10 Water Fasting Tips To Maximize Your Results

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Updated October 30th, 2019

When I decided to take on a water fast last week, I was so nervous! I had never fasted more than 24 hours at a time without cheating! So, when I made it a whole 5 days I was SUPER proud of myself! I wanted to share with you why I decided to water fast, as well as 10 water fasting tips to teach you how to maintain, as well as how to break your water fast and stay in that powerful fat-burning mode (ketosis). I lost a total of 12 lbs in 5 days of water fasting and I am happy to report not one pound has come back!

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The Health Benefits of Water Fasting

Some of the most powerful benefits of fasting are also some of the most subtle including liver detoxification, intestinal cleanse, and giving you body a much-needed resting period. Personally, I was interested in the promotion of “Autophagy”. This is a process where your old cells are broken down and recycled. Autophagy has also shown benefits for people with cancer and other serious medical diseases.

Water fasting can also help with insulin production, allowing you to enter ketosis (fat-burning mode) by cleaning all the glucose out of your bloodstream, as well as hitting the reset button for your body. Overall there are a lot of medical benefits and precautions you should seriously consider BEFORE starting a water fast!

✅ NOTE: I can not urge you enough to get these fasting drops. They are amazingly helpfulfor getting your daily essential minerals for a healthy prolonged fast.

Here is a great article to read and because I do not want anyone suing me, please consult a medical professional before beginning a fast of any kind. Also, if you have an eating disorder of any kind, please do NOT attempt this. (side note: please know that you are valuable to the world no matter what you weigh and I have been where you are. Get your mind healthy and then your body will follow.)

Fasting for Hormonal Balance

This was just another benefit I came across when I started looking for water fasting tips… Did you know that insulin is actually a hormone? YEP! So when people are using insulin injections it is literally hormone therapy. Another hormone I wanted to address was my cortisol (the stress hormone). Fasting can help you reset everything that is making your body feel overly tired, overly stressed, and it resets your hormonal balances.

Most of the time when we start a weight loss journey we have no idea that our hormones can either fight against us or with us. This was certainly the case for me. I have been on a mission to balance my hormones for a couple of years now. One of the best books I have read about hormones is called “The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep and Sex Drive; Lose Weight; Feel Focused, Vital, and Energized Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol” by Sarah Gottfried.

When I read this I realized… I am NOT crazy, my hormones are just imbalanced. It was life-changing. You can pick it up on Amazon and start reading it today…

The Hormone Cure

This is a great book for balancing your hormones naturally through preventative methods and nutrition! It was a game changer for me.

How to Break a Water Fast and Stay in Ketosis

It may not be as tricky as you think to come out of a water fast, but I will admit… I had a secret weapon (which I will share in a moment). ???? The best way to keep your body solidly in ketosis (fat-burning state) is to actually have a plan for what you want to do when you end, and also to know your “Magical Macros”. If you do not know what macros are, they are basically the big sections of nutrients that you get from food: calories, fat, protein, and carbs. You can use this free macros calculator and find out exactly what your target nutrient counts should be.

You can also just keep reading and see my lazy girl hack for eating clean and losing weight… because I may be an adult but math (and counting all your food) still sucks!

What to Eat After Fasting for 24 + Hours

So here is my BEST advice and secret weapon… I am a FIRM believer in the keto diet. If you want to read more about my story on that you can do that here. I have lost over 80 lbs this year on this diet.

So, why would I bother fasting? I wanted a reset. After the holidays I never really got back on track and I needed a “do-over”.

So here is the hack for food, I have a natural, nutritionally balanced keto-friendly meal plan ready to go for you. It literally takes all the brain work out of it! No math, no counting, no guessing ingredients, just good food that is healthy for you. 

If you sign up for the meal plan below to help you break your water fast the right way, I will also send you a special offer for my Keto is for Girls course where I break down every step I took over the last year to lose over 80 lbs and counting!

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10 Water Fasting Tips & How to Break a Fast Without Gaining Weight

1. Make Sure You Go Slow

If I can tell you one thing, please do not be like me and go from 24 hours MAX fasted time to a 5 day fast at once. It made it harder than it needed to be. It’s ok to do a 24-hour or 48-hour fast and build up.

