10-Day Fast To Begin New Life

by Lauray
(California)

Hi, I have just moved back to California and am in day 2 (just passed the 24-hour mark) of what i aim to be a ten-day fast supporting my new life here.

I have posted here before and my issues with fasting are that I am not really emotionally strong enough to get through times when i "just need comfort" or "just can't stand it" -- whatever "it" may be at the time.

Usually the lack of purpose, "boredom," loneliness, "bleakness," for which there seems to be no other "solution" than food..

I have done some work on connecting to my life purpose and want to go further with exploring the exact thinking that makes me break a fast . the fears etc. -- in which others all too often participate. The lack of support is a BIG factor.

Often I feel that I could succeed in my goal fast of several days' length if only i could just get a jump-start from a supportive influence that just said to me , "just do it!" and rewarded me for doing it somehow, with a sense of entering a new life, making an accomplishment... and which let me feel that the fast would form part of a new routine or way of life or pattern, and not be a wasted effort. -- a drop in a sea of helplessness and failure.

My reasons for fasting are to heal from depression/anxiety and to get in a state where not overeating is easy and not a white-knuckle struggle. And where I am committed to a non-triggering diet (for me, sprouted items - living food only , and of course raw.

And non-starchy and rather bitter-tasting. And with at least a little green leaf. The totally fresh, non-triggering diet, which I naturally stop eating when i have had enough, when eating is no longer OK with me)

Please reply with encouragement to fast!

Lauray

PLEASE WRITE me at lcathf@gmail.com! thanks!