New Water Fast
Tuesday 12/21/10 I am female, 37, 5'9" and weighed 142.5
pounds yesterday (December 20th). I am fairly athletic, as I go on walks regularly with my dogs up here in the Sierra Nevada foothills. I'm on day one of a pure water fast. I figured that Winter Solstice is a great date to begin a fast that will basically put my digestive system in 'hibernation'. I will make an introductory thread about what I am doing and why.
I am mainly breaking a 20 year addiction to copious, daily ingestion of coffee and, now, two years of almost daily alcohol consumption. I am on a healing path and am not sure for how many days I will do it. Two months ago I did a 5 day fast. I walked five miles each day, and I lost ten
pounds in five days, and have never gained back all the weight. I was a bit dismayed at the, how you say it in these forums, 'skin eliminations', that manifested in tiny, scattered surface
Acne on my cheeks and chin. I will be researching more of that to see if it is a real phenomenon of fasting, and what causes it exactly, because I pride myself on hygiene, and I know that I was not negligent in any way about my skin care, etc. etc.
I was also alarmed at the severity of my perceived halitosis, as again, I pride myself on having never had a single cavity in my life, after having been obsessive about my oral hygiene all these years, exercising a daily regiment of brushing, flossing, and water pic-ing with Listerine after every meal. I also, during that fast, had a sense that I was hallucinating smells that didn't exist to anybody else- and was wondering if anyone else has experienced this phenomenon. This time around, I plan on using a tongue scraper- plus having lots of oregano oil, as well as spearmint and cinnamon to make a rinse with.
I'll be checking in daily to report and converse. BTW- I do NOT support dry fasts, even for limited spots of time. I did use laxatives during the last fast and I used them yesterday to get thoroughly cleansed before the actual fast began. Note that if you use magnesium citrate after days of fasting, there will be nothing to eliminate and nothing will happen. You will have drunk that awful stuff for nothing.
HoneyBird2000