So I
broke my fast after 18.5 days,
the most challenging part was the 7.5 days Dry Fast, but at the end time
passed, things changed. Now I’m almost
to a point that I don’t want to eat, the idea of going to the digestion it’s annoying.
I
broke my Water Fast with Bone Broth with added water, during lunch time. After having a big Mason jar of it – which I believe is 1L – my first stomach’s reaction came pretty quickly and I had a BM
right away, I was expecting it though. Then, a couple of hours later, I had the
rest of Bone Broth that was left
with extra water and sipped on it. I’m still ok in terms of BMs but
this last jar made me sick really, I
had to wash my teeth right away
because I couldn’t stand the feeling
of the broth on my teeth; now I feel
somehow noxious.
I don’t think I’ll continue to drink
anymore Bone Broth for now, if more
food is required to continue on breaking my fast I’ll opt for water
melon or any other watery fruit; I know my Ketosis will be gone by
tomorrow but I cannot drink that disgusting thing anymore.
Really I don’t feel eating anything, maybe because I’m so tired or
maybe it is because I’m digesting
the broth I just had; when
completing this type of prolonged fast
the digestion makes me extremely sleepy, it sucks so much energy from me, it’s unbelievable how much power
can have food on our vital basic strengths.
Monday 24 July 2017
Thursday 13 July 2017
My combined Dry/Water Fast - Day by Day
Fasting
Day #8 – Water Fast
(Thursday – Second Half)
7:00 AM – I broke my Dry Fast after 180hrs – 7.5 Days of no food and no water. I was undecided this morning on what to use to break my dry fast then I opted for the Bell Kidney Tea with the juice of one lemon. I sipped slowly, trying to keep the tea in my mouth as long as I could. Everything tasted normally, I thought I would feel this amazing new sensation drinking again, but no, as usual it didn’t happen, it was just a tea with lemon. After about one hour from my tea I felt a bit of stomach-ache, maybe the new liquid was getting busy my digestive system, but it lasted only 2 seconds really.
Fasting Day #12 – Water Fast
(Monday)
Even without eating anything whatsoever losing weight appears to be a big challenge for me, I’m sure my metabolism is completely messed up. Today is the second day still on 60.2Kg, but at least my Ketosis has been high so I’m just hoping that it is matter of water retention and my fat is burning anyway.
It’s been a couple of days where I’m enjoying the benefits of a prolonged fast, my mental clarity is absolutely astonishing, I’m surprised on how I feel every time I do a fast…I guess I forget from one to another one! My thoughts are thousands in my head and I’m thinking that this could be one of the reasons my sleep is so bad, my brain does not stop and that makes me wide awake every single night; I’m not tired though and I know that even 2/3 hours are now enough for me to rest, well at least this is how I feel. So far I have no hunger and even my cravings are totally gone, sometimes I think of making a nice Raw Vegan recipe but mostly for the joy of cooking rather than eating it; I thought on cooking something and bringing in the office for my coworkers, at least I gave in on my desires to experiment a new recipe. Not sure if I’ll do it though, not everyone like eating Raw/Paleo or with odd ingredients like Psyllium Husk or Bentonite Clay!
My tongue is still white-coated and I have often a bad taste and feeling in my mouth, even when I drink lemon water of my kidney tea, oh well there’s not much I can do with that. This morning, very early – around 4:00 AM - I decided to wake up and do an enema, I figured it would tires me up so I can take a nap after that. The more I fast the more water is required for my enemas, my GI tract is getting empty of course; today I added a few drops of Tea Tree oil in the enema bag; I figured since it is a great anti-fungus oil it might help with my Candida or any other fungus for that matter.
(Thursday – Second Half)
7:00 AM – I broke my Dry Fast after 180hrs – 7.5 Days of no food and no water. I was undecided this morning on what to use to break my dry fast then I opted for the Bell Kidney Tea with the juice of one lemon. I sipped slowly, trying to keep the tea in my mouth as long as I could. Everything tasted normally, I thought I would feel this amazing new sensation drinking again, but no, as usual it didn’t happen, it was just a tea with lemon. After about one hour from my tea I felt a bit of stomach-ache, maybe the new liquid was getting busy my digestive system, but it lasted only 2 seconds really.
