It's that time again!!
Life is good, all in part to due to the health foundation I laid with a 45 day fast about 3 years ago. I no longer feel extreme about getting healthy, as I have for the most part, accomplished that goal. It's about maintenance and slowly building up over my life more and more health through higher skill at self love; and by self love I mean knowledge and practice about diet, exercise and the human body.
I've been needing to fast for a while. The last 2 and 1/2 years of stress at my job and life, and all the caffeine, energy drinks and sugar has cost me. Still, I've been more healthy then I ever have, but still far from perfect, but I always say, progress not perfection. For optimal performance & health I should have done this fast about a month or two ago, but better late than never. I originally only wanted to fast for about 2 weeks, but I remember reading somewhere that the highest levels of healing happen after about 2 weeks, and since I did 45 days last time, I figure 24 days should be more then enough for my current level of health.
After the fast I'll be trying out an elimination diet under the umbrella of a nutritional ketogenic diet/program and then going full keto, which is a diet where your body basically stays in a fasted state, but you can eat as much as you want as long as you keep your carbs in the range of 20 - 50g a day. I'm also going to be doing intermittent fasting, where 1 - 2 days a week, you take a 24 hour break from food. On top of all this, also doing a 40 day caffeine fast. I swear that's it for healthy changes. Don't want to overwhelm yourself
On to the fast.
So far this fast has been brutal. I got sick the night before I began the fast. I had a chest, throat and nose cold for the first 8 days of fasting. I also had severe headaches from caffeine withdrawal, these headaches lasted for about 8 days. My energy levels have been abysmal as well. I didn't really keep a log of my 45 day fast, so I don't remember how it was for the first week or two in the context of energy levels, but I do remember my energy levels become amazing past day 20, so maybe that's what it will be like for me again.
I'm starting this log on day 11 out of 24.
31 male.
Energy levels-> decent(about 70% of normal)
Focus->(10% of normal
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I'm having some flareups for old Aches, Pains & Arthritis, but this is normal. Fasting actually ended my chronic pain during my last 45 day fast, and I'm sure my joints will feel 1000x better when I'm in week 3, and certainly when I finish the fast.
So my only real complaint on day 11 is a lack of focus. I'm about as ADD as you can get, I would kill for some adderall right now... Just Kidding
, Never going to touch that stuff again. My energy levels are finally beginning to return to normal, the levels where less than 50% throughout the first 8 days of the fast and have only in the last day or two started picking up again.
I've been sunbathing, going on walks, playing light soccer on a nearby field, doing some body weight exercises, and very light weight work, which feels really good. I keep trying to organize my folders and data in my computer but I'm getting super, super distracted.. Oh well, it's best not to push myself to hard right now, but do what I can.