On my fourth day of fasting!
Yesterday, I ate: a couple tablespoons of ricotta, two bites of pizza, one bite of ground beef, a few brussel sprouts, a few bites of bok choy, some soy milk in my coffee. When you're slowly starving, food tastes delicious. I had a slice of clementine a couple days ago that filled my mouth with joy.
Hunger is my constant companion, but we are cool together. At any moment, I feel like I could eat, but I am not compelled to. It's pleasant. It's meditative. To have hunger and choose not to sate, not to let it drive me.
What I am lacking is taste experiences. I love food and eating and cooking. I am coping by liberally taking a bite of this or that. And drinking coffee, tea, and flavored seltzers. Even a little gin or vodka. Otherwise, I think the lack of eating would be boring.
Bodywise, I am doing ok. Walked a couple miles yesterday and more today. I ran errands and was active all morning. I got a lot of sleep last night and I have decent energy today. I am feeling slightly floaty.
I have had no weird emotions yet, but it's only been 4 days. That stuff didn't start last time until day 6 or so.
My family is amused that I'm doing this again. Resisting hunger is not natural, they say. They're right, but then again there's also this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-oldest-cure-in-the-world-review-no-first-helpings-11665091241
I don't know how long I will go, but so far I feel quite good and see no reason to stop.