Brother Simpleton

Weight: 133 lb * Body Fat: 15.7% * Cycled: 16 km * Ran: 1 km

Yesterday’s energy surge has hardly left any traces. I cycled the kids to the school today on my tandem bike, and got back exhausted. However, my body fat suddenly went down a notch (from 14mm to 12mm pinched skin). It’s a rather important notch, since (according to their chart) it moves me from the “normal” to the “ideal” category. We’ll see if it holds.

Today is the last day of my fast, and it makes me a little sad. It’s obvious that I could have achieved more by fasting more, but I think what I’ve done is quite good for the first time.

Just to complete the record: almost all cracks on fingers disappeared, the pain in the liver (?) area continues intermittently, and I got another bowels movement today.

I feel no hunger at all these days, so tomorrow’s return to food will be a completely conscious decision. Breaking fast is an important and delicate process, since it is so easy to do harm by overfeeding oneself.

I decided to break the fast with juices, just as I entered it. Tomorrow I will be drinking fresh tomato juice, half diluted with water. I am going to start with very small portions (a quarter of a cup every hour) and see how it goes. If it goes well, sometime during the day after tomorrow I’ll switch to undiluted juices, and in two days will probably sample some more solid food.

Weight: 134 lb * Body Fat: 17.5% * Cycled: 40 km

Today started like the other days. Throughout the day I had intermittent dull pain in the stomach, both the right top part (where, indeed, the liver and the gallbladder are located) and the left top part (what is located there?).

In the middle of the day, something rather unexpected happened: I felt a sudden burst of energy. I was feeling like my normal self: I could go down the hall fast, and really concentrate on what other people are saying. Then it went down somewhat, but I still biked home quite faster than before, and got less tired. Very curious to see what happens tomorrow.

And finally, I had some bowel movements tonight, after not eating fro 8 days! Something interesting is going on inside my body…

Weight: 134 lb * Body Fat: 17.5% * Cycled: 33 km * Ran: 1 km

It’s interesting how uneventful my fasting is. I cycled to work again, and in took a big part of my energy again. Sat at work, was slow but (I hope) adequate. In general, I think that it’s a big mistake to work while fasting. The work suffers, and it distracts your mind and body from properly concentrating on the body cleansing. Next time I do a long fast I’ll definitely take a vacation.

After work I cycled back, again at a a pathetically slow pace, and then later on ran a little bit with my wife. I notices that I completely lost the ability to force my body to do something it doesn’t want to, but other people can help. I can’t run alone these days.

All my symptoms are broadly the same as the last few days. The skin on the fingers is slightly better, I think. The cracks on the heel are worse. I decided not to treat them (or anything else, for that matter) until after the fast. Interestingly, I just noticed that my nails stopped growing! Very convenient.

No signals from the colon, so I guess the enema might have helped.