Thursday
– Water Fast Day #22
11:30
AM
In these days I’m thinking and thinking on
how to break the Fast. One very important thing to be aware of, when breaking a
prolonged fast, is that right after the Fast is broken a famine hunger comes
very suddenly; so strong that I could eat the entire McDonald’s menu 5 times!
So I will need to have a very detailed plan on how to break my Fast and be very
strict to stick with it 100%. That’s why I am trying to figure out what is the
best way of refeeding. In my previous fasts I always ate watermelon, to begin
with, but this time around I would like to start with some vegetable juice too;
actually I was thinking on having a drink of 50% juice of veggies and fruits
and 50% of water – this to avoid a big spike of insulin. The first day I would
have 8 ounces of this mix, 4 times during the day and with the days I would
increase the ounces and decrease the frequency of my meals. I will post a
detailed plan when I finalize it.
Today I don’t feel great in terms of
motivation, I often think about eating or drinking something, but I’m being
strong and not surrender to these temptations. I think it might be also due to
the fact that is Christmas time, all around is a feast of colours, food, gifts,
and of course I would like to enjoy the season and eat everything I could
possibly eat, all those cookies, pastry and tasty sweets! But I guess is a good
thing for me that I’m fasting during the holidays, so I won’t gain back in a
snap everything I lost with so many sacrifices.
When doing a prolonged fast is normal
having some weak moments; it’s part of the process for sure; but being in
Ketosis helps, no food can certainly tempt me enough to break my fast. The only
thing that could force anyone to give up a Water Fast, after so many days, is a
physical issue that is compromising the wellbeing of the individual itself,
this danger can be scary enough to break earlier…or not, any fast. So learn to
listen carefully to your body and not push too much to reach too fast a
breaking point.
It is Day #22 today but it’s still so early
for me, I have lost basically nothing compared on how much I still need to
lose, so I must keep going no matter what, otherwise I would be just wasted 22
days for nothing. But I’ll keep on going, I know it’s boring but the days will
pass and I’ll be thankful that I did it; after all this is just between me
myself and I.
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Thursday, 23 November 2017
Monday, 25 September 2017
Combined Dry and Water Fast - 30 days completed!
So I successfully completed 30 days of my combined Dry/Water Fast; who knew I could go so many days without eating, not so much for the absence of food
rather than the willpower of staying
away from food itself. Oh well, time passes
after all and at the end of the journey
looking back does not seem that difficult, if done once in a while.
Today I planned on refeeding with Bone Broth, I’m now sipping on my Mason jar with 1/3 of Bone Broth and some boiling water; I must to say it taste awful, I added too much water and the end result is not great at all. I’ll do better with the next jar I hope.
Last night I had hard time sleeping, as often happens, but this time my mouth was extremely dry, as I never felt before, I was trying to drink water during the night, but it wasn’t helping. I was wondering if it was a sort of sign that I should break my fast, but I didn’t feel hungry at all, just thirsty. Well this morning I was very weak, I could not walk to come to work, I took the streetcar for most of the way here and walked with lots of challenges the rest of the way, thinking that I could faint any time. Most probably it was just my mind making up this scenario, but I didn’t like how I was feeling and I was ok with the idea of refeeding on Bone Broth today, I need to have a normal life and functioning properly, otherwise I cannot continue any fast whatsoever.
My eyelids are still twitching often, a sign that I have some nutritional deficiencies for sure, but I hope once I start to eat again things will be better. I cannot wait to eat a hearty salad from my favourite restaurants. Now that I’m drinking I feel really tired, the refeeding process, let’s face it, it sucks; eating after a prolonged fast takes so much energy from the body that basically shuts me down while I’m digesting, and I’m just sipping on a little bit of Bone Broth with tons of water at the moment!
