Heya heya

I'm in! i also started today, and my goal at the moment is 21 days!!! A coffee has been calling me all morning and reading your little message 'saying your about to start has helped me say no :)
Hope we can stay in touch love the journal idea

Where do you live? Im in Brisbane in Australia... so we might have a little time difference but i'm sure we can still help each other along!

sending strength
lilly

I'm in for Round 2 of a water fast. Did 8 days my first time, took 3 weeks off and ready to go again!

Hello, Victoria,

I wrote this to you also on your xanga site... I have started a Water Fast today, Thursday, too. I have concluded to try to motivate myself on a spiritual basis. I ma having real trouble in my life because I can't give or receive love, and I know that fasting helps me get secure enough to open up to others. I stilll find that I am not motivated, even knowing how lonely my life is; but I REALLY know that fasting is the right way to go. I have had SO much therapy and have it 4 to 6 times per week now, still; and I just conclude that only fasting will heal my emotional illness (it has in the past, for as long as I stayed detoxed -- a very short while but enough to validate my belief in fasting... I really -- based on 1970's documented cures of schizophrenics with 30 day Water Fasts (see Allan Cott MD)-- know that the major factor in neurological/emotional illness is intestinal illness -- curable by fasting, and pretty much, as far as i can tell, only by fasting. I am so impatient to get well. I know it will take many fasts. I have made progress TOWARD fasting by really cleaning up my diet, on a permanent basis. But I have not yet succeeded in fasting for say a week at a time regularly, which I will have to do at least for a therapeutic period of time, to become well. It is scary to think how thin I will get, but I also know I will become WELL. Right now I am living a nightmare life of sluggishness and constant compulsion and obsession to eat food. I recently read that 70% of the world eats fewer than 10 meals per week -- and I realize dismay the incredibly sick addiction to food that Americans have; and how our addiction persuades us we need all this food; and how toxic and bacterially infected we all are. It does dismay me. I am helpless under a mound of food. I am a food addict. I MUST FAST.

I have set a goal for myself of 5 days. I am telling myself that I am fasting so that I can begin to behave decently toward other people, instead of being trapped in all the addict's personality flaws: dishonesty, unwillingness to work, using others.

I know, however, that I can't shame myself into fasting



One thing is that I REALLY HAVE TO BECOME DEEPLY CONVINCED THAT FASTING IS THE RIGHT THING FOR ME -- THE MORALLY CORRECT CHOICE. This might sustain me in my fast if I really got secure in that belief.



I am about to be 40 years old,a nd my life has been a terrible loneliness. I hope to become a writer and actress and have shows; but for now I am simply incapacitated by food and the Depression in which it imprisons me. I want out. I want to fast. I want support and conviction and motivation and belief, to fast.