day 39...feelin fine!!!

i am so happy,excited and thankful to God right now. :)!!!!!

in 24 hours it will have been just over 40 days since the last time ive eatin or drank anything besides water. since it take so many hours for the fasting process to begin,and we fast everynight while we sleep,i dont consider my fast to have started until the next morning so instead of breaking my fast tomorrow night im going to be breaking it on saterday morning.

since i found this forum on day 35 ive been on such a rollercoaster physically. overall ive felt pretty good during this fast besides the occasional nasua but i started having really bad,sharp stomach pains,which is ultimately the reason found this website and am now quite fond of it. especially all the wonderful,kind and supportive people on this forum aswell. my stomach pain final subsided about a day later. then day 36 i had the worst case of heartburn in my life. it was the last day i worked during this fast and i think i pushed myself very hard and maybe thats what caused it. my entire esophagus burned,it hurt to swallow burp and talk,take deep breaths and i had chest pain. at first i thought i was going to have a heart attack but i decided before i either broke my fast or went to a doc that id do some research online and it wasnt long before i came to the conclusion that it was really bad acid reflux. which id never had. so i decided to get alot of rest until im done my fast and everything went back to normal within 24 hours.

last night i felt ok but had a really bad runny nose. and today i felt really,really good. then all of a sudden a few hours ago i started feeling nasua agien. its not super intense,like i could throw up but am not going too. my stomach is very weak though. i hate it. im not used to this feeling and cant wait to get back to normal and start excercising. i figure ill give myself about a week of rest(besides work.i go back tuesday) before i start excercise. one thing ive noticed during this fast,and i do believe if i chose to continue the Lord would sustian me and give me the strength i needed but i decided to fast for 40 days and im planning on sticking to it, but every morning when i got up for work i would feel tired,weak and alot of time naseous. and i would pray for strength and guidance and usually once i got to work and got movin, my nasua almost always went away and i was full of enegy. i would find places to rest on my two 15min breaks and 30min lunch and sometimes nap at lunch. but somedays i didnt rest at all until i got home. i also prayed for and trusted that the Lord wouldnt give me more work/labor than i could handle and up until last week i had more work than ive had in well over a year!! but i embraced it and just did what i could. i knew i could handle it and the Lord has shown we that im capable of doind far beyond what i ever thought. but i dont think i could have done it with out Him and prayer at all.

i feel like getting moving and doing something has continually helped me forget about the sick,nasua feeling so im going to run a few errands first thing in the morning. i was going to earlier but decided to continue to rest. but ill be hitting a few store and stocking up on things im planning on breaking my fast with.

so how am i planning on breaking my fast you ask? well,one thing im NOT going to be breaking my fast with is (GASP) any juice at all!! lol. since i tend to try to drink mostly only water anyway,even when im not fasting, i will be breaking my fast with food!!! fruits and veggies mostly.
day one i plan on breaking my fast with a bite or two of just plain matzah bread. then ill wait see how i feel. then when i feel up to it,im not quite sure what fruit will be first to hit my palate but im thinkin its gonna be watermelon!!! so ill take a bite and see how i feel and go from there. im gonna have plenty of raw fruits and veggies to snack on. i dont plan on overdoing it/overstuffing myself. ill do my best to excercise self conrol and wait a few hours inbetween feedings. also i plan on snacking on popcorn(no butter or salt...yet) and mixed nuts all day!! not alot,just a almond here and a pistachio there. but im very excited about the popcorn.i read of a doctor at one of those fasting clinics and he says he always makes his patients break thier fast with popcorn because it kind works as a broom and give the digestive tack one last good sweep. im also very much looking forward to eating black cherries and prunes and carrots and ect.,ect.,ect..lol. but i still tend to play things by ear. the first night i may attemt to make one of my "heaven wraps" which is hummus,avacodo,lettuce,tomato and onion drizzled with honey on a wheat wrap. ill eat what i can and put the rest in the fridge for later.
day two ill probably try alittle but of yogurt with my fruit and that with help reintoduce good bacterias into my stomach that help us digest.but other than that ill porbably repeat that for a day or two. making adjustments where i see fit. over the course of the week im going to slowley reintoduce things to my body. small glass of milk here,a bite of beef jerky there. and by next weekend i plan on making a delightful beefstew with a london broil and lots of veggies in my crockpot.from there anything goes!!! now i know many of you dont agree with my methods. the way i see it, juicing isnt so natural and is wasteful in many ways. if you were fasting AGIANST your will and someone handed you an apple...i believe you would eat the apple. interesting enough i have two stories id like to share.

this one is a guy who did two fasts in 1970-71. he fasted 28 days evangelizing in LA and broke his fast with fried chicken. then he took a full size cross,carried his cross from LA to washington DC by foot and then fasted in front of the whitehouse evangelizing for 40 days. he broke his fast with a roast beef sandwhich. he says both times he felt great afterwards

http://www.blessitt.com/?q=fortydayfast


this other one is a woman i found on youtube. she did three consecutive 40day fasts. she fasted for 40days then broke her fast for a week.did another 40day fast and broke it for a week. then she agien did one more 40 day fast. so documents everydays of all three fasts with a short video. she says she broke her third fast with 4 ounces of steak and felt great. then later that night had an 8 ounce steak.

http://www.youtube.com/user/aaroncohen


check em out. ill update on how the breaking of my fast/refeeding goes. i havent thrown up during this or any of my fasts and hopefully everything goes well with breaking the fast. God willing ill have a smooth transition