Dry Fasting Journey for Vitality, Spiritual Clarity and Weightloss
Hello all, I am a 26 year old female. Tomorrow I turn 27!
I apologize in advance for spelling errors as I am trying to get this out as quickly as possible to keep the momentum going. I am Canadian and grew up using Canadian-American keyboards and the one I’m currently uising is Croatian. The apostrophe symbol is replaced with a Ć and the Z and Y buttons are switched.The colon symbol is replaced with Č. There are more differences you will discover as you read this post.
My Overall Health Goals
Since last year I have wanted to give myself Abs for Christmas. This is a two part weight loss and resistance training goal as fat needs to be removed from the subcutaneous tissue of my midsection, and the muscles need to be built more in order for the abs to ‘Pop’. I also have a lot of saggy skin and stretch marks that I would love to autophage away! I am 5 feet 6 inches tall, a 26 year old woman, have quite a stocky build and weigh 155 pounds. My ideal weight is what I was in high school, which is 125 pounds. Even then I didn’t have abs--but nowadays I have way more bone density and muscle mass, so I suspect 125 pounds should reveal abs while helping me keep my boobs. Fingers crossed!)
Spiritual clarity wrt my journey on this planet, to bring focus back to what’s most important. I will keep a journal very close by, as well as my phone for recording audio and video notes. These may become a youtube video as I feel Dry fasting needs to become more visible on youtube.
healing unresolved sexual trauma
seeing my mission on the planet with greater clarity
making life feel easy and effortless, and the challenges more enjoyable
feeling supported by the universe at all times
remembering who I really am
having the mental fortitude, spiritual reserve, openess of heart, and physical strength to help others along the way
The vitality part has to do with REVERSING THE FOLLOWING
short sightedness (I believe from lazy lens muscles with calcifications and spiritual desire to not see the faults of myself and the world... I want to move beyond the ignorance is bliss paradigm that is holding me back)
a mysterious growth on the left lower side of my neck (just lateral to the sternocleidomastoid muscle, with a thumbs width between the lump and the clavicle... i think this is from stress and it may, MAY be an enlargement of a lymph node or worse, some very lateral part of the thyroid gland or parathyroid gland)
scars on my skin
(keloid scars (i.e. raised fibrous bumps) on my chin (from fainting during my second ever extended dry fast) knees (from a clumsy childhood) and on my knuckles (from a 2 year, very unfortunate, dabbling with bulimia during my late teen years...
acne scars on my nose (from deep subcutaneous pimples on the tip of my nose and deep cavernous pores in the crevices lateral to the alar part of the nose caused by old blackheads that are thankfully now gone since I went whole foods reducitarian, but have left these structural changes---these, literally no one consciously notices except for me---but they detract from the subconsciously-felt radiance that I endeavor to emit))
stretch marks from rapid weight gain on my thighs, breasts and copious marks below my belly button (happened in early university, in conjunction with waaaaaaaay overdoing protein supplements (even as high as 400g per day or higher) which I now know interacts with mTOR in a way which shuts down AUTOPHAGY (excessive dietary protein shuts down autophagy)
fatty liver disease. I suspect I have a fatty liver because
I over indulged over the course of my life on tasty candy supplements, tv dinners, and as an adult, on healthy food I cooked myself til the point that I would throw up a little bit--not self induced vomiting, mind you--from being so full.
Also, the fat on my abdomen bulges out a little more right below my right ribcage, showing that the viscera is enlarged a little more on that side
blocked liver duct or bile duct or pancreatic duct or malfunctioning pancreas (I have a terrible history of not chewing my food. This habit is very strongly implicated in developing pancreatic cancer. A friend in upper year medical school told me that if I chew my food down to a liquid before I swallow, I will NEVER develop pancreatic cancer. And as an adult I was lucky if I got three chews in before swallowing large chunks. I can swallow a whole quarter tomato without chewing. I developed the super power of swallowing anything when I had debilitating arthritis in high school and I had to swallow 12 horse-sized pills per day. I even developed the ability to swallow them all without water as I produce a LOT of saliva. Since I moved to Croatia I have also had loose stools (very very very mild diarrhea) that tend to be more green than brown, telling me that something is way off with my digestive apparatus or my gut flora.
deep unresolved pains that sporadically flare up in my spine from being in 2 car accidents, almost dying several times and whatnot.
not a disease, but I want all or almost all of my visceral fat GONE. Subcutaneous fat is okay as lymphatics of babies and children show is this is healthy. But my belly is huge and I know that the fat deep inside is obstructing optimal lymph flow and detoxification. The fatty lumps and dimples (aka margarine legs a la Ren and Stimpy, or more colloquially, cellulite) is a sign clearer-than-day of malfunctioning lymphatics.
