72 Hour Water Fast ~ Update
I'm Bored And I Want To Eat Something!
I Am Never Bored!
This is my 2nd day on my water fast. This fast will end Sunday at 5pm. I drank about 1/2 gallon of filtered water throughout yesterday. I slept very well last night and I haven't been sleeping well lately. I had tons of energy yesterday, it was awesome. I wrote 3 articles and cleaned the house!
However, people are eating food in front of me this morning. The food smells so good and that's not cool! I am still not hungry but I can feel the habit of eating pushing me to eat. I'm pretty good at ignoring triggers. I just watch the sensation, which comes up in a subtle way. That's one of the benefits of meditating every day, I can let go of annoying sensations. The craving manifested not as a thought but more of a feeling the food smells so good! I think the subtle triggers are the hardest to ignore because they aren't in my face like a hunger that hurts.
I thought I would get really hungry. Instead I am really bored, what's up with that? This must be how my eating habit manifests. I eat out of boredom, something to explore within myself after I'm done fasting.
The reason I started this fast was because my digestive system was slowing down. I mean the food I was eating wasn't moving through my body very fast and I felt like I was full of shit. I mean literally .....
I am distracted though, you know bored. So I decided to write this blog to kick start my day and not turn this into a big procrastination day thinking about food and wanting to do nothing! I still have a ton of energy, I feel alert and the sluggish heavy feeling I have from being full of shit is gone. The body feels very light! Fasting has given me a lot of energy. Now I have to focus that energy and let go of my boredom.
Have a great weekend everyone. I will not be looking at food or recipe tags on Steemit today.
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Lukewarm water with lemon and honey will be the best for the digestive system.
@rocksg, that sounds so yummy right now....I'll have some Monday morning when I wake up!
OMG....I just want to eat everything right now!
I'm not hungry at all, I just want to eat something. You'd figure I would be starving. I am really getting to know my eating habit!
However I cleaned out our garden, which I have been putting off since late summer....
@reddust,
Don't eat all at once! Actually why did you fast?
Cheers~
I fast to reduce inflammation, clean out the body, and kick my immune system into reboot. Fasting is for healing @theguruasia.
This cracked me up, I have absolutely been here!
I really don't need anyone to entertain me, I crack myself up all the time...I'm glad I could make you laugh @dreemit because we need more laughs in this world right now!
Be patience and just eat
I will be exercising my patience muscle throughout today and most of Sunday. I'll eat a light meal around 5pm this Sunday! I'm not hungry at all!
i am just joking...reddust.
I'm going to kick you for teasing me...OMG, my temper is manifesting today... J/k lololol
But I think I would kick you if we were sitting close...hahaha
ok...suppose right now i am sitting beside you...so what will you now.@reddust
Whoa Mom, your body needs water plssss
I'm drinking lots of water, I have never peed so much in my life! I think my body is cleaning itself out! That was my goal...
That's Water Therapy, have done it few years ago...
Great!!!
I should do something like that, actually planned already, but am not as strong as you are.
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I take it one minute at a time. If I can do it anyone can....just set the goal in your mind. Make sure you don't have to cook for 3 days. I have to be around food though, I have grandkids that eat all day long. But at least I am not cooking this weekend.
Get rid of all the easy to eat food in your house so you won't be tempted...visualize yourself doing the fast and then do it!
Thank you!!!! ☺♥
72 hours on only water, I still need to try doing it for a single day, lol. How long do you meditate each day?
Hi @droucil, I meditate two hours a day, one hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. I've fasted for a day, that's easy because I do intermittent fasting daily. I eat around 8 or 9am and have my last meal around 3 or 4pm. I've wanted to do a 3 day fast for a long time but my determination wasn't strong. I did this for my health which made the decision to fast easier.
Damn, u have a great discipline doing medtiation 2 hours a day. I can't even meditate for that long unless I sit in a chair, due to my back getting tired too soon...
fasting is no doubt good for health and it also let's us think about the value of food and one's also start imagining about those who have no money and go through from this process every day without implementing fasting, fasting is a great course indeed and i hope your digestive system surely improves, it's surely feels tough initially specially for foody peoples like me but once we get use too it then it not hurt much, Stay blessed and have a fantastic weekend ahead.
I thought of the people who are going without food and have no choice, I know how it feels. I've been homeless before and have gone without food so my kids could eat. That was back in the late 1970s early 80s.
You have a blessed weekend as well @adnanrabbani.
Eat moderate food please. Don't keep your stomach empty.
@akilasultana, I will be eating lightly this coming Sunday. This is a fast for kicking my immune system and digestive system into a healing and cleaning mode. I've also walked 4 miles yesterday!
Damn 72 Hours is a lot, are you a vegan/Vegetarian? I'm going to try and do a 24 Hour on first!
I am an omnivore...I eat only whole foods that are organic. I'm not trying to think about the rest of the day, you are helping me distract myself!
Haha her to help ;) ! Ooo that's is interesting, I find it quite difficult especially in a big home it can get hard. Good luck up date me if you complete it :D
Yeah, we have 2 refrigerators as well....My daughter lives on one side of the house and my husband and I live on the other side.
Good thing you're detoxifying your body and that until now you have not felt hungry, I think I could not stand that long in fasting, I congratulate you!!!
@eleyda78, I felt this would help me fight off the flu as well. This is the season for flues and colds. This is not painful physically, it's painful mentally. I think we all have a very strong habit to eat! The habit isn't getting fed...