My Water Fast Day #6
started very badly this morning. My weight and ketosis were great but I
struggled a lot with my BM, I have to say that similar thing
happened in my first Water Fast, but
this time around was way more painful. I know that lots of people don't always feel comfortable talking about BMs, but it's
a natural thing, it's a response of our body on how we process
food how our digestive system is working.
So I hope my experience can be helpful
for who reads and is going through my same difficulties.
So I didn't feel good
since a couple of days and my mistake was really not doing anything till today, I should have had
an action plan that I can execute
while at home and with plenty of time.
Unfortunately I didn't, so this
morning I had one of the worst half
hour of my life! In short I took 2
probiotic as soon as I woke up and a glass of hot water, it didn't seem helping
at all so I decided to try again with the salty
water and the Shank Pashlanka exercise,
well it really took little time for
me and just a cup of water to have some relief. I am happy to say that I felt like a new person after that!
Today I have much more
energy compared the previous days,
my cravings are less than before and
I'm good in terms of weight loss, so
I guess tomorrow will be ok to stick with the initial plan and end my fast. After that I will start my
refeeding process with just watermelon, this time I don't want to
buy the whole fruit but I decided to
stop by to a local store downstairs and grab just a couple of containers of pre-cut
watermelon, it will save me time and
avoid wasting anything; I had way to
much watermelon in the past weeks, so I'm not looking forward to feed
myself all day with this fruit. I
will switch to papaya the day after
with no regrets.
My back still
hurt me today, still don't know why, I never had any issue with back pain, just wondering if could be
related to my fast or I'm crazy thinking that this could be the
cause.
Usually when we do a Water
Fast chances are that the sleep
will be very little, sleeping
becomes an issue while fasting, maybe because we save so
much more energy taken from digestions, but I might be wrong. This second Water Fast for me is a bit
different though. During the first one
I really had hard time sleeping, I forced
myself to stay in bed and close my eyes to let
my body rest and heal. This second
one instead I have no trouble sleeping; sure sometime I wake up in the middle of the night but I can fall asleep back again in no time, which is good for me.
Another common symptom of the Water Fast is associated with being in Ketosis – I'm feeling always cold.
I have the heater under my desk in the office and when I'm home I have to turn
on the heater almost all day and night, which is very unusual for me that I like to sleep with
chilly temperatures, to enjoy the big blanket - a small price to pay when burning
fat though.
I was thinking to buy a recipe
book today of Raw Vegan recipes,
so I went downstairs during lunch time to check out Indigo store and see if they had good Black Friday deals. They didn't have much really, the only 2/3 books that I found they were not really fully Raw but mostly Vegan,
plus the price was a rip off, $30 for
a tiny book, full of dessert recipes that I could easily find online…for free. I know they pay for printing and branding and so on, but
why then switching to eBook and make
it more affordable? I would love to buy a Raw Vegan recipe eBook for $10, as long as it has ONLY Raw Vegan recipes and doesn't talk for half of it about the author Raw Vegan Diet transformation or a
classic useless explanation: What is a Raw Vegan Diet?
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