I still have lots of weight to lose unfortunately, the rate on which I was losing weight was not that fast so I would’ve needed another two weeks to reach my ideal target weight, but I could not handle another 2 weeks of Water Fast, I’m getting tired of not eating; I hope with good food and exercise I can reach my goal, and maybe I’ll do short Water Fast here and there to stabilize my weight and lose another couple of Kg. The important thing is that I don’t gain any weight and I maintain wherever I am now, or less of course. Wish me luck!
Today I planned on refeeding with Bone Broth, I’m now sipping on my Mason jar with 1/3 of Bone Broth and some boiling water; I must to say it taste awful, I added too much water and the end result is not great at all. I’ll do better with the next jar I hope.
Last night I had hard time sleeping, as often happens, but this time my mouth was extremely dry, as I never felt before, I was trying to drink water during the night, but it wasn’t helping. I was wondering if it was a sort of sign that I should break my fast, but I didn’t feel hungry at all, just thirsty. Well this morning I was very weak, I could not walk to come to work, I took the streetcar for most of the way here and walked with lots of challenges the rest of the way, thinking that I could faint any time. Most probably it was just my mind making up this scenario, but I didn’t like how I was feeling and I was ok with the idea of refeeding on Bone Broth today, I need to have a normal life and functioning properly, otherwise I cannot continue any fast whatsoever.
My eyelids are still twitching often, a sign that I have some nutritional deficiencies for sure, but I hope once I start to eat again things will be better. I cannot wait to eat a hearty salad from my favourite restaurants. Now that I’m drinking I feel really tired, the refeeding process, let’s face it, it sucks; eating after a prolonged fast takes so much energy from the body that basically shuts me down while I’m digesting, and I’m just sipping on a little bit of Bone Broth with tons of water at the moment!
I still have lots of weight to lose unfortunately, the rate on which I was losing weight was not that fast so I would’ve needed another two weeks to reach my ideal target weight, but I could not handle another 2 weeks of Water Fast, I’m getting tired of not eating; I hope with good food and exercise I can reach my goal, and maybe I’ll do short Water Fast here and there to stabilize my weight and lose another couple of Kg. The important thing is that I don’t gain any weight and I maintain wherever I am now, or less of course. Wish me luck!
Thursday, 13 July 2017
My combined Dry/Water Fast - Day by Day
Fasting
Day #8 – Water Fast
(Thursday – Second Half)
7:00 AM – I broke my Dry Fast after 180hrs – 7.5 Days of no food and no water. I was undecided this morning on what to use to break my dry fast then I opted for the Bell Kidney Tea with the juice of one lemon. I sipped slowly, trying to keep the tea in my mouth as long as I could. Everything tasted normally, I thought I would feel this amazing new sensation drinking again, but no, as usual it didn’t happen, it was just a tea with lemon. After about one hour from my tea I felt a bit of stomach-ache, maybe the new liquid was getting busy my digestive system, but it lasted only 2 seconds really.
Fasting Day #12 – Water Fast
(Monday)
Even without eating anything whatsoever losing weight appears to be a big challenge for me, I’m sure my metabolism is completely messed up. Today is the second day still on 60.2Kg, but at least my Ketosis has been high so I’m just hoping that it is matter of water retention and my fat is burning anyway.
It’s been a couple of days where I’m enjoying the benefits of a prolonged fast, my mental clarity is absolutely astonishing, I’m surprised on how I feel every time I do a fast…I guess I forget from one to another one! My thoughts are thousands in my head and I’m thinking that this could be one of the reasons my sleep is so bad, my brain does not stop and that makes me wide awake every single night; I’m not tired though and I know that even 2/3 hours are now enough for me to rest, well at least this is how I feel. So far I have no hunger and even my cravings are totally gone, sometimes I think of making a nice Raw Vegan recipe but mostly for the joy of cooking rather than eating it; I thought on cooking something and bringing in the office for my coworkers, at least I gave in on my desires to experiment a new recipe. Not sure if I’ll do it though, not everyone like eating Raw/Paleo or with odd ingredients like Psyllium Husk or Bentonite Clay!
