Day 3

Day three is slowly ending and I still feel great physically! I’m full of energy, thus I had a nice and productive day. The only little shift that I noticed compared to the other two days, is that small hunger pains where omnipresent during the course of the day. My solution for those was to simply drink more liquids and wait them out.

In my opinion, hunger and hunger pains manifest themselves as two different animals. Hunger is actually a pleasurable feeling of lightness versus hungerpains, which can literally be a little painfull, and make someone really uneasy. During my first fast, my best remedy against hunger pains was any hot beverage, especially green tea. I’ve been drinking at least one cup of tea per day since the beginning of the fast, usually at night or right before going to sleep, as it relaxes me, and gives me a warm cozy feeling, as tacky as it sounds.

Another thing that I notice is that when I go a couple of hours without drinking fresh juice, I get weird thougts that enter my mind. Usually it’s strange pessimistic ideas about this project, and if there is any food stimuli around (images, tv, actual food) I do get a mental craving for it. I know that it’s a mental craving since my body is fine most of the time, as long as I keep it hydrated.

To counter all my negative thoughts, I reframed my fasting experiment in my mind. Instead of giving myself the option of quitting or stopping at any moment, I imagined a scenario where I’m in a waiting room and I have no choice but to wait out a specific amount of time to achieve my goal.

I can have the worst thoughts, the worst hunger pains, or whatever my body is able to come up with, but my only way out of it is to wait… In the past I used to have a system called ‘thinking forward’, but I will write more on that tomorrow.

Just before sitting down to write my daily log I went to weigh myself, (I know that weighing myself everyday is probably not the best idea) and my weight is at 274 pounds, which is esentially the same as yesterday. The heat wave is stronger than ever, so I’m drinking water like there is no tomorrow, so that might explain the static weight…

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