Comment on Can I get some support rn please

• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am not disputing that you know your body or that it is healing for you, I’m just trying to say that something can be healing in a sense and hurtful in another, at the same time. I am also someone that naturally tends to fast sometimes, but there are pretty well defined limits that go well beyond individual variances. If you’re planning to go for 7 days, please for the love of God at least drink water, or the nervous system reset you’ll get won’t be of the good kind. Your neurons and heart won’t work without water, no matter how strong you are. It contains no nutrients and costs either nothing or next to nothing, and I can guarantee you that being dehydrated is not a factor in the benefits you get from fasting, if not for “feeling high” in the delirious sense.

  Again, the basic biological need that I’m ignoring is not eating. I know my body more than you or anyone else. I can easily eat 20,000+ in one week consistently. And I probably do. Not that I’m counting. I’m not expecting many if any people to support me on this or understand.

  Everyone who participates in a thread like this is here to understand and support you, so I will say again what both me and others have said, underlining that I am listening to what you’re saying and that my only interest is your well-being: Your idea that not eating or drinking for 7 days is a biological need is not healthy and you should not pursue it. I say this because you’re picking a fight against nature and setting yourself up to lose. I am not saying it is completely physically impossible, but you must realize how that is well beyond human operating ranges, beyond knowing your body - and if you don’t, please, listen to us. Literally every lifeform needs to eat, none need to not eat.

  You know fasting is good for you, and doing a hard, good thing for 7 days is good for you, but the union of the two is not a good one. The goals you already achieved are significant and you should be proud of them - I know I am! But this is just pushing yourself unreasonably hard, and I don’t think there’s a good outcome for this scenario. In my view what you need to work on is breaking them in a way that doesn’t make you feel like you undid your progress, rather than going longer and longer stretches of time.

  I hope you will take the advice of talking to someone qualified about all of this, I believe the understanding and support you need are more than what internet comments can provide. I see someone that is very brave in many ways and I really think you’ll be able to reach your ultimate goals of mental and physical well-being, but don’t try to do it alone.

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  • hayyy@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Like I said, 7+ day dry fasts have been done.

    I live in a cold country and am very sedentary. The 60 hours I just did without water was actually great and not in a delirious way. You don’t understand the abuse I’ve put my body through by drinking and eating way way too much, not listening to my body properly.

    I know what I’m doing. For the regular person, I’m sure it would be bad for but I’m not the regular person.

    Actually yes, some life forms do need to not eat and I’m one of them. Like I said, I eat waaay too much in general AND this has been done by many others before for therapeutic purposes etc and they’ve been fine. And what I meant by support me was support me in doing this. And by understand I meant truly understand my reasoning for doing so and see the genuine goodness that will come from it.

    To be completely honest, I already feel like I’m dead. Decaying. If I die, it will be the rotten no good parts of me that die. I’m prepared for that to happen. My life sucks as it is. One week In the grand scheme of things is nothing.

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