- Define your “WHY” - Why are you doing this?
Health and mental clarity. My whole life I had a terrible diet along with substance abuse of several drugs. I got to a point where I just felt like I was dying and in December 2020 I found a video of Dr goldhammer and fasted for five days. Then I did another 5 days in January 2021. Both times I felt so much better and now I truly believe in fasting. I more recently did a 20 day fast and 6 day fast which I talk about later. - What are your long term and short term goals? Long term to be healthy and mentally clear. After all the abuse I put my body and Mind through I didn’t think I would ever feel normal again. I was crushed by anxiety and was constantly plagued by physical ailments all over my body. It got so bad that I had to leave several jobs just because I could not take the stress and anxiety on my body and mind. I realized I need to make a change in order to be successful and healthy for the rest of my life. after fasting I experienced such an improvement in my mental clarity after both the five day fast and the 20 day fast I have hope that I can achieve a healthy “normal” once again. At this point I feel I am really close.
- What are some struggles you face or you have faced in the past.
Kind of like I said before just terrible diet and lots of substance abuse. I mean so much abuse that I am ashamed to list it all out. - What is your game plan? (/.e. OMAD intermittent Fasting + Keto + Water Fasting)
OK so this one gets a little complicated. When I first did the 20 day I was going to go for 40 days and then I got Covid and had to cut it short. Then I started another fast the last six days where I was trying to go for 40 and I was really weak and then I’m also applying to a school program and this weekend I am visiting them for a preview weekend and I wanted to be kind of semi-normal and so I started eating food and I wanted to be back on the normal diet because I have several dinners to attend and I just started eating normal food way too fast and I basically went straight into refeeding syndrome and that is no fun at all let me tell you. So now my game plan is I’m going to fast and whenever I have to do something (I go to a dinner etc.) I’m going to bring spinach and steamed veggies with me and I’m just going to break the fast for a day or two in order to be more functional and just eat salads at the dinners and then go right back fasting. this week and next week and I have events to attend so I will break the fast shortly for those periods of time and then go right back into it. - How do you feel right now? (Happy, Sad, Anxious, etc.) and why?
Happy! I’m happy to have the time to devote to fasting and I have received so much benefit from my previous fasts I’m excited to see how much better and more mentally clear and capable I will be after this one. Fasting is truly give me a new Hope for my future. - How will you feel once you achieve your goal? (Visualization)
Ecstatic. I am already impressed with the results. But I think this next fast which I can go for a long time will provide me the most benefit. I don’t have a specific time frame in mind or days that I’m setting out I just want to fast until I feel I have attained a certain amount of normality and health and human function and then I really want to take the refeeding process very very very slowly. Because that is where I feel you like you lock in your fasting gains and I have underestimated it in the past. - Write down your daily positive affirmation: “I am…” (I.e. "I am passionate, I am strong, I am capable and I will achieve my dream body once and for all, no more excuses!)
I am disciplined. I am passionate about learning and growing mentally, physically, spiritually and this fast is helping me accomplish all those goals. This fast enables me to become more healthy mentally, more healthy spiritually and more healthy physically than I will ever be and I am disciplined and determined to make it happen. - Write anything else you want to write, let this flow freely since it’s your journal for yourself!
Hey everyone I’m so happy to have found this community that’s and can be lonely and lots of people will tell you you’re crazy but I am so happy to have found a community where we can find support. So thank you for taking time to read my journal and I hope to keep you all up-to-date and remain very cannibal throughout this whole process. Blessings – John
John's 40 day fast for health and mental clarity
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You got this!
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All right a little late on the update here but I had a huge migraine all day yesterday and a little food and I’m doing a little better today. I cancelled my trip this weekend so I am actually not traveling. I had some spinach and veggies last night after my second day and now since I’m not traveling I’m just going right back into fasting. I actually feel a lot better and I am looking forward to this journey will post later today. Hopefully this migraine will go away. Usauslly transitioning into a fast I get one every time. This one just feels worse than the others. Once I am transitioned, however, I feel great!
Day 7 - October 24th, 2021
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Daily Positive Affirmation: I am strong and I will make it through this!!!
