Fasting 7 days
Fasting is a great way to not only cleanse your body, but also lose those extra pounds. The 7-day fasting system allows, with a lack of energy substrates, to use excess reserves of adipose tissue as an energy source.
Paul Bragg - the founder of the fasting system
Paul Bragg developed the 7-day fasting system very fully and deeply. It reflects his experience as a physiotherapist and a person who, with the help of cleansing fasting, was able to get rid of serious problems with his own health.
His 7-day fasting system is known all over the world and is supported by more and more cases of successful weight loss and disease. Bragg himself practiced fasting for 7 days three times a year until a ripe old age, and at the same time remained very active and vigorous.
Bragg recommended to his followers to reduce the volume of one-time portions, especially in the afternoon, when metabolic processes slow down, and even better - to completely abandon dinner. He saw tremendous health benefits in avoiding salt, and recommended garlic and herbs as a food seasoning.
General principles of the 7-day fast
It is difficult for an ordinary unprepared person to endure without food immediately for a week. A gradual approach is important, and before introducing a fasting system for a week, the body should be taught to withstand an interval of 1 day, and then 3 days. Only after such preparation, fasting for 7 days, according to reviews, can be transferred quite comfortably.
Fat reserves in the human body become a source of energy in the absence of energy supply from the outside. But if the body can do without food for a week, then there is no water without. She participates in vital metabolic processes, therefore, during a fast on water 7 days a day, you should definitely drink 2.5 liters of liquid.
Scheme for building a 7 day fasting diet
The fasting system for a week contains 3 stages:
- Entering fasting;
- Actually, fasting itself;
- Exit from starvation.
On the first day of the 7-day fast, you need to drink only one cup of hot water for breakfast, and drink about 2.5 liters of warm water throughout the day. In the evening, you need to make a cleansing enema with room temperature water (up to 1 liter).
On the second day of the 7-day fasting system, according to reviews, the mucous membranes become very sensitive, and even a toothbrush can cause injury. Therefore, it is recommended to brush your teeth only with water and your own fingers. During the day, it is allowed to drink only clean warm water. Repeat the cleansing enema in the evening. The third day should be spent in the same way as the second.
Exit from fasting on water for 7 days begins from the fourth day. On this day, you can use juices without added sugar, apple, tomato or plum juices are best suited. To do this, the juice is diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio with the expectation that the total volume of liquid will be at least 2.5 liters of liquid. Juices with an orange color - carrot, orange, pumpkin, etc. are not suitable for overcoming starvation. If juices are intolerant, they can be replaced with oatmeal decoction. The diluted juice is drunk in 9 doses. From the 5th day, the juice can not be diluted with water, and from the sixth day any liquid porridge (without salt and butter) or boiled vegetables is added to the diet for lunch.
For trained people who have already gone through fasting for 7 days more than once, there are other schemes that differ in the way out of fasting. According to reviews, fasting for 7 days is not suitable for all people, you must have good health in order to withstand a week without food.
The return to a regular diet should be gradual in terms of both the volume of food and the variety of dishes. Fasting for a week can change previous tastes, after which a person feels the true taste of food without salt and preservatives, no longer reaches for fatty and fried foods.
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