Water Fast

I am preparing myself to do a 28-day water fast, both for physical and spiritual cleansing. As my body detoxes, hopefully so will my mind. I will do meditation and try to find peace within myself. I hope to come out of this a much improved person, happier and more confident in myself. I know this will be a very difficult fast, as the water fast is the hardest one to do anyway, let alone for that period of time. I have done hours of research on how to safely do this and I will provide links below to some very informative sites. I hope my willpower will stay with me through this, because I hear it can be quite difficult.

The issue I'm facing is trying to eat up a few things in my fridge that I bought this week that won't keep for a month. I really wanted to start tomorrow, but I will have to throw a lot of things away if I do that, and I do not like being wasteful. I can give some of the vegetables to my coworkers and eat the remaining two cups of yogurt and the last few apples tomorrow. I should be able to push off my skim milk on a coworker too. She can eat it in her cereal and I won't have to pour it all down the drain. I tried eating up the cottage cheese and found I physically could not stomach it all. My stomach has shrunk from restricting. I may end up throwing the remainder in the container away, because I don't think freezing cottage cheese is a good idea.

Anyway, here are some helpful links about fasting if any of you are curious to learn more:

http://proanabell.webs.com/nutritionfastingandexerc.htm

http://www.allaboutfasting.com/index.html

http://www.fitnessthroughfasting.com/index.html

I promise I will get back to commenting soon. I know I have a lot to catch up on. Thanks for all the support lovelies! xoxo

Update:

Ok this is what I had to eat throughout the day. I may have indulged a bit, knowing that I’ll be starting my fast tomorrow…

1 cup Athenos Greek strained nonfat strawberry yogurt (100)
1/6 Pizza Hut medium thin crust veggie lover (240)
½ breadstick (75)
10 oz Pepsi (125)
1 box island pineapple jell-o (320)
2 lemon wedges (4)

And then I managed to cram all of this down my throat so I wouldn’t have to throw it away:

1 ½ cups low fat (1%) cottage cheese (240)
5 ½ cups of fat free milk (440)
1 5 oz red apple (74)
2 plain Greek yogurts (160)
1,778 calories/89% RDI

I feel disgusting, and ill. Ugh. If you’ve ever eaten plain Greek yogurt then you know it’s f-ing disgusting, and I just crammed two cups down in a row. *shudder* Now I’m off to take a few laxatives to get all this shit out, so I can be shiny and clean for my fast. Then I’m going to Walmart to buy some distilled water, since that is supposedly the best for a water fast. Tomorrow morning I will give my remaining avocados, tomatoes, apples, and lemons to my coworkers, because if they sit in my fridge for a month they will certainly go bad. Wish me luck!