My tongue is still white-coated and I have often a bad taste and feeling in my mouth, even when I drink lemon water of my kidney tea, oh well there’s not much I can do with that. This morning, very early – around 4:00 AM - I decided to wake up and do an enema, I figured it would tires me up so I can take a nap after that. The more I fast the more water is required for my enemas, my GI tract is getting empty of course; today I added a few drops of Tea Tree oil in the enema bag; I figured since it is a great anti-fungus oil it might help with my Candida or any other fungus for that matter.
(Thursday – Second Half)
7:00 AM – I broke my Dry Fast after 180hrs – 7.5 Days of no food and no water. I was undecided this morning on what to use to break my dry fast then I opted for the Bell Kidney Tea with the juice of one lemon. I sipped slowly, trying to keep the tea in my mouth as long as I could. Everything tasted normally, I thought I would feel this amazing new sensation drinking again, but no, as usual it didn’t happen, it was just a tea with lemon. After about one hour from my tea I felt a bit of stomach-ache, maybe the new liquid was getting busy my digestive system, but it lasted only 2 seconds really.
10:00
AM – I went to work with the usual energy; it’s a bit rainy today so I took the streetcar and walked a little bit to the
office. I don’t feel sleepy, although I didn’t sleep very well last night – let’s
see at the end of the day how I will feel. At the moment I’m sipping my favourite
water, but sometimes I forget to drink! I guess I was
getting used to not drink or eat. I neither feel hungry nor thirsty though, I
could go on for more days but
breaking a prolonged Dry Fast takes
a lot of time and effort, so I want
to switch to water. I might be drinking some hot water with lemon later on in the day, let’s how I will feel.
3:30 PM - I've been drinking water all day but I went to the washroom only 2 times, so it's pretty clear to me that I'm retaining lots of water. I was peeing more during my Dry Fast! This morning at around 11:00 AM or so I had a release, I guess it was from the Kidney Tea and the lemon juice; it was mostly water but some residual from my GI tract. As I noticed from my previous prolonged Dry Fast, the magic starts to happen after the fast is done. I just prepared a big jar of hot water and lemon, I'll be drinking this for now, since in my office is freezing today, I felt the desire to sip on something warm. For some reasons I don't feel the need to drink, I'm not thirsty but I forget to drink and I don't even want to.
Fasting Day #9 – Water Fast
(Friday)
Last night I woke up at 1:30 AM feeling pain in my tummy, I had to rush to the washroom with diarrhea, I'm not sure what was the cause since I wasn't drinking from 6:00 PM of the day before. Maybe my GI tract took some time to move stuff around. But I felt way better after. Yesterday I could not drink anything but water, otherwise I would have to visit the bathroom! Well I had only the Kidney Tea with lemon and some hot water with lemon juice. Today's much better, I can have both tea and lemon water without issues, but still I can feel that my digestive system is not back 100%. I really don't feel hungry and my mood is great today. This morning my Ketones were super high, as I rarely seen it. I gain a bit of water weight today, almost a pound! But I was expecting it, I'm curious to see when I'll start to lose again during this Water Fast. This morning I saw my belly shape improved a lot compared when I started, that was a nice start of the day. For me when I'm in Ketosis all fat goes down, as opposite of the MFS that did not shed any fat whatsoever, most likely only muscle mass.
Here's my today's Ketostix:
Fasting Day #12 – Water Fast
(Monday)
Even without eating anything whatsoever losing weight appears to be a big challenge for me, I’m sure my metabolism is completely messed up. Today is the second day still on 60.2Kg, but at least my Ketosis has been high so I’m just hoping that it is matter of water retention and my fat is burning anyway.
