An uncommonly discussed but very cool side benefit of going on a fast: many people report an improvement in their senses of taste and smell, especially when it comes to food. For example, sweet whole fruits seem to seem embarrassingly sweet, and the thought of a piece of candy ...
...make pickled lemons!
So you juiced 20 pounds of lemons during your fast and couldn't bear to throw away all that organic waste? Here's what I did, using about a dozen previously juiced lemons. The lemons still have quite a bit of juice to them, locked in the fibers.
Pickled Lemons with ...
It's now been just over a week since I started a fast based largely on honey, ginger, and goji berries.
It's my third time on a "longish" fast, longer than 3 days. I've done two Master Cleanses before. So I'm not in a state of "wow I can't believe I'm still ...
It's inevitable that some weight will be lost during a fast. Fasting, by definition, means that your caloric daily intake goes way down, so simple body thermodynamics dictate that your body's energy expenditure will exceed the food supply and will start turning to inner fuel stores.
I usually welcome the release ...
During the 3rd or 4th day of fasting, hunger generally "falls away" and the desire for food starts to feel like a distant and irrelevant memory. I honestly don't know why this happens, but I figure it's a cost-cutting measure -- it takes energy to signal hunger, and after ...
