fasting
Fasting from food for eighteen-plus hours is one of the most powerful ways to enhance your subconscious. Given that your physical body is your subconscious, when you purposefully deprive yourself from food, you are literally resetting the body, allowing it to rest and recover rather than digest.
Benjamin Hardy • Personality Isn't Permanent
This is the ancient secret. This is the cycle of life. Fasting follows feasting. Feasting follows fasting. Diets must be intermittent, not steady. Food is a celebration of life.
Jason Fung • The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (The Wellness Code)
Sometimes when you listen closely to your body, the message you hear is a call not for food, but for fasting. You may observe this in animals, which abstain from food when sick, and in young children, who sometimes go days eating hardly anything at all (much to the consternation of their parents!).
Charles Eisenstein • The Yoga of Eating - Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self
If you actually listen to what your body (not your mind) wants, you’ll discover that it doesn’t want three weeks of hot fudge sundaes despite the panting and salivating that is evoked at their very mention. In addition to your body’s need for foods other than cream and fudge, there is also the fact that the moment you tell yourself you can have it,
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