Fasting: Pre- and Post-Fast (Cat’s Notes)

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Cat

By Cat, Oct 2019

I’ve been doing a 5-or 7-day veggie juice fast since 2009, when I took the class offered by the Wellness Education Center (WEC) in Kalispell MT. For the first 7-day fast, you slowly eliminate foods from your daily regimen over 2-3 weeks as follows:

  • You begin by eliminating all processed foods, un-sprouted grains and legumes, meats, eggs and pasteurized dairy products (including cheese);
  • Then raw milk/cheese, nuts, sprouted grains & legumes, and cooked fruits & veggies;
  • On the last day(s), you are eating only raw veggies and fruits.

Then for 4 – 7 days following the fast (Breaking the Fast), you slowly add those eliminated foods back to your daily regimen (in reverse order from the pre-fast). This begins on the last day of the fast with blended raw fruit in mid-afternoon, and with a raw cold veggie soup at dinner-time.

The post-fast is a great time to discover any food sensitivities you might have – foods you should avoid until the sensitivity can be cleared (such as through NAET – Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique).

NOTE: Length of pre-and post-fast for:

  • 3-day fast, pre-fast is 4 – 7 days; post fast is only 2-3 days;
  • 5-day fast: pre-fast is 7 – 10 days; post-fast is 3 – 4 days;
  • 7-day fast: pre0fast is 10 – 20 days; post-fast is 5 – 7 days.

Considerations

  • Legumes: Many of these recipes get their protein from legumes. If you are not used to consuming legumes, go easy at first – have just a quarter-cup of beans with a large green salad. And try not to have beans for both lunch and dinner.
    • Suggestion:  sprout some kidney, white, and garbanzo beans separately and keep on hand for the various recipes. You can even pre-cook them, and store in jars in the fridge.
  • Tomatoes: Some of these recipes are casseroles with tomatoes. Don’t overdo them either; perhaps only one or two during a week. Also, remove the seeds before eating the tomatoes (tomato seeds contain toxic lectins).
  • Meat: Some recipes include meat. Keep the serving size of the meat to 3 oz or less, and have only during the first few days of the prefast, or last day of post-fast. Remember, you should be eating all-vegetarian for the last week before the fast.
  • Cheese: Casseroles with a lot of cheese should be avoided, but a little bit of cheese, especially goat cheese (easier to digest), is OK.
  • Fruit: If the suggested dish doesn’t contain fruit, accompany with a bit of fresh fruit such as apples, pears, peaches, banana, berries.

Recipes, Suggestions

‘* NOTE: Recipes in bold are my favs, and/or easy to prepare. Links go to recipes on the Cat’s Kitchen blog, unless noted otherwise.

Prefast for 7-Day Fast

(Differences for 3, 4, and 5-day fasts are added as notes)

Breakfast

  • Morning Smoothie (with raw dairy milk or almond/coconut milk, and homemade dairy or almond yogurt or kefir) On last day, only raw blended fruit and no milk of any kind.
  • Oat Porridge (presoaked), with berries and/or nuts, preferably sprouted or pre-soaked (optional)
  • Fresh apple or grapefruit
  • Herbal tea

Lunch & Dinner

In addition to the suggestions here, see Main Course (Vegetarian & Bean) recipe list. Recipes in bold are my favorites.

Other soup recipes:

Breaking the Fast Suggestions for 7-day Fast

Break the Fast Fruit

This is served as dinner the last day of the fast.

  • Don’t combine fruits.
  • Organic melon cut into very small pieces and chewed well.
  • OR soft Organic berries which can be chewed to a liquid.

Break the Fast Smoothy

  • Blend fresh organic fruit with purified water. Only 2 types of fruit at a time, such as apple and berries.
  • Don’t use sweet and citrus fruits together (like banana and orange).
  • May add flax meal and spices like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg.
  • Don’t add raw milk or kefir until 3rd day (5 & 7-day fast) or 2nd day (3 & 4-day fast)

Break the Fast Salad

  • Organic greens, grated veggies, sprouts and fresh herbs.
  • Dressing of olive oil and lemon juice OR raw apple cider vinegar, and spiced with fresh garlic and Braggs Aminos or Spike.

