Keto & Intermittent Fasting Starter Guide by Corné van Zyl - HTML preview

How To End A Fast Correctly?

If you’ve been on a fast for a prolonged period, you need to take care of how you introduce more food into your system. For every week you have been fasting you want to allow a period of two days to end your fast.

This does take time as your digestive system has gone through two things during a prolonged fast. 

• Your stomach has shrunk so much that eating even a small amount of food can make you feel full.
• Your body has taken a break from breaking down all the foods you used to eat during your fast, and it needs to be slowly woken up kind of like a grizzly bear. You don’t want to wake them during winter. Yikes!

So, when you do end your fast, make sure you do it gradually and ease into it gently.  

If you’ve been fasting anywhere from 72 hours to 7 days, you’ll need to drink diluted foods and increase the quantities slowly over the first few days. 

Introduce fruit and milk in small quantities so as not to upset your stomach. 

As you progress to solid foods, make sure you chew food slowly and to the point that it can’t be chewed anymore.

Rest and don’t become active too soon. If you’re exercising, just stick to walking. Do not engage in hard training. Give yourself time to recover.