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Once a new year begins, you already know what to expect: a long list of diet trends and fads people push on you to try to finally get it right and tight.
And many people are persuaded to try extreme diets at the beginning of the year because of the resolutions we make, and our determination, in the beginning, to stick to them. But could you stick to a diet where one day out of the week you would forgo eating altogether, only finding nourishment in water?
For some, like those who’ve done religious fasts, it probably doesn’t sound all that bad. But for everyone else, I’m sure the 6:1 diet seems quite over the top. And yet, it’s a diet people are talking about right now after Coldplay frontman Chris Martin revealed on Fresh 102.7 that one day a week, he consumes only water. He’s doing it to perform better, and to feel healthier.
“I started doing it because I was sick one time, and this guy said to me, ‘Try not eating for a day, it will make your body feel healthier.’ I did it and I found I could sing a bit better, and also I felt so grateful for food…and just grateful for everything in a way that I wasn’t so much before,” Martin said.
He continued, “I think that that feeling of gratitude and stuff naturally brings out a joyous feeling, and also when you’re hungry you are very focused, so both sides of it I think help creativity.”
And while he’s felt a lot more grateful, he’s also felt quite cranky on those days. The singer admitted, “If you fast for a while, about 15 hours in, you get a little antsy, so you’ve got to be careful who you’re talking to at that point.”
Depending on how long one would take on this diet, it sounds terrible, but doable. But I could see people either dreading that day of fasting every week and then stuffing themselves with food the day before to get sustenance–including all of their favorite junk food. And that probably defeats the purpose of why you’re taking a day off from eating in the first place…
Could you do it?
