WOAH! You actually made it to ten days on your first try, and on a WHIM? The congratulations and hats off are to you- perhaps you should look into recreating the experience and writing an article on it! I'm not sure that I'm yet cut out for ten, but you surely experienced a bit more of the story than I intend to, on this go.
I know what you mean about the hunger being gone after a while, even if it's only been day two. It's really like I forget about it after a while, since the body appears to perhaps get tired of sending hunger signals. During these times, it's pretty much all gold, as the mind and body both feel pretty good and energetic.
Thanks for sharing your experience, and possibly giving me a future milestone to reach during a fast. Your support is tops, Mr. Jay! Your good wishes are appreciated :) Up-vote
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You know what, I didn't even think of it like that lol. You're totally right about it being a bit ambitious, at least that's what I'm calling it. It was probably kind'a dumb to just be like "oh yeah, I can just NOT EAT for 10 days, why not!" xD
If I remember right, I had read something about what the body goes through and how it winds up cleaning it's self out when you go through a fast and how some medical practitioners even use it as a last-ditch effort to help some patience as a means to just let the body rid it's self of all the garbage making them sick... it all sounded really interesting so I just did it. A few days in I wanted to quit but I was so curious what tomorrow would be like I just stuck it out.
Unfortunately I'm the type who will get light headed after not eating for 24 hrs so I had to constantly take a knee, which is what "they" suggest you do when fasting if you ever get a dizzy spell... take a knee and chill out till it's gone then take it easy.
After that first week however, the dizzy spells went away. It was actually a really interesting experience overall.
Oh... and I ate a LOT of crushed ice just to deal with that physical habit of wanting to chew on food. Luckily my fridge had a crushed ice maker at the time but if it didn't I would have probably just chewed up a bunch of ice cubes anyway. That was all in the 1st week though. It seems like after all that typical hunger stuff went away I pretty much didn't really think about food all that much. I'd get the occasional want for something but it wasn't very strong and passed quickly.