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How I feel today: Hey Everyone, I know it’s been along time since I last updated. I am doing fine! I went ahead with the original plan and broke the fast on steam vegetables last weekend. I had a very successful weekend attending a MBA preview weekend. Then I went right back into the fast. I was strictly just water but I felt terrible on Friday. I was not supplementing electrolytes so I took some. Luckily I had some hylyte. But I was afraid I was deficient in magnesium and potassium too much. The only magnesium supplement I had was magnesium calm but it was flavored. And I had a magnesium pill. But it definitely kicked me out of the autophagy because yesterday I had so much energy and today I am experiencing hunger pains all over again. Luckily though I was able to utilize that energy and research, really research, how to break a fast. Because all the fasts I’ve done previously I have not broken well. So I was able to go out and get lots lots and lots of vegetables and calf liver and chicken to break the fast. Previously I broken the fast with a lot of starches, but now I realize that is not a good idea because my instant response was way too strong. I think if I just stick to vegetables and some calf liver and chicken drumsticks I also got some salmon as well for at least you know the first week or two I should be fine . The interesting thing was is I have been vegetarian for almost a year before this. But I decided I needed to go with you know meats that you know how a lot of the nutrients that I needed like phosphorus and Thiamin such as chicken and salmon and definitely Calf liver. Also I am making this post using voice to text so some typos might be in here. But it is the easiest way for me to update especially if it is long. And if it is weekly. I don’t know if I will do this update daily but I will try to do weekly. Honestly I’m just trying to get through today and tomorrow because I am experiencing a lot of hunger and today is been the hardest day to not eat usually once you get in the fast is easy to not you know consume food. But since I kicked myself out of it on Friday IM definitely struggling today with hunger. Also I was able to get some great great great potassium and magnesium supplements in addition to highlight. I got a trace mineral magnesium supplement and no salt which I mean made a total difference I mean I feel great it’s just I’m hungry now . So encouragement is appreciated I’m going to make it through the day and the next day and then get back into the fast. I hate the first 2 to 3 days all the time and I don’t want experiencing them again and I was doing so well so I’m gonna try to finish what I started! Here is a pic of the scale when I started!
Wow!
I also came to this forum after listening to the same doctor. Do you feel healthier after fasting? I also started feeling hopeful when I listened to him and read some successful stories. I’m looking for more success stories and affirmations to keep me going.
Yes! I feel like a New person. Like I said I struggle with addiction for a while and felt like I didn’t even know who I was a person anymore. Now I have so much more mental clarity. I had to end my earlier fast for personal reasons but I just started one again today. It will be hard over the holidays too fast but honestly I didn’t break any of my previous fast the right way and I’ve been dealing with summer irritable bowel syndrome. I am so I have been looking forward to starting another fast as soon as possible and I am able to now and I hope in the next few weeks that my IBS goes away. The times I fasted before has definitely been more beneficial for me just mentally because I’m able to function more as a person. Now this fast is just kind of to see you know how long I can go after the holidays but also to clear up the IBS that I kind of gave myself from bad redress. My problem was definitely The time that I eat which would be right before bed. Now when I break the fast I will definitely follow the advice in this form and write out exactly what I’m going to eat and eat earlier in the day and then just restrict myself before night. Instead of going back to eating whatever I want whenever I want . Because after I broke my last 20 fast really I felt like it took almost 2 to 3 weeks before I felt completely normal again. I felt like I only needed a 3 day refeed but yeah everyone’s different and I could not really stomach a lot of things until 2-3 weeks after my fast. Not to say that stopped me from eating those things. The funny thing is I tried to maintain a healthy whole food plant-based diet but I still over ate. Mentally however I am so much sharper than I was before and honestly fasting has decreased my anxiety by so much. Before I couldn’t even sit down and focus very long on a subject, and now through fasting I figured out that I would like to start my own business and my brother-in-law and I are going to start a company this year. I don’t think I would not be able to take on this venture without the regeneration fasting has given me. I am not really fasting for weight loss necessarily but just for health and longevity in and mental clarity. I think this one will be the last for a while as I start my business but this is the last opportunity I had before the new year and I move and do things in life that I feel like I will need more energy energy for so I’m tackling it now.
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