On day 13 of hopefully a 21 day water fast need support🙏🏽

Hi Folks! It’s my first day here and I am happy to have found you. I have been fasting regularly for over a decade working my way up to water fasting in 2014. I am feeling good in general, though today was a little challenging energy wise. My issue is that I live with my partner who is not fasting. It’s the first time I am fasting for this length of time with so little control over my environment and part of me wants to end early so I can stop being so frustrated. He’s working from home and therefore the kitchen is always a mess. I’m sick of listening to him slam cabinets and pans and then scrap plates with forks and chew and chew for what seems like hours. He is constantly making trips to the kitchen and though I am not feeling any hunger I can’t help but feel triggered., I am plenty busy during the day but when “dinner” time rolls around and the kitchen reopens…I just wish I could wake up when he’s done feeding.

So how do I keep this going? Please advise.

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Welcome to our fasting community!

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As to your situation all I can say is the following:

  1. Recruit someone who can be a support lifeline that you can talk to when you need to.
  2. Focus on your “why”.

Sorry I can’t offer more because I work from home and everyone here is supportive; though I do have to cook for my widowed mother. After Day 5, it didn’t bother me and I looked at it as a daily willpower test.

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Thanks for your response . I’ve done something thinking and I realize the source of my frustration. I can continue with my fast.

I haven’t really figured out how to use this site. Thanks for the tips and food luck to you.

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