I Fasted Like a Monk
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- I Fasted Like a MONK | 36 Hours Water Fast
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Fasting has many health benefits but could it also be used as the ultimate diet tool?
A monk fast is a 36 hour fast once, a week with the purpose of enhancing your spiritual practice.
Having fasted plenty of times in the past I'm sure it can't be that hard?
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I am a female bodybuilder and I've been doing weekly 36 hour fast for the last year. You did make a few mistakes which was probably why you had such a hard time and you got sick afterwards. 1, you want to have a lean protein as your last meal before your fast. 2, you need to drink extra water, and make sure that you have a good intake of minerals, specifically, sodium, calcium, potassium, and magnesium. Sodium is very important and taking a full glass of water and a half a teaspoon of pink Himalayan sea salt will help you get through the rough times. 3, break your fast with bone broth and make sure you do not have any salt or garlic. Added to it. Then 30 to 60 minutes later I have a lean protein, avoid salt or garlic for this meal as well. After you digest this, you can go back to eating as normal.
I appreciate the tips, I will make sure to implement them in the next time I fast. 😊
Hi, how do you manage to fast every week? As a woman, it's difficult around periods. How did you manage?
Interesting I had junk food before I did mine, broke mine with pizza and chips and never felt better 🤷♀️ 🤷♂️
@@manaljavid9624 Dr. Mindy Pelz on youtube explains this
Please make a video sharing more information. I have not seen many women doing such experimental fasting here. I definitely need more perspective and research on this.
I have done at least 27 of these fasts. They do work best with water only, especially for a beginner. I always supplement Potassium, Magnesium and Himalayan pink salt. Drink lots of water. When your fast is done have a small meal only, I like 2 eggs with toast. If you eat too much too soon you will feel like crap. And something nobody mentions, on the day after a fast, do not trust a fart.
great tips, thanks for sharing mate
I've never done a long fast, so this comment is a lot of help. Especially that last part...
Thanks for the video. I have been fasting for a couple of years now. My current routine is 38 hour fast Sunday night to Tuesday lunchtime, then a 24 hour fast from Tuesday at 6pm until Wednesday at 6pm and then and 18 hour fast from 7pm Wednesday until Thursday at 1pm. Then no restriction from Thursday lunchtime until Sunday evening. I have lost weight and improved my diabetes but the biggest improvement has been to my memory.
You're a fasting machine
@@PeteOnPurposeYou can’t have soda mate.
I would stick to only water during the fast. I don’t do caffeine, I don’t do tea or any other zero calorie beverages, even if technically they don’t break your fast. The biggest NO though is breaking your fast with a smoothie. As healthy, as it is, you don’t want to overload your body with sugar first thing. Start with a smaller meal, mostly proteins and fats. In general, you should never start your morning with a smoothie like that. It sends your blood sugar on a roller coaster ride the rest of the day. Have it for lunch instead.
Thanks, appreciate all the tips.
Great timing for this video!😊 because I’m currently fasting for Ramadan, so I feel less alone haha!
Nice, I tried Ramadan last year and it was very difficult - th-cam.com/video/HbLIlOFuLBY/w-d-xo.html
nice to now im muslim too we got to stick together
How can zero calorie drinks be ok since the sweeteners still tell the brain to release insulin???
I can confirm zero calorie drinks are not ok when you are fasting, I was testing for the people.
I'm about 24 hours into my 36 hour fast. I keep thinking of all the foods i will eat tomorrow..
haha I spend a lot of my fasts watching people eat food. 😅
Get rid of the zero sugar drinks as in coke zero’s. It makes you body thinks its getting sugar and your not going to benefit of the monk fast.
I'm 63, 🙄 and I've been doing this twice per week (Monday and Thursday) since the 8th of January 2013. 😮 I find that 1.5 pints of room temperature ordinary tap water in the morning, and 2 pints in afternoon/evening is more than enough to keep me full.
DO NOT drink anything else. It just seems to stimulate the appetite.
Thats impressive, I take it you find lots of benefits from regularly fasting?
@@PeteOnPurpose Well, to be honest... I don't feel like I'm 17 again. But the question is - how would I feel if I didn't do it? Hopefully, worse. I'm just hoping it's warding off dementia, diabetes, and cancer.
I personally always feel 'reborn' after I have done a couple days of fasting and definitely feel it helps towards overall longevity
2:06 Bloody hell 😂😂😂
Give it a try 😂
Yo Pete, thanks for the video. Hope you're fully recovered now!
By the way, your neck does look much bigger in this video and it suits you. The neck training experiment you did was absolutely my favourite!
Yes mate back to full health, its crazy how easy it is too train the neck too. Less than five minutes at the end of your session. 😁
Excellent video sir, love the Thumbnail
Glad your better mate ✌️
Cheers David mate, going to have to try this one again when my diet is coming to an end.
Much easier to do dry fast.
3 times better than water fast.
I think you are doing it wrong by having those drinks.
Even if I only drink water I find it difficult to fast.
I did find my 24 hour dry fast easier than a 24 hour water fast but I cant imagine going much longer than that.
Zero calories drinks and artificial sweeteners will BREAK YOUR FAST.!
Hahaha exactly. This man did nothing! Imagine if he had to do a 5 day fast.
Agreed. The brain will still release insulin as it thinks it's sugar
You should not have taken the Pepsi Max, that stuff is poison 😉😎
Good advice 😊
Great video, really interesting. Defo worth a go 👌
Thank you, 100% worth a go. I will be trying this again soon. 😊
@@PeteOnPurpose amazing you did 7 days too!
Was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done 🙃
Before you go on your fast eat protein and definately one or two bananas. You ooen is fast on either fresh lemon or lime water squeeze one line or lemon into one litre if water. Drink this first then protein as a meal. As snack grapes and kefir or fruit yoghurt. Then more protein and vegetables.
