I love experiments! I guess I am addicted to them đ So when I found this article on MediumâââWhy I stopped eating for 132 hours and what I learned from it â I decided to try fasting too!
Need for notes that Iâve had this experience before, but only for one or three days. I did all the preparations when I did three-days-fasting for the first time. I started slow, by cutting out one meal per day. I replace it with a juice for a week and then I reversed the process after three days of fasting. It was a strong experience and I loved it! But what changed this time and what were my outcomes?
First, I wasnât ready at all. I just started immediately (on the next day) after reading the article. Second, I didnât read anything specific to understand how to support my body. I just started to drink a lot of water and freshly squeezed juices with some fiber-combo. Please, donât do the same!
Anyway, the first day was a disaster. I was starving and couldnât even think to be close to the kitchen.
I squeezed all fruits and vegetable in the house and still, it wasnât enough. I couldnât meditate and when I went to sleep, I was hungry. At least my headache was telling me that.
On the second day, I felt better. Plus, one thing, which I would like to draw your attention, was missingâââmy hunger! I couldnât believe that it was gone. I was able to do my morning exercise and I felt great after that.
The third day was even better. I was full of energy and did all my tasks in the first half of the day. How breathtakingly prescient of my boyfriend was to prepare all juices in advance. It saved me a lot of time! On that day I proved to myself once again that I am eating more than I need. Way more than I need! Another discovery was that food can be an appalling waste of time.
On the fourth day, I started to feel different. One hour I was full of energy, another I felt like I will fall asleep right where I was standing. I believe, the reason behind that was because of an intense workshop. I was stupid enough to attend to it before I finished my fasting experience. Anyhow, by the end of that day emotionally I felt wonderful, but physically I was extremely tired.
On the fifth day, I just turned off. I slept for almost 14 hours. I deduced that it wasnât such a good idea to combine my fasting experiment with the intense workshop. By the end of the day, I recovered and was ready for my first day with food.
I knew that I need to be careful and slowly go back to three-meals-per-day mode. Still, I eat a lot during the lunch that day and dinner were bigger than I expected. By that moment I finally felt the difference between satiety and gluttony. Yep, the sin of gluttony! Who would guess that it can appear so unexpected in your life?
As a conclusion, I want to say that after my little experiment I realised that need to become aware of what and how I eat. Also, I didnât know what does it actually mean to be hungry! Our brain worked quite well on that, to replace a simple feeling for replenishment by hunger.
If you like this article, let me know in comments đ
Also, would be great to hear about your experiments too.
Looking forward to share my next experiment with all of you.
Lots of love! â¤
@tapua Self experiments & self exploration are wonderful endeavors! đ
raw veggies & fruits make wonderful juicer meals - I really simply wanted to stop to say Hi, then I saw your story - Thanks for sharing and welcome to steemit!
You got me! I was experimenting with juicing cleansing and raw diet too. Thank you for your comment! Realy excited to be a part of this community ^_^
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I strongly recommend that you read Arnold Ehret's "Rational fasting".
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