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Georgina's Raw Journey

Another short water fast . . .

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MysticTree
on 11-12-2012 at 01:56 AM (959 Views)
I'm coming to look forward to my weekly water fasts of 36 hours duration. It's seems a little odd to look forward to nothing but I suppose it's rather more than nothing in reality!

I am finding that this fasting once a week is really keeping me on raw much better than just doing raw was. Since The beginning of October I have had two small slip-ups but they have not caused a land-slide into bad eating habits. They have just been and then they are passed :)

I may fast for longer at winter solstice. I would like to do a longer fast again and we have almost two weeks off work for the holidays so I should be able to turn at least one week of that over to fasting and meditation.
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  1. Aleesha Sattva's Avatar
    What a gorgeous gift you are giving your Self.
  2. MysticTree's Avatar
    My self has been sorely tried of late but now I am pretty happy with where and how I am living and with whom I am living. I'm going to be even lovelier to my self soon by building a kiln and getting back into ceramics again :)
  3. Aleesha Sattva's Avatar
    oh that is a lovely thing to gift yourself!!!
  4. MysticTree's Avatar
    part of me wants to carry this fast on. However, I am on a course today and tomorrow and I have food to take with me. I may just do a further 12 hours and eat this evening instead of breaking this morning. I'll see what happens. I drank 4.5 litres water yesterday. That is a fair bit for me. I will have to get my fav bottled water to take with me - looks as though I'm sticking with it for now :)
  5. Aleesha Sattva's Avatar
    I hear you... at this moment I just don't want to stop fasting. I'm really enjoying how I feel.
  6. MysticTree's Avatar
    It feels right though the edge of a headache is starting - 4.5 litres water today so I shouldn't be dehydrated. Will probably break with melon tomorrow morning.
  7. Aleesha Sattva's Avatar
    melon juice or melon slices?
  8. MysticTree's Avatar
    I was thinking of small cubes as I can't juice while on the health and safety course but now time has moved on and I am considering another day of water. Slight concern that even after 4.5 litres of water that my pee is not as pale as I feel it should be and I'm wondering if I have a water infection but can't think why I should. it's not odourless but it's not offensive either! I had no trouble drinking 4.5 litres but not really wanting more at the moment. Will see how things are first thing tomorrow. Another thing I have noticed when I water fast is that I seem to run a slight temperature during the day. Not sure why. I would have expected to feel cold rather than warm. It might be that I actually do need to drink more because of the raised body temp. I was actually sweating today and I don't think it was too hot a room.
  9. MysticTree's Avatar
    Pee is fine. Perhaps it was just the different coloured porcelain at the college or maybe my kidneys were shifting stuff. I don't suppose sitting at a desk all day helped. When I'm at work I do get to walk around the building a fair bit.
  10. Aleesha Sattva's Avatar
    ah good to hear. at 4.5 litres I would expect your urine to be clear.


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