10:00
AM – I went to work with the usual energy; it’s a bit rainy today so I took the streetcar and walked a little bit to the
office. I don’t feel sleepy, although I didn’t sleep very well last night – let’s
see at the end of the day how I will feel. At the moment I’m sipping my favourite
water, but sometimes I forget to drink! I guess I was
getting used to not drink or eat. I neither feel hungry nor thirsty though, I
could go on for more days but
breaking a prolonged Dry Fast takes
a lot of time and effort, so I want
to switch to water. I might be drinking some hot water with lemon later on in the day, let’s how I will feel.
3:30 PM - I've been drinking water all day but I went to the washroom only 2 times, so it's pretty clear to me that I'm retaining lots of water. I was peeing more during my Dry Fast! This morning at around 11:00 AM or so I had a release, I guess it was from the Kidney Tea and the lemon juice; it was mostly water but some residual from my GI tract. As I noticed from my previous prolonged Dry Fast, the magic starts to happen after the fast is done. I just prepared a big jar of hot water and lemon, I'll be drinking this for now, since in my office is freezing today, I felt the desire to sip on something warm. For some reasons I don't feel the need to drink, I'm not thirsty but I forget to drink and I don't even want to.
Fasting Day #9 – Water Fast
(Friday)
Last night I woke up at 1:30 AM feeling pain in my tummy, I had to rush to the washroom with diarrhea, I'm not sure what was the cause since I wasn't drinking from 6:00 PM of the day before. Maybe my GI tract took some time to move stuff around. But I felt way better after. Yesterday I could not drink anything but water, otherwise I would have to visit the bathroom! Well I had only the Kidney Tea with lemon and some hot water with lemon juice. Today's much better, I can have both tea and lemon water without issues, but still I can feel that my digestive system is not back 100%. I really don't feel hungry and my mood is great today. This morning my Ketones were super high, as I rarely seen it. I gain a bit of water weight today, almost a pound! But I was expecting it, I'm curious to see when I'll start to lose again during this Water Fast. This morning I saw my belly shape improved a lot compared when I started, that was a nice start of the day. For me when I'm in Ketosis all fat goes down, as opposite of the MFS that did not shed any fat whatsoever, most likely only muscle mass.
Here's my today's Ketostix:
Fasting Day #12 – Water Fast
(Monday)
Even without eating anything whatsoever losing weight appears to be a big challenge for me, I’m sure my metabolism is completely messed up. Today is the second day still on 60.2Kg, but at least my Ketosis has been high so I’m just hoping that it is matter of water retention and my fat is burning anyway.
It’s been a couple of days where I’m enjoying the benefits of a prolonged fast, my mental clarity is absolutely astonishing, I’m surprised on how I feel every time I do a fast…I guess I forget from one to another one! My thoughts are thousands in my head and I’m thinking that this could be one of the reasons my sleep is so bad, my brain does not stop and that makes me wide awake every single night; I’m not tired though and I know that even 2/3 hours are now enough for me to rest, well at least this is how I feel. So far I have no hunger and even my cravings are totally gone, sometimes I think of making a nice Raw Vegan recipe but mostly for the joy of cooking rather than eating it; I thought on cooking something and bringing in the office for my coworkers, at least I gave in on my desires to experiment a new recipe. Not sure if I’ll do it though, not everyone like eating Raw/Paleo or with odd ingredients like Psyllium Husk or Bentonite Clay!
My tongue is still white-coated and I have often a bad taste and feeling in my mouth, even when I drink lemon water of my kidney tea, oh well there’s not much I can do with that. This morning, very early – around 4:00 AM - I decided to wake up and do an enema, I figured it would tires me up so I can take a nap after that. The more I fast the more water is required for my enemas, my GI tract is getting empty of course; today I added a few drops of Tea Tree oil in the enema bag; I figured since it is a great anti-fungus oil it might help with my Candida or any other fungus for that matter.
Tomorrow evening my man is coming back from
his vacation, but I think we’ll see each other the coming weekend, not many details yet but I hope he will be ok for me not eating anything; at this pace I will need another 10 days to reach my weight
goal, or close as I can to that. I’m thinking that my body is getting used to
the fasts and it’s learning on how to keep fat as much as it can! Damn it!
