I'm walking way further than I could when I started. I was so sedentary only 2 weeks ago and had been for so long that the Health App that comes with my Samsung notified me I'd broken a walking record when I had to park at the far end of the grocery store parking lot.

Unfortunately the lower back pain that was challenging me at the beginning of the fast was a herniated disc and has now turned into painful sciatica. Very tempted to take muscle relaxants. But I did some proper stretches for acute sciatica, hot water bottle and rubbed some ozonated olive oil into my hip and back.  Going to enjoy a Chai green tea for some energy and then I'm going out for a few hours with friends (not food-centric avtivity). Inactivity will make the sciatica worse. I aim to treat it as aggressively as I can at home and then go to chiropractor If I need to.

I'm down 20lbs. Out of the detox stage for certain. I'm imagining some serious cleansing and scavenging of dead, dying, diseased and scarred tissue going on and I don't want to stop that process. It takes a good part of the fast just to get here!

 Anyone who writes that the hunger pangs pass - well, it never has for me. They come and go. I drink water when they come on. I try to not watch food commercials or read about food or fantasize about what I'll eat when I'm done. These thoughts can be so intrusive at times. But I reject them strenuously and busy myself with activity. I am battling an addiction. Maybe some do lose the hunger pangs but I'm certain I will have to exercise extraordinary  self control long after this fast is over. And I still am game!

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