Fast in Progress - Day 9

by Jenny
(Pennsylvania)

So, I'm in the midst of what I'm hoping will be a 3 week fast, my longest yet. 4 weeks if things are going well.

I've fasted for 2 weeks twice before...and I have a terrible habit of not being careful and gaining back the weight I've lost :(. Nobody's fault by my own though.

So, this time around, I started at 198 lbs (I'm a female of course, 27 years old, 5'5", so no good :\). My ultimate target weight is 125, so 73 lbs to lose.

As of this morning, Tue Nov. 3, I weighed in at 183, so 15 lbs lost so far, not a bad start, hoping to be 175 by the end of my fasting week, Monday (Nov. 8).

Do-able I think as long as I stay active. I was completely lazy Mon and Tue so my weight loss went down to 1 lb a day.

Now, primary purpose of my post is to talk about symptoms and maybe get some advice. I know due to the cleansing there will most def be bad days.

For a couple days at the end of the first week I had headaches, the past couple days some lower back pain here and there, but what's really killing me right now is the heartburn I've been feeling.

That's one symptom I haven't read about. Anyone else experience that? Every now and then I'm hit with a pretty killer pang of it. To the point that I've been tempted to take heartburn relief meds...but I'm thinking meds after 9 days of no food is probably not a good plan, any thoughts on that?

Right now I'm just trying to tough it out and hope it passes, this is something I've experienced everytime I've fasted semi-long term. Again, anyone else ever get that?

And oh man, days 7 and 8 were AWFUL emotionally. I was so insanely frustrated with the psychological cravings it was desperately hard not to cave and eat some junk food.

I've been terribly bitchy to a guy I've been seeing, lol, very short tempered, almost crying out of frustration and moodiness.

I hung in there, sat quietly every now and then throughout the day to just calm myself and think positive thoughts, and even prayed a bit, though

I'm not an overly religious person. But today, day 9, I seem to have found my second wind, the cravings more or less gone, and a much more upbeat mood.

So those of you going through that, hang in there! Don't give in, it gets easier, and you'll feel much better about yourself for having stayed strong!

That's enough out of me for now though, if I've seen people have read this post and have any interest in how things are going, I'll post back Monday with my weigh in results for week 2.

Happy fasting!