My Prolonged Dry Fast - day by day - 7.5 Days! (180 hrs)

Dry Fast Day #1
(Thursday)


11:30 AM (16.5hrs) – My Dry Fast is finally started, so far so good but I’m still in the first few hours anyway. I don’t feel thirsty at all but at times I’m a bit hungry. I’m going to the washroom normally so far, as I was drinking water as usual, I guess it’s still for all the food I had in the past days. My last meal was yesterday at 7:00 PM with my mud pudding. I think if I will feel constipated in the next couple of days, I might do an enema.


1:30 PM (18.5hrs) – The usual headache is starting, not much yet but I can definitely feel it now; I guess it’s a mandatory step for my sugar withdrawal. I’m neither thirsty nor hungry, my mouth feels ok, I’m still peeing regularly and it’s very clear so far, I feel a bit constipated though – contemplating on doing an enema today after work.


2:30 PM (19.5hrs) – Strangely the mucus is back in my mouth, I had it even the first few days in my past prolonged Dry Fast; I’m urinating less now but still frequently enough. My headache is not strong yet but I feel very sleepy, it might be due to the fact that I have nothing to do at work.


5:30 PM (22.5hrs) – I walked to go home without issues, I had a small BM but I feel a bit constipated, I’m going to bed early tonight, my headache is still there annoying me.


6:00 PM (23hrs) – I did 100 rep of 10 different types of squats today too, second time. I felt my legs a bit sore so I think the mini-workout is working and it’s not intense to do while fasting. I’m going to bed to watch videos and read something; my head is still bothering me.


Dry Fast Day #2
(Friday)


7:00 AM (36hrs) – I did an enema this morning since I felt a bit constipated all day yesterday; it was good doing it, lots came out. My headache is still bad, I didn’t sleep very well last night, for some reason the A/C was bothering me on my head and I slept with a pillow on top of my forehead. I had strange dreams but work related.


Note
I was reading something from a blog yesterday - no matter what you do, dry fast, water fast or eating food, time will pass anyway so you can choose to wake up and see you scale going down or wake up as usual feeling miserable with your fat.


9:00 AM (38hrs) – I still have headache. I see my face really puffy right now, I’m wondering if I’m retaining any water or something else, I look at my mirror and I see myself so ugly as never before. My self-confidence is underground at the moment. After the enema I had to urinate once more plus I think I’m eliminating some mucus with my BM, I’m not sure what else could be otherwise – I’ll do some researches online.


11:00 AM (40hrs) - I have this darn headache that doesn't seem going away, it's so annoying. I don't feel hungry, although I think about junk food sometimes, but those are stupid cravings not hunger. My mouth is not dry and I'm not thirsty, I'm not talking at all this morning in the office and pretty much just sitting at my chair. I had to urinate another couple of times, which is good for me, I also started to have again that odd feeling like I have an UTI, not sure if it's due to the lack of hydration or something else.


1:00 PM (42hrs) - My headache is almost gone, sometimes I can slightly feel it, some moments I'm good. I'm feeling really nervous and irritable right now, I'm not sure if it's due to my hormones or I'm grumpy for the lack of food, water and headaches driving me nuts. I feel I don't want to see anyone, I just want to go to bed and wake up Monday morning. I'm seriously thinking on ditching my boyfriend sleepover tonight, I really don't feel of great company.


3:30 PM - (44.5hrs) - I feel better now, maybe because the weekend is close, I can't wait to go home today; I know I have to get ready for tonight but my man won't be home before 10:00 PM so I'll have plenty of time to do my things, I might take a nap before he comes - I feel I need to lye down for a little bit. I don't have headache but I didn't urinate since a couple hours now, wondering if it's normal. Still good in terms of hunger or thirst though.


Note
I checked what could be the white-ish jelly mucus in my stool and apparently is not something to be much worried about; it could be due to the dehydration, although I've seen it after 3/4 days of back on drinking. I'll check again this time around if it happens again.


7:00 PM (48hrs) - I wanted to take a nap but I couldn't fall asleep, maybe because I knew my boyfriend was coming over so I was a bit worried I would be late to get ready. I dried my hair without issues, I don't feel weak at all and my headache is gone now.


Dry Fast Day #3
(Saturday)
9:00 AM (62hrs) - I checked my Ketosis and it's still a peach pink colour with just small traces of Ketosis. I felt really cold during the night, especially my feet, but it didn't last all night, I was fine in the morning though. I'm urinating normally I would say, plus between showers and washing my hands or brushing my teeth I've been in contact with water a lot yesterday and again today.

