Anyone need a fasting buddy I am to get through it with you. If not that is OK too.
Love to all.
]]>Many times I was dizzy as this was pretty much almost every day and I did pass out because I got out of bed too quickly! However, passing out only happened once and it was the most amazing experience I have ever endured. Days 2 3 and 4 were hardest for me but I wrote in a diary most of the time whenever my emotions became “stirred” up. Eventually; around day 10, I felt more energized and motivated than before as this kept me going through the fast. For the first week I got hunger pains but the hunger pains soon passed. Never did I get headaches but my breath was pretty foul after a while, lol.
Overall, It is very much all mental capacity and the will power to refrain from foods. Once one realizes how amazing and therapeutic fasting is, this is when one will pull through a fast successfully. Just be strong and live through the experience and be proud that you were strong enough to complete a fast. It is very rewarding.
Fasting has taught me a lot of discipline and I no longer eat some of the bad foods I used to consume. It made me appreciate life more and the materials I do have in order to live. Moreover, it made me greatful that I’m entitled to nourishment and all healthy foods my body needs.
For those who are fasting to lose weight, I recommend not to focus on the weight loss but to focus on other things through fasting; such as, how you feel each day. Journal about it and don’t think about weight loss as your main goal. Thinking about other benefits of fasting can help you get through fasting a lot easier and quicker than if one were to think about it. Focusing on weight loss can be discouraging and make emotions harder to deal with. Last, I recommend not checking the scale every day, once a week or once every two weeks is acceptable.
Good luck to my fellow fasters!
Anyone need support or advice please feel free to let me know!
]]>By now I had decided that I was going to end the process, soon however. I begin work on a reasonable stressful job again next week and want to have a few painless days of my holiday.
Do on Friday morning I extracted my first fruit juice (about a pint). It went down very well. I could not believe the sweetness of it. I think it gave me energy for and hour or so, but I still felt weak. In the afternoon I made some vegetable juice. And then went to help clean up at church after 30 young people had stayed there for 2 days (on a year end youth camp)
In the evening I had the friends over for pizza. I did not succumb to temptation, but ate a bowl of salad and also drank a fruit smoothie.
Its now the middle of the night (again) and my arms and shoulders are aching. It is so bad that I am considering taking some pain killers, although I resist doing that as a general rule in my life (Even when I live my relatively unhealthy life I don’t drink pain killers more than three or four times in a year.) – I wonder if breaking the fast in the cleansing cycle might have made these symptoms worse.
So far I have not experienced digestion problems, although as I am sitting here about 6 hours after the meal, I can feel that there is something in my stomach, and I have actually come to appreciate the freedom of not having something in my stomach.
By Friday morning my weight had gone down from 113.5kg to 107.5 kg. I guess most of that will be regained, although I am determined to follow a healthier eating pattern and avoid junk food and get some exercise..
]]>Thanks for the encouragement and the useful diary.
It is now 04:36 in the morning and I’m into the first hours of the fourth day. My initial goal was to complete three days. I’ve now shifted that to 7.
I’m up because my whole body is aching and I have a head-ache. I expect that today might be a difficult day.
LOL – before I conceived of the fast I invited some friends over with the promise of pizza for supper and something special for brunch the next morning. I can’t see myself eating pizza. I’ll have to do some good explaining why I am cooking for them and not for myself! I hope I feel a bit better though, later in the day.
]]>Day 1…I arose early this morning, knowing that today was the start of my water fast, i had mentally prepaired myself 2 days prior.
I read up on the benifits of water fasting ie…”Mind, Body, and Spiritually.”
Cleansing the body of “Toxins.
There is also the added factor of rapid waight loss.
Through out this first day, i have been constantly plagued by a rumbling stomach, and hunger cravings,food is allways on my mind
It is now 1.30am, i have battled the cravings and time to end my first fast day.
