Re: water fast 48 day
I have posted this before 3 or 4 times. If you want to fast for any length of time, and do it with ease, the best way is to set it up beforehand by doing Self Hypnosis.
Through SH you can reprogram your sub Conscious mind to have your body do what ever you want it to. The Sub Concious mind is the "Mind of the Body". While in a SH trance, which is a tranquil, peaceful state where your SM is, it will accept all your suggestions, and visualizations of what you want to do, and make them come to pass.
If you try these things with the every day conscious mind you have all the distractions that you talk about, and many more everyday distractions.
SH is not hard. Day dreaming is a form of hypnosis. You learn an induction technique to get into the trance, do some relaxation techiques to get to the place where the SC is receptive to your sugestions, and visualizations, and you suggest that on a certain day you will start a X number of days water fast. You might even visualize your self in your minds eye doing it, and how your going to benefit from it, and what your goals are, etc. Do this routine every day once or twice before, and during the fast.
I have been doing SH since the 60's, and have done many water fasts by using SH, and I can tell you that's it's easy to learn, and the fasts will be easy. When my kids were still home, I would take the family out to dinner and drink water while they ate, and never waivered in my commitment to finish the fast. It didn't bother me to see others eating.
I just recently finished a home study course (CD's) on SH to see if I could learn more about it. It's a little pricey ($125), but there is 16 audio CD's, and a wealth of information. 4 of the CD's are called "Apothecary" that have specific get well themes like Depression, Mood enhancement, Strengthening you Immune system, etc. If you don't want to get that involved, there are books, and other audio programs that you can find on the net.
Here's the Home study course, as well as others. http://tinyurl.com/3cbuml
Good Luck whatever you do.