Fasting Day #13 – Water Fast
(Tuesday)
It’s amazing what a good night sleep can do! Today I registered a nice weight loss, I’m now 59.5Kg, which is like 700gr (1.5lb) less than yesterday; I also had a spontaneous BM this morning waking up, my belly was hurting a bit but I felt a bit better after.
My Ketosis is still in large traces, around 60mg/dL and my energy is over the roof; I don’t really feel I want to end this fast anytime soon, which is odd since usually I count the days till the end of my fasts; but I guess this happens when not eating for so many days, I would say more than ten.
I do feel that I want to eat healthy though, thinking of all the nice salads I can make, like the zucchini noodles one that I love so much, so from time to time I’m watching some videos on how to make a good dressing for the zoodles, but not obsessing for it really.
My man is coming back tonight from his vacation but I’m really motivated on not let me convince on breaking my fast till I reach my weight goal, at the end is matter of just few days. I still need to lose at least 10 pounds and going back on eating at this point will only make me gain back all I lost with so many sacrifices.
The Water Fast is going very well, I have a high mental clarity, very focused on what I do, very happy, I feel better with my body and I’m really feeling the benefits of the detoxing process. It’s been 13 days now with no food and it’s amazing how I am still releasing stuff from my GI tract; it’s a never ending cleaning process.
Last night I was able to sleep a bit more, not a full uninterrupted night sleep but I went to bed extremely early, like 6:00 PM and took naps through the whole night, in this way I was able to have the least amount of hours I needed to rest my body.
Fasting Day #14 – Water Fast
(Wednesday)
I hit another plateau today and I’m pretty sure it’s due to the fact that I didn’t have enough sleep last night. I came back home very late after my course, it lasted till 10:00 PM! WTH! After leaving the class, while I was walking home, I felt my body was completely shutting down, all my functions were slowing down and I was feeling dizzy and weak. Sleep is extremely important while fasting, I guess resting in general since I don’t have the same energy as when eating normally, and after all it’s been 14 days without any food.
This morning for the first time after these 14 days I feel sleepy and tired and I would love to take a two hours nap. I realized that when I’m fasting I cannot have a full night sleep, since I usually wake up in the middle of the night a couple of times, so the secret for me is to allow myself a bigger sleeping-time span so I can sleep and wake up multiple times and be able to reach at least 7 hours sleep in total. That’s why it’s so important going to bed as soon as I can because most likely I’ll be wide awake at some point in the middle of my night.
Yesterday I was thinking on when and how I will break my fast because it’s been already 14 days and the more I go forward with the Water Fast the more time I will need to re-feed. I’m thinking on breaking the fast next Monday but I’m not sure yet, it might depend on how my weight loss is going; with this pace I will need another month! Monday will be Day #19 if I decide to re-feed in that day, which is not bad, I would actually keep on going another couple of days at that point, like till Day #21 so I can have 3 weeks completed; but who knows I will decide then, in the meantime I will try not to fall asleep on my desk today!
Fasting Day #15 – Water Fast
(Thursday)
So I’m on my Day #15 and everything is good, I had a better sleep last night and this morning I registered a weight loss of 500gr – I’m now 59Kg with moderate Ketosis at 70mg/dL.
I don’t feel hungry at all, sometimes I have cravings but very rarely and I noticed the more I go forward with my Fast the less cravings for junk food I have, as opposite I’m dreaming about big salads and zucchini noodles with pesto sauce! Yesterday with my man we were planning on going to a Raw Vegan restaurant once done with my Fast and I cannot wait for it.
I didn’t do an enema since few days now and I was wondering if I should do it one today after work; I don’t feel the need to do it really but sometimes I feel I still have something in my GI tract that it needs to be released, most probably I’ll try tonight and see how it goes. All those videos and blogs about fasting emphasise the importance of daily enemas, but I really don’t feel I need it every day; I tend to listen to my body, which works better for me.
I’m drinking lemon water for most of the day and trying to stop around 5:00 PM when I leave my office, mostly because I don’t want to wake up at night every 30 minutes to go to the washroom, those nightly bathroom breaks are so annoying; even though I stop at 5:00 PM to drink I still wake up at least 2/3 times!
