Water Fasting and Exercise

I started to go to the gym again since last week and I really didn't want to stop for my 3^rd Water Fast, so I have planned on keep on going, trying to listen to my body if I feel good or too weak to exercise. This morning I took really 20 minutes and went upstairs for a quick walk on the treadmill and few reps for my abs, it was late though so I left pretty soon to start to work. For some reason I don't enjoy waking up early in the morning anymore, not sure if I'm having a lack of Vitamin D lately, I should take some blood tests after this fast.

I did some researches regarding exercising during a fast, mostly are referring to the IF – Intermitting Fasting, which is a different thing if compared with Water Fast. I do believe that for prolonged Water Fast – like more than 15/20 days – it's almost impossible keeping an exercise regimen, too weak to barely walk so not in discussion strenuous activities. But overall for short fast I don't think is so negative keeping a moderate physical activity, without going crazy obviously. One thing that I found though, that was interesting, is that in terms of body response a fast is very similar to a workout, for the glucose level and things like that, the body reacts similarly; I'm not a doctor though so I can't comment on this for sure, what I believe though is that we should always listen to our bodies, without stressing it too much. Even in the past men were supposed to have strengths to hunt and get food, those strengths might have been required in situations when food was scarce so similar to a fast.

I didn't feel going more than those 20 minutes today though, I will try again tomorrow early in the morning – since I have an interview during lunch time I won't be able to take the usual break, but as long as I do a decent workout in the morning I am happy; I still have the lactic acid in my legs from Sunday class!

48hrs into my 3rd Water Fast - Importance of Colon Cleansing

I'm doing another Water Fast in these days, I was thinking to stick to my plans on doing a 10-Day Water Fast and see how it goes. My cravings were going nuts lately and I wanted to take a break from all the banana ice cream, dates and nuts I was having. I don't know any better way than doing a Water Fast.

One thing I discovered from my many researches was the reason why I was having back pain during my previous fasts; it was my colon and the difficulties I had with my BMs. This time around I bought enemas at the drug store. Apparently is recommended to do at least one enema per day while fasting. Cleansing the colon is an important part of the detoxing process, we don't want any bad stuff kept in the colon, we want to get rid of it as soon as we can, so it won't keep on negatively affect the results of the fast, contaminating the body.

So far I just completed 48 hours of my fast, I'm drinking mostly distilled water and – although I had natural BMs in the past couple of days – I did do an enema this morning. It was painless, quick and I felt much better after. I will definitely do it again tomorrow morning, and most likely once a day till the end of my fast. I even made an appointment with a local clinic for a colonics, they gave me an appointment in a month from now but I got a great groupon offer for half price so overall I'm not complaining.

Talking about bowel movements might not be a pleasant thing to do but it is an important part of the detoxing process during a Water Fast. Since I'm not having any food is normal that the digestive system gets lazy in these days, but I still have bad stuff/toxins in my colon that I want to get rid of, so we should always consider doing an enema, it's extremely easy to do and really takes just few minutes.

I sincerely hope I can complete my 10-Day Water Fast as planned, the reason why I'm having doubts is not due to my willpower but more for my social events coming up. Christmas is 2 weeks away basically and there's so much going on lately, plus dating doesn't help when Water Fasting. I have a date with this amazing guy on Friday and, although I asked him to do an activity rather than sitting to a table just eating, I'm not sure he won't ask me to do both, like first the game and then grab a bite. It's extremely hard to let people understand what a Water Fast is and why I do it. Most of the time people think I'm crazy knowing that I am drinking only water for days. I usually don't say anything to anyone, maybe just a close friend, but definitely I don't want to explain the whole process to someone that doesn't know me enough to have proofs that I'm not actually insane but there are scientific reasons of the benefits of a Water Fast. I'm also concerning about my bad breath for my date night! Water Fasting creates a bad breath and white coat on my tongue, I feel disgusted myself so not sure how my date will react to that…I might drink some strong herbal tea to avoid this issue. Oh well wish me luck for this date!

Raw Vegan Diet - Too many snacks

Today I've been fasting all day, my last meal was yesterday at around 8:30pm or so – a huge bowl of banana ice cream with dates and powdered peanut butter. I find myself always indulging in sweet fruits and nuts and I firmly believe that this is what jeopardies my weight maintenance, together with a lack of a strict eating plan.

Good news though is that in the past 3 days I've been going to the gym every day, actually twice a day. Since I worked from home, I had the chance to wake up a bit later and go to the gym in my building for half hour of thread mill and weight machines, nothing crazy but I'm trying to be disciplined with my exercise routine, I even went once to GoodLife gym for my favourite class and 10 minutes of steam room – it was great I'd admit it.

Overall I feel great, the scale went up almost every day since I completed my 7-Day Water Fast. Something might be a normal reaction of ending the fast, something else is due to the extra snacks I'm having here and there for sure. In my defense I would say that being home bored all day doesn't actually help on staying strict on diet. Even if I'm working I should find an activity that keeps me busy in the moment my cravings are hard to control, I should do proactive things like cleaning or knitting, that might help.

I was debating of having a fruit salad today for lunch, but I'm glad I didn't so I can save those calories for tonight's supper and dessert. I'm thinking to do a similar thing tomorrow, since I'm supposed to have a dinner date in the evening. Yesterday for breakfast I prepared some wraps using the one I bought at the healthy store last week, I think I ate 6 of them including a seaweed one, it was too much for breakfast; although delicious the amount of calories for each one was excessive for a single meal.

Few days ago I soaked some cashews thinking on doing a creamy sauce for my salads but I still didn't use it, I'm afraid they will go bad if I don't do anything with it. There are a lot recipes with cashews, I can even do some energy bars with dates and a pinch of pink salt; but really I don't need any extra snacks that I don't have already in my overly full cabinet! Most likely I'll do a sauce and use it for dinner tonight.