Well, Day 6 of my fast has been completed. I was successful in completing Day 6 without food.
I felt good most of the day, but right about the end of Day 6 (Day 6 ended at 6 PM), I started feeling quite weak. I never felt hungry, just weak.
I have taken steps to address this weakness, and the steps were very successful. I did not take any steps, though, until after Day 7 had started, so I will include that in tomorrow’s article about the fasting.
Muscle Pain
I still had some muscle pain in my legs, but it was less on Day 6 than the past few days. I was happy about that. I continued taking Potassium for that, I am not sure if that is what is decreasing the pain or not, but something has helped.
Sleep
I am finding that when it is time to go to bed, I am having trouble getting to sleep. I have a lot of things rushing through my mind. I will say, when I finally do get to sleep, I am getting very deep and satisfying sleep, so it is kind of a trade-off.
I read that while doing a longer-term fast you tend to have very vivid dreams. I do not dream often, or at least I do not remember any dreams. However, the past couple of days I have been having some dreams that seem very real. Quite vivid. Nothing bad, rather good dreams of family and such. I dreamed of my father the other day, and he died about 25 years ago.
Blood Sugar
Again today, my blood sugar remained at the same levels that I was experiencing over the past few days. My Blood Sugar was 84 when I woke up, and remained at 84 and less throughout the day, down as low as 74. I am very happy with that. No hypoglycemia at all. It felt good.
Weight Loss
274.0. No Change sine yesterday.
Weight loss since starting the fast: 7.6 pounds.
4 Days to go!
Everything is going well. The weakness was a concern, but like I said I will tell you more about that tomorrow. I have taken care of that, and I am not overly concerned about it.
This fasting experience, so far, has been a great learning experience. I have learned about my body, and my feelings about eating and food have been altered a lot. I hope that the things that I have learned will become functional in my day to day life in the future. I think they will!
Talk to you again tomorrow!
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Well done!
Thanks, Bruce!
Good luck with your path to a new life, I am happy that you seem to be informed and getting professional advice on this journey.
Thank you Bruce.
Unless you are off of salt, some salt in small doses can help relieve muscle cramps and pains. That is an old timers remedy. Weight loss will be interesting to see after the 10 days. I would also think that girth or body measurements should go down quite a bit.
Hi Stephen, each day and drinking a small amount of chicken broth, and that is getting salt into my body. So, I have that covered. Thanks for your tip.
When I fasted Chicken Broth helped when I felt weak.
I do use chicken broth with needed, and you are right Wally, it’s very helpful.
If it suits you Bob..stick to it..I am sure you will know if you can’t manage it. Atb
Thanks Malcolm.
it’s going fast!
Indeed it is.
Well done Bob. I would like to do that just for 2 days x
Thank you Jenny. You are so thin, you really don’t need to do it though.