Day 6

As anticipated day 6 was quite hard, being the first that I wasn't distracted by the routine of working for 8 hours of the day. It was made substanially more difficult when I had to give Evie (my daughter) a lift between her two jobs and she entered the car carrying a bag of chips (english version of fries to anyone trans-atlantic), the smell of chips always far outweighs the taste, fried potatoes doused in vinegar, it is almost designed to lure you into the shop and buy a bag, trappped in a car with it was purgatory. Almost immediately my stomach started to growl and the delicate mechanism that stops you feeling hungry when you are fasting was disrupted somehow, this set the tone for most of the day, hungry and craving, time for a test of will!

The other thing that threw me off balance by not sitting at my desk was water intake, I keep a pack of 500ml bottles there when I am at work so I have a ready supply of water to sip at at all times, today I was out and about a lot so had less ready access, although I tried to made sure that I drank enough I think I was probably a litre or two short of my desired target by days end.

As I type this up on the morning of day 7 (having been out late last night) I am feeling the effects of that as I have a pounding head and am trying to assuage that with a quick litre before I got out for my first fasting run, the theory is that this will be similar to running the last few miles of a marathon, when your glycogen levels have been depleted (what some people call the wall) I did manage a 45 minute walk yesterday with no real problems, but running at any pace will be a different matter.

Oh and the good news of the day was that I needed to go and buy a new pair of jeans, ok primarily because the old pair were tatty, but I needed to go down a waist size, and even those are a loose fit :)

Weight 184.2
BP 113/76
Pulse 65