The 92-hour water fast

I wanted to attempt a 5 day water fast, but started to feel a little off balance around 90 hours in, so broke at 92 hours with some vegetable broth and a handful of nuts. Strangely, I started to feel actual hunger around 88 hours, which isn’t meant to happen, but anyway.

This was my longest fast to date, and I was in heavy ketosis that even the urine strips picked up on by 60 hours. It was pretty easy going, the first 24 hours were nothing, a little irritable by 36 hours, but the rest went by without incident. I think my main problem was intense boredom, nothing I did seemed to keep me interested for long – every TV show seemed to drag, every game seemed pointless, every book seemed like word salad.

It’s strange to break a fast so late in the evening when I’d normally have just powered through until waking up the next day. Will be weighing in tomorrow. It has rapidly decreased my blood glucose but not to any normal level (6.7 mmol/l pre-meal, 9.5 directly post-meal). Update on vitals first thing tomorrow.