3:00 PM (68hrs) - My stomach is growling a bit for some reason, just for few seconds but it always makes me wonder if I'll feel soon really hungry or not. I had strange noxious feelings this morning and some air in my colon/intestine, maybe I need to do another enema but I would rather wait a bit when I really feel the need to do it. I am neither hungry nor thirsty but sometimes I have my usual stupid cravings to eat this and that like chocolate bars or ice-cream. But I need to be strong and I'm repeating myself that I'm not missing anything, all those food will still be here in 2/3 weeks or months for that matter. My legs feel a bit sore today, most likely due to the 100 rep of squats I did home, I'll try to do another 100 rep today too, they seem working!

Dry Fast Day #4
(Sunday)
10:30 AM (87.5hrs) - I checked again my Ketosis this morning and the ketostix was really purple, I have high traces of ketosis. I got my period last night so I'm done with my negative days and I'm cleansing even deeper now. I don't feel doing anything today so I might stay all day in bed, just folding some laundry and a load of the dishwasher. I don't feel tired just lazy and, although I know it would be better for me to go at least for a walk to breath some fresh air, I feel too lazy today to do it.


Dry Fast Day #5
(Monday)
9:00 AM (110hrs) - Back on Monday and fifth day of my Dry Fast. My mouth feels really awful today, I did brush my teeth this morning but I guess it's the lightly white coated tongue detox symptom that makes everything worst...I think. I have a small pain on my back this morning, not sure though if it is for sleeping all day yesterday or something else. I didn't do any enema yet so it may be that too, let's see how I feel today and when I'm back home I might decide to do an enema. My arms felt a bit weak this morning when I was doing my makeup, but just for a moment or so, in general I don't feel weak, I even walked to come to work without any problem, and I wasn't even slow! Usually when I'm Water Fasting I can be really weak and even a simple walk can be challenging.


1:30 PM (114.5hrs) - So far I don't feel any difference in how I feel, my mouth most likely is terrible but I'm not talking much anyway. I had just a long phone conversation with my mother but I listen most of the time. My period seems way less now, odd since it's just end of day 2 and it should be way more, but every month is different I guess. I'm urinating normally I guess, not big flows and my urine is pretty clear, wondering if my kidneys are filtering or not. I should check with my sediments but I'm not really into storing in a jar my smelly urine really. I can't wait to go home today, I'm getting really bored here and the more I do not do anything the more I do not want to do anything! My back is feeling a bit uncomfortable now, nothing major and maybe it's just my posture but I can feel a sort of pain in my middle spine.


4:00 PM (117hrs) - I feel my lips very dry today, just my lips, the rest of my skin is pretty moisturized fortunately. My back pain comes and go but it's not that bad, I'm definitely doing an enema today when I'm back home. My period became very light for some reason, not complaining but just wondering what could be the cause; last month it lasted 7/8 days! I have again that strange and uncomfortable feeling like a UTI infection when I'm urinating, which I'm still doing it regularly - of course the flow is very small but I still have same amount of urges to go. I'm not hungry at all but sometimes I would like to drink something refreshing, I wouldn't say that I'm thirsty but just my mouth feels really bad. I read today about the white-coated tongue and how it changes the taste buds, maybe it's for this reason that I would like to wash it out this awful taste from my mouth.


6:00 PM (119hrs) - I did an enema once back home, it took me one hour! I'm still not very confident on what I'm doing with the enema kit, but I guess I will learn with the time. I had a good release, at some point my stomach was hurting me a lot, but eventually my body released other nasty stuff and I felt much better. Went to bed very early, just to watch some YouTube videos and read something; another day is gone!


Dry Fast Day #6
(Tuesday)9:00 AM (134hrs) - I had a sleepless night pretty much last night, at some point I wanted to just wake up and read my book, but I figured would be better to just let my body doing nothing in the bed with my eyes closed rather than reading and get tired. I feel good this morning, I see myself still very fat of course but I cannot expect miracles in just 5 days really. I walked to come to work and my energy is very good so far, surprisingly; also my Ketones were very high this morning. During my previous Water Fast or MFS I would be already super weak at this point, fortunately for some reasons is not the case when Dry Fasting. My back pain disappeared but my tongue still feel awful and white-coated. I often think on when I'll be breaking this Dry Fast to switch to Water Fast, but I don't really feel the need at the moment, I feel perfectly fine - well apart from my breath I guess. If you think you're going to die after 3 days of not drinking water, well think again. When there's enough fat tissues on the body the Dry Fast is very easy, our perfect body will break down all that stored fat to make pure water and get all the nutriments it needs. Fascinating. 


