Say someone plans a 10-day fast. One should begin to cut back on the intake of food from the first to the fifth day before going into the actual fasting period from the sixth day one. After fasting for five days, the person should resume eating little by little from the 11th day onward. The body's condition will worsen rather than improve at this point unless one is careful about the volume and types of food eaten then.
I failed miserably the first time I fasted. When I resumed eating, I suddenly felt a ravishing hunger I had not experienced until then and tried to satiate this hunger. The more I ate, the hungrier I became. One week after the fast, I was in worse shape than when I started out. It's better to resume fasting at times like this. But since fasting involves a measure of danger, it's best todo so under the supervision of an expert. I must repeat, the most important part of fasting is the period when one resumes eating.
I have heard of cases of people fasting as long as 45 days. But Armstrong cites a case of a 101-day long fast on urine alone. A man blinded by a sting in one eye and continued use of atropine (a drug used to relieve spasms and dilate the pupil of the eye) in both regained his sight, Armstrong says.
I failed miserably the first time I fasted. When I resumed eating, I suddenly felt a ravishing hunger I had not experienced until then and tried to satiate this hunger. The more I ate, the hungrier I became. One week after the fast, I was in worse shape than when I started out. It's better to resume fasting at times like this. But since fasting involves a measure of danger, it's best todo so under the supervision of an expert. I must repeat, the most important part of fasting is the period when one resumes eating.
I have heard of cases of people fasting as long as 45 days. But Armstrong cites a case of a 101-day long fast on urine alone. A man blinded by a sting in one eye and continued use of atropine (a drug used to relieve spasms and dilate the pupil of the eye) in both regained his sight, Armstrong says.