Fasting tactics

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I thought this might help others out there when they decide to fast:

 

I already made a no-choice-otherwise, conclusive, stick-to-it

decision that _it's in my best interest_, and therefore my _only

choice acceptable to my best rational thinking_, not to eat for a

long time--at the very least one week, but more like until my

nueropathy disappears, and hopefully longer, ideally until I get

the " true hunger " sensation. I want to discuss how I can detect this

sensation with Atilla and others who've fasted to that point (if

there are any such individuals available to me to talk to).

 

So before I started fasting, I made it a point that during the fast I

would do my best to notice whenever I think for an extended time

about wanting to eat, and then switch my mind to something else. I

decided that whenever I do notice such a thought pattern, that I

would remind myself that I made a hard-line decision not to eat, that

eating wasn't in my best interest, that I basically had no choice but

to stick to H2O only. What makes it easiest to switch out of the " I

really want to eat (fill in the blank) " thought patterns, is the idea

that thinking that way isn't in my best interest either, that it

would only bring me torment/turmoil (remember what Bijan says?), that

it's a waste of time given my decision to keep fasting. Basically I

decided on another hard-line rule, that if I have the conscious

awareness that I'm doing it, to steer away from dwelling on the " I

really want to eat (whatever) " thought pattern. At the point of

observing/noticing what I'm doing, I make it my only acceptable

option to switch right away to another thought pattern, like

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