My tongue is still white-coated but I noticed that my breath is somehow improved, maybe for the lemon water – not sure really. I’m wondering if it will ever go back to pink as everyone fasting says, I don’t buy this theory though, I think as long as I fast, my tongue will be white.
Fasting Day #16 – Water Fast
(Friday)
My weight seems not moving much so far, I’m still same as yesterday at 59Kg and just traces of Ketosis this morning at 30mg/dL; I’m wondering if it’s because my body is getting used to fasting or something else. It can be really frustrating not seeing any change when not eating anything. Apart from that I’m feeling fine, energy level is good and mood is positive.
Yesterday I did an enema, after few days that I wasn’t doing it; there was not much to release though and basically I used the whole enema bag full of water, which I am sure was not even enough. I believe it’s because my colon and GI tract are empty so it can contain more water; it takes really a lot to fill in all that water! I don’t think I’m going to do any more enemas till the end of this fast.
To reach my weight goal I would need another full week based on how my weight loss is going so far, but I cannot continue for so long; I miss a bit the social life with my man and it’s really annoying not eating, not cooking, after all I love food. I hope I can be to a decent weight level and from there trying to do IF and lose some of the extra pounds left, or maybe adding a couple of fasting days during the weekends or so.
This thing I’ve said it in other posts but I want to repeat it. Most of the times I heard people telling that weight is not important, that people don’t notice this thing and that I would be treated or considered same way with less or more pounds on me. Well in my case is a bag of BS! Every single time I lose weight and I’m almost to my weight goal people from everywhere start to pay attention to me way more, treat me differently, being nicer. I’m not saying that it’s right by all means but that’s the truth. I wish I could be 300lb and being considered in the same way as I’m right now, but I’m pretty sure it would never happen. We live in a superficial society and appearance matter either we like it or not. It sucks I know…
Fasting Day #19 – Water Fast
(Monday)
I’m on my 19th day of this combined Dry/Water Fast, the second longest fast I’ve ever done. I’m physically good but my weekend was extremely tiring, I spent both days outside doing my motorcycle course and it was very tough on my body, I should’ve planned smarter this course, since it required lots of strengths and concentration, plus using muscles that I don’t always use, so now I’m a bit sore; also my bike fell twice while I was parking it so I have bruises here and there. I’m glad today I’m in the office so I can sit all day!
This morning when I was walking to work I felt very weak, not dizzy but generally not well, I can’t say that my legs were weak or any specific muscle, just general weakness that made me think it’s time for me to end this fast. To be really honest I don’t want to end the fast, breaking it is not fun and takes time and effort, I always feel weak after eating and to get my GI tract back to normal requires lots of time with uncomfortable digestion episodes in the middle. Oh well, I will have to do it at some point anyway.
Yesterday I had a big jar of the Bell Kidney Tea with some lemon and after that I had a spontaneous BM, which I was glad of – it saved me the hassle of doing an enema, which I didn’t plan of doing it but it was always in the back of my mind.
My ketosis has been great in these days, yesterday I had large traces of ketones at 160mg/dL, I’m sure it was due to the fact that I had basically only 1L of water for the whole day including 2 cups of kidney tea, when I don’t drink much lemon juice seems I burn more fat, which is good, I can see it on my body that my fat is shedding down, and I’m very glad of that. Today I registered another weight loss so I’m now 57.8Kg and my ketones were in 80mg/dL which is still a purple Ketostix so that means I’m still burning at high pace. Losing weight seems being a challenge with this fast, but I’m trying to be strong and keep on going following my goals, eventually I will get there.
To break my fast I’m thinking to start drinking the Bone Broth that I have here in the office, not yet though, I’ll wait till lunch time or so and get a big jar so I can fill it up with half broth and some water; when cold the Bone Broth is really thick jelly, it needs to be warm to be more liquid, plus I don’t mind adding water, it doesn’t actually change much the taste of the broth and I have the chance to go easy with the drink while breaking my fast. Let’s see how it goes today!
Fasting Day #13 – Water Fast
(Tuesday)
It’s amazing what a good night sleep can do! Today I registered a nice weight loss, I’m now 59.5Kg, which is like 700gr (1.5lb) less than yesterday; I also had a spontaneous BM this morning waking up, my belly was hurting a bit but I felt a bit better after.
