This was a "water fast"? Consuming only water? How many days?
Drastic weight gain after a fast is typically caused by eating the wrong
type of foods too soon. Metabolism slows while fasting, and attempting
to immediately return to a "normal", high calorie diet will pack on
weight quickly.
If the fast is broken correctly you should feel real good. If broken
incorrectly (with cooked or processed foods) symptoms include intense
hunger and sickness. A long fast (15+ days) broken wrong can cause
lasting health problems or death.
Instead, a fast should be broken and recovered from with raw foods,
perferably fruit with a high water content (watermelon) or fresh made
juice. Fresh squeezed lemon (or lime) juice in distilled water is ideal
for start breaking the fast the fast. It generally takes about 1/3rd the
length of the fast to correctly break it. Then add variety, but it the
diet should still consist mainly of raw foods.
Food enzymes exist only in raw foods and make food eaiser to digest and
are much safer and easier to break a fast with. It costs the body far
less nutrition to get nutrition out of raw foods than cooked foods. You
won't hear that from the mainstream because all the money is in
processed foods and medical bills :-/
Not too many watermelons in season. Lemons are expensive. Put a (pealed)
bananna in the blender with some cold water, drink that. Perfect drink
for recovering from a fast. Cheap and easy to make too. Proceeding a
fast with at least a couple days of fresh made juice will also make the
fast more effective with less hunger.
<about a couple hundred things about fasting left out>
szzler <steve.ahluwalia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi, I was reading that when people come off a fast they gain back the
> fat. I was wondering if they start weight training, as they increase
> the caloric intake over a few days; instead of gaining fat is it
> possible they gain muscle?
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