Water Fasting Experiences

Recently on my facebook wall I posted an announcement that I was going to fast for one day. I received a lot of interest from my facebook friends and some people decided to fast too. During that day I felt awful but I managed to stay absent from any kinds of food.

The next day I resumed to eating normal food but reading more about this subject I was encouraged to take on this practice more seriously. Therefore I decided to fast for a longer period.

I have a number of days in my head, however I’m not sure if I will be able to achieve it since it’s my first fast and I don’t know how my body will react to it. If I experience too little energy or I start fainting, I will stop fasting.

I will now briefly describe the very first day that I decided to fast. That day I felt really horrible, I felt emotional, I had a bad headache and I felt really dizzy. I couldn’t do much because even a very small task would seem too much for me. I had a blurry vision and my tongue would get white very quickly (meaning I was shedding toxins from my body).

These are all normal symptoms of the first day of fasting. What happens is basically your body doesn’t get any external food therefore it starts using stored fat. In that fat there are toxins which you get from food, water and air.

When your body starts using this stored fat for energy, the toxins get released into the blood stream. That’s why the first day of fasting is usually horrible – the toxins make it so. However those toxins (depending on how toxic you are) are eliminated from your body within a few or more days.

The official first day of fasting

When after a few days I again started fasting, the symptoms were much lighter which probably means that I don’t have too many toxins in my body (but I don’t know if that’s really the case). I felt just a slight headache, I felt only a little bit dizzy and my emotions were as always – very even.

I thought about food a lot but I wasn’t physically very hungry. I would just get flashes in my mind of the food that would taste good, but this temptation was only mental. Like at home I have a whole bag of chocolate cookies that my friend gave me, and I know they taste great but this great taste doesn’t resonate with my body, only with my mind.

I have a metallic taste in my mouth and my tongue gets white very often, just like the first time I tried fasting. So I have to brush my teeth and tongue every hour.

I drank a lot of water today – 3 litres.

I went to bed at 11.30 PM and couldn’t sleep for around an hour.

Day 2

It’s 1PM now and I have been awake for a few hours. When I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth I looked at my tongue and it’s even whiter than yesterday. I try not to do much because my energy is still limited. I did some exercise but was soon out of energy. I have a very slight headache and I feel even less dizzy than yesterday. I feel slightly hungry but now I no longer make mental pictures of the food, so I don’t feel in any way tempted to eat.

Today I see auras very clearly, it’s probably because of the dizziness. Anywhere I look I see the energy fields of things which is quite cool because usually it takes time for me to see auras.

My mother came to visit me in London and brought lots of cakes and food that I like, which made me tempted to eat. However I still refused.

Then I read my mother’s aura and it was extremely easy to do. I strongly believe it’s because I don’t have any food to digest and, as I said before, because I feel dizzy. I can see several layers of aura which is really cool. I used to see only a thin strip of aura. The colors are bright and they fluctuate a lot. Very interesting!

Today I drank around 2 litres of water.

I tried to read before going to bed but I can’t focus on the meaning of a book. I know that when you fast for a long time your concentration increases, so I’m looking forward to that (if I CAN fast for a long time that is).

I went to bed at 12 AM but couldn’t sleep until 3.30 am because I kept getting heat and cold waves, I suffered from outbreaks of sweats and my head felt really strange, hard to describe. I also got vivid images with my eyes closed, similar to the ones I get when I meditate but faster changing and brighter. I even prayed that God would help me get through this night and I was even considering eating in the morning because I felt really weak – I haven’t felt that weak before.

I got really scared because of the way I felt that night but I believe that my sincere prayer helped me fall asleep.

Day 3

I woke up at 8.27 AM without any difficulty. I quickly got out of bed and felt energetic, there was no sign of a headache and I felt really happy.

My mother was still staying with me. As she doesn’t visit me often in the UK, she wanted to see the shopping centres in the area (she loves shopping). So we decided to go out and spend the entire day shopping. I didn’t know if I would have enough energy to do that, but judging for the way I felt in the morning, I decided to give it a go.

So we shopped (actually my mother was shopping, I was just dragging along) from 11 AM to 5 PM. My mother loves Indian food as much as I do, so I took her to my favourite Indian restaurant and she ordered an amazing dish with spicy rice, chickpeas, lamb and vegetable samosas as a starter. That dish smelled amazing but I didn’t feel any hunger inside, just mentally I knew how nice it would taste (except meat of course).

Another strange thing I noticed this day is that I get a lot of Freudian slips, that especially happened when I would feel very tired. Freudian slip means mixing the words you want to say with the thoughts you were thinking. For example, if you are thinking about a holiday abroad and talking to your friend about going to work, instead of saying “I’m going to work” you accidentally say “I’m going on holiday”. That’s very unusual for me, it almost never happens, so this was brought to my attention when it happened a few times during one day.

During our time out I had to sit down twice for around 5 minutes to get my energy back and from 4 PM I had to take a longer break, so we went to a cafe, my mother ordered coffee and we were sitting there for 30 minutes. Then we visited a few more shops during the last 30 minutes and went back home.