My Ketosis is still in large traces, around 60mg/dL and my energy is over the roof; I don’t really feel I want to end this fast anytime soon, which is odd since usually I count the days till the end of my fasts; but I guess this happens when not eating for so many days, I would say more than ten.
I do feel that I want to eat healthy though, thinking of all the nice salads I can make, like the zucchini noodles one that I love so much, so from time to time I’m watching some videos on how to make a good dressing for the zoodles, but not obsessing for it really.
My man is coming back tonight from his vacation but I’m really motivated on not let me convince on breaking my fast till I reach my weight goal, at the end is matter of just few days. I still need to lose at least 10 pounds and going back on eating at this point will only make me gain back all I lost with so many sacrifices.
The Water Fast is going very well, I have a high mental clarity, very focused on what I do, very happy, I feel better with my body and I’m really feeling the benefits of the detoxing process. It’s been 13 days now with no food and it’s amazing how I am still releasing stuff from my GI tract; it’s a never ending cleaning process.
Last night I was able to sleep a bit more, not a full uninterrupted night sleep but I went to bed extremely early, like 6:00 PM and took naps through the whole night, in this way I was able to have the least amount of hours I needed to rest my body.
Fasting Day #14 – Water Fast
(Wednesday)
I hit another plateau today and I’m pretty sure it’s due to the fact that I didn’t have enough sleep last night. I came back home very late after my course, it lasted till 10:00 PM! WTH! After leaving the class, while I was walking home, I felt my body was completely shutting down, all my functions were slowing down and I was feeling dizzy and weak. Sleep is extremely important while fasting, I guess resting in general since I don’t have the same energy as when eating normally, and after all it’s been 14 days without any food.
This morning for the first time after these 14 days I feel sleepy and tired and I would love to take a two hours nap. I realized that when I’m fasting I cannot have a full night sleep, since I usually wake up in the middle of the night a couple of times, so the secret for me is to allow myself a bigger sleeping-time span so I can sleep and wake up multiple times and be able to reach at least 7 hours sleep in total. That’s why it’s so important going to bed as soon as I can because most likely I’ll be wide awake at some point in the middle of my night.
Yesterday I was thinking on when and how I will break my fast because it’s been already 14 days and the more I go forward with the Water Fast the more time I will need to re-feed. I’m thinking on breaking the fast next Monday but I’m not sure yet, it might depend on how my weight loss is going; with this pace I will need another month! Monday will be Day #19 if I decide to re-feed in that day, which is not bad, I would actually keep on going another couple of days at that point, like till Day #21 so I can have 3 weeks completed; but who knows I will decide then, in the meantime I will try not to fall asleep on my desk today!
Fasting Day #15 – Water Fast
(Thursday)
So I’m on my Day #15 and everything is good, I had a better sleep last night and this morning I registered a weight loss of 500gr – I’m now 59Kg with moderate Ketosis at 70mg/dL.
I don’t feel hungry at all, sometimes I have cravings but very rarely and I noticed the more I go forward with my Fast the less cravings for junk food I have, as opposite I’m dreaming about big salads and zucchini noodles with pesto sauce! Yesterday with my man we were planning on going to a Raw Vegan restaurant once done with my Fast and I cannot wait for it.
I didn’t do an enema since few days now and I was wondering if I should do it one today after work; I don’t feel the need to do it really but sometimes I feel I still have something in my GI tract that it needs to be released, most probably I’ll try tonight and see how it goes. All those videos and blogs about fasting emphasise the importance of daily enemas, but I really don’t feel I need it every day; I tend to listen to my body, which works better for me.
I’m drinking lemon water for most of the day and trying to stop around 5:00 PM when I leave my office, mostly because I don’t want to wake up at night every 30 minutes to go to the washroom, those nightly bathroom breaks are so annoying; even though I stop at 5:00 PM to drink I still wake up at least 2/3 times!
My tongue is still white-coated but I noticed that my breath is somehow improved, maybe for the lemon water – not sure really. I’m wondering if it will ever go back to pink as everyone fasting says, I don’t buy this theory though, I think as long as I fast, my tongue will be white.
Fasting Day #16 – Water Fast
(Friday)
My weight seems not moving much so far, I’m still same as yesterday at 59Kg and just traces of Ketosis this morning at 30mg/dL; I’m wondering if it’s because my body is getting used to fasting or something else. It can be really frustrating not seeing any change when not eating anything. Apart from that I’m feeling fine, energy level is good and mood is positive.
