I woke up today with what felt like a mouth full of white school glue. My tongue, teeth and gums were coated with a thick yucky film – I’ve never been so happy to brush my teeth. But it’s a small price to pay for dropping 18 pounds in just 144 hours.
I want to stress to all of you whom feel like water fasting would be toucher – it’s totally and completely not. It’s Day #6 and I have absolutely no hunger at all and I (& Ray) have plenty of energy. While I admit that I’ve been dreaming about scrambled eggs, it’s not a craving that could jeopardize my successful fast.
Once again, today I’m keeping an eye on my water consumption – aiming for 1 gallon + mineral water + hot tea, as needed.
This fast is moving along smoothly and I’m excited to get outside for a walk with Hercules this afternoon, since it’s the first (and only) day in the 50’s we’ll have for weeks. The warm weather is a a welcomed surprise. It’s going to start raining tonight and (hopefully) turn to snow tomorrow – with temps in the 20’s a chances of snow nearly every day next week – it’s truly my favorite time of the year, I simply love relaxing, snowy winter days.
My blood glucose is staying pretty low and steady (except for that 106 last night, wtf) — but the real celebration is my Ketones are 3.0! Are you kidding – that’s deep, fat burning ketosis!
Finally, for the first time – EVER – my body is eagerly responding to what I am doing – responding even better than Ray’s! Do you know how tough it is for a female to loose more weight than a man?? Yep I’m doing it – it may only be by one pound but I’ll take it & brag publicly!
I feel great and my excess weight is literally falling off – there actually may be light at the end of the tunnel!
My success is making me seriously reconsider ending my fast one week from today – however I know that these first days are the highest weightloss and most dramatic results… it cannot sustain this rate of loss forever.. then I’ll need to change things up. I’ve set a lofty goal of loosing another 1 pound per day until next Friday – hoping to end my fast at -25 pounds in just 12 days.
PS – the key to successful fasting isn’t so much the fast itself but how you return to normal life…. you can’t eat junk and maintain your weight loss – I’ll be very carefully monitoring my BG/Ketones/Weight in comparison to what I am eating to have concrete data as to what helps me to maintain/loose/gain weight in the long term. I’m treating this fast as a complete elimination diet then reintroducing limited low carb foods over time.
Hi I have two questions. First can u take multi vitamins and hair skin and nails vitamins on the water fast? Also Can I drink only 101 oz of water a day for this fast?
Curious, I take a multi day, Fish oil supplement and probiotic…would I still be able to take these? Also, if I did a 5 day version of this, with a 2 day break, do you think starting again after that would still give me good results. I have a graduation celebration to attend for those 2 days, and while I know I can be moderate…it would be hard to maintain the water fasting during that time.
Fasting can be any schedule you feel best about. Research intermittent fasting to learn more. The decision to supplement is a personal choice, for short fasts it’s completely not necessary to worry about deficiencies.
Thank you! I am loving your posts and think I’m going to try this. Have also been reading up on intermittent fasting as well, and may incorporate that as a regular part of my lifestyle if I can have success with this!
Hello! You mention taking magnesium to keep things moving. Is there a particular brand or type that you used? How much and how often did you take it? I am very interested in doing a water fast but want to avoid constipation which your post seems to insinuate can be a side effect.
I’ve never been constipated while fasting, magnesium (natural calm brand is my fav, following the dosage info in the bottle, taken at night) is kinda like drinking coffee, it just keeps things moving. I prefer to keep my system moving to get toxins and junk out quicker