So I just completed a 72 hour fast and I was wondering if some other froggies had any experience with it. I found I really wasn’t hungry the whole time it was just the headaches and dizziness. I did take Celtic sea salt and sodium bicarb and lots of water. Any suggestions to decrease the headaches and dizziness?
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I fasted for two weeks. It was not a problem at all. Hunger was not an issue after the first day. After that, it is not about will power the hunger is just gone. My biggest problem was the social connection we have with food. Family did not feel comfortable eating in front of me during dinner time even when I told them it was not a problem for me.
Why that duration? Seems borderline dangerous for high demand organs. Especially the brain, followed by the heart, liver and kidneys.
All I can tell you is I felt great during the entire fast. The first day was hard the second day was much better. By the third day hunger was no longer an issue. I have high blood pressure, During the fast my blood pressure was at 103 over 65. My guess is there is too much salt in my diet. About 4 days into the fast my clarity was amazing. It was easy to focus on whatever I wanted to focus on. In a way I was sad that I ended the fast. During the fast I felt alive in ways I can't explain. I read all the articles about how dangerous a long fast is. Now I am wondering if just maybe a long fast is a way to remove the poisons the cabal is always feeding us. that could be the reason that long fasting is taboo. Starting a fast is hard. The first day or sometimes two days are hard. The third day is usually good. The forth day and forward tends to be amazing. I find it interesting that we are discouraged from getting to that fourth day and beyond.
Wow!
Lucky you. I've read about others who had the same inexplicable experience. (Not just in terms of logic or common sense—it's even inexplicable in the context of survival of the fittest—the organism's hunger drive should steadily increase, not subside, to force the organism to obtain food before it starves to death.)
For me the misery of gnawing hunger began about 5-6 hours after my last meal and never let up, not one iota, for an entire week—instead growing stronger and more insistently torturous with every passing second. Literally all I could think about for 16-18 hours a day was hunger and food. Finally I could withstand it no longer and chowed down (it was super easy :), don't have a clue how I lasted that long.
Are you trying to develop gallstones? Because excessively long fasts are just leaving your bile to sludge up and crystalize in your gall bladder. 3 days is usually what's recommended as it's too short for things like that to start happening and also short enough your body won't start cannibalizing it's own muscle tissue for protein.