[Lucas]

Thanks everyone, especially for the concern. However, if I could live 350 months (I was 29 in October, so thats 350 exactly) with the semi-typical North American diet (been a vegetarian for almost 2 years), then 1 month without food is not going to kill me. Thats merely .0028% of my life without it.

Even though I don't eat meat I still was eating prepackaged things with preservatives and refined sugar and I have been unable to break the habit...so I asked myself, "How could I shift my paradigm of food and eating, and do it with overwhelming force?" This was my answer. There are also the added effects of weight loss, stomach shrinking as well as full body detoxification. I personally don't think 6 days is enough time to clear myself of 30 years worth of toxin build up, especially in my colon.

The human body is resilient and designed to be able to go many many days without food. We are a culture that is addicted to food, and we don't even realize it because we need food to live yes...but not so much. We answer our body's whim for food almost every time it asks without questioning the motives. Capitalism has affected our diet as well. Food companies try and increase their bottom lines by reducing the amount of real food in their products and because we were raised with it, a lot of times we don't see it. Even when we do, we still tend to eat things that aren't good for us. Or at least I did...not horrendous, but still bad.

Then there is the fact that many people, even healthy ones will eat as solace from feelings they have...if they feel down they eat. Sometimes I would eat a little just because I was bored. I am not tremendously obese, maybe 20lbs overweight, but to me this was part of my problem. By fasting I can face those emotional issues head on, as I am stripped of my comforting mechanism.

Not to mention the spiritual benefits many people claim to have after 21 days of fasting or more. I am interested to see if my connectedness to the Universe increases, and that can only hep me with mindset, goal achievement, clarity, intention-manifestation and others.

While there may be some medical downsides somewhere, I think the benefits far outweigh the risks. My friends and family say I am crazy, but they say that about every thing I do, and then when I get results they ask me how to do it, lol. Life was meant for risk taking. I am not scared and I AM doing this, so again I appreciate the concern, and will keep you all updated on my progress.


DAY 5: I got out of bed with no problems.

I had forgot to tell everyone last night that the enema I gave myself resulted in some of the darkest, foul smelling substance to ever come out of my body. Supposedly after 48 hours, your intestines are clean of the normal bowel movements, so this is probably stuff that is stuck to the intestinal wall. There was also some mucusy stuff floating in the bowl. If anything really strange comes out, I will take a picture, lolol