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[Frosties]

Your body has plenty of stored energy. Your body also feels pretty amazing after fasting as well, you should try it some time. I normally fast every month or two for 2-5 days or so. Also, with certain types of illness, fasting can be beneficial towards speeding up your recovery. "Certain health shakes" are for the most part, a complete crock.

What I meant about "certain health shakes" was food broken down into a slushie-sort form, to make your it easy for your body to break down and doesn't leav all kinds of shit behind. And they're a crock just as much as fasting.
Of course your body has fat stores - but it needs some energy to break them down. If you want to take care of them, just eat less, so your body will have some mininum amount of energy and still break down all your stored energy (which I don't get why you'd want to do that, unless you're overweight).
And I have fasted, and felt it was a huge waste of time. The great feeling you have can just as well be psychological as anything else. I mean, for fucks sake, you haven't eaten for an entire day - of course you'll feel great when you're full. The same way that some people who have migraines usually feel some kind of euphoric feeling when their attack is over - doesn't mean it's good for you.

I know that there are many different views about this whole thing, but doesn't it just sound more logical that starving yourself for a day and depriving your body of it's fuel is not good for you? It may eventually end up that way, but it just doesn't make sense.

 

[Altitudes]

^You said what I wanted to say, but had more motivation to type it all out

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

What I meant about "certain health shakes" was food broken down into a slushie-sort form, to make your it easy for your body to break down and doesn't leav all kinds of shit behind. And they're a crock just as much as fasting.
Of course your body has fat stores - but it needs some energy to break them down. If you want to take care of them, just eat less, so your body will have some mininum amount of energy and still break down all your stored energy (which I don't get why you'd want to do that, unless you're overweight).
And I have fasted, and felt it was a huge waste of time. The great feeling you have can just as well be psychological as anything else. I mean, for fucks sake, you haven't eaten for an entire day - of course you'll feel great when you're full. The same way that some people who have migraines usually feel some kind of euphoric feeling when their attack is over - doesn't mean it's good for you.

I know that there are many different views about this whole thing, but doesn't it just sound more logical that starving yourself for a day and depriving your body of it's fuel is not good for you? It may eventually end up that way, but it just doesn't make sense.

Okay, one thing at a time.

a) certain types of "juice" diets can be beneficial, true. This is somewhat of a separate issue from fasting though, depending on your overall goals. Also, you just called your own suggestion a crock, so....

b) everyone's body is different. Of interesting note is that fasting causes the body to secrete more HGH (Human growth hormone) after 24+ hours of fasting.

c) people fast for different reasons, as I mentioned before. Some of these reasons play upon both physical and spiritual venues. Simply because you found it a waste of time is irrelevant towards any positive or negative impacts fasting may have. I'm not talking about feeling great when you eat that first meal after fasting, I'm speaking about the feeling DURING fasting. Some of my best results with training regiments have come during a fast. The analogy you used with migraines is absurd.

d) I shudder to think of the repercussions of everyone acting upon something simply because it seemed rational to them. Many things in this life may appear illogical or irrational at first glance. Everything is subjective, everything... Think outside the box.

e) your last two sentences really don't make sense.

 

[Craysh3]

To be completely honest Karen, I probably do it because I'm bored and too lazy to drop by my buddies' places to grab food. But it's also a precautionary measure to an extent. As much of an atheist/agnostic as I would proclaim myself to be, the next hitler still thinks I'm jewish, and you never know when the next holocaust could come up, so to prepare yourself via starving yourself for a bit is good practice survival tactics more than anything else.

 

[derek]

To be completely honest, I really don't care in the slightest how the animals I eat are treated. Whatever gets that shit to my stomach more quickly and cheapily, is okay with me! In all seriousness, I've always been a humanist, The Species-first kind of guy. Animals take advantage of each other. We don't have claws or the ability to see food from a mile away in order to get food more efficiently, instead we have our brains that give us the ability to design awesome food factories that pack them critters into as little space as possible, etc.

There is something terribly inhumane about that.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I suppose I'm a terrible person then.

 

[derek]

I knew it.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

Food is too good and awesome for me to give it up for a...... WHOLE DAY. goddamn.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Amen. I'm thinkin its a falafel night. Perhaps with some Tabbouleh.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

I miss good falafel

...and funny you mention it Max, my mom just told me the other day on the phone she was making it for lunch for her and my dad..
my mom's home made falafel > all falafel

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Oh man, I bet.

Theres a place on south street in philly that has the best falafel i've ever had in the States. They make it fresh right then and there when you order it, which is probably the kicker.