse rate was very high, Im not sure what this means anyhow, but I am pressing on.

	Sun 11-01-09	Mon 12-01-09	Tue 13-01-09	Wed 14-01-09
Systolic	132	117	112	106
Diastolic	87	76	75	74
Pulse	68	73	72	87
Time	11H00	08H30	08H30	08H00
BMI	32.95	32.60	31.99	31.55
Weight	119	118	115.5	114

I noticed a huge change in my bmi a few days ago, I am thinking this was because i did an awesome workout on the wii fit as well as walking, and now my metabolism is slowing down to conserve energy, Ive had to fight off the urge to just be lethargic but lethargy is my enemy, I need to Lower my BMI in the quickest healthiest way I know, so I need to encourage my metabolism - to do this I am drinking green tea as well as my pints of water.

Well tomorrow I will do Wii fit again and see if this makes a dramatic difference to the BMI(holding thumbs) I Intend to walk too..
Oh and Edie supplied me with an Uber cool ayurvedic weight loss herb so I will experiment with this and post the results, By the way Ayurveda is sweet for assisting with weight loss - i just chose a fast as I am Kapha disturbed(Overweight and tends toward congestive illness)so I have a good ability to benefit from a fast,As an ayurvedic therapist i also know how to mitigate and assist in healing my body and buffer the nasty side effects(see im drinking lots of water and performing basti on days I can feel detox affecting me really badly) however fasting should not be undertaken by people of a Vata or Pitta Constitution, well they can maybe do a day fast but not an insanely long fast as Ive undertaken.

Specifically I felt my health was in serious jeopardy and decline, and this is in my books the best way to reverse the damage that has been wrought on my system.

Mentally I'm more alert and Ive noticed my intuition has picked up significantly, I am also more aware of my own behaviors and how they affect others, My compassion has increased.

Wow Day 3 of the Fast and im feeling good

2009-01-13T01:30:00.000-08:00

Had a good nights sleep -got to bed at 11:30 promptly fell asleep which is excellent for me, usually I really battle, but I guess that was due to the high blood pressure

this morning I was pleasantly surprised at the result of yesterdays good adherance to the exercise and water drinking as well as the fast. This is a water fast that is no juices etc are permitted, I do allow myself green tea because this assists in detox.

I decided to put the results so far in a bit of a table so the progress can easily be seen. to drop BMI is incredible, and its not water loss trust me, ive been drinking loads of water, more than Ive ever drunk in my life.

Exercise consisted (yesterday)of wii fit muscle workout(pushups,the table,squats,lunges etc) and a wii fit long distance jog(jogging on the spot for 5 mins) The walk is the bomb!.

	Sun 11-01-09	Mon 12-01-09	Tue 13-01-09
Systolic	132	117	112
Diastolic	87	76	75
Pulse	68	73	72
Time	11H00	08H30	08H30
BMI	32.95	32.60	31.99
Weight	119	118	115.5

Day 2 of the Fast

2009-01-12T00:38:00.000-08:00

Wow I got to bed early last night around 10ish and I could sleep!
I drank about 6 of the 8 pints that I should have yesterday and I'm going to give it horns today and do all 8.
By the way the 6 pints was difficult for me as I was not thirsty so I drank as much as I could.

ok so now the results of my weigh in and blood pressure test

time of measurement 12 Jan 8:11 am 2009
Sys 117
Dia 76
pulse 73
BMI 32.60
weight 118kgs

for comparison here is yesterdays reading, i may put it in a chart to make it easier

sys 132
dia 87
pulse 68)

I feel great, have had very little hunger pangs so far, I am expecting the healing/detox crisis to hit me sometime tomorrow or late tonight.

today besides my 30-45min Walk I plan to do some Wii fit exercises. Im sad to say that I did not do my 5 tibetans yesterday and this would go a long way to improving strength - id like to get into the habit of doing them.
The exercises are meant to help with the detox by forcing the body to use up the converted glycogen, forcing the using of more fat as fuel- releasing more toxins to be processed!

The beginning of the Fast

2009-01-11T06:36:00.000-08:00

I woke up late today as ive been suffering from insomnia for the past year and a half, and last night I got to sleep at around 11pm (which is a huge improvement- the night before i did not sleep at all) it is Vata pushing pitta in this instance-so I feel hot or my mind is just wildly awake and super alert.(for more information about Ayurveda check out http://www.ayurvedaireland.net/ This is the website of my mentor Edie O Reilly who has graciously accepted me as a Ayurvedic therapist apprentice to learn and get some clinical experience.

I am downstairs after my shower and ablutions at 11 am- so i probably got up around 10 am

Time 11 Am(got up an hour before)
Systolic 132
Diastolic 87
Pulse 68
BMI 32.94
Weight 119kgs

Activities:
I went for a 45 min walk
35X hindu squats, I intend to do another 2 rounds of the Squats.
I also intend to do the 5 tibetans before supper time(read supper time ie when everyone else is having supper)

As you can see Im a mess and its no wonder i have hypertension and obesity related pre diabetes.(aka Metabolic Syndrome)
The blood preassure is not too high because a) i just woke up b) i was on linosipril 10mg 2 days ago and it takes a long time to metabolise at that dose. -Bye bye meds after the fast Yippee health and vitality!
Enter the cure...

I am going to put all the health reasons for fasting in my Hubpages hub http://hubpages.com/hub/Fasting-To-cure-High-Blood-Pressure-Obesity--Prediabetesabout fasting, there you will find all the benefits listed, here i will mostly record my daily activities and feelings experiences etc.

I approach this fast realising that the first 3 days are toughest, the healing crisis has not hit me yet, last time i fasted it felt like i had Molten lead pumping through my viens for 2 days, i had headaches and my whole body ached and i could barely move. -oh and i was fit and healthy at 19 full of muscle.. i shudder to think how im going to suffer this time - but i know the end result will be WELL worth it, having done all the research and having a background in Ayurveda helps, as i will do some therapies that will make the detox more efficient (ok they are coffee and oil enemas!) i will slap a hub up about the benefits of both some time, so check out my hubs.

Day before the Fast begins

2009-01-10T14:13:00.000-08:00

Jan 10 2009

I am about to embark on a long fast, I'm not sure if its going to be 14 or 15 or 21 days
for info on why its awesome to fast look here: http://www.phifoundation.org/angina.html
1)cures high blood pressure
2)Increases longevity
3)cures type 2 diabetes
4)Increases the sense of calm and promotes spiritual growth
5)Cures Obesity and stuckness
6)Excellent to precede a lifestyle change including diet, and exercise.

I will log my daily results etc.. i will go off the blood pressure medication from today onwards, I will give my first reading tomorrow, as todays results are skewed as ive had medication for BP yesterday.

My BMI is 33
I am 6 foot 1(190cm)
Prediabetic, Metablolic syndrome,with Hypertension.

I will log my progress.