I’ve done it a few times, the pangs come and go, just sit through it, occupy your mind with something else. I did it as part of a diet, it pretty much guarantees a pound lost in the 36 hours, usually more.
oh boy that toilet shot was a shock.
Painting a scene
1 hour short of 24 hour fast. When I wake up tomorrow 36 hours.
yes mate
You had Pepsi during tha fast?!
Pepsi max
00:11 shameful hysteria unworthy of monks
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Selection bias is common nowadays, but really a lot of times, we don't know what the cause-and-effect was. You mentioned a bad experience with the 36-hour monk fast, but who knows? It could have been the caffeine beverages, your routine was off (sleep cycle, trying to perform a higher intensity workout), being bored, or starting the fast being leaner than usual (by means, having less body fat for energy reserves to keep you lasting through the fast), just to name a few.
Sometimes it's worth it to experiment with a fasting protocol multiple times to decide if it could be incorporated in our diet plan. I wouldn't have been surprised if 36-hour fasts were common among our ancestors, who experienced recurring patterns of shortages and abundances of food supply.
I'd guess that the 36-hour fast is more likely to work for people who are not as active and/or have higher BF%. For the average person who is sedentary, I'd say it could be worth it for them after they take the time to learn to identify their true hunger (I say this because most people claim to be hungry when they are actually just bored, emotional, or just having a craving). By means, most people can go longer without food than they realize. But for super active and really lean athletes like myself, I'd say mostly no. If anything, as a martial artist, runner, and biker who trains for hours a day, I would dread to even fathom how I'd feel if I performed such a prolonged fast. To make matters worse, I think that now is my worst time to try such an akin fast since I'm currently at my leanest at 8-9% BF (bear in mind I'm 128 pounds at 5'8" now), and thus hunger levels are higher compared to previous years.
But then, I can only speak for myself, and not for anyone else specifically. Everyone is different, but should experiment with different methods to see what and what does not work.
Great insights, fasting is definitely not for everyone but as you say could help a lot of people especially identify hunger/cravings etc. I will continue to experiment with fasting as I do feel benefits when I fast, just not so much this time. 😂
It was prolly that Pepsi you drank during the fast (like why would you do that) 😅
haha I like to live life to the max 😂
2:18 😂😂
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Pete would you ever consider (ADF) alternative day fasting ?
That sounds like a monk fast every other day, I think it would be very tough?
Do you think this could work as a diet plan? 👇
Yes I think it could pete,
I believe so. I believe it's great for making better food choices after any fast, and I think I should start this because it can be very healthy for your digestive system. Well done, you just inspire me.
@@natashawest5174 I need to try this again as It put me off a little being I’ll afterwards but I think that was a coincidence. Good luck with the fast. 😊
@PeteOnPurpose thank you for the reply back. Why did it make you feel off? I just love your channel!! Your content is friendly and helpful, and you are very inspiring. 🫶💗
@@natashawest5174 I am not sure it may have just been a coincidence but I was bed bound for three days after the fast, the first time it has ever happened to me. I will try again soon and see if it happens again. I am glad you enjoy my videos. 😊
Dude, pepsi max? And its not good having carbs before the fast (yams)... and breaking a fast with sugary blueberries is a no-no. Spikes your insulin right off the bat. They advise breaking a fast with bone broth or protein
Try drinking an electrolyte drink like LMNT. It helps with hunger pangs and keeps your minerals up.
I will check it out, thanks
Should have had some eggs to break that fast. And black coffee. Stay keto all day the day coming off the fast. And take a nap. Duh.
Next time
2:48 yay 😊🤘
You missed her? 😂
@@PeteOnPurpose yes 😉😊
Can u add chia seeds od sugar free kool aid to ths water
If there is no calories in the kool aid yes but not chia seeds
Okay so say I start fasting Saturday night and Monday that fast ends and I eat for 12 window, do I continue it again or just wait till Saturday night again & also can I take pre workout and creatine?
How you implement monk fasting is up to you but its usually done once a week. I would advise against pre workouts while fasting as it could upset your stomach and you are not supposed to drink anything with calories.
@@PeteOnPurpose okay kool & i definitely stay away from it then! Thank you. Water, black coffee & LMNT it is.
I find the 20 hour mark hard too. Some people wouldn't approve but instead of a diet coke, I'd have 5 grams of psyllium husk in a glass of water and it does take the edge off your hunger but it's only 10 cals
Psylium husk in water never heard of that, interesting
@@PeteOnPurpose The poor man's ozempic I call it 😛
I want to know when you drink and how many oz per drink. We should do a challenge so we can do it together for support 😃
Haha I’m not sure how much just when I am thirsty! 😅 I will be doing another monk fast soon, maybe I could post on my community wall and we could all do it at the same time?
@@PeteOnPurpose that would be great. Because the danger is to drink too much. I’m looking forward to the challenge so we can share our experience live 😀😀😀
Ok will post in the community when Its happening
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You may have had some refeeding syndrome
Maybe, never experienced this before and I have done much longer fasts in the past
Just eat lots of protein and fat before not carbs and leaves like you did,cut out the pepsi max it makes you hungry(my No.1 diet soda but when I fast I'm avoiding this totally). I'm fasting 36 to 42 hours weekly with no hunger at all
neck :0
My best body part. 😅
A true Monk fast is complete celibacy too. No sex including masterbation. Semen retention. You dont mention this at all.
I tried, and I have to say my first orgasm post fast was amazing. But not worth what I'd missed over the past 30 days. I estimate I'd lost 20 to 25 and just had 1 to 3 extra pleasurable times. But it took awhile to build up stamina and ability to perform longer.
Won't do this again
oh Ganesha! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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