Yesterday I did an enema, after few days that I wasn’t doing it; there was not much to release though and basically I used the whole enema bag full of water, which I am sure was not even enough. I believe it’s because my colon and GI tract are empty so it can contain more water; it takes really a lot to fill in all that water! I don’t think I’m going to do any more enemas till the end of this fast.
To reach my weight goal I would need another full week based on how my weight loss is going so far, but I cannot continue for so long; I miss a bit the social life with my man and it’s really annoying not eating, not cooking, after all I love food. I hope I can be to a decent weight level and from there trying to do IF and lose some of the extra pounds left, or maybe adding a couple of fasting days during the weekends or so.
This thing I’ve said it in other posts but I want to repeat it. Most of the times I heard people telling that weight is not important, that people don’t notice this thing and that I would be treated or considered same way with less or more pounds on me. Well in my case is a bag of BS! Every single time I lose weight and I’m almost to my weight goal people from everywhere start to pay attention to me way more, treat me differently, being nicer. I’m not saying that it’s right by all means but that’s the truth. I wish I could be 300lb and being considered in the same way as I’m right now, but I’m pretty sure it would never happen. We live in a superficial society and appearance matter either we like it or not. It sucks I know…
Fasting Day #19 – Water Fast
(Monday)
I’m on my 19th day of this combined Dry/Water Fast, the second longest fast I’ve ever done. I’m physically good but my weekend was extremely tiring, I spent both days outside doing my motorcycle course and it was very tough on my body, I should’ve planned smarter this course, since it required lots of strengths and concentration, plus using muscles that I don’t always use, so now I’m a bit sore; also my bike fell twice while I was parking it so I have bruises here and there. I’m glad today I’m in the office so I can sit all day!
This morning when I was walking to work I felt very weak, not dizzy but generally not well, I can’t say that my legs were weak or any specific muscle, just general weakness that made me think it’s time for me to end this fast. To be really honest I don’t want to end the fast, breaking it is not fun and takes time and effort, I always feel weak after eating and to get my GI tract back to normal requires lots of time with uncomfortable digestion episodes in the middle. Oh well, I will have to do it at some point anyway.
Yesterday I had a big jar of the Bell Kidney Tea with some lemon and after that I had a spontaneous BM, which I was glad of – it saved me the hassle of doing an enema, which I didn’t plan of doing it but it was always in the back of my mind.
My ketosis has been great in these days, yesterday I had large traces of ketones at 160mg/dL, I’m sure it was due to the fact that I had basically only 1L of water for the whole day including 2 cups of kidney tea, when I don’t drink much lemon juice seems I burn more fat, which is good, I can see it on my body that my fat is shedding down, and I’m very glad of that. Today I registered another weight loss so I’m now 57.8Kg and my ketones were in 80mg/dL which is still a purple Ketostix so that means I’m still burning at high pace. Losing weight seems being a challenge with this fast, but I’m trying to be strong and keep on going following my goals, eventually I will get there.
To break my fast I’m thinking to start drinking the Bone Broth that I have here in the office, not yet though, I’ll wait till lunch time or so and get a big jar so I can fill it up with half broth and some water; when cold the Bone Broth is really thick jelly, it needs to be warm to be more liquid, plus I don’t mind adding water, it doesn’t actually change much the taste of the broth and I have the chance to go easy with the drink while breaking my fast. Let’s see how it goes today!
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Fasting and Social Life - How to manage it?
One of the difficult things to overcome when deciding to embark in a prolonged Fast is the social-life aspect. I’ve been struggling on completing properly my Dry/Water Fasts often for this reason; since my man is an always-hungry-foodie type of person and denying a dinner invitation all the times can be difficult.
One thing that I learned though is that I can work around the events somehow; at the end I go out to eat maybe one or two time per week. Of course that could be situations when I’m out of town for a road-trip or special events going on that I need to attend, but really this is not the usual schedule. I work 9-to-5 and I cannot afford to go out for lunch or dinner with friends every single day, plus I don’t find it really healthy anyway, at the end you never know how is the food served at those restaurants.
