I'm sorry for the double post but I want to address the two posts seperetly without it looking messy and like one giant post. let it slide this one eh?

Quote Originally Posted by ShunNakamura View Post
Actually eating isn't necessisary if you get your nutrients from liquids. Water alone likely won't cut it(unless you got a lot of junk in your water). However, a mix of water, juices and ..... are they called protien shakes? But yeah, lots of different liquids can be used to make up what you don't get from food. I myself drink far more than I eat[about 1-2 meals a day, and I drink several gallons of liquids a day].

I don't know if you can pick everything up through liquids these days[though I would guess that you can find the majority of it at least]; but you could pick up enough that 'not eating' may not be as harmful as it usually would be in the short-medium terms.

Anyways I like eating a bit too much to go all the way away from it, but I do much prefer liquids for much of the day.



As for personal challenges trying to get more exercise in in the hopes that it will help fight my constant illnesses* I get(I may get 2-3 months of being healthy a year, if I am lucky). Fortunately the college has some nice equipment and I got a long break once a week, I figure I will start there. My biggest fear with it is that it will make me miss more classes than what my illness already causes(due to strain and exhaustion on my body weaking me and making me more succeptiable; however, excercise sometimes does help, and I should at least TRY something).


*Sad part was I thought those illnesses mostly went away after I started eating a bit less(though healthier) and absorbing a lot through liquids[lots of juice and vitimin enhanced liquids]. But I have taken a really nasty dip these last months and have not been able to shake no matter how hard I try.
You can indeed survive on liquids, but you'll ruin your digestive system. the human body was not made to drink strawberries and bananas, it was made to eat them. Protein shakes are great, I use to take them all the time, but they are only protein. There are no carbohydrates (something the brain uses a lot) or any healthy fats whatsoever.. and the protein is whey so its absorbed very fast by the body. Protein shakes are designed to be taken after weight training sessions where the body is gagging for protein to rebuilt and regrow its muscle fibres which have been ribbed to shreds.

Drinking meals is fine if you still eat solid food, because liquid meals lack something very important: fiber, and roughage. you will get a lot more benefit eating a steak dinner then in liquid form, its digested differently.

Also your illness's could be a reaction to food you are eating, or you just arent eating enough.. the workouts should help it though if you are eating enough to handle working out.