Today is the day - I started my refeeding process. This morning I brought in the office my 3 meals of 2 ounces of watermelon.
First meal I had at 9:00am, I stopped
to drink water at around 8:30am; I
took roughly 15 minutes to eat my watermelon – chewing it very carefully - and
had some water again at around 10:00am,
waiting 45 minutes after my meal.
My first meal was
not as I was expecting it, I've watched so many videos on YouTube on people
refeeding after 21 days, or even
less than 21 – and everyone was like crying while eating the watermelon, almost as it was a mystic encounter never experienced
before, the burst of sensations and taste was from another world! For me….it
was just like eating a watermelon
really. I mean, it was good sure, sweet enough but nothing that I would cry for.
So far I'm not experiencing any sort of side effect from my stomach;
I don't feel hungry nor full, I'm
sipping on my bottle of water, trying to be conscious
today on drinking enough liquids – I
feel I'm being really bad with my water
intake, yesterday definitely I was under
the 2L and while doing a water fast
is definitely a negative thing to do.
In fact this morning my weight was same as yesterday, my Ketosis was between small
and moderate traces, definitely the sugar content in the coconut water impacted my ketosis
and my weight, but I want to think that also not drinking enough didn't help
the whole process.
My next meal will
be at around 11:15am or so, depending
on how I feel but I don't think I should have any problem, let's faced it 2 ounces are really nothing and watermelon is almost all water anyway.
I think tomorrow I'll register a gain in my weight, I don't think I'll have any bowel movement for what I eat today, but it's not that I'm gaining fat or anything so I'm ok with that. I guess this rule will apply for the next 2/3 days, even more going forward since
the food intake will increase day by day; I don't want my body feel that I'm in
starvation.
Today for some unknown
reasons my skin is really dry, maybe
is the cold weather and Canadian winter coming but it feels really dry, and I always wonder if it could be
due to the amount of water I'm
drinking, in any case I'm constantly
sipping today; the key is to do small sips every now and then. I also
feel always cold – apart from the
weather and the office temperature – I'm sure the Ketosis doesn't help either, but I don't really feel anymore drinking
the hot water, I got bored of it. I might have some decaf tea or chamomile tea after the full refeeding
process. I need to do some researches to see which one is the best decaffeinated beverage I can have
in the morning, I like hot drinks so
I hope I can find something that will not
make me miss my morning coffee;
sometimes I think on buying that odd tea
that the acupuncturist gave me a
while ago, it was tasting like chicken
broth but it was definitely tasty.
