Fasting Day 8 - 155.3 Pounds

11:11 PM

5 hours left. Imagine the feeling you get when you skip a meal or two, extreme hunger and discomfort right? Imagine skipping eating for an entire day. Now imagine doing it for 14 days (I did 14 days, 6 days of fasting, ate a little, then another 8 days of fasting).

This is my third time doing this 14 days of fasting, and this time I did it purely on water. In my first 14 day fast in 2022, I would have some pink himalayan salt, coconut water, or oat water (different from oat milk), the latter two had some calories. In my second 14 day fast in 2023, I did really badly, and would eat even some dates along with coconut and oat water (I had less than 200 calories a day though).

In this third 14 day fast, I did all water only. I didn't take any pink himalayan salt for my electrolytes, I didn't drink any coconut nor oat water, nor did I have any dates. 6 days in though, I did eat some food, then I restarted my fast again. So technically I haven't gone one full 14 days in a row purely on water and nothing else yet. Some day I might do that, but I can't even think about that right now. The idea is pure agony to me, I've already done 14 days, I'm ready for this to be over.

Looking back on all this, that time went by instantly. However, while I was living through the experience, it felt like forever, and it felt like suffering. I am going through some mental anguish even right now, but I think due to there being less than 6 hours left, this all becomes bearable.

What next? I have to refeed in a few hours. I'm only going to be ingesting 500-800 calories on my first day of eating again, or at least that's the plan. My fast ends at around 4 AM, so at around 3:50 AM, I am planning on starting cooking up some miso soup, just 50 calories of miso soup, and this might take 10-20 minutes. At 4:10 AM, I plan on eating this for the next 50 minutes until 5 AM. Then I'll do some light walking exercises, and then basically work or rest until 6 hours later.

After 6 hours, at 10 AM, then I can eat my next meal, which will be some dried passion fruit and dried figs, around 200 calories worth. I can have my next meal at 12:30 PM, which will be dried edamame and dried chickpeas. Then I plan on going to the mall and getting a haircut, and possibly shopping for new clothes. I have a new appearance now.

Then I just work or do some other tasks, until 3:30 PM, that's when I can have some nuts and cooked vegetables and light grains. I can't wait for that.

Anyway, today I didn't do much. I don't know how the time passed by so quickly, but it did. I am still way too tired right now to even do anything. I am just going to let the time go by. That's my plan right now, until 3:50 AM. I just have to sit around, maybe watch a movie, then I can refeed again. I can't wait for that.

I'll have more coherent thoughts and ideas tomorrow, and I'll also post before and after pictures tomorrow.