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It's over!

I broke my fast with a grape and a handful of blueberries. They tasted fine, but not any better than normal. I'm a little disappointed. I hoped that food would taste like ambrosia (the mythical one, not the marshmallowy one). Ah well.

"Get in my belly!"

Weight: 170.5

Last night

Just one more night to get through and it's all over. Tomorrow morning, I eat!

Watched "Whale Rider" with Heidi tonight. I liked it quite a bit. I wonder how the Maori feel about it. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for something a little different.

Weight: 171

Morning, Day 9

Sorry for the ultra-brief post yesterday night. Both Heidi and I were extremely tired and weak and I just didn't have the energy to do more than I did. I'm still tired and weak this morning. I'm very very glad it's the last day. I'm really sick of the whole process.

I watched The Return of the King extended edition finally yesterday. Man, was it long.
Here's my super-brief review of the 3 extended editions:
1) The Fellowship of the Ring - Still a very solid and well done movie. I still love it, although I'm getting a little tired of it, since I've seen it so many times now.
2) The Two Towers - The extended edition was way way better than the theatrical version. I really liked it a lot. Perhaps the best of the three.
3) The Return of the King - If it weren't for the overlong drawn out ending, this would have been great. As it is, the long sequence at the Grey Havens kind of ruins the rest of it. I wish they had done the scouring the shire, instead of the boring stuff at the end. In the end, the weakest of the three.

Weight: 171.5

ps Happy birthday Mom!

Evening, day 8

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Morning, Day 8

As the smell of bacon wafts up from below, I sit on the couch with my daughter watching "Madeline" and submitting my post for the morning. There's really not much to report this morning. I'm tired and didn't get enough sleep, but what's new? It finally feels like summer: the sun is out and it woke me up way too early. I'm hoping to watch 'Return of the King' today since I didn't get to it yesterday (too much 'Pirates').

Weight: 173.5

Night, day 7

Just got back from gamenight. It was a good time. We played Blokus, Shadows over Camelot (good guys won), several games of 'Werewolf' and one odd game that Hager tried to explain to us but no one could really figure out. I'm feeling pretty high energy, but my insides are also kind of cramping up, which is quite uncomfortable. I hope to sleep in late tomorrow. Only 2 days and a night left!

Weight; 175.5 (!) (I drank a lot of water today?)

Morning, Day 7

I slept in a little bit today, until almost 8. That's a nice change. I did have a dream that I ate 15 chocolate chip cookies last night. :) I'm feeling weak but ok this morning. Pretty typical at this point. I'm hoping to watch The Return of the King extended edition this morning. It's once again gray and cool this morning. Hopefully it will clear up later.

Weight: 175

Evening, day 6

I'm really tired tonight. I took a walk with Heidi after "dinner" (i.e. after Frances went to bed) and it was really hard. I ended up very short of breath by the end of it.

All in all, however, it wasn't a bad day. The sun finally came out and I enjoyed an hour reading in the backyard.

3 days to go!

Weight: 175.5

Morning, Day 6

It's day 6 already. Time is starting to move briskly again, which is nice. I feel fine this morning. Once again the weather looks gray and cool which isn't ideal but it's certainly better than blazing hot! No distinct plans for today except to play some more Pirates! and take some walks.

Weight: 176

Evening, day 5

A pretty good day today. I took a walk, I went out and bought a video game (Sid Meier's Pirates..I highly recommend it) and played it for a few hours. Watched some TV with Heidi. The hardest part at this point is definitely not the food cravings, but just the endurance of it all. I really miss meals and food. Meals have this way of punctuating the day which is missing when they're not there. The whole ritual of eating is something I've gotten accustomed to over the years. :)

I've been spending a lot of time playing around with a new java web framework called 'click' (http://click.sourceforge.net) which seems interesting, but I can't tell how well it would work in a real life application. I like a lot of it's concepts and the way it's built for the most part and it's luckily a lot more simple that struts so I could modify it if there were something I really didn't like too much.

5 days down, 4 more to go. Over half way there!

