Tag: 21 days
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21 day water fast: Day 11
Well, at this point I’m over the half-way point of the fast. I would’ve thought it should feel like an emotional milestone, but it just feels like another day…
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21 day water fast: Day 10
Nothing much new to report today, except that I’ve noticed a couple of trends. The first change relates to weight loss. From Day Three to Day Seven, I lost weight extremely consistently – at the rate of .5 kg per day – whereas over the past three days (since Day Eight) this has reduced to…
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21 day water fast: Day 9
In the same way that they say that the perceptive midpoint of an 80-year lifespan is around 30-35 years, I suppose that today should be more or less the perceptive midpoint of this 21-day fast. I wonder…
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21 day water fast: Day 8
Last night woke after four hours and couldn’t go back to sleep. After lying in bed for a while I meditated, which for the first time since beginning the fast, actually felt natural and good, not a chore. I don’t know whether my resistance to meditation and yoga during the first week of fasting has…
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21 day water fast: Day 7
So here we are, another milestone in the fast: the end of the first week and, with it, the first third of my planned duration. I feel good, just physically slow in ev-er-y-thing. But this new tempo – precisely because of its more leisurely, deliberate speed, as well as because it’s different to what I’m…
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21 day water fast: Day 6
Another smooth day. No resistance. The day began at 3.30am. I woke up and lay in bed, unable to sleep. Then I became aware of a faint rumbling, which at first I thought must be from tractors working late in the fields to sow whatever they were sowing, before the rains predicted for tomorrow arrive. …
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21 day water fast: Day 5
Like yesterday, another slow start this morning with low blood pressure, and I had to be careful not to stand up too quickly after lying or sitting. I feel slow too, like Earth’s gravity has increased somewhat: almost as if I’m wearing an Apollo spacesuit…
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21 day water fast: Day 3
I eat, therefore I am… I know it sounds amusing, but it’s true. Like yesterday, I find myself continually returning to the existential questions of life – and eating does offer a kind of blithe Cartesian certainty to the world…
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21 day water fast: Day 2
Today has been one of extremes. The morning was again spent in a frenetic whirlwind of doing: tidying up and rearranging the house to make it liveable. I finished mid-afternoon and went outside to sit. Just sit and be. In that moment, it hit me again like a wave: the conflict inside me…
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21 day water fast: Day 1
And so the journey begins. In a way, it began last night with the end of dinner, the end of eating. A strange feeling: the idea of three weeks without food. It seems like such a long time that I can’t really grasp what it means, how it feels, and how I’ll feel…