I have started doing intermittent fasting for the last three days. The effects are amazing. I have already lost 3-4 lbs and it feels awesome. I feel more alive and focused. I would love to do a water fasting but with my family around it’s not possible.
My achievements so far:
160 days of No MO
45 days of no porn
180 days of no smoking
7 days cold shower
Now I want take up fasting as my next big goal in my life.
@bradmax can you please share your journey through the 40 day water fast.
I researched it for a while about 4 months of on & off research, I did it for health spiritually religious reasons. The main thing that motivated or gave me the strength to do it was a Silent Treatment in the Amazon Jungle, where you are alone in a one person hut for the amount of time(1 week for me) & the “doctor” or “professor” it’s in Spanish so culturally it means something different, would come around and give me Ayuhauasca.
After that three months later I started my fast cold turkey.
The first 3 days I was jogging a bit but by the 4th my energy had left me to want to workout.
Days 5-10 got better as I didn’t have hunger My body completely adjusted itself and entered ketosis.
Days 10-30 I lost all hunger my body was simply feeding off fat. During the first 20 days I would try to drink a gallon of water a day to flush everything out and detoxify my body as much but the feeling of thirst also was leaving me.
Days 20-40 my drinking of water dwindled. The last 10 days were probably the toughest. My strength had left me and I could start to feel weakness.
The last 10 days I felt very little thirst, there was one occasion where I drank water and threw it back up. Then came insomnia, my dreams were so vivid so real I would actually physically move to what I was dreaming. (It’s said insomnia occurs as your body enters survival mode due to the fact from primitive humans would fast or starve from a bad season & Not eating would have their bodies enter fight mode (loss of sleep to get them up and hunt) causing them to hunt) Then for some reason my bed became uncomfortable that I started sleeping on the floor the last 10 days. The last 10 days I barely showered once every other day, the taste of water made me uncomfortable too. I became sensitive to everything!!! it’s weird but I think I could feel myself thinking haha or I was just delusional lol The last 2 days I barely slept.
Keep in mind I had energy through the 40 days I was alert and I was also working full time, I was also playing as goalkeeper for my five a side soccer team ( I’m usually a field player but my strength to play was gone).
The 40th night I slept about 2 hours and rose knowing it was time to eat.
Refeeding
I made myself a green cold press juice at home. Red cabbage, celery, some herbs, & umm I can’t exactly remember what else. As soon as I drank that at sunrise, I past out! Lol not like fainting but I took a 4 hour nap. The energy needed to process that took a toll. I had one more green juice that day.
I didn’t like green juice so the next day I had watermelon, 2 ounce of watermelon twice a day & slowly increased the ounce every 5 days. After the 10th day of refeeding I incorporated honeydew or other melons,
20th day I started having papaya. Essentially for 30 days I had water dense fruits.
The next 30-60 days I began incorporating vegetables &
by day 60 I started eating meat very small portions (like a bite or two)once a week the first week then twice & so on and increased them as such.
By the 4th month I started to have starches like rice potatoes & spices and my body felt 1000000 times normally better. The fifth month after the fast I could say I was eating normal yet avoiding as much processed foods but then Then my ex broke up with me then my car got stolen then my arrest warrant was issued then my naturalization process was almost halted All while starting a new job (started 5 months before my fast) definitely an EgoDeath ahhh now I’m on nofap ahhh. Jus another fight!
Physically I came out reborn
So much energy flexibility my skin was super clear, my teeth were pure white, My tongue was brilliantly pink. My eyes glowed. my hair was shinier and thicker. The physical transformations is amazing literally cleanliness is close to godliness so to say.
Unfortunately my mind wasn’t ready for the events that transpired months after my fast. On this day though I did break a habit of picking at my hair which was never bad jus something I’d do and I’m able to breathe a lot clearer through both nostrils My hair is still thicker My flexibility is better as well, my metabolism is still high. There was a time during my fast where I woke up and I was breathing so clean and clear I couldn’t even feel myself inhaling oxygen through my nose.
The Refeeding process is far more important than the fast Jus know that from all the research I did That’s the most important thing that came up constantly!
here are my stats from my fast I just looked for, My Height is 5’11
40 day water fast 2019
Before
March 1st
212lbs
28% body fat
After
April 10th
161lbs
19% body fat
After refeeding process
(With working out 2-5 times a week)
August 24th
180lbs
12% body fat
