42-Hour Fasts Many clients in the IDM Program routinely skip the morning meal and have their first meal of the day around noon. This makes it easy to follow a sixteen-hour fasting regimen (see here) on regular days. There is nothing magical about eating as soon as you get up. Starting the day with just a large cup of coffee is quite acceptable. Combining this daily routine with an occasional (two to three times per week) thirty-six-hour fast results in a forty-two-hour fasting period. For example, you would eat dinner at 6 p.m. on day 1. You skip all meals on day 2 and eat your regular
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