48 hour mark - complete.
Pain score, 5 (scale, 1-10).
I ran 5 miles today in 40 minutes, which is ‘normal’. No gym today because it is not scheduled, tomorrow I have sprints and another 5 mile run to complete.
Currently not experiencing pain, however, in relation to yesterday the overall pain is relatively the same (pain score from yesterday was 4 so, +1). Unfortunately, I still have yet to experience any excruciating pain that other fasters have noted.
ONENOTE PERSONAL NOTES (TAKEN THROUGH-OUT THE DAY):
Now, I will omit the hunger scale for a very precise reason; it is a result from knowledge and experience attained via this fast. Consider that hunger is merely the interpretation of pain, and pain being some sort of physical indicator (currently, we correlate it with ghrelin); to state conversely, hunger is not pain. However, pain can result in hunger, predicated on how I, the one experiencing the pain chooses to interpret or, perceive the pain.
pain (ghrelin) -> interpretation -> hunger or, it could be, if I so choose to take control:
pain (ghrelin) -> interpretation -> joy, success, happiness, energy, indication of achieving goals… (whatever I so choose).
Pain itself is not a bad thing, it is merely an indicator of an experience I.E, nociceptors alerting me that acids are accumulating within my muscles during this exercise; it then becomes interpreted as I so choose (the body builder would establish this pain as a successful and joyful training session, while the ‘newbie’ would consider this pain as terrible). Pain is only terrible and unpleasant if I so choose to it interpret it this way.
To further distill this concept and apply it to fasting; I must first realize that the pain I experience from not eating for a few days is interpreted as being successful and achieving my goal (NOT as hunger, weakness, or tiredness). Pain itself is a meaningless form, awaiting to be interpreted and molded for use; see Epictetus, ‘Discourses’ or, ‘Enchiridion’ for more detail.
Bold indicates I added the note in after the day.
Again, today was an over-all good day: began with a cold/hot shower, read Seneca, school, 5 mile jog, technical reading in quantitative finance, more reading, and (soon) sleep.
Contrary to the advice-givers, I should have taken supplements; I have taken zero, and this will continue.
Pain is success.