Completion of three-day fast
I completed my three day fast last Thursday, and, as I recall from last time, the third day was much easier than the second. My main mistake was not carrying a huge bottle of water around with me the entire time. I drank tea several times during the first two days and it made me feel better each time, but I think the issue may have just been dehydration in general. Having something in the belly to keep the stomach from grumbling helped as well.
In general, I believe that I was in much worse condition when I started this fast. I’ve been drinking a lot of sugary drinks lately, and was probably closer to ketosis that I have been recently, so the problems I had those first two days were likely accountable to that factor.
Breaking my fast in the evening this time seems like it may have been a better for me in some respects, but I think I may try to time it for breakfast the next fast since it’s probably easier to finish the last few hours while sleeping instead of going the entire day and trying to kill those last few hours while preparing for the first meal in three days. In my case it was Pad Thai, dumplings and rolls, followed by everything I could get my hands on for the following hours. I’ve been scaling back into my time-restricted fasting schedule, and am going back on my regular 11AM-8PM schedule starting now.
100 days alcohol-free
Thursday was also 100 days alcohol-free for me, which is probably something that hasn’t happened since I was a teenager. I don’t know if this means I’m a teetotaler now or what. At this point it’s not about drinking so much as it is about spending my money on alcohol. It’s not like I threw out my liquor and wine — I still have a couple unopened bottles sitting on the hutch that I’m saving, but at this point the habit of not drinking has its own momentum. And although I haven’t thought about it too much, being on caffeine and staying up late working on code or whatever is a much better feeling the next morning than staying up drinking.