If you’ve never tried it before, I’ll tell you one thing about fasting you may not know: It gets easier every day.
It seems counter-intuitive, I know; the logical thing is to think about how much your hunger will increase each day. At the beginning of the day, I was hungry, but it faded. And I’m thrilled to report that none of the bothersome symptoms from the first day –headache, light-headedness, etc.—appeared.
Ingrid got me thinking when she left one of her usual wonderful comments: the sort of thought processes I experienced yesterday ARE my ‘normal’ kind of thought processes; rather than …read more

Already, I’m seeing much improvement during my second attempt.
The physical symptoms don’t seem as bad, or else they just don’t bother me as much. And this time, I have no doubt I can last the 3 days, maybe longer.
So, the things I’ve noticed. I usually experience the most hunger around early afternoon, and it fades by early evening. Light-headedness seems most obvious in the early evening, as does decline in mental acuity.
But again, the physical part really isn’t as bad! One thing that has been especially apparent today is the heightening of senses…I never noticed how beautiful a …read more

The best thing about science, what I’ve always loved, is the gross stuff. Given my passion, can you blame me?
Once, I was presented with a set of kid-themed books, fifteen volumes, of various stories and history lessons, etc. The last book, the glorious purple-colored wonder, was filled with just about every disease and ailment you could think of, complete with oozing sores and gooey things. I LOVED that book. Why it was in a children’s collection I don’t know (perhaps it was meant for the kid’s parents) but it provided hours of entertainment. Thus…gross stuff is neat.
So, proponents …read more

I’ve long been fascinated with nutritional science, and have tried just about every approach to eating there is, from Atkins (total dumbassery) to veganism (totally awesome.)
One thing I’ve never tried is fasting.
Fasting is being touted as a remedy for all sorts of bodily ills these days, and looking at the research, I believe it. There are all sorts of reasons, simple and complex, to give fasting a try, and I will be discussing these in the next few days. But for now—9 minutes before my fast officially begins–I wanted to make the announcement.
Because if I didn’t publicly announce it …read more