Using a half-teaspoon of unrefined Sea Salt in your water may help ease the excessive thirst. I find it does that for me- it may be electrolite/mineral cravings.

Sea salts help your body to retain the water you are taking in, and help your cells to expand/hydrate themselves. That's one of the keys of the 'water cure' that keeps getting forgotten, Sea Salt s porportionate to the water you're taking in. (the Water Cure is the protocol of drinking at least 1 liter water per day with 1/4-1/2 teaspoon Seasalt dissolved in it).

If your water is quite hard, it can have something to do with your thirst. My own water here where I live is hard enough to leave calcium/lime rings where it evaporates- that's more calcium than magnesium in the water. Some Epsom Salt footsoaking may help out. ;)

May I remind one and all that this is a water-fast support forum.
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Many thanks.

Chrisb1.

Hi, if you "always drink tea when" you are fasting, then you are not water fasting--and what you might be feeling falls out of the province of water fasting. You're into the terrain of deprivation. Adding a bit of gum (I hope, and not "gun"!)
just gets the digestive juices going... expecting some nourishment, and/or shutting down to save stores. This is putting the body under stress.

If you then are extremely thirsty, then maybe it's the body's many cries for water--might be a request to actually do a genuine water fast. That's nothing like the extremely low-calorie fasting you are currently doing.


best,

C