Break the Fast Raw Soup

  • Organic veggies, herbs and garlic blended with purified water until smooth. Drink slowly and chew before swallowing.
  • My soup of choice is Raw, Cold Tomato & Avocado soup (use 1/2 avo); but can’t add avo until 2nd day of 5 or 7-day fast.

Break the Fast Veggie Chips

I don’t have a dehydrator to make these. However, my gas oven, off, with light on, might work.

  • Slice green zucchini about 1/4 inch thick, toss in bowl with Spike or Braggs and dehydrate at 105 degrees until crunchy like potato chips.
  • Or peel yam and slice  lengthwise into 3 sections. Using a peeler, create thin strips. Spice and dehydrate until crunchy.
  • Return to Juice Fast Introduction and Menu of pages

Sample for Breaking a 7-Day Fast

NOTE: BF means “Breaking-the-Fast” for each day. See also Breaking a 5-Day Fast, below.

Important: Include an enema each day until you have a BM.

Day 7 of Fast:

  • AM: regular fast schedule including enema, Green Magma and perfect-7.
  • Noon: Half of raw veggie juice. Also have a blended fruit and water mix (see example 2-fruit combos below*). No other ingredients, although can add second Green Magma with the fruit.   
  • Afternoon Magma as usual in afternoon.
  • Evening: Other half of raw veggie Juice; raw veggie soup such as Raw, Cold Tomato & Avocado soup (without Avo until BF-Day1), or blended fruit with water* (can add mango).
  • Start soaking of oatmeal for BF-Day 1, if desired. 

*keep fruit to two types like apple and berry, peach and berry, or mango and berry

BF-Day 1:

Highlights:

  • Continue Green magma (2 tsp) and fiber drink (half-dose); or add fiber to blended fruit, 2x/day.
  • If eating out for dinner, can have meat- and dairy-free soup, pasta, or other entree.

Sample menu:

  • AM: Green Magma (or add to mid morning smoothie), juice, water, herbal tea
  • Mid-Morning: Fruit & water smoothie with avocado wedge; add ½ serving fiber supplement  and cod liver oil (can mix into smoothie, or separate).
  • Enema: this is the last unless constipated or bloated; also implant bifidus after expelling.
  • Lunch: Veggie Juice OR liquid soup (such as Bieler’s Broth); plus
    • Salad of greens, sprouts, finely grated veggies; dressing of lemon juice with olive oil; kelp powder, pressed garlic w sea salt are optional. Can eat out.
    • I do a light salad, with some pea and lentil sprouts from local Organic store.
  • Mid-Afternoon: Green Magma, juice, water, herbal tea, hot broth;
  • 30 min before dinner: half-serving fiber in 8 oz water.
  • Evening: Several options:
  • Snacks: Tapenade (choose the simple, or the one with capers) with sprouted pita, Salsa, Greens salad, or coleslaw

BF-Day 2:

Highlights:

  • If not had a bowel movement (BM) yet, delay reintroduction of foods listed for today, until having BMs. Instead, continue Green magma and Fiber drink 2x/day, and a daily enema. Best if follow 7-day fast schedule beginning with BF-Day 2 of that schedule, until have a BM.

Sample Menu:

    • Upon waking: Green magma can sweeten with apple juice if desired
    • Breakfast: Blended fruit (apple, berries, and mango) and fiber supplement in water; can add Green magma (or powdered green food) and/or leftover veggie juice; also fresh parsley.
    • Lunch: Liquid soup or light salad with lemon juice & garlic dressing (no oil). Can add pea/lentil sprouts.
    • Mid-afternoon: Green Magma; sweeten with apple juice if desired. *Cat’s note: I switch to Amazing Grass’s Brain Elixer (see iHerb AMG-00570)
    • 30 minutes before dinner: Green Magma or Brain Elixer; can add fiber powder such as Tri-Cleanse
    • Dinner: Greens salad with avocado; with lemon and olive oil dressing; and/or Veggie soup such as Curried Carrot & Ginger Soup, Raw (Warm or Cold Soup)
    • Mid-evening: Blended fruit plus fiber and pea or rice protein powder

BF-Day 3

Highlights:

  • If not had a bowel movement (BM) yet, delay reintroduction of foods listed for today, until having BMs. Instead, continue Green magma and Fiber drink 2x/day, and a daily enema. Best if follow 7-day fast schedule beginning with BF-Day 2 of that schedule, until have a BM.
  • Otherwise, can add whole, sprouted grains, nuts, seeds, or legumes; tofu, yogurt and raw eggs in afternoon/evening. Also cooked sprouts and raw milk or kefir.

