In The Kitchen During 24hr Fast

(Sophie) #1

Like ALL DAY! I don’t know what I was thinking this morning…or I wasn’t thinking at all. I knew I was going to do a 16/8 fast today but I woke up and decided to just make it a 24hr one instead.

Well…I had forgotten about all the food stuff that I wanted to prepare for the upcoming holiday, not to mention stuff for Christmas! So, I proceeded to slice up some strawberries with Eryth for my yogurt, put said yogurt to strain, make Caprese Salad, make an entire tray of deviled eggs, AND I washed, de-stemmed and pitted 6 fucking Pounds of fresh Cherries for Rumtopf to give away to all our glucose infected friends and neighbors for Christmas!

Considering that I am a taster when I cook, it’s quite a feat for me to have done all this Without so much as a taste of Anything! And even more exciting to me is that I didn’t even have the Desire too! Yippeeeee! I feel like a true Ketonian. All that’s left for me now is to make a nice Taco Salad to break my fast and that’ll be a cinch. Never in my life would I have thought I could do something like this. It’s really amazing to me.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #2

I had a similar experience during my first 84 hr. fast, about 36 hrs. in, I had to cook somethings for DH to eat on for a couple of days, I almost grabbed tasting samples but luckily I remembered, oh yeah, I am on a fast. The first time it was really hard, but during later fasts, I could do it much more easily, I remembered it was for him, he could sample things for me.

He did have to stop me one day at the grocery, I was about to grab a sample of a new item, salmon “hot dogs”. I was reaching for one and he said “are you ready to end your fast?” So I walked on by.

Oddly I will have moments during fasting when I get hungry because I smell whatever DH is cooking up for his meals at the time. If I go away from the smell all is well. Especially since I use Himalayan salt on my tongue now when tempted to eat. I can read recipes, meal plans, etc. without an effect, but the smells do get to me sometime and I have to remove myself from those.