11:00 AM (136hrs) - So far I'm doing good; my period seems almost over, really quickly this month but I'm not complaining. I have a lightly white-coated tongue that gives my mouth an awful taste, apart from that I feel great. Although I didn't sleep much last night, I don't feel sleepy or tired; I'm getting bored here in the office, but this is another problem. I do have to admit though that my legs don't feel super strong, I have hard time squatting today, but nothing major. During my lunch break I want to go to the City Hall square to look around the Tuesday's Market that is on today, I can see it from my window and it looks fun, with people in costumes performing and lots of tables and chairs!


4:00 PM (141hrs) - I went outside during my lunch break but it wasn't really a market in the square, it was more a Caribana celebration event, with the mayor and TV and lots of beautiful women dressed like flowers and butterflies! It was nice to see the colours, the weather was also gorgeous - just perfect! I don't have to report much, I feel pretty normal, since I didn't talk much this afternoon my mouth didn't bother me. I urinated less today I think, still 4/5 times though, but the flow is not much, oddly I cannot keep the urge to pee so I usually run to the bathroom when I feel the need to go. I was sitting all day so my back hurts a bit but it's not due to the Dry Fast really. Today I have to do few things home, let's see how I feel on completion of my 6th day of this Dry Fast.


6:30 PM (143.5hrs) - I took a shower and washed my hair this afternoon, I thought I would feel my arms weak while drying my hair but it didn't happen, so my energy levels are still pretty good. I'm a bit slower though in doing my things, but not complaining, I don't want to raise my heart beat too high, apparently it's really dangerous while Dry Fasting since the blood becomes thicker in this type of fast, who knows but better safe than sorry. I didn't do an enema, I just felt I didn't need it yet, I'll see tomorrow how I feel. I had a couple of breakouts on my face today, one and my eyebrow, unusual place really, who know if it's because of the period or another way of releasing bad stuff through my skin?


Dry Fast Day #7
(Wednesday)
8:30 AM (157.5hrs) - Another sleepless night last night, this is one thing I don't like of fasting (plus my awful mouth feelings), not able to sleep properly is annoying, not that I feel sleepy in the morning or during the day but I just would like to have a proper 8 hours sleep at least. Today I feel good, my mouth is still awful, my energy levels are great, I walked to come to work with a good pace, trying to force myself to walk slower. I checked my Ketosis this morning and it is very high with 120mg/dL, I rarely see the Ketostix so purple! I had to wake up last night to go pee, unbelievable that no matter that I had no food or drink for the past 6.5 days, I'm still urinating as usual. My urine is way darker now, at least the one in the morning when I check my ketones. Let's see how I feel today and if I want to break the Dry Fast tomorrow or keep on going for another couple of days. I might do an enema this afternoon once home, I don't really feel constipated or any uncomfortable feeling in my GI tract, but something is telling me that is time to release more from my colon and cleanse it further.


11:00 AM (160hrs) - I noticed that if I stay sitting too long I tend to feel weaker somehow, but as soon as I start to walk around my energy gets better, I think it's not beneficial for me to stay too much still, I should keep on moving through the day so my body feels more active the lymphatic system is on....or whatever that means. I neither feel hungry nor thirsty, but I can feel missing the water, I like washing my hands slowly - almost as my skin was asking me to enjoy longer that moment for a sort of drinking time. My mouth still feel awful and the tongue is white-coated, but if I don't talk at all is not that bad, salivation is good so far. Last night for some reasons I had a couple of stomach-growling episodes, just wondering what could cause those growling in my empty stomach, maybe my intestine is trying to push out some residual food that I still did not release.


4:30 PM (165.5hrs) - My work day is almost over, it went fast today since I was a bit busier than usual and also I had more meetings. I don't believe to the theory that while fasting you won't be able to function properly, I feel perfectly normal, apart from my tongue and maybe a bit of a bad breath, I feel fine actually way more focused on what I'm doing at work. Maybe if your job requires heavy lifting or strenuous activities, I can see that it might be a bit of challenge, but not much in my opinion. But again everyone is different and fasting is not for everyone. I still have my period, the flow is very small but it's not completed yet. I decided to use the bubble drink to break my fast, still a bit concerned though to drink fruit juice but I wonder if it would benefit my kidneys so I'm prone to break the Dry Fast in that way for now. I want to do an enema this afternoon when I'm back home and maybe tomorrow I'll check my weight; I want to see how much water retention I'll have in the next days compared the Dry Fast. Now I'm thinking that maybe the grape juice will kick me out of Ketosis if I drink it - so I'm not 100% sold on doing it. Let's see tomorrow. 


