Dr Mindy here and on this video I'm going to talk about how do you prepare for a three-day water
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okay how do we prepare for a three-day water fast so if you're new to my channel or you
kind of stumbled upon this video after long after I publish it we are in the middle of
a fast training week I do this five days out of every month where I bring my community together
and we practice fasting together this week we are practicing the three-day water fast
so if you want to join that experience just put companion guide in the comments and we have a
whole guide that explains what fast training week is and how you can do this one with us
so and that's a free guide I also want you to know that LMNT has generously donated
five boxes five boxes which has 30 of these minerals in them which fasters need especially
on a three-day water fast they are donating five boxes every single day during fast training week
so you can uh get one by going to the companion guide and then getting the link and entering it
explains it all in there but here's the thing so depending on when you guys are are coming to this
video if you are joining me in this experience I really want to encourage you to follow some
really key principles to be able to succeed at this three-day water fast
and one of them is you got to prepare for it and I'm going to give you my favorite hacks right now
so first hack one week before the fast this is what I want you to do there are several changes
I want you to make to your foods and I'll talk a little bit about your fasting lengths so the first
thing you've got to do the week leading up to a three-day water fast is you've got to avoid the
three most toxic foods this is your bad oils these are your refined flours and sugars and
these are your toxic ingredients in the companion guide we list out what these are so you can go
down and understand them in more detail but this is basically the standard american diet second
thing I would encourage you to bring your caffeine intake down now go back to the video I did before
this one talking about why you would want to do a three-day water fast I talk a little bit about
how you would use coffee and in the in a three-day water fast so go back and listen to that video
third thing week before you want to up your good fat as much as you can so some good fat
options we are huge fans of andrea seed oils the reason I like Andreas seed oils is they're highly
cold pressed organic they're great for stabilizing your blood sugar so up your oils you can do ghee
I love ghee with some raw nut butter I often do before I do a three-day water fast and then as
always mct oil put out by bulletproof is great in anything liquid so the week before let's
up these oils knowing that we need to stabilize our blood sugar so that the
three-day water fast will be a little easier okay fourth thing one two three fourth thing
that I want you to do the week before is I want you to up your minerals so we have fasted my
platform my team I kid you not we have probably gone through this three day water fast experience
with millions of people and one thing that is very very clear is that the world is mineral deficient
and you are mineral deficient for two reasons one our soils are mineral deficient especially here in
America I've done a lot of videos on that two if you do any sweating or you're an extreme athlete
you're definitely going to be more efficient and then three if you've been fasting a while
you become this is one of the consequences of fasting that we don't really like which is your
minerals can be deficient so lots of great ways to improve mineral content but the week before
I would be upping your element and we again in the companion guide will list
all my favorite mineral resources okay last thing you want to do the week before your
three-day water fast is you want to increase your fasting length so if you are 15 hours like you've
got a groove with 15 hours can you push it to 16 or 17 hours before the three-day water fast
if you can do you can bang out 24 really well could you maybe go do one whole day where you
don't eat and then maybe you do 30 hours of fasting wherever your comfort level is
could you just push it anywhere from a couple hours to five hours increase so that you create
what we call a hormetic stress this hormetic stress what it's gonna do is it's gonna force
your body to adapt and now when you go in that three-day water fast it will be easier okay two
days second next thing is two days before the fast there are two major focuses I want you to have
one I want you to avoid all refined carbohydrates and sugars so this is breads even the gluten-free
breads pastas cakes cookies get them all out I want to make sure again that you're getting
the bad oils out that's really important and I want you to take the fruit out two days before
here's why because we want to stabilize your blood sugar so please make sure that you're not going
into the three day water fast amped up on sugars that make or foods that make you insulin resistant
the second thing I want you to focus on two days before your three day water fast is I want you
to up your protein as much protein if you are a carnivore lover dive into a steak get yourself
some more chicken like up your protein this is not a time to be counting macros I want you to
bring your protein up and I want you to bring your veggies up why is that you're going to feed your
microbiome with the collagen from protein and the veggies will also have feed different microbiomes
different bacteria so this is really important because these bacteria will balance blood sugar
so I want you to up both of those macros and I want you to avoid the harmful
oils I want you to get off the refined carbs I'd even tell you get off the diet sodas anything
with nutrasweet in it is going to make you insulin-resistant so that's two days before
okay the day before I want you to sharpen your fasting focus and here's how you do it
one you gotta know why you're fasting if you are like hey I think I kind of want to try a three day
water fast that could be hard so I would encourage you to know what problem you're trying to solve
what is it that you want to why do you want to do this and really get con convicted to that why
second thing I want you to do is set an intention so this works when I do a three
day water fast if I have any problems I'm working out in my mind I just put it out
there and I'm like okay help me solve x y and z during this three day period you're
going to be amazed how much insight can come to you so set an intention ask a question just
put it out there and it you again you will be amazed at how peaceful your mind will get and
how problems that seem really big right now on the third day of that water fast will not seem so big
those of you who've done this trick before put it in the comments what you noticed
okay the next thing I want you to think of with sharpening your focus is I want you to gather your
fasting knowledge so get yourself some fasting books go binge watch my videos here but
when fasting gets hard I would recommend you come back to my youtube channel start watching videos
on it because you will get not only the enthusiasm that I have for fasting go read the comments
you're gonna get the enthusiasm everybody else has for fasting but you're gonna see the science just
when like when it gets hard really dive into what I've provided here for you guys
and then the last thing I'll say on this on sharpening your fasting focus is I want you to
think about what are you going to do when your mind yells at you so your mind is going to say
some things to you like why are you doing this do you really need to do this it's going to try
to talk you out of it so already ahead of time what are you going to do when that happens are
you going to go for a walk are you going to turn on your favorite Netflix series are you going to
call your fasting friend and be like mind is talking at me ahead of time think about that
okay last two pieces to this to the preparing for a fast I the fourth thing I want you to
think about is know your boundaries when do you need to break the fast this usually comes from
two things your numbers on your ketones so if you get 24 hours into this and your number is down in
the 40s your blood sugar break the fast so you I want you to know those boundaries of numbers
the other thing I want you to know are the symptoms some of the worst symptoms are when you
get fatigued and dizzy if you're really lethargic like you can't pick up a limb it is time to break
the fast I don't care what kind of commitment you made to yourself if you are incredibly
lethargic it is time to break your fast this is all in the companion guide so know your limits
okay last thing I know this is a long video the fifth piece to preparing is surrounding yourself
with community so I have a couple resources for you my resetter collaborative on facebook is
a free fasting community really positive just put resetter collaborative in the comments my
team will send you a link over there if you need more guidance in my academy my membership group
we have guides in there that are supporting people giving more attention to people going through this
process but this is a cool experience so remember that if you want to know the ins and outs of this
put companion guide in the notes and if you love this experience join me in my 15 day fat burner
reset we're starting one next week for 15 days I take you through all different types of fats
all different types of eating to be able to unstick weight and turn yourself into a fat
burner those of you that have done 3a water fast put your results put it in
the comments please so that people can lean into this and gain inspiration from you hope it helps