I like water, too. 
There is haddock cooking in this house and I want it. And it’s not even keto because my mom always covers it with crumbled crackers and butter. It’s delicious, but even if I decided to eat, I should not have any of THAT. Meh. Gonna try to power through even though I’m working somewhat near the oven. :/
You are definitely welcome to the space here to write! We’re in the same boat.
It is strange isn’t it. This last fast I didn’t have any undue hunger at all but the previous fast (9 days) was hungry almost all the time. When people say that fasting is like a muscle it seems to be true. This last fast that I did I ‘stocked up’ on fats before starting so maybe that made a difference. Also, I wasn’t as stressed at work last week as when I did the 9day fast. Perhaps that is what is making the difference to you with all those assignments and study tasks requiring attention. BTW - Haddock? Puts me in mind of Tintin lol
It’s good to know I’m not just weird all on my own!!!
I was strong…I sat at the kitchen table working on my phonology project while two people ate haddock and baked potatoes right in front of me. It smelled SO GOOD. But I didn’t eat any.
I’m not getting the reference… LOL.
Robin, that is strong indeed. 
Don’t burn through all your ‘resistance power’ though, (if there is such a thing). I believe human beings were made to struggle, but that sounds like near-torture.
@OldDoug It helped that I was in a dialogue via text with one of my classmates about the project and I was problem-solving. I’ve been kind of helping my classmate here and there and the good thing about that is she asks me questions about how to do something I haven’t even started, so I have to get going and figure it out so I can tell her what I think… And then I actually start working on it sooner. This results bit is one part of the project and then we have to come up with our own experiment idea and design that is related to the study we did, but would extend the findings. I have no freaking clue what I’ll do about that. Must spend time thinking. And I also need to write a test for my undergrads…ahhhhhhh!!!
I think this is why I want to eat.
I’m also thinking about going to bed early…
Captain Haddock - don’t worry was a stupid comment on childhood reading
I dreamt last night that I ate in the morning because I had totally forgotten I was fasting, and then I was super mad at myself because not only had I planned to do a week, but I told all of you about it so I would be accountable. I knew I had to confess and you’d all be sympathetic, but still, not cool.
You’d think I’d be dreaming about screwing up my project or something related to school at this point. Haha.
After a weekend of normal eating - had my period and social events on so decided not to try fasting on top of everything - I am getting started again this morning - hoping to fast for 5-6 days before Christmas madness starts to take over
Rock on and good luck!
I’m about an hour from completing seven days. My mom keeps telling me about yummy things in the fridge (can’t you have a venison steak and cauliflower, at least?) and I have to decide if I’m going for two weeks or not. I wanted to go past seven. I do love how she makes the venison, though I’m thinking that there’s regular soy sauce in the marinade and I’m not sure I want to eat that. I’m also not sure whether I’m gonna go totally off the rails over holidays or if I’ll try to stick to keto and IF. That would make family dinner weird on Christmas. Just dry meat(maybe with butter), and maybe veggies if I prepare them (everyone in the family thinks corn is a vegetable). Whenever I tell my mom about how we could try another thickener for her gravy, she just tells me a tiny bit of flour won’t hurt me. I suppose I could cook something and see if anyone else will eat it… hahaha. But I might just eat all the things instead and then atone later.
I’m right there with you feeling your pain. I went to do a working bee yesterday and the mum of the house called me to check what I could eat. I said just plain meat and salad - nothing too fancy and don’t worry too much. She ran through the list - sausage roll, spring rolls, Caesar salad etc. I said no gluten or bread - just plain. So I got there yesterday and she served up a chicken salad full of vermicelli noodles! I ate it - was too much to explain. Oh well - she tried really hard.
Yikes!!!
We think we’re speaking plain English and then we find that someone completely misunderstood. I have students like that. I just finished correcting a bunch of dismal homeworks from my online class (they did worse than my class on campus… probably because I can’t make them look at anything I post) and uploading their final test. Now I’m just gonna worry about my own presentation in my seminar on Tuesday (I’m a TA, so I teach AND study).
Anyway, I may have hit a wall with this fast. I feel sick. The same thing happened last time I went 7 days…I was maybe 4 or 5 hours past a full week and I felt really nauseated and lightheaded. I hadn’t had salt that day and was really exerting myself in a hot bar (karaoke and dancing), and no matter how much I drank, I had that cotton mouth feeling. Anyway, I got so sick that I needed to eat, so I had a handful of almonds and went to bed.
I don’t feel as sick as that time, but I do feel pretty bad, and I’m about 7 hours past a full week. I had enough water and in had some pink salt like usual. I felt fine all day and this past week the worst I felt was hunger pangs. Now I feel kinda like throwing up. Yuck. So does my body just think a week is long enough? I am carrying around sooo much fuel and I kind of had a nebulous goal to eventually do a month starting in late January or February, but now I worry I can’t do it. 
It’s not gonna help that I’m only gonna sleep for four hours!!! And I’m not down to the weight I got down to on my first long fast. I think I must have gained it all back and then some because I’m about 2lbs more than that number yet.
So I may not make it through day 8. We’ll see…
Tuesday my professor is getting us pizza and I had to tell her I’m not likely to eat it but to PLEASE not worry about that.
I can’t wait till this semester is done…
What we are primarily doing (or rather what I am primarily doing) is learning to listen to the body and respond to it’s needs - eat, not eat, salt, rest, peace, exercise etc. keto and fasting are tools to enable that innate human skill which we’ve lost or never learned. It’s no shame to need to break the fast and enjoy the pleasure of eating again and it’s always there as an option in your tool bag when you are ready again, after Christmas, after new year, next year etc. well done on 7 + days.
I Started a three-day fast last night, 10DEC2017 at 1830. I may go 5 days depending on how I do with cold tolerance. Anytime I get over 48 hours I lose all tolerance to the cold and especially my fingers get chilly.
Absolutely, thank you!
So I went to bed anyway, and I have felt fine since I woke up. Resisted a ton of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Nicaraguan food at my non-university teaching job this afternoon. All the ESL students tried to feed me (the party was for the other teacher’s birthday). I resisted. It was grain and sugar city.
Maybe I’ll eat that leftover venison and cauliflower when I get home tonight, or maybe not.
Right now I’m hanging out while my night class takes a test, and then they are gone from my life, except for the grading. 
I’m close to 8 full days. I will be there by the time this class ends…
How are you?
Good luck! I got a little cold at the beginning of this one, but then I was okay.
Good work. Getting started is my biggest barrier - I had a coffee yesterday with pure cream in it (51%) as was feeling really hungry and it was distracting me from work. But today I’m fine and re-listened to a couple of Dr Rhonda Patrick’s interviews talking about benefits of fasting to remind myself why I am doing this. Fasting really does seem to be a muscle that is strengthened with use.
Day 8 done!!
Torn about whether to eat or not. Hungry, but I feel okay…
Hi Robin. I am on day 6 of my 2 week fast. Did you end up breaking your fast after 8 days?
I can relate to the addictive behavior (when it comes to food especially). It’s hard to find a balance.
Yeah I did. I can’t recall why now. Ugh. But I’m on day four of my first extended fast this year!