Saturday. (day 6)
Now it's Sunday. (day 7)
What if our whole universe was like stream error, could not process request and had to be reloaded? 🤔
So apparently I've had covid during a 2 hour crown prep during a fasting week. 😂😅 Thought it felt weird to be nauseated and so wiped out, now I know why. Usually have a surge of energy during some fasting or even just calorie restriction. I've done 48-72 hours of complete fasts in the past with only water and have done just fine (I wasn't exercising or going shopping or babysitting during those), and I think I shared somewhere that longer ago I'd wind up in medically anorectic fasting for up to 3 weeks at a time while I was extremely ill. And then in my 20s I ran around without eating all the time, got pretty skinny for a couple of years, but back then I was also an alcoholic. I drank myself pretty sick, wound up triggering into lupus after I nearly crashed my liver, lived in flareup for 9 months before I finally dragged into my first doctor and then never went back, got diagnosed almost immediately by another doctor 2 years later. Some people take many years to get diagnosed. Anyway, many years of handfuls of meds went by before I realized the meds themselves were killing me, and about a year before I started cleaning off all the meds I suffered a vaccination reaction to a flu shot (more than a decade before covid some of us were getting guillaume barr and other problems, I was never diagnosed with that but I super crippled up within weeks as my immune system crashed me into a nasty cytomegalovirus infection), so yeah, I know about fasting. My lupus flares completely stopped in 2014. This last couple of years has been like night and day, I'm finally nearly normal medically on paper, still living with some chronic spoonie issues, but still healing. And remember before all that happened there was the crazy car accident where I willed myself to walk again. (Some people pray for miracles. I AM a miracle. God never leaves us. Never forget that, no matter how black your world might seem.)
By the way, while the world was on covid lockdown, the entire world went throught a sun fast. Did you ever think of it that way? Some kinds of fasting are ~bad~. During the lockdowns I was diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency that has taken a couple of years to correct and heal from. Imagine nearly the entire world being commanded to withdraw from healing sunlight all at the same time. Now think about how they want to block the sun to prevent climate stuff, and how everyone spends most every day in buildings all day long because of education and jobs. No wonder we're all so easily sick.
Some fasting is medically necessary, like before surgeries, some is natural, like during grieving. Both my sisters were anorectic in high school, I was not, but I became medically anorectic later during illness. Over-fasting is too hard on your body, yes, because we need nutrients, but our society nowadays is more like a food glut, we feel like we're dying if we don't get immediate satiation from a soda pop or a hamburger or taco. (I've said for decades they could've taken down all those storm troopers with a diet of pastries.) Some people can't imagine having to work all day just to be able to finally eat. Some can't imagine missing a meal, much less a week of them. Fasting is like a natural detox, our bodies will 'clean house' while we fast. However, before you try it, if you are on loads of medications, you need to be become very aware that some of them spike your blood sugar, some of them can tilt your electrolytes out of balance, some of them hide symptoms that could become life threatening, so read a little bit about fasting before you plunge into it if you are older, infirm, and on lots of meds (or heavily drinking or doing streets drugs). Never stop meds cold turkey without studying how and letting your doctor know. I'm saying that because I don't want to be confusing. An example would be that I take a potassium med for blood pressure, which can affect sodium balance. Going on a fast and suddenly not getting my regular other potassium or salt that my body was used to can create a possible electrolyte problem on a med like that, especially in this weird heat we're having. Another example might be using hydralazine for blood pressure, which can spike glucose in some people. Those using meds to hold blood sugar down might not realize that while fasting, a short spike from a med doesn't mean to add more med for the blood sugar because you might crash into low blood sugar. Stuff like that. Know your meds.
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Right now I have made homemade salssssa and I feel way better. (Getting back to now, lol.) Pure homegrown raw veg, tomatoes and 2 kinds of peppers from the garden and celery and onion from the shopping, plus a can of tomato sauce. Oh, yeah, and I conked really hard after church, 2 1/2 hour nap helped a lot, too. I was pretty wiped out yesterday but we still did a full, busy day of more battleship, at least 2-3 hours of minecraft (remember, still had kiddo with us), herding chickens, and then driving her all the way home. I'm guessing we all picked up covid a week ago because right now we're scattered and several family members are getting it all at the same time. So far this round of covid or variation or whatever has been way easier than the last time I had it.
Two more weeks of fasting. I actually managed to completely skip 5 meals last week without substituting anything in for them, plus I've had absolutely no ice cream or any other cheat 'liquid'. The meals I've had have been pretty small and no snacking in between. Now that I know I've had covid through part it, maybe it was a good thing I wasn't fasting harder since I'm diabetic. I'm probably past the worst of it now, already getting back on track. By the way, if any of you ever do try a Daniel fast (21 days without meat or breads, no desserts, mostly just vegetables), salsa is a great way to get through some of it.
I just realized all the theme recoding I did the other day changed the font in my weather gadget, sweet.
Also, this draft is timestamped at 4:33. This has been a wild week of repeating numbers everywhere I look. Another person told me the same thing is happening to her, too.
I had lots more thoughts but I haven't been on game all day and I want to get my daily event stuff done. Good luck with fasting if you decide to try it, like I said, if you drink alcohol regularly or are on lots of medications, you need to consider starting out pretty easy if it's your first time.
I love you guys. 💗
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