5:30 PM (166.5hrs) - Once home I did an enema, I must to say that it took lots of water, I guess my colon it is almost empty due to the fast. It was an unpleasant experience, I didn't feel very well after maybe I overdid with the water, also I did not release much, mostly the water from the enema.


7:00 PM (168hrs) - I decided to iron all my laundry that was sitting in the basket for quite a while now. I enjoyed the ironing watching a movie. My OCD tends to increase when I'm fasting usually. I went to bed very early to watch some videos on YouTube and read something. My Day #7 is completed!


Dry Fast Day #8
(Thursday - First Half)
1:30 AM (174.5hrs) - I woke up in the middle of the night with the urge to go to the bathroom, I didn't feel very well, fortunately I released a bit more of the water from the enema and urinated more than usual. I really had hard time to fall asleep again; I think I was fully awake for another 3 hours after my bathroom episode. One thing I don't like of the detoxing part of Fasting is the emotional detox, if I can call it that. All bad thoughts from the past start to creep in my head, uncomfortable feelings of what went wrong, bad people, terrible situations. I know it can be beneficial to deal with the demons from the past, but I would rather not.

6:00 AM (179hrs) - My night was sleepless again, I believe I slept only 4 hours, but I don't feel tired or anything. I decided to wake up and do few things in the house before breaking my fast at the end of the 12 hours into the Day #8. I could not check my Ketones this morning since I had no urine at all, I guess the releases during the night emptied my bladder. I checked my weight though, it was 60.5Kg, I would have liked a lower number but I could tell from the mirror that I'm still in the sixties. Oh well my Fast is not done yet, so better days will come.

Water Fast Day #6 - How am I feeling so far and a morning struggle

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?

7-Day Water Fast - Day #5

Day #5 for my second Water Fast, this is my first short one of just 7 days, but still good for my body to take a rest from food and heal itself in some way. Fortunately today I don't feel all those cravings I had in the past few days, I still look forward on completing this Fast but overall I'm good, I think I'll be even better in a couple of days.

During my lunch break, here at the office, I went downstairs to go for a walk and check out the Black Friday Week deals. I ended up buying a package of Organic Unsweetened Shredded Coconut, a fairly large container of Nutritional Yeast and a big jar of Powdered Peanut Butter the one with no sugar added. I know I'm a shopaholic and I can't help myself, but in my defense I have to say that not having lunch and work to do is not helping my shopping habits.

This morning my ketosis was between moderate and large amount, I would say around 60mg/dL, which is still pretty good plus I believe the amount of water I had yesterday might have changed the real results. I don't feel hungry at all know, I guess also due to the ketosis, but I had difficulties with my BM this morning; I guess not eating anything is not helping me, so I decided to take a probiotic, hopefully will not compromise my fast and will just help me on being regular during this fast, I really don't want to do again a Shank Pashlanka, it takes too much time and effort.

My back still hurt me a bit today, better than yesterday for sure but I have still difficulties on getting ready in the morning, not sure if the heels could be a reason why this pain. I usually don't walk this much during lunch time so maybe walking around with high heels is not good for my back, but today I have just my boots and not high heels.

I wanted to have hot water to drink today because in the past Water Fast I noticed that as soon as I was drinking it, I was going to the washroom! But too much to wait for in the kitchen so I gave up, if the probiotic don't give me any relief, I'll try with the hot water at home this evening.

Water Fast Day #18 - Updates and discomforts

This morning I had a confirmation that being lazy is not good not even when you are Water Fasting! My weight did not change and my traces of Ketosis were small this morning at 40mg/dL, while I had a solid Large traces for the past few days. I worked from home yesterday, that's the main reason, in my small apartment there's not much to walk around or to do, and I was also mostly sitting at my desk doing some work.  Today I'm back in the office and TGIF, because I'm getting bored with my assignments and I can't wait to actually do some real work here. I also planned to go to the cinema after work, there's a new Tim Burton's movie that I really want to see, and I don't mind going by myself really.

Tomorrow I want to do a couple of errands, and relax also, weather is getting colder here in Toronto e I don't feel walking around same way as during summer, guess why! This morning my back hurts a bit, nothing crazy but some pain is there; I admit it every time I have some sort of discomfort in my body I wonder is it's part of the detox process, I don't have any confirmation about that but I like to think so though.

My main discomfort so far is my mouth, not just the white coated tongue but the feeling of dryness and the bad breath, unfortunately there's not much I can do about it, even if I try to sip water it still feel the same, I guess I just need to wait till the detox process goes to an end, apparently the tongue will turn pink while the Fasting Process needs to end…let's see if I can reach that point first, I'm planning to stick to the fast at least for 25 days, to ensure my Candida is harmless, but really my body will tell me when it's time to end it.