28.9 Day Update:
Hi Happy Dreamer and Chris,
Thank you both very much for your concern. My internet has been down the past couple of days so i have been unable to check in.
The saga continues:
I had an interesting crisis for a solid 48 hours from day 24 to day 26 and at 26 days (bedtime) i promised myself i could break the fast in the morning if i still felt like it. My colon was very gassy and uncomfortable and i was nearly but not quite nausiated and extremely hungry much of the time (but not genuine hunger). As well i was exceedingly weak. Thankfully i woke up at 26.3 days feeling substantially better and was able to continue in the fast.
So at this moment I have completed 28.9 days and i am basically continuing to take it one day at a time. So close to 30 days, i believe this is now my minimum goal assuming genuine hunger does not arise before this... and... once i reach 30 days, i may decide to break the fast, there or perhaps at 30.5 days since most of that extra half day will be gained while sleeping.
In my previous fast i felt the same way (wanting to break the fast at 30 days whether genuine hunger was reached or not) and was greatly blessed by a genuine hunger that arose at 29 days and 16 hours. I can only hope that this will happen again, because deep within my heart i am ready to break this fast and would greatly prefer to break it with a raging digestive system rather than one that needs to be nursed along 7 times slower. In reassessing my goals anew each day, there is also the chance that i continue for an unknown number of days past 30.5, one day at a time.
The reason i would break it before genuine hunger is that i really don't know how long that might take... perhaps even 50 days or so because i believe my nutritional reserves are considerably stronger this time than the last and that i am conserving them more carefully... and contrary to what i said earlier, which i already retracted, i don't believe i would like to go all the way to 50 days, prefering to re-nourish myself with exceedingly healthy foods and to allow the next fast in a few months to continue the great work that is being done. I am nice and hungry and greatly excited about getting some healthy and delicious foods back into my system starting with live raw juices.
I did get a blood pressure monitor and have checked it first thing in the morning the two days i have had it.
at 27.3 days: 81/61
at 28.3 days: 90/59.
Everything feels fine.