I always remind myself that, no matter if I eat or fast, time will pass and it’s up to me deciding if I really want to improve my health or find excuses not to. So look at your weekly schedule and plan a Fast around it; starting with 2/3 days of Dry or Water Fast is great as well, and I’m sure between weeks will happen to have more time to keep on going with the days. If anyone asks for lunch or dinner when you’re in the middle of your loving fast, well a regular excuse that I come always with is: “Sorry, I had a very long week and still need to catch up with some tasks/errands; let’s try the next one”. It might not work for everyone by all means – but it can give you some ideas.
I perfectly know how difficult can be starting a fast, thinking of not eating or drinking anything for days, but life’s made of priorities sometimes and, with trials & errors, everyone I’m sure, would be able to find some time to do a fast; even my boyfriend once was able to do a 2-days Water Fast! Unbelievable but true, he felt amazing after that, his belly too!
Good luck everyone on finding the time and mental preparation for this amazing journey of Fasting.
My eyes look better after 6 Days Dry Fast
I noticed a small improvement on my eyes with this Dry Fast, I usual have those eye bags under my eyes that make me look always tired, but now it looks better. I took both pictures in the evening, not great pictures sorry but I think you can have an idea on what I'm referring to.
Before the Dry Fast
End of Day #6 Dry FastMonday 10 July 2017
Why I have a white-coated tongue while Fasting?
So
curious on why my tongue is white when I’m fasting I did some researches and try
to find a scientific reason for it; I was never sold on the detoxing through
your tongue theory. I found different medical answers basically reporting
similar responses, this is a simple one found at this link:
"Your tongue is covered with little finger-like projections called papillae. These are what give it a rough velvety surface. They are not the same thing as taste buds!
The papillae themselves are coated with cells; technically stratified squamous epithelial cells, but don't get put off by this detail.
As we eat normally, those cells are sloughed off the tongue (and the other tissues of the mouth) by abrasion with food as it goes past. A mouthful of dry tortilla chips is quite abrasive. So they are continually being formed to replace the ones which are lost.
After a day or so without eating, those cells are still being formed; your tongue doesn't know you are fasting. As a result, a thicker layer than normal builds up, giving a whitish appearance.
After a few normal mouthfuls, the surface cells have been abraded away normally and your tongue looks pink again."
So basically my tongue is white just because, since I’m fasting, all those cells that cover my papillae are keeping on being produces and never scraped off. Now that makes perfect sense to me. When Dry Fasting the white-coated tongue appears way faster than a Water Fast, I guess because somehow the water, the lemon scrape off some of the cells being produced, so the whitening process is kind of slower.
"Your tongue is covered with little finger-like projections called papillae. These are what give it a rough velvety surface. They are not the same thing as taste buds!
The papillae themselves are coated with cells; technically stratified squamous epithelial cells, but don't get put off by this detail.
As we eat normally, those cells are sloughed off the tongue (and the other tissues of the mouth) by abrasion with food as it goes past. A mouthful of dry tortilla chips is quite abrasive. So they are continually being formed to replace the ones which are lost.
After a day or so without eating, those cells are still being formed; your tongue doesn't know you are fasting. As a result, a thicker layer than normal builds up, giving a whitish appearance.
After a few normal mouthfuls, the surface cells have been abraded away normally and your tongue looks pink again."
So basically my tongue is white just because, since I’m fasting, all those cells that cover my papillae are keeping on being produces and never scraped off. Now that makes perfect sense to me. When Dry Fasting the white-coated tongue appears way faster than a Water Fast, I guess because somehow the water, the lemon scrape off some of the cells being produced, so the whitening process is kind of slower.
Friday 7 July 2017
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.
(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.
Thursday 6 July 2017
My mistakes after breaking a prolonged Dry Fast
After few failed attempts I finally found
the strengths to start a new prolonged Dry Fast. I managed my refeeding process very poorly last week after completing my 6 days with no food and no water. In my defense I have to say that I broke my Dry Fast as planned, drinking Coconut Water, Bone Broth and I had 2 soups and 2 mud puddings to go easy with my
digestive system. Even Coconut water
was giving me diarrhea so I couldn’t
eat anything solid anyway.
