
geekchic182
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I was wondering if anyone had tried fasting as a healing process, there are many testimonials that its a spiritual experience, i personally am an atheist (although i have fasted for religious reasons in the past but I dont believe in it anymore) but i know faith is an important factor in overcoming hurdles-mental illness being a rather large one!
I tried fasting for a few days but I've found that over a few days I start to get incredibly frustrated, depressed and not even that tired but on a major 'low'. I would like to know if anyone has tried fasting and their experiences, especially emotions related to it
i also posted this thread in the ED forum, the two areas are combined
((I have been recently considering using fasting as a tool to overcome eating addiction and also for physical healing. I have researched that water fasting and juice fasting are ways to give your body time to heal itself, and the less you put into yhour body the faster the process. I've fasted before (for religious reasons.. ugh) and attempted a two day fast recently however on the night of the 2nd day... last night actually, i found that all i could think about was the foods i turn to for comfort. i felt incredibly depressed and incredibly miserable, i suffer from depression anyway and realised that because im in college doing a levels the stress im going through came out clearer in my mind when i was fasting
im sorry if that doesnt make sense!
i just want to know if anyone has tried fasting as a cure, not to lose weight but to achieve mental clarity and healing, how their experience was and if its ever helped overcome food addiction? i've read testimonials online but its difficult to decipher whats true and whats exaggerated.
i want to fast to lose a bit of fat iv put on through comfort eating and hopefully to break a cycle of binge eating i'm going through, so that i can learn to function in a 'non-drugged' state, i feel like my entire life revolves around my issues with eating and its getting incredbily frustrating!!! its hard to make my close friends understand because i went the complete other end of the scale last year and lost a lot of weight, im not anorexic at all, im not underweight and i love eating- thats the problem! my ED is non descript, i think i've partially covered all areas ))
enough rambling! just wondering -in short- has anyone tried fasting and what were your experiences like? how long, mood swings etc. =]
I tried fasting for a few days but I've found that over a few days I start to get incredibly frustrated, depressed and not even that tired but on a major 'low'. I would like to know if anyone has tried fasting and their experiences, especially emotions related to it
i also posted this thread in the ED forum, the two areas are combined
((I have been recently considering using fasting as a tool to overcome eating addiction and also for physical healing. I have researched that water fasting and juice fasting are ways to give your body time to heal itself, and the less you put into yhour body the faster the process. I've fasted before (for religious reasons.. ugh) and attempted a two day fast recently however on the night of the 2nd day... last night actually, i found that all i could think about was the foods i turn to for comfort. i felt incredibly depressed and incredibly miserable, i suffer from depression anyway and realised that because im in college doing a levels the stress im going through came out clearer in my mind when i was fasting
im sorry if that doesnt make sense!
i just want to know if anyone has tried fasting as a cure, not to lose weight but to achieve mental clarity and healing, how their experience was and if its ever helped overcome food addiction? i've read testimonials online but its difficult to decipher whats true and whats exaggerated.
i want to fast to lose a bit of fat iv put on through comfort eating and hopefully to break a cycle of binge eating i'm going through, so that i can learn to function in a 'non-drugged' state, i feel like my entire life revolves around my issues with eating and its getting incredbily frustrating!!! its hard to make my close friends understand because i went the complete other end of the scale last year and lost a lot of weight, im not anorexic at all, im not underweight and i love eating- thats the problem! my ED is non descript, i think i've partially covered all areas ))
enough rambling! just wondering -in short- has anyone tried fasting and what were your experiences like? how long, mood swings etc. =]