Sandra's 21 Day Water Fast Journal

Quesara · October 9, 2020, 10:18pm

Day 19

Period day 8

I have never had a period lasting this long, and the hunger just wouldn’t go away no matter how much water I am drinking.
fasting has stopped being beneficial and started to become detrimental to my studying and academic performance, to a point that I felt that I don’t care. It was less of a calming effect from fasting than an unbearable, incessant discomfort lasting for more than a week now that I did not have any residual energy to care about anything else but to want to lie down. But when I did lie down, my mind was racing as I know what I should be doing but I wasn’t doing that, hence I lie down feeling anxious and stressed instead of relaxed at all.
I got so sick and nauseous that I felt I needed to break my fast. After finishing 4 hours of back-to-back meetings, I waited another few hours to see if I would feel better so I didn’t need to break my fast, but the symptoms just got much worse.

Refeed

I ended up breaking my fast at 8pm. Had some kimchi, some seaweed, some seaweed soup (just seaweed and water) and some konnyaku noodles (less than 1g carb total, made of fibre, about 32kcal in total) with a dash of soy sauce.
I felt I have let myself down as I was so close to the finishing line…but I guess I needed to listen to my body.
I plan to do a few days of diluted vegetable juice, homemade bone broth and cooked vegetables, then slowly re-introduce the eggs and poultry, and hopefully I will continue to lose weight with this regime.
I do feel my palette has been reset as I no longer crave sweet stuff. All I crave now is vegetables, like pointed cabbage, shiitake mushroom.
as I have a prolonged period and have been losing a lot of blood, I am going to get some bones from the butcher tomorrow to make some bone broth (didn’t have time to get them today as I finished my meetings at 6pm) and also some pig’s blood (really craving for some pig’s blood).

Quesara · October 11, 2020, 10:58am

Refeed Day 2

had an early morning skating training session and a lesson with my coach. Stamina is still an issue as I found myself gasping for air after just a few jumps and spins. This could be because my refeed last night was only about 300 kcal in total in vegetables and the fact that I am still re-building my strength back from ground up since the lockdown.
had a freshly squeezed vegetables juice (cucumber, celery, 1 lime) after the training session. I took caution to have it slowly. It was surprising that it took me the entire journey back home (a good an hour and a half) to finish such s small cup.
once I got home, took some rest, I was hungry again, so I had a tin of tuna in spring water (not the best choice I know because of the sodium content, but this was the cleanest protein source I could find at this moment at home ).
went out to do some grocery shopping in the late afternoon, had another freshly squeezed juice (cucumber, celery, ginger, 1 green apple).
had some kimchi
for dinner, I made hotpot with a soup base made with water, shiitake mushroom and konbu (seaweed). Threw in lots of vegetables (pak choi, mushroom, beans sprouts), some konnyaku knots ( made with fibre, <1g carb in total, almost nil calories) and a small piece of white fish fillet. (For me, hotpot is like a lazy person’s dinner and I get to have lots of vegetables!)
had BW today - think I might go do another colonic some time next week, just so that the toxins released during my fasting are cleared out.