Day 2…i have awoken with a bit of a soar head, and the cravings for food are worse now, but i am drinking pleanty of water.
i walked 2 miles today, not sure if that was a good idea.
4pm i fell asleep for a coupple of hours, when i awoke i was so hungry.”I managed to stave off the hunger by reading a book.
My water intake is around 3 liters a day.
I stayed up until 2am, went to bed still with food cravings.
Day 3…I couldnt sleep last night, even though i was really tired.
I got up at 9.30am,I felt as though i had been hit by a bus,i feel really drained today, the hunger is subsiding, but i am a bit shaky.
later in the day i walked about 4 miles. I really dont how i maneged that !
I think that i am starting to find hidden abilities through weakness, i think that when you are at your weakest thats when you start to become stronger, maby thats why i started this fast….amongst other things, iv noticed that i am starting to feel a bit more peacefull.
Went to bed late, not really that hungry.
Day 4…I awoke at 7am, still having sleeping problems, when i did sleep i was dreaming about food.
I am starting to notice some improvement on my skin, i have noticed i feel a bit bloated,
I looked up the net about being bloated, so i have decided to take a salt water flush, 4 teaspoons of salt to 1 ltr water and drink all at once,
Its 8pm i have taken the salt enema….YUK…”This has to be the most revolting thing iv taken in my life,
“Later on the “Hevens opened up !
It has taken 1hour 40mins to work through my system, and is not nice.
Went to bed at 12.
Day 5…I have had a great sleep last night, this morning i feel energized, with feelings of being more a peace within myself,i feel as though i have a bounce in my step today, but i have niticed that my kidneys are soar today, but nothing really painfull.
Tonight i will be trying something new, “Meditating a 1st for me.
Its now 11 pm, i have “Meditated and found it to be very relaxing. I feel my “Mind body and, “Spirit are moving back into balance, its a really strange feeling, over the last 5 days i have been trying to heal myself from the inside out, and it is trully working, over the years, i have tryed to heal myself from the outside in, this was to no avail,
This is an amazing learning, and healing experience for me.
Its 1am now and time to finish another day.
Day 6…This morning i feel really refreshed and started praying to “God for guidance in my life, i feel so peacefull, almost to the extent of being closer to “God, this is the first time i have felt this, in a very long time.
This is similar feelings to when i was baptised, in the sea 4 years previously. I broke down crying, before i was baptised, but had the same “Spiritual peace within.
11pm, my reflection over today, my life is really changing, my water intake, is about 3-4 liters.
Time to end another day.
Day 7…This morning i feel fine, energy levels seem to be dropping a little bit, but nothing i cannot handle.This is an amazing experiance for me.
11pm i have been reading my bible today quite a lot and reflecting on my past, i am definitally getting deeper into myself and my veiws on lots of things.
End of day 7.
Day 8…This morning i awoke with a feeling of well being, food is the furthast from my thoughts, i have been starting to get cold hands,so iv made an appointement to see the doctor to have a check up,
3 pm back from the doctors, and given the all clear so thats good.
9pm my last log for tonight; iv been feeling cold lately, so iv cranked the heating up to keep warm, when walking long journeys i get breathless so i have to rest more.
Day 9…Real peace is now really hitting me, I have never felt like this before.
7pm I am thinking and reflecting now a lot ! I am even starting to think lots more on the childreen in other countrys still srarving to death,
I think now that i am closer with the inner “Spirit.
1am.. I have been lost in thaught all day.Past emotions are starting to surface,
tomorrow is my last day on water
Day 10…Its finally here,my last day on water, tonight i will finish with an salt enema.
11pm my final reflection !…this has been such a journey for me and glad i held on for this 10 days on water alone, i will do this again in the future, i have cleaned some of the cobwebs from the closet and more “Spiritually at peace with myself, and others.
This was a daily account of my very first water fast in 2008.
My starting waight was 13st 4lbs.
My waight afrer 10 days on water only was 12st 1lbs
Best regards keith.