Loss of sensation and temperature homeostasis in hands, feet, back of thighs and butt
Most probably, pressure points have developed over key points in the body where nerves cross over hard surfaces and are getting pinched. This pinching temporarily obstructs the action potential passageway leading to the feeling of numbness, but more serious is that this chronically will lead to death of the long projections of the nerves. Not good)
also I experimented too frivolously with Wim Hofs methods of cold exposure. I once did water running through extremely frigid waters off the East coast of lake Huron (Bruce Peninsula region) and f**ked up my toes. My toenails turned black a few days later, a week later they fell off, and I haven’t felt the same since)
also, I ran a half marathon with no training AND wearing new shoes... shoes that were too small and cut off circulation to my toes. To make matters worse, those shoes were toe shoes and so individual toes didn’t even have the luxury of compressing other toes to evenly distribute the tension of the fabric. In a sense, for 3 hours, each toe was individually strangled. My toes lose sensation and get ice cold very quickly now from the cold.
Finally, cold exposure to a frigid Canadian winter 4 years ago (2014 or 2015, not sure) and wearing thin sexy pants on valentines day frost damaged the nerves and superficial vasculature in my ass and the back of my thighs. These areas are now perpetually cold, there is little or no superficial flow to keep them body-temperature-warm in temperatures as high as room temperature. Same deal with cold fingers and feet at room temperature.
4 years of ballroom dancing 4 hours a week in shoes that are (supposed to be) 2 sized too small killed the nerves in my toes a bit I think
asthma
imperfect skin (I don’t suffer from acne since I moved to Croatia, but I WANT my skin to be baby soft. Plus, being our largest organ, the integumentary is a good sign of overall health or dis ease)
improving lost sense of taste and smell (things tasted and smelt a lot sharper when I was a kid).
The vitality part also encompasses PROMOTING THE FOLLOWING
Functional fitness goals... TO BE A FULLY EMBODIED HUMAN BEING!!
being able to jog 3 hours non stop (as if I was a persistence hunter... even though I’m almost vegetarian LOL) and sprint 30 minutes non stop (to outrun the zombies, ya know)
Completing an elite standard of 6 major calisthenics exercises (inspired by the book Convict Conditioning by coach Paul Wade) including
10 one-arm pull ups
100 hanging leg raises
10 one-arm pushups
10 stand-to-stand bridges
100 one legged squats
10 handstand pushups
being able to mountain hike all day (say, 12 hours non stop and 2 hour break and then 10 hours more) with NO PAIN the next day
100 cartwheels (just for fun)
being able to climb almost anything
being able to to front flips, back flips, side flips AND no-handed cartwheels (inspired by Anastasia of the Ringing Cedars Series of books by Vladamir Megre)
never getting sick ever again
Beauty goals
thicker, long beautiful hair that flows down to my waist (it could be thicker and healthier, and currently touches the tops of my shoulder blades)
develop and finely tune my hearing and vocal chord muscles to beautifully sing most songs---HAH! I guess that covers all my senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell)
shinier baby-soft skin
the coveted thigh gap (hehe!)
thicker shinier nails
redder lips
clear the dark spots on the whites of my eyes (from rubbing my eyes too much as a kid from allergies and from crying =P )
more feminine form (my waistline is not ... shall we say... obvious right now at all times XD LOL! Sure I have a nice waist when I’m standing tall and sucking-in my paunch, but the waist disappears as soon as I sit down and it all puddles out like 5 muffin tops at once =P)
Mental and emotional clarity to give the people around me my full attention and acknowledgement, the patience and love to engage in active listening, the compassion and discernment to share thoughtful advice when appropriate, and the inner fortitude to accomplish beautiful life goals (AKA inner beauty, people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way more important than physical beauty)
The self confidence to wear a bikini in public for the first time!!!!!