Unfortunately the long weekend out of the country came by and all my good intentions were out of the window, sabotaged also by my man and his food obsession. I started to eat whatever I wanted from the menus, without not even thinking that my metabolism was too slow to manage all that food. My boyfriend started also to ask me if I wanted an ice-cream, a chocolate bar or anything sweet every five minutes! It was exhausting, he knew I didn’t want to fall back into my dirty habits, but this didn’t stop him to keep on buying me junk food in any occasion. At some point I felt he was doing it in purpose so I can gain weight and eat more than him, so he wouldn’t feel guilty with his food pleasures.
Although I broke my Dry Fast on Wednesday morning, I felt that I was still detoxing on Saturday and partially also Sunday. I had lots of BMs, due also to the pudding I guess but I certainly noticed a difference. Still today, my digestive tract is efficient, and I’m eating very bad in the past few days – just to mention yesterday I had a big Toblerone with crunchy almonds, a full bag of praline Pecans, 2 double OH!Henry and 2 Hershey white chocolate big bars, not to mention 4 McDonalds English Muffin sandwiches and a wrap, oh I also had some Coconut Water and my mud pudding at the end of the day. I know - I am ashamed of myself.
Today I was thinking that it’s been months since I didn’t go to a store to do grocery, since last time I cooked something for myself, like a salad or one of my favourite Raw Vegan sauces. I’m always struggling to stay away from food and then I see my man and I’m off the wagon again. I don’t want to stay on diet forever, I want a healthy relationship with food and, although I believe keeping Fasting as part of my life, it’s not easy doing a prolonged Fast, days feel like weeks, weeks feel like months when not eating or drinking anything. Yesterday I even thought of breaking up with my boyfriend, because his way of sabotaging my efforts on losing weight and stay away from sugar. I know he means well but he’s not stupid, he should understand that buying me chocolate bars is only damaging me, not making me happy. In the car eating all those chocolate bars, I was sad and happy at the same time, because I could see on my body already, those few days of eating so much what had done, my metabolism was too slow to handle.
If you Dry Fast for a prolonged period of time, remember your body will take at least 7/10 days to get back to normal, don’t eat too much of anything, or you’ll regret it – as I did.
Unfortunately the long weekend out of the country came by and all my good intentions were out of the window, sabotaged also by my man and his food obsession. I started to eat whatever I wanted from the menus, without not even thinking that my metabolism was too slow to manage all that food. My boyfriend started also to ask me if I wanted an ice-cream, a chocolate bar or anything sweet every five minutes! It was exhausting, he knew I didn’t want to fall back into my dirty habits, but this didn’t stop him to keep on buying me junk food in any occasion. At some point I felt he was doing it in purpose so I can gain weight and eat more than him, so he wouldn’t feel guilty with his food pleasures.
Although I broke my Dry Fast on Wednesday morning, I felt that I was still detoxing on Saturday and partially also Sunday. I had lots of BMs, due also to the pudding I guess but I certainly noticed a difference. Still today, my digestive tract is efficient, and I’m eating very bad in the past few days – just to mention yesterday I had a big Toblerone with crunchy almonds, a full bag of praline Pecans, 2 double OH!Henry and 2 Hershey white chocolate big bars, not to mention 4 McDonalds English Muffin sandwiches and a wrap, oh I also had some Coconut Water and my mud pudding at the end of the day. I know - I am ashamed of myself.
Today I was thinking that it’s been months since I didn’t go to a store to do grocery, since last time I cooked something for myself, like a salad or one of my favourite Raw Vegan sauces. I’m always struggling to stay away from food and then I see my man and I’m off the wagon again. I don’t want to stay on diet forever, I want a healthy relationship with food and, although I believe keeping Fasting as part of my life, it’s not easy doing a prolonged Fast, days feel like weeks, weeks feel like months when not eating or drinking anything. Yesterday I even thought of breaking up with my boyfriend, because his way of sabotaging my efforts on losing weight and stay away from sugar. I know he means well but he’s not stupid, he should understand that buying me chocolate bars is only damaging me, not making me happy. In the car eating all those chocolate bars, I was sad and happy at the same time, because I could see on my body already, those few days of eating so much what had done, my metabolism was too slow to handle.
If you Dry Fast for a prolonged period of time, remember your body will take at least 7/10 days to get back to normal, don’t eat too much of anything, or you’ll regret it – as I did.
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