I'll never eat again? Breatharianism?

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Todd the Fairy

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Hi. The longer I have been alive on this planet, the more I have come to loathe eating. Eating, to my mind, seems to create a horrible imbalance. I feel that when I eat, my mental state becomes largely decreased. I equate it with awakening the base animalism inside all of us. I always feel better when I eat less. First I cut out junk food, meats, and dairy. Later, I gradually stopped consuming grains, and made a commitment to eat only raw food. I eventually became a fruitarian, eating only raw organic fruit and no vegetables. I think to myself: just as people can become addicted to and have cravings for horribly destructive substances, perhaps I can condition myself to need no substance at all.

I have been fasting for almost a day now. It feels good and different. My mental state is wonderful. I feel like I have much improved concentration. I actually feel that I could do this the rest of my life, as I don't like eating in the slightest. Even though I get the occasional hunger pain, I brush it off or simply exercise a bit, and its gone. I have physical energy; I can run and climb trees with grace. But its almost as if my strength is NOT COMING FROM MY MUSCLES, so much as from some mysterious and beautiful source. I feel so alive. I felt as if for many years now, it was always coming to this. I realized that I didn't really like food, and that I was eating merely out of habit, emotional distress, and perhaps ignorance.

My only concern is that I could die. I'm not particularly scared of that; I'm just concerned that I won't know when I've gone to far. I ignore any hunger pains that occur. Do you think I am making a moderately safe decision? Are there any signs I should be aware of in particular? My heart rate seems to be a bit elevated now, but I still feel great.

AGE: 19
WEIGHT: 115 lbs
HEIGHT: 5-11 to 6 ft
 
Well, you can look at it this way: I've eaten pretty well all my life, never done any fasting, and yet at 27 y/o now, find myself with what looks like vitamin deficiency and the associated symptoms.

Amazingly, you can still eat well and get a form of malnutrition. Imagine what would happen if you ate nothing at all...
 
6 feet tall and 115 pounds? This is not good. If you were 150 pounds, you'd probably still be quite thin. You need to increase your calories again, slowly so you don't get sick, and you possibly need immediate medical treatment.

What you are experiencing is the body's way of coping with severe famine. Someone who is freezing to death will start to feel warm as the body shuts down. You are starving, and so your body responds by providing all the energy it can squeeze out, so you can hunt down some food.

Please do hunt some food. And get some help for your difficulties with eating.
 
My family keeps touting the "eat a bit of everything to get your vitamins" philosophy, which I disagree with. I'm not overly concerned with that, because the food that I do eat is organic and natural, so its probably richer in vitamins and lower in toxicity. I think there really could be something to this theoretical breatharianism though. As I said before, my 24 hour fast was absolutely amazing. Everytime I felt hungry, I simply ignored it or exercised. My mental abilities increased and I felt almost euphoric, but not out of it. On the contrary, I felt extremely aware of beautiful things. I was amazed at my physical strength. At one point, I thought "where is it coming from?". After a while, however, my pulse became quick. I felt that I could have kept going, perhaps until something bad might happen, which is why I stopped. I didn't feel hungry in the slightest; I was past that. But, being my first fasting, I figured I should use caution. Once I ate a few orgainc bananas, all of my "spiritual energy" disappeared. My heart rate returned to normal, but the world felt empty and painful once more. I no longer had that wonderful feeling of liberation. I now only felt weariness in my limbs. Everything seemed to take a great deal of effort.

My desire is to reach a state where I consume as little as I possibly can, and nothing else. I believe I have the potential to do this with the right guidance from some sort of teacher or whatever. My family thinks I am aneorexic. To me, that means I don't participate in the mindless indulgenes they do everyday, or I at least do them to a lesser degree.
 
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