Health: Let's Do Intermittent Fasting Together to Slim Down - Are You Ready?
Some people think that fasting for two or three days is nothing, just implementing it at home, but many end up failing. The main reason for failure is often that they cannot strictly comply with the regulations for gradual increase of food after the formal fast, resulting in sudden overeating. Therefore, when assessing whether a patient is suitable for applying regular fasting therapy, it is not only necessary to consider the disease they have and the severity of their condition, but also to consider their self-discipline and worldview. If a patient lacks self-discipline and has an incorrect fasting purpose, even if they implement regular fasting therapy, it is unlikely to achieve good results.
The entire process of regular fasting therapy can be divided intothree stages: gradual reduction period, formal fasting period, and gradual increase period. Implementers must strictly comply with the regulations of the three stages.The preparatory work before formal fasting is very important. Generally, starting two to three weeks before fasting, you should control your diet, reduce your food intake, avoid picky eating and overeating, especially try to avoid drinking alcohol, eating sweets and smoking. The Wiese fasting method places great emphasis on gradual reduction, requiring the number of days of gradual reduction to be the same as the number of days of formal fasting. If you want to implement a 3-day formal fast, then during the 3-day gradual reduction period, on the 1st day, reduce your food intake to 3/4 of the usual amount, on the 2nd day, reduce it to 1/2, and on the 3rd day, reduce it to 1/4.
Regarding daily work, healthy people need not say anything, even frail people, except for serious illness, do not need to rest during the entire fasting process, they should continue to work.
The number of days of fasting should be from short to long, gradually increasing. For example, you can first fast for 1~2 days, and then gradually increase it, allowing the body to gradually adapt. This way, when it reaches the fourth or fifth time, even if you fast for seven or eight days, you will not feel so difficult.
During the formal fasting period, whether to work and its impact on the mind and body are entirely different. If you lie down and don't work all day, don't worry about the loss of economic losses, it is also very difficult to endure for a long time. If you do light work, you can partially avoid the temptation of food, and don't feel hungry. To avoid the temptation of food, it is best to avoid watching food advertisements on TV, etc. If you have nothing to do, you can read books to improve your spiritual cultivation, or use this opportunity to deeply reflect on your past, consider your future life, in order to achieve comprehensive improvement of the body and mind.
After the formal fasting therapy ends, enter the gradual increase stage, the number of days is the same as the number of days of formal fasting. After formally ending fasting, you should try not to eat breakfast, and only eat lunch and dinner. Even if you feel that the food intake of each meal is insufficient, do not arbitrarily increase it. All the food you eat should not be too hot and should not be too cold. After formally ending fasting, if you drink insufficient amount of pure water, it will cause constipation. Therefore, you must drink sufficient amount of pure water. The intake of salt must be strictly controlled, and if it is excessive, it will damage the renal function.
