Day 46 and 1,100 hours fasted on water, coffee, bone broth, electrolytes, and occasional heavy cream. Made it this far, there’s only a few hours left! Here are my numbers for today:
It has been a long and interesting journey working each day to see if I could and would make it all these days. Now, with only a few hours left I am looking forward to the next adventure in my life. 10 PM tonight, not including the time change, will be my 46-day fasted point. For a while there I wondered if I would see this day. As I kept going with the fast I found it interesting how easy it became day after day.
The only drawback was the chills that I experienced. Many others doing shorter fasts also complained about being cold especially in their extremities just like I’ve experienced. Almost all of them mentioned that once they started eating again they could feel the warmth flowing out their arms to their fingers and down to their toes.
I chose to overlook the chills, I used extra salt to help alleviate them and even used heavy cream in my coffee but I have been cold for about 40 of the last 46 days! I even had to put an extra blanket on my bed to help me warm up at night.
My understanding of a possible cause of the chills is my body slowing down a bit and reducing the metabolic rate to save fuel. This slowdown did not make me feel sluggish or even tired at all, I was able to keep up with all of my daily work every day and never felt like I was overwhelmed. Actually, I feel great! I am positive and still have a smile on my face every day. I really can’t believe the amount of energy that I have. Again, I am not a doctor and so this is just my best guess after reading a lot of literature.
What’s next? Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and my wife and I are going to the Easter Vigil mass tonight, as it is the most beautiful mass of the year, and we are going to the 11:00 mass tomorrow morning. With our feast scheduled for 3:00 I am undecided whether I will break my fast before or after the 11:00 mass. I’m not hungry but it has been a long time since I’ve had bacon and eggs! Hmm, decisions!
We are having ham, which may or may not have a sugar glaze on it. If it does I will simply cut it off as I don’t process sugar very well, I can tell because of my weight, and I prefer to not have it. I will load up with more fat for satiety. I made a Bacon, Bleu Cheese, Walnut dip with a cream cheese base and I will make a Fathead pizza crust (mozzarella and cream cheeses with a bit of almond flour) and use those as breadsticks, might even brown some cheese on top as well!
I do not expect to be able to gorge too much as my stomach needs to get used to eating once again so I will take it easy and try to not make myself ill. That gets back to one of the things I wanted to take away from this fast—self-control when it comes to eating!
I will also continue to take my weight and blood readings each morning and continue to post updates for everyone. I would like to use MyFitnessPal to track what I am eating but that sounds like a lot of work and I am allergic to work!
As I said yesterday I am planning on doing a feast/fast cycling way of eating so I will feast on some days and fast on others. I will plan on feasting for a few day initially to get going again.
To everyone: Have a Blessed Easter!
