Re: post-fast / Advice? sorry, graphic
hi chiron!
congratulations on your fast!
awww, i know exactly how you feel, it's horrible :(
i did actually fast-to-completion (36-days - following 4-day, 26-day and 14-day fasts earlier) and i felt so weak and so forsaken all through my fast and even 2-weeks into re-feeding. it was awful.
chrisb1 (bless his everloving heart) advised me just the same: rest and heal. he assured me that i would start feeling better slowly - and i did.
please follow his advice and practice food combining. for example, you should have
Watermelon alone (not with prunes) -
Watermelon is the only fruit that must be eaten by itself.
also, it is waaay too soon to be eating baked potato! just stick with raw, high water content foods and you will start to improve, i promise ;)
(do a search on this forum for food combining - there is a ton of good posts about it)
here are the 9 basic principles that i found for you from an old post of chrisb1:
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The Nine Basic Rules of Proper Food Combining:
1. Eat acids and starches at separate meals. Acids neutralize the alkaline medium required for starch digestion and the result is fermentation and indigestion.
2. Eat protein foods and carbohydrate foods at separate meals. Protein foods require an acid medium for digestion.
3. Eat but one kind of protein food at a meal.
4. Eat proteins and acid foods at separate meals. The acids of acid foods inhibit the secretion of the digestive acids required for protein digestion. Undigested protein putrefies in bacterial decomposition and produces some potent poisons.
5. Eat fats and proteins at separate meals. Some foods, especially nuts, are over 50% fat and require hours for digestion.
6. Eat sugars (fruits) and proteins at separate meals.
7. Eat sugars (fruits) and starchy foods at separate meals. Fruits undergo no digestion in the stomach and are held up if eaten with foods that require digestion in the stomach.
8. Eat melons alone. They combine with almost no other food.
9. Desert the desserts. Eaten on top of meals they lie heavy on the stomach, requiring no digestion there, and ferment. Bacteria turn them into alcohols and vinegars and acetic acids.
Classification of recommended foods.......................
Sweet Fruit
Banana, Carob, Date, Fig, Prune, Raisins, Dried fruit, Persimmon, Mango, Papaya, Sapote
Sub-Acid Fruit
Apple, Apricot, Blackberry, Cherimoya, Cherry, Elderberry, Gooseberry, Grape, Huckleberry, Nectarine, Peach, Pear, Plum, Quince, Raspberry, Sapodilla
Acid Fruit
Currant, Grapefruit, Guava, Kumquat, Lemon, Lime, Orange, Loganberry, Pineapple, Pomegranate, Strawberry, Tamarind, Tangerine, Tomato
Melons
Banana melon, Cantaloupe, Casaba, Christmas melon, Persian melon, Crenshaw melon, Watermelon, Honeydew melon, Muskmelon, Nutmeg melon
Proteins
Almonds, Cashew nuts, Hazel nuts, Hickory nuts, Lentils, Peanuts, Gooseberry, Avocados, Pecans, Pine nuts, Pistachio nuts, Soy beans, Walnuts, Sunflower seeds, Coconuts
Starches
Artichoke, Bean (lima)*, Beets, Chestnut, Carrots, Corn, Hubbard squash, Jerusalem artichoke, Peanuts*, Peas, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Yam
* Peanuts, lentils, beans, and all cereals are considered as protein and starch combinations
Non-Starchy Vegetables
Bamboo shoots, Broccoli, Brussel sprouts, Romaine, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cucumber, Eggplant, Endive, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce: Boston, Bibb, Leaf, Romaine, etc., Okra, Parsnip, Pepper (sweet), Rutabaga, Sorrel, Sprouts: Mung bean, alfalfa, wheat, barley, etc., Squash (ex. starchy), Turnip.
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however, for me, i actually found that eating fresh juicy fruits worked better than
juicing (i broke my earlier fasts with diluted juice that i 'ate' with a teaspoon) - but on the last one, i quartered up oranges and sucked them, and quartered up apples and ate them really slowly (it's amazing how much your jaw hurts when you start to eat again after so long, huh!). it was fonty who always advised using whole fruits and not juices - and it worked better for me.
on my earlier fasts, which i had to break prematurely for various reasons, so since the healing was not complete, i had big problems refeeding. in those times, i found that miso soup was good and also steamed broccoli (no idea why!)
hang in there, i know it's really horrible! but you WILL feel better. rest up!
- lulu