Hello everyone,

I've been fasting on and off for a while now, Water Fasting and dry fasting, the latter being for religious reasons and I found that dry fasting is so much easier than Water Fasting since water seems to trigger my appetite. I don't know if anyone can relate to this but it does apply to me.
I have never dry fasted for longer than 17 hours max, and broke it every time with water and a meal.
I would like to hear of people's personal success stories on Water Fasting and on dry fasting if it's not too personal and also how much weight (fat) have you lost?
As of right now I'm 13 hours into a dry fast and I planned on going for another 4 hours but if I can I will go longer (maybe a full day or 36 hours).
I'm right now doing a dry-wet fast, if that makes sense. Meaning I am fasting, however I will be alternating between water and dry fasts. I plan to do this for about 14 days or so. Most of the days will be a water fast.
To be perfectly honest here, I am afraid of the detox symptoms that'll undoubtedly kick in. I've had four operations done on my lower back to get rid of an abcess, and once I did a Water Fast my legs would start hurting and I stopped because it freaked me out. As I learned later, most toxins accumulate in the legs so it was nothing to be worried about and that when you feel a little discomfort in a limb or a body part that's where the body is healing itself.
How do overcome my fear and carry on? I am so tempted to just quit whenever I feel the slightest discomfort, however fasting is a very important thing to me. My body is telling me that now is the right time to pull this off, but my mind keeps postponing and I'm torn.
I hope to find some inspiration on here from any of you guys.
Please save your negativity and your well meant "worries, fears, warnings" - I don't want your fears projected on me so recycle it some healthy way.
I have done my homework and studying so I know what I'm doing and I want to do it.
On a side note, I am looking forward to the weight (fat) loss as I have 15-20 pounds too much on my body and I cannot wait to get rid of it. ( No intention of "losing" weight since I don't want to "find" it again ;) )
How did you guys do it, what was the worst thing that's happened and how'd you overcome it and push through it, what kept you going?
Thank you.