Thursday, August 07, 2008

Fasting & Ethanol

A couple weeks ago I ventured out onto a water fast.

I have successfully had juice fasts as long as 30 days, but I've never tried for a long water fast. I made it 8 days before my body said it wanted food.

I am about to embark on another water fast because I felt so amazingly wonderful fasting on both juice or water. I am going with water again because we are in the heat of Texas summer and it's hard to fast like this during the winter months because you naturally become colder.

There are some weight issues I'm addressing and I believe that fasting is a great way of proving to yourself that you can be in control and you are not a slave to any thing.

I am very grateful to the Water Fasting group at Curezone.com - they are amazingly supportive!

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On another note, I am learning much more than I ever wanted about ethanol in gasoline. My Harley, which has never had a problem during the summer months, started idling hard the other day. After speaking with a number of people, it came down to a friend of mine upending a can of Seafoam into the tank which is supposed to blow out all the carbon and eliminate any water. She fired up and all was good.

What seems to be happening is that the higher levels of ethanol in the fuel is causing more moisture in the tanks. It's bad enough on a car but on a bike you are dealing with about a 3 gallon tank so each drop makes difference. Water is heavier than fuel so it will sink and Harley's don't run well on water.

I'm making this posting because as a female with high octane toys like mine, I know first hand the kind of run around people can get. If the bike or car suddenly starts acting different, try addressing the possible water in the tank situation before anything else - you may end up saving yourself 100's of dollars.
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