Weight: 178

Morning, Day 5

Kind of tired this morning. I probably need some more potassium. Other than that, time marches on. Almost to the half-way point. All of this makes me seriously wonder how much food the human body actually needs on a daily basis...

Weight: 179.5

Evening, day 4

Feeling great. Now that my potassium levels are up, I'm actually doing very well. Heidi and I took two walks today and I mowed the lawn. I also sat in the sun in the backyard and read comic books. It's almost starting to feel like vacation!

Oddly enough, my calves are very sore. Heidi says hers are too. Very odd.

Weight: 180

Electrolytes

It's becoming very clear that my electrolytes are kind of messed up. Heidi told me to take more potassium and eat some salt. I did and I'm feel much much better. Much less shaky. More energetic. Generally much happier and relaxed. Hopefully the blood results will confirm that tomorrow and give us some more specific information about what I need to be taking to keep my body happy.

Morning, Day 4

Very very weak and shaky this morning. I slept pretty well last night. Hopefully I'll feel better once I get some water in me. My brain is still quite clear, despite not having eaten anything for over 3 days.

Weight: 180.5

Evening, day 3

Feeling pretty good at the moment. If I go up and down stairs, I start breathing pretty hard, but if I stay put I'm ok. Heidi and I took a walk this afternoon which was good but hard. Going up hill was quite a challenge. I'm heading to bed early tonight. 3 days down, 6 to go!

Weight: 182.5

Food cravings

Mom asked me to post about what foods I'm craving. So, here it is: salty greasy food. Yummy melted cheese on nachos with pork sausage on them. Bacon and sausages. That's about it. I don't crave veggies at all, or even fruit. Lentil soup would be great, too.

Anyone who might be reading this, please feel free to post comments so that I know you're reading. Mom said people are reading it and talking to her about it, but I had no idea. So comment!!!

Morning, Day 3

Very weak and shaky this morning. My heart feels like it's working very hard, with my pulse somewhat elevated. It made me uncomfortable and unable to sleep very well through most of the night. Aside from that, I feel fine. No headaches to speak of and really not much obvious hunger. My brain feels pretty clear and mostly unaffected.

Didn't post last night because I felt pretty lousy and tired. Yesterday I watched three movies: The Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition), The Score and Meet the Fockers. I haven't made any progress on catching up on my magazine or comic book backlog.

Weight: 182

Morning, Day 2

I feel very good. I'm a little shaky, but my energy is excellent and I feel relaxed and rested. A little hungry, but not that different from an average Saturday morning. I had a good night sleep (about 9 hours). So far, so good.

Weight: 184

Evening, Day 1

I feel tired and weak, but not too bad. I've had intermittant waves of shakiness. I'm also pretty cranky. Nothing extraordinary to report at this time. Tomorrow is supposed to be the bad day. No headaches today, which is a pleasant surprise! Watched a movie: "Lone Star" with Heidi. It's a very good movie. I would recommend it highly, even if you're not starving yourself.

Weight: 187

Afternoon, Day 1

Very hungry. I've had a few spells of low blood sugar, but nothing terrible. It's good to be home from work so I don't have to think any more. I can definitely tell that thinking burns calories. I think this is probably the longest time in my memory that I've gone without food. Scary, really.

Morning Day 1

Nothing exceptional to report. Didn't get a lot of sleep last night, as usual for a Thursday night. Probably about 5 hours of quality sleep. A little hungry, but nothing out of the ordinary at this point.

Weight: 189.5

Fasting Day 0

It's the night before the fast begins. I guess it's already begun, since I'm not eating anything right now or before I go to bed. My last meal: chips and pico de gallo from Ole Ole. Played some games at Greg's and came home. It's just about midnight and I'm heading to bed. I feel fine :)

Tomorrow at work I should be fine until sometime after lunch. My prediction: I get a massive headache about 3:00. Let's hope that's not true.

Oh..for the record, at Greg's we played Game of Thrones (Erich won with Lannister, I did not with Baratheon) and a quick game of Clans, which Erich won using the "kill all clans" strategy (helped by Greg's sleepiness and not understanding the game). Perry was also present.

Weight: 190 lbs