By Gerold
I’ve been fasting Mondays and Tuesdays since 1982. It started quite by accident. I had to fast for two days before a barium enema X-ray. Although I was climbing the walls starving for two days, after the X-ray I felt so much better. I had more energy in addition to more mental acuity as if a fog had lifted from my brain. I called my doctor and told him I wanted to fast on a regular basis.
Fortunately ole Doc Bowles (rest his soul) was receptive to fasting. “Well, it works for some people,” he said. He recommended I ease into fasting by doing it only one day a week, for the first month, then two separate days during the second month before launching into two days in a row in the third month. He realized it takes our bodies and digestive system time to adjust.
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