If you reach a plateau, you should fast for an additional 24 hours. Yes, it is possible even to eat just once a week. That takes time and practice, though. If you can do that, you can live to be 1,000 years old!

So called blood sugar hypoglycemia is a myth. The body gets used to what you give it. Fasting does not make one fat but rather makes one lean and healthy. Thinking that fasting will make one fat is like thinking that running or jogging will make someone fat. In fact, if the same person who is running stops running, he or she will indeed gain weight. So, the truth is that the body gets used to anything.

But there is a natural limit to the amount of exercise one can do. However, there is no limit to fasting. There are people who have successfully fasted for 40 days straight. Instead, it is best to eat once a day and fast for 24 or 48 hours.

Her story is really neat. You have to go all the way down the page to watch the video.

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The whole paradigm of eating three to six meals a day is based on an average lifespan of about 70 years. If you eat just once a week you can live for 1,000 years. People like Noah and Methusaleh used to eat this way and lived close to 1,000 years. Look up the book “How to Eat to Live” on the Internet (the whole book is available online for free) for more information about food and longevity.

I met Sun Yogi Umashankar in India and he did not eat for 12 years by doing sun-gazing and meditation in the Himalayas. The mind and body are capable of doing such amazing things, but they have to be trained. If someone can run 100 mile ultramarathons on just fruit like Michael Arnstein and win them, it is certainly possible to eat good wholesome food and fast for 48 hours. You just have to think outside the box.

I used to eat raw food and was even a fruitarian following an 80/10/10 eating style (there’s a book called 80/10/10). Anyways, I have found that eating once every 48 hours is the best. I eat a HUGE dinner and then just eat another huge dinner after 48 hours. I am a vegetarian (no eggs).

Think about it. It is not as radical as it sounds. It seems normal for someone to run 10 miles a day, but it sounds crazy to eat once every 48 hours. Actually, eating once every 48 hours is the real exercise. Exercise does not increase longevity whereas fasting does. It also cures things that I suffered with such as low energy and constant constipation.

I also have bipolar disorder and have found that this is curing the mood swings and miraculously lifting the depression I have faced for the past 6 months while on normal medications. It is interesting that the real solution for bipolar is to have a kind of “bipolar diet”, which is to feast and then fast! The feast boosts all the neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin. And the fast purifies the blood and all the cells, including the brain cells. In fact, in Russia, they cured 7,000 people with schizophrenia by making them fast. You can look up “schizophrenia and fasting” on Google for more information.

Also, I recommend eating brown rice and chickpeas because they contain high amounts of Inositol, a B-vitamin derivative, which is shown to be more effective than Risperdal! And instead of taking Lithium Carbonate, it is better to take Lithium Orotate, which is a natural over the counter supplement available at Vitamin Shoppe for like $16 for 200 tablets. Anyone can take it, bipolar or not, for a calmer nervous system.

Anyways, I have written a lot here. Basically, train your body and mind to eat once every other day and you will have better physical and mental health. Drink wheatgrass and you will cover any nutritional gaps. Try it for yourself!

Anyway, I have been thinking about doing a once a day focus. I think that it is an ideal approach if you are a person who can’t afford nice, nutritious, overwhelmingly expensive whole foods. (Yes yes, I know there are a dozen recipes or so for cheap whole foods recipes, but even then we’re talking middle-class cheap, not “I have a food budget of whatever is left over, often times 20-40 dollars a month”) Even better if you don’t have the luxury of eating 6 times a day.

Either way, my rule is that a wonky metabolism does less damage to the body, and heals better, than being 250 pounds.