It’s been a couple of days where I’m enjoying the benefits of a prolonged fast, my mental clarity is absolutely astonishing, I’m surprised on how I feel every time I do a fast…I guess I forget from one to another one! My thoughts are thousands in my head and I’m thinking that this could be one of the reasons my sleep is so bad, my brain does not stop and that makes me wide awake every single night; I’m not tired though and I know that even 2/3 hours are now enough for me to rest, well at least this is how I feel. So far I have no hunger and even my cravings are totally gone, sometimes I think of making a nice Raw Vegan recipe but mostly for the joy of cooking rather than eating it; I thought on cooking something and bringing in the office for my coworkers, at least I gave in on my desires to experiment a new recipe. Not sure if I’ll do it though, not everyone like eating Raw/Paleo or with odd ingredients like Psyllium Husk or Bentonite Clay!
My tongue is still white-coated and I have often a bad taste and feeling in my mouth, even when I drink lemon water of my kidney tea, oh well there’s not much I can do with that. This morning, very early – around 4:00 AM - I decided to wake up and do an enema, I figured it would tires me up so I can take a nap after that. The more I fast the more water is required for my enemas, my GI tract is getting empty of course; today I added a few drops of Tea Tree oil in the enema bag; I figured since it is a great anti-fungus oil it might help with my Candida or any other fungus for that matter.
Tomorrow evening my man is coming back from
his vacation, but I think we’ll see each other the coming weekend, not many details yet but I hope he will be ok for me not eating anything; at this pace I will need another 10 days to reach my weight
goal, or close as I can to that. I’m thinking that my body is getting used to
the fasts and it’s learning on how to keep fat as much as it can! Damn it!
Fasting Day #13 – Water Fast
(Tuesday)
It’s amazing what a good night sleep can do! Today I registered a nice weight loss, I’m now 59.5Kg, which is like 700gr (1.5lb) less than yesterday; I also had a spontaneous BM this morning waking up, my belly was hurting a bit but I felt a bit better after.
My Ketosis is still in large traces, around 60mg/dL and my energy is over the roof; I don’t really feel I want to end this fast anytime soon, which is odd since usually I count the days till the end of my fasts; but I guess this happens when not eating for so many days, I would say more than ten.
I do feel that I want to eat healthy though, thinking of all the nice salads I can make, like the zucchini noodles one that I love so much, so from time to time I’m watching some videos on how to make a good dressing for the zoodles, but not obsessing for it really.
My man is coming back tonight from his vacation but I’m really motivated on not let me convince on breaking my fast till I reach my weight goal, at the end is matter of just few days. I still need to lose at least 10 pounds and going back on eating at this point will only make me gain back all I lost with so many sacrifices.
The Water Fast is going very well, I have a high mental clarity, very focused on what I do, very happy, I feel better with my body and I’m really feeling the benefits of the detoxing process. It’s been 13 days now with no food and it’s amazing how I am still releasing stuff from my GI tract; it’s a never ending cleaning process.
Last night I was able to sleep a bit more, not a full uninterrupted night sleep but I went to bed extremely early, like 6:00 PM and took naps through the whole night, in this way I was able to have the least amount of hours I needed to rest my body.
Fasting Day #14 – Water Fast
(Wednesday)
I hit another plateau today and I’m pretty sure it’s due to the fact that I didn’t have enough sleep last night. I came back home very late after my course, it lasted till 10:00 PM! WTH! After leaving the class, while I was walking home, I felt my body was completely shutting down, all my functions were slowing down and I was feeling dizzy and weak. Sleep is extremely important while fasting, I guess resting in general since I don’t have the same energy as when eating normally, and after all it’s been 14 days without any food.
This morning for the first time after these 14 days I feel sleepy and tired and I would love to take a two hours nap. I realized that when I’m fasting I cannot have a full night sleep, since I usually wake up in the middle of the night a couple of times, so the secret for me is to allow myself a bigger sleeping-time span so I can sleep and wake up multiple times and be able to reach at least 7 hours sleep in total. That’s why it’s so important going to bed as soon as I can because most likely I’ll be wide awake at some point in the middle of my night.