When we went home, I invited some other friends and because my mother is an excellent cook of Lithuanian dishes, we decided to prepare some Lithuanian dishes to my friends. So I was in the kitchen for around 1.30 hours around the food I really like, like nuts, potatoes, spices, soya milk, ginger etc. I felt slightly hungry when seeing all these foods, but I wasn’t tempted too much. My friends didn’t help with my decision to fast, saying that one bit of chocolate or fruit won’t interrupt with my fast!:)

Today I drank a bit less than 2 litres of water.

From 7 PM I felt exhausted so I had to take a 30-minute nap. After that I had slightly more energy and lasted till 11.30 PM after which I absolutely had to go to sleep. I had much less difficulty to sleep than last time, it took me about an hour to fall asleep.

Day 4

I woke up feeling really good – no headaches, no dizziness and plenty of energy. However even after a few hours after I woke up, when I get up too quickly I have a blurry vision and I get a slight pressure on my temples.

I booked a massage session for today but the massage therapist could hardly touch me because I would feel pain wherever she would apply any sort of pressure.

I got tired from 8 PM today which is an improvement from yesterday. I couldn’t fall asleep for 2 hours although there was nothing uncomfortable that kept me awake – I didn’t feel hungry and I didn’t feel any pains in my body.

Day 5

Today I woke up full of energy but that energy very quickly depleted. I went to have a shower, I brushed my hair, applied make up, dressed and I felt totally exhausted. My mother started to worry about me because my lips went very pale. She was wondering maybe I should stop fasting, maybe it’s a sign that my body cleansing is done. I had no idea if that’s the case so we decided to wait for a bit before making any kind of decision.

Although today I don’t feel well, the good thing about this total lack of energy is that I can easily distinguish which foods are good or bad for me. All I need to do is look at the food and my body reacts whether it’s good or harmful. For example, I look at bananas and my body kind of feels stronger and when I look at cakes, for example, I feel slightly sick.

My energy levels stayed very low all day and that started to scare me because I was almost too weak to walk up the stairs. So in the evening I started drinking fresh fruit juice with water. This quickly got my energy levels back and I felt increasingly better.

So I fasted for almost 5 days. On the 6th day I drank different kinds of juices and even a broccoli and chickpea soup. I felt amazing. It was a New Year’s day and I celebrated at my friend’s house in London. There were quite a few of us (my mother included) and they had all sorts of food there, but none of it was suitable for me.

I could only eat very light and healthy food like vegetable mashes, soups, fresh juices and so on. They mainly had meat snacks, alcohol, chips and other quite British foods. The host of the party told me that I would not walk out of his house if I don’t try at least one thing. So the least harmful thing I found was a light cheesecake. I ate some of it and the sugar in it gave me plenty of energy till 4 AM.

My friends were very surprised that they all got tired at around 1  AM but I could party much longer than them. Well that’s because I got sugar into my cleansed bloodstream. Now I know why children are so hyper-active when they eat sugar! I felt so happy, jumpy and I took part in every activity there was in the party (including boxing match on Nintendo Wii).

Although I ate sugary food on the New Year’s day, I will try to consume as little of it as possible from now on, including coffee, flour, white rice and other harmful stuff. That’s easier to do now because my body is cleansed and it knows what’s good for me. Today (I’m writing this update on the 2nd of January) I ate really healthy food and I have no cravings for the unhealthy stuff.

Conclusion

Although I managed to stay without food only for 5 days, that might be good enough for my body since I don’t have any illnesses. I will definitely fast again, maybe after 6 months or more, so that I would get rid of the toxins that will get into my body through the water, air and food (although as I said I will try to avoid toxic foods as much as possible anyway).

I now have much more energy than before the fast, my mood is always good and I feel at ease with myself. I lost some weight too, around 4 kg (8.8 pounds) so now I guess you can call me almost skinny.

The best thing about fasting was that now I don’t want to harm my body in any way and think twice before buying something to eat. I now much more prefer home-made food than something that was prepared with the stuff to extend the life of the food. I get strong reactions from my body if some food doesn’t suit me and I feel really good if I eat the right type of food. I also started eating in very small portions but quite often.

Now I realise that I was eating too much and that put an unnecessary pressure on my digestion. So now I will try to eat very slowly so that I can feel when I get full (it takes time for the food to reach the stomach).

And lastly, I won a major battle over my desires of food. In the past when I used to see something really tempting, like a chocolate cake, I would eat it even when I didn’t feel particularly hungry (or not hungry at all). But now, after all these days looking at and making great food but not eating it, I no longer have this issue. I don’t even have to control myself in any way because if I’m not hungry, I know I won’t be tempted to eat even the tastiest-looking food.

So these were my fasting experiences. I recommend fasting as a cure and a way to cleanse your body. But if you have some medical conditions, don’t go extreme – maybe juice fasting is a better way for you. It’s a tough practice with great rewards which eventually gives you more energy, understanding about the needs of your body and a stronger willpower.

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