Water fasting means the complete abstinence from anything considered food or any nutritional supplements except pure water in an environment of complete rest. Below are some of the water fasting tips:
It is incredibly a safe approach to healing.
Benefits of Water Fasting – Water Fasting Tips
- It cleanses your respiratory, circulatory, digestive and urinary systems, destroying impurities all over the body and eliminates uric acid deposits.
- People detoxify and heal more quickly with water fast than with any other fast. This is because with water fasting, your digestive passageway and organs are able to rest completely, allowing for all of your energy to be used for cleansing and repair of damaged tissues.
- It restores your body balance by eliminating wastes.
- It has been found effective in the treatment of type II diabetes.
- It has been found to be one of the most effective treatments for obesity.
- Water fasting is beneficial in epilepsy, reducing the length, number, and severity of seizures.
- It is effective for treating both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
- It improves poor immune function during fasting.
- Water fasting increases your cell-mediated immunity and immunoglobulin levels.
- Water fasting decreases your antigen-antibody complexes, and enhances natural killer cell activity.
- It increases your life span.
- It helps you in weight loss.
- Water fasting promotes detoxification.
- It gives your digestive system a much-needed rest.
- Fasting promotes the resolving of inflammatory processes, including painful inflammatory syndromes such as rheumatoid arthritis.
- It quiets allergic reactions, including asthma and hay fever.
- It promotes the drying up of abnormal fluid accumulations, such as edema in the ankles and legs and swelling in the abdomen.
- It corrects your high blood pressure to a safe range within two weeks without drugs. And the blood pressure will remain low after the fast if you eat correctly and live healthy.
- Water Fasting helps to overcome bad habits and addictions. It rapidly dissipates the craving for nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and other drugs.
- It restores your taste appreciation for wholesome natural foods. People say that their taste buds come alive after fasting and that food never tasted so good.
- It is exceptionally beneficial in chronic cardiovascular diseases and congestive heart failure, reducing triglycerides, atheromas, total cholesterol, and increasing HDL levels
- Going on water fast gives you the motivation and enthusiasm to make a fresh start and commit yourself to a new and better way of life.
Thankyou for the great information.
I want to go on a water fast for an extended period of time, forty days. Need help to accomplish my goals.
Hello, I was wondering if fasting would help with water drainage from the ear created by an ear infection? The reason why there is drainage in the ear is because the tissue in the ear is damaged. I was wondering if water fasting would help with the process of tissue development in the ear and how long of a fast would i have to do? I am sick of doctors these days.
Thank you for the information.
-Lina
my son just missed a fast due to an ear infection. if you are on antibiotics absolutly do not miss meals. drinking lots of fluids will help drain the ear, but it is not water that you are draining. consider natural tea for decongestion.
I don’t really think it would help an ear infection, but you never know, it does improve our general health. I would not recommend water fasting, for people already in poor health- Better for them to start with a health-food diet for awhile, lead up to short juice fasts, then longer juice fasts, then water fasts. Use common sense, take things slowly, listen to your body.
Fasting is a wonderful thing. When we are sick, our body forces us to fast, via nausea, and losing our appetite, etc… The reason our bodies do this, is that it knows the power of fasting in healing…
i’m planning to go on a 7 day water. looking for a fasting buddy=)
today 27september2009 is my first day of my fasting. thanks a lot for the tips. god bless
Well, I think I would pray first
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Hello. I found this site while searching for fasting tips, and am pleased by the information that you’ve volunteered. Even though many health experts deny the benefits of fasting, my own experience with fasting debunked a lot of the scepticism. While I understand that fasting is not a great option for everyone, it is for me and whenever I do it, it renders me energetic and cathartic. The first two or three days may be excruciating, but by the fourth day I truly appreciate the effects of the fast.
My only problem with fasting (which is actually not the blame of the fasting itself) is circumstantial. I have yet to complete a fasting period for over four days, because I currently live with my family and they prepare the meals. On the weekend, it’s difficult to fast not so much anymore that I feel tempted by the food itself (even though my mother and grandmother are both excellent cooks) but because every Friday, we order takeout to eat and almost every Sunday, my household eats dinner with my grandparents. The meals are usually pretty heavy although taste really good, but it isn’t like I can’t turn down any meal if I set my mind to it. By myself, I have enough will-power but I don’t like to make a fuss about fasting in front of other people even though my mother is generally supportive of me doing it.
If anyone can return to me with advice on how to successfully fast over the weekend, thank you in advance.
Christina, you are going through the difficult first 2 days (because body not yet in fasting state, & therefore hungry!) without going on for long to let your body do the deep housework. You do need to rest a lot after day 2, but that’s when the good work begins!
I am into day 4 today, hoping to do 7 or 8 days; see how i go. I have done 6 or 7 days once /yr for 6 yrs now, and last April did 30 days under supervision of Alec Burton in Sydney Australia, who has been supervising waterfasts for about 40 yrs. When I told Alec I was sick of lying around all day with a bad taste in my mouth & wanted to stop at 28 days, he said each day now is worth 3 -4 days earlier on in the fast. That enabled me to hang in & go to 30days. He thought I should continue another week. “Why do you think Jesus fasted for 40 days?” he asked me. You might get greater motivation if you read “eating & fasting for Health” by Joel Fuhrman, or “Fasting can save your life” by the late Herbert Shelton.
I have now fasted for 24 hours and I am thinking of going longer. I feel different in my chest and stomach area, like my body is repairing itself. I am drinking SO much water compared to when I eat. Wish me luck people
God bless you all 
Much encouragement is found is this group of people. Keep up the good work.
We need more people striving for the higher good.
I am on the 5th day of a 30 day water fast. I am sleeping less (my body isn’t using all it’s energy stores for digestion) and my mental attitude has improved dramatically. I find that keeping a fasting journal helps a lot and that with it, I can track my progress and that keeps me motivated to continue. Already I can see the benefits.
I LOVE to eat and I can actually take Buffet meals everyday. When I decided to do water fasting, everyone ridiculed me. I tried and I have completed 2 days. lol ! I’m going to extend to 7 days..and I know I can do it. Thanks for all the wonderful information on fasting. It motivates me.
I am on day 1 of a goal of 30 days water fasting,I sort of cheated and ate an apple LOL bbut I will continue on and I will conquer!
I have 50 pounds of overweight to loose and I am tired of lying to myself telling me I will do this later.I had fasted in the past but I did not had the knowledge on keeping healthy after a fast that I have now learned 
…New Begginings 
Hi
I’ve been wanting to try fasting for a while now- but I can only seem to get to around 2pm when the hunger pangs are really bad- and there’s adverts all over the place for McDonalds and such, heheh….eh. -_-; Will power is at an all time low. I wanted to know, what keeps everyone motivated to carry on with their fast?
I want to fast because of the system clearing, and weight-loss benefits. What day into the fast does your body stop conserving fat supplies, and start using them for energy? Also is it okay to drink green, oolong, or herbal teas during a fast?
Just like the memory of pain, anguish, malaise & nausea of my one and only hard liquor bender(years ago), I must remember the awfullness of obesity, lethargy, and spiritual discomfort to keep me motivated on my first 30 day water fast…Remember you are not alone or unique in this undertaking…take the high road towards your goal
Hi I am on the 4th day of a fast, any advice, tips. I am pretty overweight so I would like to go for 30 to 40 days unless, I get too weak. I am on the water fast, with a diet soda mixed in here and there, but trying to get off of them. Thanks, and wish me well