I really enjoyed reading your post. You are doing great and I'm sure in part its due to eating all that healthy nutritious food before the fast.
"Once i feel this strong of a craving (and not before), it helps me to take in the aromas of food. So i opened up a can of sardines and poured some mixed nuts and a little piece of the sardines into small containers and enjoyed whiffing them for about a half hour ."
How funny you are Mighty LOL. I love this, sardines and mixed nuts. Tell me, could you actually smell the nuts over the almost overpowering smell of the sardines? I wouldn't think you could ha ha.
Anyway I know you'll reach your goal, I wish you smooth sailing from here on.
Willow
EDIT: I bet next time you go hiking you'll take a bottle of water huh? Glad you made it out of the woods.