Dry Fasting

Once I was sitting at the kitchen table wondering where my kitty Gracie was.  She had been missing for 10 days.  I looked out the window and noticed a demonic figure in the car outside.  It had been parked there for 10 days.  Hmmm...  

Yes.  It was Gracie.  I let her out of the car.  She was OK but she wanted to come in and drink some water.  Imagine, 10 days without food or water.  I was surprised she had survived.  In the next few days I worried about her that she might still die from her ordeal.  But she seemed to be fine.  Gracie had gone on a dry fast.  It may have even done her some good.  

I wouldn't have thought an animal could go that long without water.  I supposed cats were different from people.  Surely people couldn't go that long.  Wasn't three days as long as one could live without water?  

Well, apparently not.  In the last few months I've heard a lot about dry fasting.  I really thought regular fasting was draconian.  So what did I know?  Dry fasting is a fast from both food and water.  

A friend of mine told me that he had dry fasted for five days.  This amazed me and I asked why he had done that.  He said that it magnifies the benefits of fasting.  Later I read an article about a woman who had read a book that claimed that we can live on sunshine.  The author claimed to be living on sunshine for years.  And so her reader decided that she too would live on sunshine.  She didn't live very long though, dying after a few days of dehydration.  

So, if fasting has its peril, dry fasting is even more dangerous.  

But, I was curious.  Some on Youtube say it does wonders for health, that it can cure anything, cancer, tumors, diabetes, Crohn's, all sorts of things.  Really?  

I know from my own experience that water fasting can heal.  I had recovered from a sinus infection once and for all with a five day fast.  There's a saying, "Starve a cold, feed a fever."  I think.  

I read an article about dry fasting.  It claimed that Mormons dry fast for 24 hours once a month.  Another article I found said they dry fasted for two meals in a 24 hour period.  OK, that's different than 24 hours.  Other articles said that this practice probably was beneficial to their health.  

So I decided to try it.  I went on a 24 hour dry fast.  Was it hard?  It was hard enough.  Did it do any good?  Maybe.  I feel OK.  The scale said I lost four pounds.