I just got through the first two days of a juice fast last night and had to stop. I probably could have kept going but I couldn't think of anything except cheese. I was DYING for cheese. The worst part was that I was at work. My concentration was shot and my job is heavy into the concentration (I'm the technical half of a partnership that owns a cybercafé.). I could barely function at my post. I was supposed to be performing routine server maintenance and watching the counter. Ordinarily, neither of those tasks is very taxing at all, but on the fast I couldn't handle either of them, let alone both at once. I couldn't even calculate change in my head (something I can usually do without pause). I was quite surprised by this.
And, also weird, was that I was high for most of the time. The high was like a cross between opium and pot (I quit opiates three years ago and haven't used pot in two months (not that there's anything wrong with weed, I just got tired of paying for it)). It was very odd. As soon as I ate that string cheese log, hunger returned with a vengeance and I had a hard time restraining myself. My concentration fully returned in a half-hour, and the weakness in my legs was gone.
I may try doing another fast again, but I'm going to make sure that my second and third day don't involve work. I'll probably do it in about a month, when my schedule changes so that I have two days off in a row, as I can handle the first day of the fast just fine at work.
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