30 days now!
I am relieved and exceedingly happy that this milestone has been reached and will enjoy each additional day from here as a bonus in terms of cleansing, healing and all other benefits. Especially important to me is the additional healing of my heart which drives me more than anything else to continue... and the prospect of possibly reaching completion is not far behind.
Physical hunger remains at absolute zero as has been the case for the past 27 days. My desire to eat is moderately strong, a desire limited entirely to the healthiest organic whole foods, but has yet to become overwhelming.
As such, i plan to continue this fast a day at a time, hoping foremost to reach genuine hunger (a difficult and highly unpredictable goal) or at least arrive at a place where i am feeling strong and otherwise great, something that is not true at the moment... as my detoxing body persists in weakness, a weakness that has been characteristic of the entire fast, though i seem to have made it through a state of heightened weakness which went from about day 23-27.
Starting at 177 pounds, my weight is a skeletal 142 with an estimated 9.25 pounds of fat loss, 24.5 pounds of temporary loss consisting predominately of water and 1.25 pounds of easily re-buildable protein-type tissue, again much of it unhealthful as the fasting body will preferentially choose to utilize the worst tissue first.
I am estimating my body fat to be about 7-9 percent, something i would very much like to maintain upon refeeding. If i was to break the fast today, i would expect my weight to be about 165-168 three weeks later with all of the temporary water loss back on my body.
Congratulations, Mighty! You done good :)
Thank you WaterDeign :).
From what I've gone through, I'd say the "desire to eat" is more a social and psychological conditioning and its a tyrannical bully of a force that overwhelms even one's better judgement.
I am certain you're right that this can be a big part of it, but i also believe there is an element of healthy desire to begin to get excited about fresh live organic juices and fresh organic vegetable broths.
I wish there were an easier way to keep it in check. I've also read that the less toxic you are, the less you crave... i don't find that to be so :(
I believe this too. I think in my case "desire to eat" was pretty quiet until i got really close to 30 days at which point i know i had my permission to break so eating became a very real possibility. Now that i have passed the 30 days, hopefully i can put the emotional desire to rest once again.
How do you deal with your desire to eat versus the lack of physical hunger?
In spite of having zero physical hunger, it is a highly exciting prospect to begin to "eat" and i know it would feel amazing to do so. Though physical hunger is dormant, in my case that doesn't mean that nutriment would make me feel sick or otherwise lousy... to the contrary i think it would make me feel amazing and i feel quite ready.
... nevertheless, i really want to hold back for as long as i can to achieve all of the additional benefits possible as i move deeper and deeper into this fast. The excitement of eating can wait :).
Thank you for the stimulating points ;).
Mighty,
an absolutely amazing achievement, so extremely well done thus far... Hear Hear, and bravo.
Thank you, thank you Chris :).
The healing of your heart should be completed this time around,...
Wow, that would be great. I can tell it's still not there at this point and there still seems to be a ways to go.
... but be careful not to push yourself too far: one day at a time, and only one day at a time.
I will be careful and actually i am taking this an hour at a time and i have some organic produce from yesterday ready to juice on a moment's notice. Blood pressure each morning has remained quite stable. It has averaged about 85/69 in the past week and was 83/65 this morning. So far everything seems to be going fine.
If your weight is 142 pounds, what is your height and estimated bone size?....small, medium or large? as this has a bearing on health.
I am 5 feet 11 inches and if i had to guess my bone size is medium. I am not concerned in the least about being underweight at this moment because i know from recent experience that about 24 pounds of temporary water will be back on my body within 3 weeks of breaking the fast at which point my weight will be quite excellent for me and with likely 7-8% body fat.
In the words of Carrington.................
""However long the fast may continue, no danger whatever from starvation need be feared, since hunger will always return before the danger point is reached. Thus, so long as hunger is absent, it is a plain indication that no food is required. . . . I cannot too strongly impress this point upon my readers--that natural hunger, and that alone should indicate the terminus of the fast. . . That this signal is invariably given at the proper time, and in the proper way, and that absolutely no danger from starvation need be apprehended until the signal has been given, is absolutely true. . . .
This is a very good reminder. I know my fat is sufficient, and my concern would be for a micro nutrient to run low. Sounds like in either case the genuine hunger siren would be blaring.
The artificial breaking of the fast; the taking of food in the absence of real hunger, for the reason that the ignorant attendant thinks the patient has 'fasted long enough,' is an abomination, and an outrage upon the system which cannot be too strongly deprecated."--Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition, pp. 546-547.
I would really like to take the fast to completion... and maybe i will... but i wish i knew how long that might be. If it was going to be 60 days, i would probably want to await next time. I am at 31.3 now and would like to see at least 35, maybe even 40... again taking it an hour at a time.
I will say that my tongue is becomming a lot less coated. The morning slime on my tongue was about 1/8 this morning of what it was 10 days ago and the remaining coating on the tongue after getting rid of the slime was also about 1/8... tongue is getting pink again. I believe my urine is smelling less toxic too.
What i sense though is that there is still a lot of work to be done in my heart... so completion would be delayed by the work that has to be done here. What is your opinion on how much faster my heart would heal daily if i was to reach a clean tongue and the body no longer had to focus on detox? 2x, 3x, 4x?
Thank you again.