Sample Menu:

    • Breakfast:
    • Lunch:
      • Greens salad with avocado and pea/lentil sprouts; dressing of lemon or apple cider vinegar with garlic and olive oil.
    • Dinner:
    • Mid-eve: Blended fruit plus fiber and pea or rice protein powder; or leftover smoothie

BF-Day 4

Highlights:

  • If not had a bowel movement (BM) yet, delay reintroduction of foods listed for today, until having BMs. Instead, continue Green magma and Fiber drink 2x/day, and a daily enema. Best if follow 7-day fast schedule beginning with BF-Day 2 of that schedule, until have a BM.
  • Otherwise, can add whole, sprouted grains, nuts, seeds, or legumes; tofu, yogurt and raw eggs in afternoon/evening. Also cooked sprouts and raw milk or kefir.

Sample Menu:

BF-Day 5

BF-Day 6

  • Normal diet

Sample for Breaking a 5-Day Fast

NOTE: BF means “Breaking-the-Fast” for each day.

Day 5 of Fast and BF-Day 1

  • see Day 7 and BF-Day 1 of 7 day fast, above

Highlights of BF-Day 1:

  • Can add whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes, tofu, yogurt and raw eggs in afternoon/evening. Also cooked sprouts and raw milk or kefir.
  • Continue Green magma (2 tsp) and fiber drink (half-dose); or add fiber to blended fruit, 2x/day.
  • If eating out for dinner, can have meat- and dairy-free soup, pasta, or other entree.

BF-Day 2

Highlights:

  • If not had a bowel movement (BM) yet, delay reintroduction of foods listed for today, until having BMs. Instead, continue Green magma and Fiber drink 2x/day, and a daily enema. Best if follow 7-day fast schedule  beginning with BF-Day 2 of that schedule, until have a BM.
  • Otherwise, today is last day of breaking the 5-day fast, unless you want to stretch it out one more day.
  • Add whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes, tofu yogurt, kefir, real cheese, raw eggs and raw milk (no pasteurized dairy products until evening).
  • Can add Ranch Dressing or Cole Slaw Dressing at lunch if made with raw-egg mayo and raw cream; if at dinner, can be made with pasteurized dairy and/or coddled egg.
  • In evening, can add pasteurized dairy, yogurt, meat, fish and cooked eggs in small quantities. If have had a BM, then can make this the last day of breaking the fast, as follows:

Sample Menu:

  • Breakfast:
    • Blended fruit and water and wedge of avocado (if no BM yet, or otherwise need to delay introduction of animal-based foods);
    • OR full-meal smoothie OR Bran or other whole grain muffin, OR bowl of presoaked-oatmeal or buckwheat/kasha porridge with raw cream.
  • Lunch:
    • Green salad with nuts, sprouts, chicken or salmon, and whole grain bread with butter on side.
    • Or leftovers from BF-Day 1.
    • Apple with cheese, and creamy custard or clafoutis for dessert. NOTE: defer cheese, custard/clafoutis to an extra day (Saturday, below, if have not had enema).
  • Dinner:
    • BF-Day 1 leftovers (especially if need to delay reintroduction of animal foods and/or fats;
    • OR pasture-fed meat or wild-caught fish). Accompany with greens salad and braised greens, broccoli, cauliflower or asparagus. I like:  Salmon Coconut Curry, with fresh mandarin or tangerine wedges. If wild salmon is not in season, make Chicken Cutlets Sautéed with Olives, Capers & Roasted Lemons.

BF-Day 3

This applies only if need to postpone reintroduction of animal foods and/or fats.

Sample Menu:

Sources:

  1. Wellness Education Center, Kalispell, MT

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