Fasting

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Well, it's been four full days, moving into the fifth, and I haven't

had a bowel movement since I started. Is that unusual? Normal?

Should I be taking laxative herbs?

By the way, when I said I lost 5 pounds in the first day, when I

weighed myself on the third day, I'd actually only lost 2 or 3 pounds

total. Not sure how I could have *gained* weight there, but that

seemed to be the case. I've lost some more now, but haven't been

paying too much attention to it. I still look pretty muscular, so I'm

not really worried about it.

I was hoping to see my abs flatten out, but no luck there yet.

Although I bet I have quite a bit of gas and junk in there. If I do

the yoga move I described to JC a few weeks ago where I twist at the

waist while laying down, I get some gas movement, and I also tried

massaging my abdomen, which induces quite a bit of action, even higher

up where I assume is my stomach. I wonder if (apparent) gas in the

stomach indicates an h. pylori infection?

On day one, I had a quart of coconut water, fermented, day two about a

pint plus maybe a cup, day three I had lots, five or six coconuts

worth, and day four I had only two coconuts worth, which is about

three cups. I've probably drank at *least* a gallon of water a day,

as I've been having enormous thirst. I can drink a pint of water, for

example, and then go outside and have to come back in within 15 or 20

minutes to drink some more.

My tongue continues to be white, and today I got a particularly bad

taste in my mouth, later in the day, which I think may have been the

distance from my morning coconut water... maybe relying more heavily

on water is a greater detox.

I haven't had any significant hunger, oddly, and sometimes feel full,

and the weakness seems to be improving, even without coffee and having

dumped the ginseng, although I'm definitely not up to normal par.

Science research is more difficult.

I'm thinking that I will go a day or two more with just water and some

coconut water, and then I will add in some VCO and a free amino acid

supplement. My thought is that for the second week I will have two

" meals " of two Tbsp VCO, a serving of the amino acid supplement, and a

glass of coconut water-- hopefully kefired, if I get my kefir packets

in.

Then after the second week, I will continue this meal process only I

will add a cup of bone broth, probably beef bones or ox tails. Within

that week, after a few days, I will probably add rare-cooked steak,

ghee, and raw sauerkraut. Ghee, since it's gut-healing, and rare

steak is probably the best meat to tolerate, and raw sauerkraut is

probably the easiest vegetable to tolerate. I'm thinking that meats

should be added in before vegetables, because of the fiber in the

veggies.

Any thoughts on my transition plan?

Chris