Yesterday I was thinking on when and how I will break my fast because it’s been already 14 days and the more I go forward with the Water Fast the more time I will need to re-feed. I’m thinking on breaking the fast next Monday but I’m not sure yet, it might depend on how my weight loss is going; with this pace I will need another month! Monday will be Day #19 if I decide to re-feed in that day, which is not bad, I would actually keep on going another couple of days at that point, like till Day #21 so I can have 3 weeks completed; but who knows I will decide then, in the meantime I will try not to fall asleep on my desk today!
Fasting Day #15 – Water Fast
(Thursday)
So I’m on my Day #15 and everything is good, I had a better sleep last night and this morning I registered a weight loss of 500gr – I’m now 59Kg with moderate Ketosis at 70mg/dL.
I don’t feel hungry at all, sometimes I have cravings but very rarely and I noticed the more I go forward with my Fast the less cravings for junk food I have, as opposite I’m dreaming about big salads and zucchini noodles with pesto sauce! Yesterday with my man we were planning on going to a Raw Vegan restaurant once done with my Fast and I cannot wait for it.
I didn’t do an enema since few days now and I was wondering if I should do it one today after work; I don’t feel the need to do it really but sometimes I feel I still have something in my GI tract that it needs to be released, most probably I’ll try tonight and see how it goes. All those videos and blogs about fasting emphasise the importance of daily enemas, but I really don’t feel I need it every day; I tend to listen to my body, which works better for me.
I’m drinking lemon water for most of the day and trying to stop around 5:00 PM when I leave my office, mostly because I don’t want to wake up at night every 30 minutes to go to the washroom, those nightly bathroom breaks are so annoying; even though I stop at 5:00 PM to drink I still wake up at least 2/3 times!
My tongue is still white-coated but I noticed that my breath is somehow improved, maybe for the lemon water – not sure really. I’m wondering if it will ever go back to pink as everyone fasting says, I don’t buy this theory though, I think as long as I fast, my tongue will be white.
Fasting Day #16 – Water Fast
(Friday)
My weight seems not moving much so far, I’m still same as yesterday at 59Kg and just traces of Ketosis this morning at 30mg/dL; I’m wondering if it’s because my body is getting used to fasting or something else. It can be really frustrating not seeing any change when not eating anything. Apart from that I’m feeling fine, energy level is good and mood is positive.
Yesterday I did an enema, after few days that I wasn’t doing it; there was not much to release though and basically I used the whole enema bag full of water, which I am sure was not even enough. I believe it’s because my colon and GI tract are empty so it can contain more water; it takes really a lot to fill in all that water! I don’t think I’m going to do any more enemas till the end of this fast.
To reach my weight goal I would need another full week based on how my weight loss is going so far, but I cannot continue for so long; I miss a bit the social life with my man and it’s really annoying not eating, not cooking, after all I love food. I hope I can be to a decent weight level and from there trying to do IF and lose some of the extra pounds left, or maybe adding a couple of fasting days during the weekends or so.
This thing I’ve said it in other posts but I want to repeat it. Most of the times I heard people telling that weight is not important, that people don’t notice this thing and that I would be treated or considered same way with less or more pounds on me. Well in my case is a bag of BS! Every single time I lose weight and I’m almost to my weight goal people from everywhere start to pay attention to me way more, treat me differently, being nicer. I’m not saying that it’s right by all means but that’s the truth. I wish I could be 300lb and being considered in the same way as I’m right now, but I’m pretty sure it would never happen. We live in a superficial society and appearance matter either we like it or not. It sucks I know…
Fasting Day #19 – Water Fast
(Monday)
I’m on my 19th day of this combined Dry/Water Fast, the second longest fast I’ve ever done. I’m physically good but my weekend was extremely tiring, I spent both days outside doing my motorcycle course and it was very tough on my body, I should’ve planned smarter this course, since it required lots of strengths and concentration, plus using muscles that I don’t always use, so now I’m a bit sore; also my bike fell twice while I was parking it so I have bruises here and there. I’m glad today I’m in the office so I can sit all day!
