Just completed 40 days

Just completed my 40 day fast, this was my 4th extended fast and to be honest I've found it the hardest of all. The last 10 days seemed to drag on forever.

The worst thing is the taste in the mouth which gets worse the deeper you get into the fast making the water incredibly hard to get down.

I also tried something different on this fast which I don't recommend. That is, doing some days dry, consuming no water at all. I feel this gets much harder toward the end of a fast. I did a total of 6 days dry, managing only 48 hours in one go. It seems the taste in the mouth intensifies during periods of dry fasting. I read a lot about dry fasting, I wish there was more studies on dry fasting to actually conclusively prove whether it is more effective at healing than water fasting.

I assume I would quite easily be able to do a stand alone dry fast of 4-5 days but doing it during a Water Fast is a different story.

I'm not doing it for weight loss, but for those interested I lost an average of 1.5lbs a day overall.

My tongue is still coated, thus I feel I haven't fully cleaned my body but fingers crossed.

Hunger has been quite persistent throughout the fast and I've felt I could have broken it many times over due to hunger.