Need support for water fast

[Quesara]

Hi all,

I am new here, and am hoping to post here for some support and accountability.

I have done various forms of fasting in the past: 15-day vegetable juice fast, 20-4 daily IF, I also fast 24 hours every first Sunday for religious reason. I had the most success getting my weight down by doing 44-hour fast for a month (so healthy eating during a 4-hour window every other day).

Since this quarantine started, and with some grave personal trials I am going through together with the stress from my law degree, I have found eating disorder returning to me once again. I would like to lose weight, reset my relationship with food by doing water-fast.

I had a fairly breezy time when I was doing the 44-hour fast for a month, but now…I don’t know what it is, but I can’t even complete day 1 and always seem to break my fast at the 20th/22nd hour mark.

I intend to start my fast again today, 17 April. Any of your kind suggestions, tips and support will be deeply appreciated to help me on this water fast journey.

Currently I just want to take it 1 day at a time and see how far I can go, as I found myself feeling that the fast becomes an insurmountable task when I set myself for a specific length of days - the ugly ‘all or nothing’ mentality always ended up sabotaging my effort.

Thank you.

[Compdude]

Welcome to our fasting community!

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First, let me say be kind to yourself. You’re trying to re-start in a more stressful situation, so its not a surprise your struggling as fasting, by its very nature, is stressful. A lot of newbies don’t take into consideration environmental stress factors and over stress themselves and fail.

I suggest you check out @Anna Daily Journal covering her successful 30-day water fast and refeed. She’s a graduate student completing her Masters degree and tackled prolonged fasting for primarily mental health issues.

Good luck!

[Quesara]

Thank you @Compdude for your kind words. I found that when I tend to want to have something around the 20th hour mark, it is usually psychological and partly due to the fact that my husband is usually cooking and having dinner around that time. I guess I just need some encouraging pick-me-up to tell me to keep going when that temptation comes.

I will update accordingly.

[AshMo]

Hi!

I’m new here as well, though I’m not new to fasting. I’ve been having a similar issue of ending them before the day is up.

I’ve also come here as a means for support, as well as for motivation. I started my fast last at 7pm and am taking it one day at a time too (though I do have a 2-week goal in mind).

I’d be happy to provide any support that I can!

[Quesara]

Thank you @AshMo! I would consider it a major achievement to reach 14 days! Now I am just taking one day at a time. Let’s support each other and hopefully we will both reach our goal.

[AshMo]

Yes!! I’m totally down for that!