Starting today, I will stop eating anything at all for 28 days.
Why am I doing this?
To Lose Weight
For Better Health
To Attain an Elevated State of Consciousness
To be more like Jesus, for Jesus Fasted for 40 days
I Ran Out Of Money. ✔
I took a Leap of Faith with Steemit, and it didn’t exactly turn out perfectly so far.
Excerpt from Leap of Faith :
I have come to the EU With no ticket home, limited amount of funds, not enough to last through the winter and far from enough from buying a ticket home.
However, I take full responsibility for the situation that I am in right now. I took a huge risk putting all my eggs in the Steemit basket without enough understanding of how Steemit works. I spent a lot of time focusing on creating content and posting, and did not understand how hard it is for your work to get seen without using an Upvote Service. I had so many posts that ended up making $0.10 or less.
I have been on Steemit full time for about 1 month now and have learned so much about the platform. I also realized the mistakes I made which did not allow me to make enough money from Steemit even though my content was good, I believe a lot of minnows face the same problem. Today I posted 2 other posts, one of them addressing the problem, and a proposal for the solution, so that hopefully other would have a better experience coming into Steemit of which I did not experience myself.
You can find them here:
Back to not eating.
Before taking this huge risk of going full time on Steemit all while in a foreign country with no other means of making money, I knew that if it came to it, and I ran out of money, I would do a fast as I am doing now. So my actions now are not really out of the blue, more like my “Get out of jail free card”.
Can’t I just borrow money from friends or family?
Yes I can. But that would completely defeat the purpose of what I am doing.
Excerpt from Leap of Faith :
I have always lived in extremity and I love it just that way.
So an extreme plan was concocted. A plan where I would put myself in a situation, such that I am backed in a corner, with limited time and resources.
To once and for all, put the pedal to the metal and forcefully awaken the infinite potential which exists within me, and each every one of us to grow at an explosive rate, to come out the other side, not just being able to survive, but to return home having attained significant results and massive personal growth.
I chose to take this risk. Nobody forced me to, nobody said I had to. I did so to back myself into a corner to make sure I achieve the results I expect of myself.
No excuses. This means I’d rather stop eating than to burden others because of a risk I took.
Even if that means to stop eating for a little while.
How can I just stop eating for 28 days? Won’t I suffer a lot or die?
Of course, I wouldn’t recommend anyone to just do this. You can’t just decide on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, to just say
Fuck it
I’m not eating anymore.
I have been preparing for a while now
Not exactly because I knew I would one day decide to go on a 28 day fast, but rather as a general means of eating healthy and healing my body from shitty life choices in the past, I have been on a “Ketogenic Diet” for the last 6 months for the most part.
A ketogenic diet, generally means eating mostly fats, some protein and very little carbohydrates.
The exact ratio of fat, protein and carbohydrates being a 60% : 30% : 10%.
Which usually means less than 20 grams of carbohydrates a day and generally no sugar at all. All this means for me, is that my body is fat-adapted as it is called, and is quite used to using fat as a main source of fuel for energy.
Even if that means stored fat on my body.
Join me on this ride
Starting today, I will be documenting my experience of this fast, how I feel, the changes I am seeing and also talking more about fasting in general.
So if this sounds entertaining to you, please tune in everyday to see how I am doing and I will ensure that it will be at the very least interesting, hopefully entertaining and a little educational time the next 28 days.
So here is what I am up to on day #1!
A smooth transition to ease into fasting and reduce pain
The state your body is in when you are fasting is the state known as ‘Ketosis’ which is what the ‘Ketogenic Diet’ does, in a state of Ketosis, your body releases Ketones(hence the name) which your body utilizes to use fat as a main source of fuel.
In a fasted state your body is in the deepest state of Ketosis achievable, quite sensibly.
By first and foremost already being fat-adapted, I will also be transitioning away from foods and instead consume a diet of 95% fat for the first 3 days of the fast. This allows a way smoother transition into a fasted state than if I were to just stop eating. This means way less hunger pangs and pain in general.
