Category: Fasting journals
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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 […]
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5-day water fast (day 5)
Let’s talk about food! The transition out of a fast is at least as important as the transition into a fast. Once your stomach and digestive system have been asleep for a few days, you can’t just immediately pack it full with a deluxe pizza – no matter how attractive the thought of a good […]
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5-day water fast (day 4)
This is the last full day of my fast, since the fifth full day actually ends tomorrow at dinner time. I find myself looking forward to cooking dinner tomorrow and getting back to normal again. It’s like the opposite of what happened before the fast, in saying goodbye to food before the actual fast. Now […]
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5-day water fast (day 3)
I can’t believe how smoothly things are going. On my first couple of water fasts, the 2nd and 3rd days were by far the toughest. I just wanted to crawl up in a corner and collapse. In contrast, today it’s been a full day, and I still feel good, full of energy. It’s amazing the […]
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5-day water fast (day 2)
8.00am: I’m running on ketosis already, burning energy released directly from fat cells. I could feel the process beginning late afternoon yesterday, because there’s a special state of consciousness which goes along with this. You feel a little light-headed, but everything you look at feels alive and special. It’s a clearer, deeper state of being. […]
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5-day water fast (day 1)
(Originally posted Dec. 2014) Yesterday I bid farewell to food… It wasn’t anything ceremonious or even anything planned, but at lunch I noticed myself saying goodbye to the food I was eating: “this is the last lunch for the next five days…” And then again at dinner, a final feeling of farewell to food: my […]