{"id":3463,"date":"2018-12-02T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T14:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2018-12-02T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T14:44:06","slug":"diary-of-a-7-day-fast-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/?p=3463","title":{"rendered":"Diary of a 7 Day Fast – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 1 – Sunday, December 2, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

I woke up this morning determined to do this 7 day fast.\u00a0 I have tried before and failed.\u00a0 I believe I lasted 3 days some years ago when I tried.\u00a0 Key part, I was just trying.\u00a0 From what I have read, days 1 through 3 are the easiest.\u00a0 I did wake up thinking about food.\u00a0 My mind is playing tricks on me.\u00a0 This will be more mental than anything else.\u00a0 My biggest weakness are my thoughts.<\/p>\n

why<\/em>\u00a0fasting?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>People do this for many different reasons.\u00a0 Religion, health, spiritual, and cleansing are a number of reasons.\u00a0 I have done 1 day fasts many times.\u00a0 It is easy to do a 1 day fast.\u00a0 I am eating the next day right?\u00a0 haha\u00a0 I have researched the health aspects.\u00a0 Researchers have discovered that fasting can help the auto immune system, helps hypertension, helps in fighting acute illnesses, and chronic health issues.\u00a0 Fasting is not a cure but we have such a horrible Western Diet, I can’t see the harm in giving this a shot.<\/p>\n

current health?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>I am in good health.\u00a0 Blood pressure is fine, no major aches or pains, no arthritis, skin is good, teeth and gums are fine, and bowel movements are regular.\u00a0 I sleep well and dream a ton.\u00a0 Urine flow is shaky, but this I feel is an age thing and my consumption of caffeine does not help the prostrate at all.<\/p>\n

preparing?<\/em>\u00a0 I spent the last two weeks weening myself off caffeine.\u00a0 I had the usual headaches as I went cold turkey.\u00a0 I did have coffee yesterday and the day before.\u00a0 First time in over a week.\u00a0 Stomach upset all day.\u00a0 I ate pretty healthy the last month.\u00a0 A Western Diet is not the healthiest.\u00a0 But I don’t over indulge.\u00a0 No alcohol for over a week.\u00a0 Moderate activity level.<\/p>\n

why now?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>I want to improve my mental toughness.\u00a0 It is weak.\u00a0 I am eager to improve my energy levels and see what this will do to my creativity and spiritual health.<\/p>\n

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Unfinished Charcoal and Watercolor piece I started on Day 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Weight:\u00a0<\/em> 199.6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 1 – Sunday, December 2, 2018 I woke up this morning determined to do this 7 day fast.\u00a0 I have tried before and failed.\u00a0 I believe I lasted 3 days some years ago when I tried.\u00a0 Key part, I was just trying.\u00a0 From what I have read, days 1 through 3 are the easiest.\u00a0Continue reading “Diary of a 7 Day Fast – Day 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65103359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"Day 1 - 7 Day Fast","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[563,1],"tags":[23160911,5348,111917,669514116,12710,53178,3128,7831,569214237,649073357,1212,43523,1871590,26271,1591376,2746,4522,669514119],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized","tag-7-day-fast","tag-abstract","tag-abstract-art","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-charcoal","tag-diary","tag-drawing","tag-drew-frederic","tag-drew-frederic-art","tag-energy","tag-fasting","tag-gay-artist","tag-journey","tag-maine-artist","tag-sketches","tag-spiritual","tag-thoughts","post_format-post-format-gallery","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6puAb-TR","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65103359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewfrederic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}