In additional preparation, I have been taking full doses of Orange Triad Multivitamins, which in case you don’t know, is no ordinary multivitamin, at full dose, it is giving you a full spectrum of micronutrients at usually 20 times your RDI(Recommended Daily Intake).
I’ve had Orange Triad around for awhile, but always refrain from taking full doses because it so god damn strong and I don’t want my body to get too used too reliant on it. This is the only multivitamin supplement that you can actually feel. In preparation for this long fast however, I went ahead and started full doses of Orange Triad for the 4th straight day today.
I will be consuming my diet of 95% fat for the first 3 days. Or when I run out of butter and coconut oil, whichever comes first.
In this period, starting today, the only thing I will consume is fat, in the form of butter and coconut oil, clear beef marrow bone broth and some supplements. In this way, my transition into shutting down my digestive tract completely will be much less painful than if I stop eating abruptly and go into a fast.
I’ve found the easiest way to get in that much fat into you diet is to blend it with something, which I learned first with Bulletproof Coffee but adapted it with other things as well as you will see.
This is what I had today :
In the morning, I had 4 things :
Bullet Proof Coffee which is Coffee, blended with Butter, Heavy Cream and MCT Oil
MCT Oil specifically helps with the body’s production of ketones and aids the process of getting into deep ketosis.
Clear Beef Marrow Bone Broth for fats, nutrients and increasing absorption of nutrients.
The Green Drink is ORAC Veggie Shake which is a crazy stack of more than 60 different types of veggies that are extremely good for you, with lemon juice for acidity
Lastly, 2 of my 6 Orange Triad Multivitamin Pills.
Extra shot of the first snow of winter and lovely day in general
After breakfast, the only thing I had was basically, 3 bowls of
Bulletproof Beef Marrow Bone Broth
Which is basically blending clear bone broth with butter or coconut oil and MCT Oil and have it like soup. 2 of the 3 times, I had 2 Orange Triad Pills as well.
As such, I end the day, consuming estimated 95% worth of fat and a lot and I mean ALOT of micronutrients both from ORAC Veggie Shake and Orange Triad. I am filling up my body’s micronutrient store to the maximum capabilities before completely halting all intake, on Wednesday, at which time, I will stop consuming all fats and supplements will allow my digestive tract to begin shutting down completely.
The only thing allowed after that is water and Himalayan Sea Salt which will provide me with essential minerals, and as salts are processed in the liver, not the stomach, will not reactivate my digestive tract.
You’re Crazy For Doing This
Actually, not at all, not eating for 28 days, even though I know how crazy that sounds to most people, but the truth is that people have been fasting since the beginning of time. To tell you that fasting as practice started at some specific point in history, is false. Fasting has existed as long as human beings have. Fasting has been practiced in basically every religion you have heard of like Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Mormonism.
Scrap that, even further back, from the time of Neanderthals, further back to when we were monkeys further back when.. You get the point. Fasting has been around,
Literally Forever
It is even fair to say that our ability to fast for extended periods of time that allowed us to survive till this point.
So to say that fasting is ‘crazy’ is rather, quite a new phenomenon, for fasting has been here long before us, since the beginning of time really, and the idea that fasting is considered a ‘crazy thing to do’, in the great span of all life and existence, is the really ‘crazy’ thing.
But please don’t get me wrong.
I don’t recommend anyone do what I am doing
It is pretty clear that I know what I am doing, I wouldn’t presume someone who doesn’t to be able to do it the way I do. However, I have a lot of ‘theoreticals’ and not a lot of experience. This is the first time I am fasting for this long a period of time.
If what I have shown today is of interest to you, please stay tuned and follow! There are interesting things I am planning to cover in this series as we move forward, and I am certain there will not be a dull moment when it comes partaking in the ancient practice that has existed since the beginning of time.
I am very excited to see what will come and I hope you join me on this journey!
Till tomorrow,
God Speed Brethren.
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