This morning when I was walking to work I felt very weak, not dizzy but generally not well, I can’t say that my legs were weak or any specific muscle, just general weakness that made me think it’s time for me to end this fast. To be really honest I don’t want to end the fast, breaking it is not fun and takes time and effort, I always feel weak after eating and to get my GI tract back to normal requires lots of time with uncomfortable digestion episodes in the middle. Oh well, I will have to do it at some point anyway.
Yesterday I had a big jar of the Bell Kidney Tea with some lemon and after that I had a spontaneous BM, which I was glad of – it saved me the hassle of doing an enema, which I didn’t plan of doing it but it was always in the back of my mind.
My ketosis has been great in these days, yesterday I had large traces of ketones at 160mg/dL, I’m sure it was due to the fact that I had basically only 1L of water for the whole day including 2 cups of kidney tea, when I don’t drink much lemon juice seems I burn more fat, which is good, I can see it on my body that my fat is shedding down, and I’m very glad of that. Today I registered another weight loss so I’m now 57.8Kg and my ketones were in 80mg/dL which is still a purple Ketostix so that means I’m still burning at high pace. Losing weight seems being a challenge with this fast, but I’m trying to be strong and keep on going following my goals, eventually I will get there.
To break my fast I’m thinking to start drinking the Bone Broth that I have here in the office, not yet though, I’ll wait till lunch time or so and get a big jar so I can fill it up with half broth and some water; when cold the Bone Broth is really thick jelly, it needs to be warm to be more liquid, plus I don’t mind adding water, it doesn’t actually change much the taste of the broth and I have the chance to go easy with the drink while breaking my fast. Let’s see how it goes today!
Fasting Day #13 – Water Fast
(Tuesday)
It’s amazing what a good night sleep can do! Today I registered a nice weight loss, I’m now 59.5Kg, which is like 700gr (1.5lb) less than yesterday; I also had a spontaneous BM this morning waking up, my belly was hurting a bit but I felt a bit better after.
My Ketosis is still in large traces, around 60mg/dL and my energy is over the roof; I don’t really feel I want to end this fast anytime soon, which is odd since usually I count the days till the end of my fasts; but I guess this happens when not eating for so many days, I would say more than ten.
I do feel that I want to eat healthy though, thinking of all the nice salads I can make, like the zucchini noodles one that I love so much, so from time to time I’m watching some videos on how to make a good dressing for the zoodles, but not obsessing for it really.
My man is coming back tonight from his vacation but I’m really motivated on not let me convince on breaking my fast till I reach my weight goal, at the end is matter of just few days. I still need to lose at least 10 pounds and going back on eating at this point will only make me gain back all I lost with so many sacrifices.
The Water Fast is going very well, I have a high mental clarity, very focused on what I do, very happy, I feel better with my body and I’m really feeling the benefits of the detoxing process. It’s been 13 days now with no food and it’s amazing how I am still releasing stuff from my GI tract; it’s a never ending cleaning process.
Last night I was able to sleep a bit more, not a full uninterrupted night sleep but I went to bed extremely early, like 6:00 PM and took naps through the whole night, in this way I was able to have the least amount of hours I needed to rest my body.
Fasting Day #14 – Water Fast
(Wednesday)
I hit another plateau today and I’m pretty sure it’s due to the fact that I didn’t have enough sleep last night. I came back home very late after my course, it lasted till 10:00 PM! WTH! After leaving the class, while I was walking home, I felt my body was completely shutting down, all my functions were slowing down and I was feeling dizzy and weak. Sleep is extremely important while fasting, I guess resting in general since I don’t have the same energy as when eating normally, and after all it’s been 14 days without any food.
