I just finished a 40 hours water fast. A bit too long…
It didn’t throw me off balance like the 3 days and 5 days fasts and I’m recovering smoothly but the second night I was on a completely empty stomach and I just couldn’t sleep, even with the medication.
Next time, I will eat between 3pm and 4 pm, go to sleep at 9:30pm and water fast until 5pm the next day. That will give me a nice 26 hours without sacrificing a night, which means I can do it every week or two.
I’d rather do shorter fasts, more often, than longer ones I would do only once or twice a year.
I may throw in some intermittent fasting and only eat once a day. The only thing is I have to check my weight. I lost 30% already and I need multiple days of eating abundantly to get back what I Iose to fasting.
Aside from that, I’ve been in a very good mood and motivated from the beginning of the fast until now and it will certainly last longer.
That’s without 5-HTP, L-Dopa and Tyrosine as they are amino acids and would break a fast. (although so slightly)
I also changed my diet a bit. It’s still mostly beef and ghee, but I now eat romaine lettuce with apple cider vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. I also take inulin as a soluble dietary fiber for my guts bacteria to turn into butyrate. Apple cider vinegar in soda water with some magnesium chloride is not bad at all for a drink !
Dieting, fasting, meditating ! Gee. This is so different from the smoker and binge drinker, Big Mac, french fries and Coke type of guy I was before. I would sleep at 4-5am, wake up hangover in the after noon and then be off to no good (usually going for girls. That’s 10 years ago btw).
I may not like the disease, but I sure love how it forced me to add to my life those extra elements of regular sleep hours, exercising, dieting, fasting and meditating. I’m kinda becoming more like the person I always wanted to be except from being sick. Lol. I guess you can’t have it all !