The upside is that the low level headache has gone and I feel slightly more human again from that point of view.
This morning when I woke up I had nagging arthritis style pains in my hands, fingers and ankles, these eased through the day but have come back with a vengance again now and I anticipate will be worse again tomorrow morning, but are not unexpected and certainly nothing to worry about, my assumption is that by day 7 or so these aches will have passed and I will be feeling much more myself again.
I am certainly slipping into ketosis as all the signs are there, furred tongue, a taste in the back of my throat that indicates that my breath is probably horrible (apologies to anyone who comes close enough to verify that) and the acid test, or rather alkali, has been peeing on a keto-stix which promptly went dark pink.
Ketosis will be a useful measure of when my body has burnt all of it's body fat (and thus is in dangerous territory). I don't imagine that I will get to the stage in this fast of 0% fat and nor is that my aim, but it is comforting to know that I can keep an eye via ketone's of what my body is using for fuel, if I'm giving off ketone's then I'm burning fat and all is well, if I'm not then something somewhere has messed up and I need to start eating again.
I'll be honest and report that today I have felt sluggish, lethargic and far from getting to the stage of mental accuity I mentioned previously, I am finding my thought processes ponderous and somewhat tunnelled, in so far that, I am fine as I work down one train of thought, but if something or someone interrupts me, it takes a few moments to get back down the tunnel and start on a different route. I don't remember this from my last fast, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen, my hope is that like most other symptoms it will pass fairly shortly and all will be well.
I went to yoga class tonight for 90 minutes, which certainly helped with focus and I definitely felt more energised from it, but I did have to take it easy a couple of times and sit out of exercises, I could possibly have pushed on and tried harder but I am trying to be sensible rather than bullish and let my body ease into this new state of being.
Whilst I don't really have a problem riding out the symptoms and I don't really have a problem with hunger during fasting, I really do miss eating, I miss the social aspect of sitting with my family and sharing a meal, the pleasure of masticating and the flavours of different and favourite foods. I know it is early into the fast to start thinking of such things but I have already started to plan meals I will have when the fast is done, I'm too much of a foodie to stop thinking about food as well as stopping eating it!
No weights and measures today, I don't want to get totally caught up in that aspect of it, although I will continue to monitor weight and blood pressure for any anomalies!
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