Closing in on hour 60. Today started harsh. Hungry when I woke up. And the hunger kind of stuck’d. I even tried mindfullness to change my focus. Nothing. Coffee plain did nothing. I looked for ways to get some extra salt and finally I found a set of rolling papers for, well you know what. I packed in a good teaspoon of salt, maybe teaspoon and a half and made it into a small ball. It was a little hard swallowing but I manged to get in done and started to get ready for the walk.
Clouded today too, nice breeze. So I filled up the “camel-back-china-clone” topped my thermo coffee mug and went for a walk. On the drive over it started to rain. Just barely, so I didn’t mind. Shorts, t-shirt and good shoes. I even remembered to take a fresh towel.
Walked to the same spot I did yesterday. Unpacked and relaxed. Had coffee and water but nothing to share with the birds. Almost felt bad, but hey they are wild and they do know where to to score real food. So maybe I shouldn’t interfere with nature? It got cold just pondering lakeside so I decided to turn around and head back to the car. Before I was done velcroin’ the chair to the china backpack it got wet. It almost darkened outside and I was soaked in seconds.
Ended with me walking much faster back to the car, it was hard but at least all the sweat was washed away form the pouring rain. 
The return was probably the longest and fastest walk I’ve done the past decade, if not more. And lord and behold it didn’t kill me. The last 5 minutes of so I was really winded but I didn’t slow down because of the rain.
On my way back from the lake all I could think of was the pace I kept during the return walk. My mind was focused on getting shelter in the car, the rain was so heavy I didn’t notice I was sweating and I didn’t even notice the heavy breathing. I just kept plowing on. I wasn’t running or even jogging, but for me, that was really quick walking.
Could it be that my body is working better already? I’ve only done 6 walks so for. 2 walks every fasting weekends. During the feasting weeks I’ve not done walking. Except I used stairs and I tried to park the car further away from entrance doors. That’s it.
I am not sure if the return walk was because the body is getting more used to walking now, or if this was some “survival mode response” to get away from the rain.
As I am writing this I also notice hunger is not an issue anymore. Don’t really know when the hunger disappeared, if it was during the drive or when I started to walk. What caused the hunger to go away? Was it the salt I down’d or the shift in mental focus, first just sitting around at home, really soaking in all feelings and not being able to stopp the hunger, or did I finally get distracted when I started to pack for the walk, or when I drove over to the lake?
This is my third fast, and I must say sleeping seems to have stabilized during them fasts. Even today as I woke up hungry, the hunger didn’t not cause me to wake up. I woke because the alarm clock went off.
I am thinking this fasting could be doable if not each and every weekend at least most weekends. Fasting free up a lot of time, it saves a lot of money, it costs nothing and from what we can read online it comes with a huge array of benefits. Think this is a keeper. Though I will not let it come in the way of my social life. If there are BBQ’s, gathering around great food, festivitas, birthdays etc I might only do 48 hours fast, or maybe start a day early or late or whatever I can do to not let the fast control me and my social life. But I will still stay Keto at least now when I got two reasons for keto and fasting.
You’re amazing…