More About Me
The above goals provide a great overview of my medical history. To summarize, over the course of my life I experienced asthma (hospitalized twice in ICU), arthritis (sick kids hospital), acne, eczema and discovering underlying food allergy (gluten, milk proteins, peanuts) so that now I am off all corticosteroids and all related medications for treating asthma, arthritis, and eczema, neuropathy (still suffering intermittent tingling and numbness in my extremities), bulimia (I still binge eat, but no more throwing up), obesity (my heaviest weight was 190 pounds which lasted 1 summer before settling back down to 180 pounds. I lost about 10 pounds after a year of intermittent water fasting and I very quickly and recently lost 15 pounds with the help of dry fasting!!! So I’m a happy 155 pounder but I want to keep going), a brief period of urinary incontinence (my estrogen was mysteriously really low for a few months a few years ago. Estrogen allows you to have strong sphincters which control urination) and finally issues with staying warm and superficial circulation (still a problem). The mystery growth on my neck started this year in mid September (it was the size of a pea, and in 2 months has grown to become the size of a large grape although no one can notice it until I point it out, so it's still quite inconspicuous to the eye, but very obviously felt when groping the area).
In general, I am moderately fit. I bike to get wherever I need to (I’m comfortable with a 10 km daily commute, incl return trip), and I recently completed a 4 hour fasted 80 km bike ride of the countryside (pain free, high energy the whole time). I free climb whenever I get the chance, and take dancing, archery and horseback riding on a regular monthly basis. I love walking through nature and randomly stretch and do calisthenics throughout the day, whenever it comes to mind to do so (wall-assisted handstands, stand-to-stand bridges, pushups, yoga postures, pretending to be a cat...). However strong my legs and shoulders are, though, my arms are terribly weak. I presently cannot do a single pullup.
I’ve lived in Europe for 1 year now and have eaten almost exclusively organic, local, family farm fresh food prepared at home. For protein I have lots of cheese, walnuts, almonds, cashews, some pea and rice protein powders, chlorella and spirulina powders, and organic soy (hopefully GMO free, though I’ve heard that no soy these days is truly GMO free......) which is labelled GMO free. I eat an egg perhaps once a month and if I feel called to, and have some organ meat or muscle meat just as infrequently. When I eat meat, the volume is never larger than my thumb. I find gnawing on muscle fibres damn gross since I started IF and reducing my animal intake a year ago (for spiritual reasons). These changes were easy because open markets are more popular in this part of the world than where I grew up and went to school in Canada. The changes initially were inspired by Markus Rothkranz and Cara Brotman on youtube, as well as Corey Goode's weight loss and transformational journey as documented on Gaia TV's way-out-there show, Cosmic Disclosure seasons 1-10. Also inspired by my dad, who is a physician and fellow of the American Association of Anti Aging and Regenerative Medicine (A4M).
Personality wise... I’m an idealist. A dreamer. I usually go all-or-none. Ha, I’m the one who everyone hands the jar with the stubborn lid because I never give up. I’m like that with a lot of physical endeavors, hence my stocky build. I will definitely let myself suffer if there is a cause, even a trifling one. Very stubborn chick, I am! I love to horse around though, and have lots of laugh lines around my eyes. Ha, wrinkles are another thing I hope dry fasting will correct... I also secretly enjoy getting on peoples case about recycling, respecting mother earth, smoking, junk food, and healthy habits in general. So, I’m a bit bossy. I am in my first year of Medical school in an International program in Europe (after doing a bachelors in life science back home in Canada) and hope to have a full time job nagging people someday....LOL! Or at least, being a shining example of empowerment and letting my own health and habits speak for themselves.... that's the dream.
I am also crazy about details... which is a blessing and a curse. I stress myself out a lot, unfortunately. I also find that details are SEVERLY lacking in other people's blogs on dry fasting. A person will say they lost 25 pounds... but what was their starting weight? Did they gain some of it back? How active were they leading up the fast? People say they cured stuff... what specifically did they cure??? People say they experienced healing crises during their dry fast--what exactly did that entail?!?!? So many unanswered questions. I hope to leave no stone unturned in my own revealing story.
Oh, and my favourite fruit are persimmons--but only if the fruit is so ripe that the flesh is going translucent from completely liquifying on the inside with the skin firm and intact. Heh, sounds gross to some. For me, CAPITAL YUM!!
