Fasting for Hunger - Day 12

Today was a good day for donations! Thanks to those who shared, tweeted/retweeted, and donated!

Today has been full of symptoms! Today's side effects:

• Hiccups - I've had them at least half a dozen times today. I absolutely love getting the hiccups! I like to open my mouth so the hiccups echo and sound much worse than they really are.
• Lightheadedness - It seems I let myself get too dehydrated again. I've had about two and a half litres of water today, and I'll try to drink even more tomorrow.
• Fatigue - I stayed home from work today because I was just too tired to leave the house. People usually sleep much less when fasting, but I am finding that eight hours just isn't enough for me during this fast! I'll sleep as much as my body wants this weekend, and may allow for more sleep next week. When fasting, having tired days and not-so-tired days is an unpredictable business.
• Obsessing over food - I want to make it very clear that I am not at all hungry. I do, however, really miss eating! I have grown so tired of the taste of water and tea and I just want to taste things! I allowed myself a cheat today and had a little bit of squash in my water (I normally can't stand squash, but it was a very welcome change!)

While lounging about today, I watched loads of videos and read loads of blogs by people who are fasting. It gets really tough to watch/read because they are mostly doing it for reasons I just can't sympathise with. I have mentioned that I have experience with shorter fasts, but I just wanted to clarify that I do not fast for religious/spiritual reasons, weight loss, or because I think my body/chakras/energy needs to be detoxified. Fasting becomes like a deep meditation for me, an inner-stillness (I mean that in the most non-Newagey way possible.)

I am now going to climb into bed and make Robin read Terry Pratchett to me (he does the best Granny Weatherwax voice!) I will sleep as long as I can stand!

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