{"id":51026,"date":"2025-09-07T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=51026"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:09:02","slug":"my-experience-fasting-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/my-experience-fasting-for-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"My Experience Fasting For a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few weeks ago I finished a weeklong fast where I lived on water and a homemade electrolyte mixture (pinch of magnesium, salt, and potassium chloride) for a week (with the occasional diet sports drink). I had done a 48-hour fast before, but this was my first longer one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To address the obvious \u201cwhy would anybody do that\u201d? First, it was kind of an experiential bucket list thing. It\u2019s a life experience I\u2019ve never had despite it being all-too-common across time and space. Second, I was curious what a longer-term fast would feel like in terms of the spiritual high. Finally and least nobly, I had gained an enormous amount of weight during a roadtrip, and, let\u2019s just say, I wasn’t exactly at the body fat level where my body would start to cannibalize itself, and I lost 20 pounds. (I also ran across some literature that suggested that at a high enough body fat percentage losses from lean muscle mass are negligible in a long fast when it\u2019s paired with some resistance training.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So what did I learn?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n