My 40 Day Water Fast

[elysa]

Hi. I know that people usually start fasting after dinner or at 12: 00 AM straight, but I started mine at 12: 00 PM. I’m not ready to go through the WHY right now but I will address it at some point.

I broke down this 40-day fast into 8 consecutive 5 days fast. This is a psychological trick called “chunking” which consists of breaking down a task into small pieces to make the work more manageable. Those chunks are furtherly gathered in 4 phases of 10 days.

I’m 155 cm for 54 kg.
You can follow my journey on 40daysandnights.tumblr.com

[Joy_Ndish]

Hello, I have a 16 months old baby. How long should I water fast for? I wanted to do the 21 days because I had done this before having a kid. Is it OK to do now as I still breast feed?

[annjunie]

@Joy_Ndish I would check with my Dr. In my personal opinion I would not do a long water fast while breast feeding. I had junk stored in my fat from years of not eating organic, home grown, etc… This all starts to come out when you loose fat and everything goes into your breast milk. Also (again personal opinion only) I would want to make sure I had the BEST nutrients in my baby’s milk. To me that means waiting until he/she is weaned to water fast. Odds are all the nutrients WILL be there for the baby (your body should put them before yourself), but I personally wouldn’t risk myself or my babe without KNOWING and a physician checking on everything. All of that is uneducated personal opinion.
Either way, this is on someone’s personal journal so you may consider making a new post under the “water fast” category. Remember that none of us are Drs or professional dietitians or know exactly your particular body, baby, or breast milk make up.