Water Fast Day #17 - My symptoms while fasting

It's been already 17 days since I started my Water Fast and overall I am very pleased that I took this decision of fasting. My results are great from many points of view, just only the idea that my body is somehow healing itself is priceless for me, I had too much going on in my past months that I wanted to get rid of in any way I could.

In these days I'm often anxious, mostly impatient I would say, but I'm not sure why; I'm wondering if this is part of the healing process and soon will go away, I hope so. I don't feel hungry, my ketosis are still in large traces every morning, I noticed that I don't wake up at night anymore to go to the washroom, before it was like 3 times at least! Very annoying while sleeping really. My sleep is not great though, I have hard time to sleep deeply with no interruptions at night, I know that is a common thing while fasting but it really bothers me, I love sleeping and psychologically I feel I'm not resting enough if I don't have a full night deep sleep. My breath and my mouth are absolutely terrible in the past few days, I do brush my teeth regularly but it seems that there's nothing I can do to avoid this thing, I still have a white coat on my tongue, I feel my mouth like I didn't brush my teeth since weeks…disgusting, no options though, so I just have to suck it up I guess.

One thing I noticed in the morning is that I cannot drink a full glass of water, I have to sip slowly and not too much, otherwise I would feel my heart beating fast and I'll be light headed, don't know why and I don't have a logic reason for that since during the day I have no problems whatsoever while drinking water.

I'm losing lots of weight, which is good, although I know I might regain part of it but hopefully not all; I planned to follow a raw vegan diet till is completely stabilized maintaining the fat consumption to a minimum, so what they called it LFRV Diet – Low Fat Raw Vegan Diet. People started to notice my lower weight, not that I had any comments about it, just coworkers saying that I look amazing, which is great for me, especially because I do feel amazing with this Water Fast. If anyone tells you that people don't notice your weight, well let me tell you it's not true, I have proofs.

The HCG Diet discussions

In this post I would like to talk about the HCG Diet in general and about all the discussions I've seen around on the web and on TV. First of all, I'm a doctor or anything related to expert of nutrition and similar, I speak or I'd say write based on my personal experience.

Lots of website and videos on YouTube are totally against about this Diet, and I could understand why, first time I read: 500 Calories I thought it was insane. Whoever is against claims the fast weight loss on the restrictive daily amount of food, which is logically true; we don't need to be genius here to understand that with only 500 Calories a day I may lose weight. Often I see the results of a research conducted to a group of people who were given HCG and to some of them only a placebo, both groups lost weight without feeling hungry apparently. It might be that human brain is strong enough to elude your hunger feeling; I think it could be possible. What was not mentioned though for this research is what type of physical results they got from the Diet? Did they lose fat or muscle? Did they feel weak and tired or always energetic? Were both groups in starvation mode? How was their Ketosis?

What I want to say here is that I personally went to a very strict Diet, with nothing, just Vitamins, sure I lost weight and quickly but I was always starving, always weak, always dizzy, I couldn't think about anything else but food, that was my Dr. Bernstein Diet: a medically supervised scam!

When I started my HCG Diet, of course I had my doubts, I already lost lots of money and my health with the previous one, I am not stupid to go back and do it again. I promised myself that if I ever felt as before I'd stop immediately. Having an Eating Disorder due to a Diet is nothing I wish to anyone.

But in my experience, after a first rough VLCD day on HCG I felt amazing, absolutely amazing, full of energy and free from my food addiction. Still today, after 14 days using it I'm amazed on how I don't feel almost ever hungry, how I can still walk and do my things with no issues, my body feels amazing! I am burning fat daily with high traces of Ketosis, I'm happy for no reason; sometimes I ask myself how come you're happy?! I know it's silly but I'm studying my own body's reaction to this Diet, I'm evaluating every single day. I don't want to risk my health again, and I don't want to fail again.

 So in conclusion, you can blame HCG to be a scam but I've the proof that this Diet works, not much for the weight loss, but for all the rest: I'm really feeling changes in my body and my hormones, all I can thank is HCG.