5-day water fast (day 6)
It worked! I’m talking less about finishing the five-day fast itself (this isn’t such a big challenge for me any more), than about my experiment with no transition back to normal eating afterwards. I ate lots last night, not only the mung beans and rice, but also about 100 grams of nuts too, as well as a huge salad :-). Digestion is already working fine. The first food I had was at lunchtime: just 200ml of carrot juice and a couple of teaspoons of tahini and hempseed butter. I hoped this would send a physical message to my digestive system to prepare for a proper meal in the evening. After that I ate nothing until dinner. Along with trying to consciously tell my digestive system to wake up through yesterday afternoon, it seems to have worked. I don’t recommend this to anyone without a lot of fasting experience and self-knowledge of their body. Otherwise, it’s always best to start eating again with little portions of easily digestible food, like fruit or cooked vegetables. And before …