2. Give Yourself Checkpoints

I am SOOO glad I did this. My goal was to water fast for 7 days but that was ambitious. (as is most of what I do it seems…) I got to the 5-day checkpoint and gracefully took the out. There was no guilt and no shame in ending at 5 days because I had already built in an escape hatch for myself.

3. Get Electrolytes

I drank SmartWater while I was fasting to help maximize the purification process. However, if I had known that I needed essential minerals for my fast I would have absolutely gotten these amazing (life-saving) drops earlier! They come in a cute refillable to go dropper that is perfect for on the go moments. This also helps me to make sure that I got the proper amount of sodium, magnesium, and potassium while I was fasting. I firmly believe that the electrolytes helped me not get as dizzy as I could have those few times when I stood up far too fast.

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I did also indulge in a daily Lime flavored LaCroix water, To help break up the monotony of just drinking water.

✅ These are HIGHLY recommended for prolonged fasts! I will never fast without them again.

4. Drink Herbal (Calorie-Free) Teas

This is one of the best tips that I got from a fellow YouTuber that has videos on fasting. I got a box of throat coat herbal tea and had 2 to 3 large 32-ounce tumblers of that per day. This really helped when I was feeling hungry because the warmth of the tea would make me feel satiated. If I had seen this one I would have tried it for sure!

✅ These are my 3 favorite teas for fasting! Check the prices on Amazon.

5. Rest Your Body

When I started researching water fasting on YouTube, I found that a lot of people overdid it and it caused them physical harm, or it caused them to end their fast prematurely. I wanted to avoid this at all costs, so I made a daily plan of what I was going to do each day. Thankfully, I work from home so this part was pretty easy for me.

6. Mentally Prepare Yourself

98% of water fasting is about your mental state. There is nothing that will make you go longer or do better than simply being in a good mood. You have to make up your mind that you’re going to do this, and then you have to decide it to be in a good mood about it. On day four my mental state of mind declined significantly. I was grumpy, I even yelled at my husband once, I was frustrated because of being hangry, and overall in a bad mood. If I had been in a better state of mind, I believe I would have been able to go the whole 7 days.

If you want to do your own water fast, be sure to grab my complete water fasting prep kit! It completely free and its what helped me conquer water fasting for 40-DAYS!

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7. Take a walk each day

When you’re fasting your intake of vitamins goes down to zero (obviously). Because of this, I wanted to make sure that I at least got a walk in the sunshine each day to get a little bit of vitamin D into my system. These were some of my favorite times. My husband, my daughter, and I would go out and walk around our neighborhood for about 20 minutes at a time. We would wave to the neighbors, the fresh air would wake me up again, and I would feel like a new woman.

8. Bullet Journal (aka “BuJo”)

This was quite possibly one of my favorite parts of fasting. I tracked how much I weighed, tracked mood fluctuations, and even saw my hunger levels at a glance. It was extremely valuable and important to my water fasting journey. It allowed me a chance to put my thoughts on paper with everything that was being processed inside of me. Water fasting has a way of illuminating revelations in your mind and helps bring clarity to situations. Plus this “BuJo” spread turned out so good!

9. Have a Plan for Your First Meal

When you have done all of this work to water fast for days and days, you do not want to leave your first meal to chance. You will likely be quite hungry when you break your fast, but you do not want to overwhelm your digestive system. I planned that once I was off my fast, I would stay to a vegetarian Keto Meal Plan to maintain my ketosis and keep my digestive system from being overwhelmed. This would also allow me to have small, evenly portioned meals, that were easily prepared so I didn’t have to think too much about cooking or grocery shopping. I chose to break my fast with an avocado. It was soft and easily digestible and the perfect thing to ease me back into the world eating food.

10. Keep Eating Clean

This is similar to the point above, but if you don’t have a plan you will fail. If you are going on a road trip, the first thing you do is look at the map. The same principle applies to your diet and exercise routines. You need to know what the destination is, and how you want to get there before you start. This was… again a very easy step for me because I knew that I was going right back on to my optimal weight loss plan.

Have you ever water fasted before? Share your tips in the comments below!

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