My Dry Fasting Experience So Far
The kick starter for this dry fast is a new friend, who actually dry fasts regularly. He does extended dry fasts for 3 days every week and otherwise intermittently dry fasts everyday. He keeps a jar of special salts (the solid ingredients for snake juice) with him where ever he goes. This dude is a farmer and instructor of natural (bare back) horseback riding(!!!!) near where I live. So he does LOTS of manual labour while dry fasting. Actually I should mention he doesn’t do true dry fasting--he will drink snake juice (= a hypertonic mix of water with iodized table salt, baking soda, pink salt, and mineral salts of potassium, calcium and magnesium) while dry fasting. You can look up more on Snake Dry Fasting on Cole's channel (but be warned--he swears like a sailor!)
I had been thinking of dry fasting for a while since I discovered it through a guy named Kevin on youtube (via his video Affirmations for Dry Fasting) but didn’t have the guts to try it out. He has lots of good videos about dry fasting and reminds me of how people imagine Jesus.
I have been practicing intermittent water fasting for a year (discovered through Markus Rothkrans, also on youtube) and my longest extended water fast was 4 days, which I did once and never repeated.
So I have attempted dry fasting twice so far
I dove from eating one night to a complete dry fast the next morning (including the natural dry fasting overnight) for 4 days, followed by a 1 day water fast. I lost 15 pounds!! IT was wicked. I lost about half of the cellulite on my thighs and ass, and also felt my joints get a boost (not so creaky, yo!).
I had 2 days of refeeding before diving into another dry fast. I got my period, and then while at work fainted for the first time in my life. I was standing still for 2 hours and all the blood pooled in my feet, and my brain started to shut down and then BOOM! Before I knew what happened to me, I was in a pool of my own blood spouting from my chin.
After the chin incident, I had to work on getting my blood count back up. Now I feel I’m ready, and will not let myself get so stressed out.
The plan
Since I have this Abs for Christmas idea locked in my mind, I will dry fast starting tomorrow (my birthday) and continue the fast for 12 days, in honour of the 12 months of the year. Because I have to work, I will spend the money I would have spent on food on Uber drivers to shuttle me from home to work. I will be as active as I have energy for, and spend all time outside of work at home or walking peacefully in nature. My apartment is a mess (usually I’m running around town with all my activities) and so I will spend the time I am not lying down cleaning house.
When the fast is over, I will break it with a 3 day refeeding window.
1st refeeding day--the fast will be broken with the miracle food, colostrum (aka first milk) from New Zealand cows. This is purchased from Soverign Labs. (Do you remember me mentioning loose stools earlier? The only thing that would ALWAYS produce PERFECT bowel movements is this stuff. Its also full of antibodies and inflammatory suppressors and is used to cure or treat many autoimmune diseases increases leaky gut). I can think of no better way of ending my dry fast that with first milk.
Refeeding day 2 and 3--minimal water intake with salts of magnesium, calcium, iodized salt (gotta get that iodine!) and baking soda to heal my liver and kidneys. Lots of raw fruit and juicy veggies. Everything will be blended into smoothie form with some added chlorella, spirulina and sea greens for optimal absorption of essential minerals and vitamins. Because I’m a little scared about my blood levels Ill also be adding natural sourced liquid iron and B complex supplement into the smoothies. I will also make sure to take my Vitamin D3/K2, omega 3, vitamin A and E supplements with some virgin Olive Oil from Istria added to the smoothies. So no animal products at ALL during refeeding, besides the colostrum (sourced from happy field-roaming cows).
Then I will hopefully dry fast again til Christmas, and water fast (with added electrolytes to the water) til New Years. New Year, new Me! And Abs for Christmas to boot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!
Note--after the last failed dry fast I have been eating pretty healthy. Intermittent fasting every other day, home cooked food (except for 3 days ago when I went to MacDonald’s for the first time in 2 years and ate french fries until I was going to explode!! I had literally 7 large fries. IT was EPIC, and never again. Yesterday I went on a 15 km hike while fasting, and actually lost 6 pounds while doing that. But I binged that night over 1 hour of sprouts, cabbage, tofu, and waaaay too much organic yogurt (one package of fermented soy, goats yogurt, and one tub of milk yogurt). If I hadn’t had those fries, I would have said that I eat 100% organic foods. Alas. Now I must wait a good long while before I can make that claim. Rats!
