Hi, Wendy:
I have some trouble on occasion, but there is a definite "hump" while changing over and You have never gotten through this, as most people don't. It is a resolution or resignation, like when we get a flu or cold: "I'm going to be sick for a few days, but it will pass." Day4 is usually very good; the headache from end of day1 and part of day2 does not last. I have never fainted while fasting, but did a stupid thing once and ate some cookies before a workout (I had not planned on working out but several power guys talked me into it), thinking I could just use the energy. Wrong! I had "diet-induced hypoglycemia" and crashed--passed out then!
Fasting is water-only and I stick by that.
It is just resigning one's self to feeling sick for a few days--and then seeing what is on the other side of that--day4 and day5 energy comes back and by day6 or 7 no AS symptoms.
Problem with nausea day3-4 sometimes but that is fixed by doing water cleansings starting day2 and every other day for first week or so.
I fast, and recommend it to everyone with AS, but with the caveat that I am not a doctor and can only relate my own experiences--fasting may not be for every person, but every person (including myself) and every doctor will have tons of excuses for not fasting.
I sometimes just think that there are over a billion people who went without food this day, and many who go to bed hungry almost every night and I offer up my own minor inconvenience to "pay it forward," or something like that. And if I once worried that I might have too much money left over, so was able to send to Oxfam (at that time there was a terrible drought in Ethiopia).
We could begin a "Spring Cleaning" thread and perhaps donate our milk money to keep the site running, especially for when fasting really knocks out our AS!
HEALTH,
John
LOOOOOONG OVERDUE FOR A FAST!
