Well I am great believer in fasting, and its great benefits, some people call it starvation diet, I beg to differ, it is the best of all detox.
The most I have done was 6 days, there are long term fasters, some go up to 30 days. I just love water fasting, you feel cleansed and in great shape in no time, you lose 1-2 pounds a day.

The first 3 days are the hardest but after you get through them, you lose any hunger, you body switch to ketosis and start burning its own body fat for energy.
The longer you fast, the longer you need to break the fast gently and safely, switching to juice, then to really soft fruits... then to watered down green smoothies, and slowly you introduce food, you can’t break it on pizza just because you feel like it, that way, you undone all you great work .

They say you normally need one day of juice for every week on water fasting. It teaches you patience, appreciating food, and learning the basic principle of eating, eat when you are hungry, and don’t stuff your face.
If you have no health problems, water fast can be great for detoxing, losing weight and just reflection on other important things in life rather than food.

When you fast you realise how much time we spend on food a day, thinking about it, buying it, cooking it, eating it, cleaning the dishes, watching tv with ad full of foods.

I find fasting essential for both body and mind, including the soul. For me it help cleanses the mind as well as the body. And I agree, you feel lighter and it really does teach you self-discipline and how we view food. I have been on several types of fasts anddiets, but I never been on a water fasting type of diet though.

The concept sounds wonderful and whilst I am by NO means a greedy person, the thought of no food, just blows my mind. At the moment, I am actually watching what I eat, as I have stoppped going to the gym, and I have found reducing my calorie intake fairly easy, but I know that it would be difficult to totally restrict myself, especially if my family are cooking and eating.
That said, I feel that I should try it though, because I like the idea of really thinking carefully about how you eat., I know that there is a lot of eating that goes on without any thought and in a hurry. My nieces and nephews are a great case. They have a big sunday dinner and immediately say they are still hungry. This constant grazing goes on until they leave and I often ask them, are you really hungry or are you bored ? Are you thirsty maybe? Do you really want more of that cake? It does not work, but it does make me think more about HOW I eat.

I know what you mean about the fasting. I am not able to do it. I stuff my body tons of water but I have to eat something. I will go an entire day or two on just water, coffee and perhaps some grapes or almonds and goji berries but apart from that I just can't do it. I guess my mind plays a major role telling itself it can't but...I love food and I am not a person to eat unhealthy but there are times when I just have to have it! LOL

Fasting is a challenge, what has helped me was to start little by little and making small changes for small amount of time..with time you'll build tolerance. But, if you have ailments such as diabetes and such, your personal health comes first and smll changes that your diet allows come second. People fast for a variety of reasons. Well, for me most of my fasting is religious and spiritual reasons, mainly need of guidance if I feel I am going off of the path that I should be on. Small changes that I had started off with were not eating at certain times, no meat for a few days, no juice and instead only water, things of that nature and would gradually throughout the years make add changes and extend the period of time of fasting. Sweets are often a temptation of mine..lol, especially dark chocolate. But once you complete, you feel really good. But if you mess up, just continue with your fast as you realize your weaknesses and stengths and working towards correting them.