This morning for the first time after these 14 days I feel sleepy and tired and I would love to take a two hours nap. I realized that when I’m fasting I cannot have a full night sleep, since I usually wake up in the middle of the night a couple of times, so the secret for me is to allow myself a bigger sleeping-time span so I can sleep and wake up multiple times and be able to reach at least 7 hours sleep in total. That’s why it’s so important going to bed as soon as I can because most likely I’ll be wide awake at some point in the middle of my night.
Yesterday I was thinking on when and how I will break my fast because it’s been already 14 days and the more I go forward with the Water Fast the more time I will need to re-feed. I’m thinking on breaking the fast next Monday but I’m not sure yet, it might depend on how my weight loss is going; with this pace I will need another month! Monday will be Day #19 if I decide to re-feed in that day, which is not bad, I would actually keep on going another couple of days at that point, like till Day #21 so I can have 3 weeks completed; but who knows I will decide then, in the meantime I will try not to fall asleep on my desk today!
Fasting Day #15 – Water Fast
(Thursday)
So I’m on my Day #15 and everything is good, I had a better sleep last night and this morning I registered a weight loss of 500gr – I’m now 59Kg with moderate Ketosis at 70mg/dL.
I don’t feel hungry at all, sometimes I have cravings but very rarely and I noticed the more I go forward with my Fast the less cravings for junk food I have, as opposite I’m dreaming about big salads and zucchini noodles with pesto sauce! Yesterday with my man we were planning on going to a Raw Vegan restaurant once done with my Fast and I cannot wait for it.
I didn’t do an enema since few days now and I was wondering if I should do it one today after work; I don’t feel the need to do it really but sometimes I feel I still have something in my GI tract that it needs to be released, most probably I’ll try tonight and see how it goes. All those videos and blogs about fasting emphasise the importance of daily enemas, but I really don’t feel I need it every day; I tend to listen to my body, which works better for me.
I’m drinking lemon water for most of the day and trying to stop around 5:00 PM when I leave my office, mostly because I don’t want to wake up at night every 30 minutes to go to the washroom, those nightly bathroom breaks are so annoying; even though I stop at 5:00 PM to drink I still wake up at least 2/3 times!
My tongue is still white-coated but I noticed that my breath is somehow improved, maybe for the lemon water – not sure really. I’m wondering if it will ever go back to pink as everyone fasting says, I don’t buy this theory though, I think as long as I fast, my tongue will be white.
Fasting Day #16 – Water Fast
(Friday)
My weight seems not moving much so far, I’m still same as yesterday at 59Kg and just traces of Ketosis this morning at 30mg/dL; I’m wondering if it’s because my body is getting used to fasting or something else. It can be really frustrating not seeing any change when not eating anything. Apart from that I’m feeling fine, energy level is good and mood is positive.
Yesterday I did an enema, after few days that I wasn’t doing it; there was not much to release though and basically I used the whole enema bag full of water, which I am sure was not even enough. I believe it’s because my colon and GI tract are empty so it can contain more water; it takes really a lot to fill in all that water! I don’t think I’m going to do any more enemas till the end of this fast.
To reach my weight goal I would need another full week based on how my weight loss is going so far, but I cannot continue for so long; I miss a bit the social life with my man and it’s really annoying not eating, not cooking, after all I love food. I hope I can be to a decent weight level and from there trying to do IF and lose some of the extra pounds left, or maybe adding a couple of fasting days during the weekends or so.
This thing I’ve said it in other posts but I want to repeat it. Most of the times I heard people telling that weight is not important, that people don’t notice this thing and that I would be treated or considered same way with less or more pounds on me. Well in my case is a bag of BS! Every single time I lose weight and I’m almost to my weight goal people from everywhere start to pay attention to me way more, treat me differently, being nicer. I’m not saying that it’s right by all means but that’s the truth. I wish I could be 300lb and being considered in the same way as I’m right now, but I’m pretty sure it would never happen. We live in a superficial society and appearance matter either we like it or not. It sucks I know…
Fasting Day #19 – Water Fast
(Monday)
I’m on my 19th day of this combined Dry/Water Fast, the second longest fast I’ve ever done. I’m physically good but my weekend was extremely tiring, I spent both days outside doing my motorcycle course and it was very tough on my body, I should’ve planned smarter this course, since it required lots of strengths and concentration, plus using muscles that I don’t always use, so now I’m a bit sore; also my bike fell twice while I was parking it so I have bruises here and there. I’m glad today I’m in the office so I can sit all day!
This morning when I was walking to work I felt very weak, not dizzy but generally not well, I can’t say that my legs were weak or any specific muscle, just general weakness that made me think it’s time for me to end this fast. To be really honest I don’t want to end the fast, breaking it is not fun and takes time and effort, I always feel weak after eating and to get my GI tract back to normal requires lots of time with uncomfortable digestion episodes in the middle. Oh well, I will have to do it at some point anyway.
Yesterday I had a big jar of the Bell Kidney Tea with some lemon and after that I had a spontaneous BM, which I was glad of – it saved me the hassle of doing an enema, which I didn’t plan of doing it but it was always in the back of my mind.
My ketosis has been great in these days, yesterday I had large traces of ketones at 160mg/dL, I’m sure it was due to the fact that I had basically only 1L of water for the whole day including 2 cups of kidney tea, when I don’t drink much lemon juice seems I burn more fat, which is good, I can see it on my body that my fat is shedding down, and I’m very glad of that. Today I registered another weight loss so I’m now 57.8Kg and my ketones were in 80mg/dL which is still a purple Ketostix so that means I’m still burning at high pace. Losing weight seems being a challenge with this fast, but I’m trying to be strong and keep on going following my goals, eventually I will get there.
To break my fast I’m thinking to start drinking the Bone Broth that I have here in the office, not yet though, I’ll wait till lunch time or so and get a big jar so I can fill it up with half broth and some water; when cold the Bone Broth is really thick jelly, it needs to be warm to be more liquid, plus I don’t mind adding water, it doesn’t actually change much the taste of the broth and I have the chance to go easy with the drink while breaking my fast. Let’s see how it goes today!
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Water Fast Day #23 - Ready to break my Fast
Today is my 23rd
day of my Water Fasting journey.
I can't believe it's been 23 days
without food, only water. Some people might think I'm crazy but overall I think this
experience was amazing, I reconnected with my body, I discovered my deep
emotions driving my binge episodes, I healed and cleansed my body and I found
back my
perfect weight. Now I have plans of a healthy eating and I hope I can be disciplined with my goals. I
find that the weight I'm right now (~54Kg)
is the one I'm more comfortable with, it's a couple of Kilos over my original goal weight but I don't mind at all, and I'm
personally not concerned about the number
on the scale rather than how I
feel in my clothes or how I see the shape of my face in the mirror. I planned
also to go to the gym once my energy
is fully back, overall I don't have
much of muscle mass so I need to build it back somehow, I'm thinking to go at
least 3 times a week.
In the past few days I had a lack of energy but today I feel good, not weak at all but at the
same time I'm ready to break my fast.
Some time it's just the brain preparation that pushes us in the direction that
we planned in advance, not necessarily because it's the right time to do it. In
any case, I bought two little cans
of pure organic coconut water during
my lunch break, I left it in the fridge here in the office for now; I might
take one home and the second one I will use it tomorrow as my "lunch", but not the pure coconut
though, I'll add some distilled water, just to go slowly with the refeeding,
but I may drink here and there in the afternoon, I don't think it will harm my system if it's diluted.
Saturday and Sunday will be my first 2 days of real food for my refeeding process, I think I'll buy some organic watermelon on Friday afternoon, not
sure if I'll be working from home on that day, but I can definitely go to the
grocery store and buy a small piece; I won't have much for those 2 days so I guess a small half will suffice. Depending on how those 2 days go I'll decide what to do on Refeeding Day #3; that will be in the
office so I hope the digestion will not drown
me down too much by Monday.
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