Before I started fasting, not 5:2 but fasting 4-6days straight water fasting once per month. Then I added 5:2 the remainder of the month.

I was in HELL. Pain wise and inflamation I was to the point where full doses and past doses of morphine would NOT do more than just make it bearable.

My Dr. threw every test at me and everything was coming back so good he couldn’t figure it out. But my hips, knees, lower back, shoulders, and elbows were in such extreme inflammation and pain I could hardly dress myself. Climbing a flight of stairs was a mobile horror story. The deep inner pain on my left side had me twisted to pull it to the right. Not a lot of fun

Isn’t normal that I knew. A naturopath, a true cutting edge one, from the the learn to breathe through your eyelids and soak in the dew from the fresh grass, who just happened to be an MD specializing in internal medicine dropped into my life while I was in Texas on a freebee trip to hunt wild pigs. I was in such sad shape I almost passed on the “free” all inclusive trip. Yeah bad shape when I seriously thought of passing up a 12K+ trip.

So I’m walking through a bunch of “health” food stores in San Antonio. What are the odds right no one can figure what’s going on I walk into a health food store that advertises a naturopath on site and get an internal medicine doc. So he say’s you’ve changed your diet. I didn’t tell him that. he told me. About 2 months now I’d guess. I hadn’t told him. you feel pretty much like sh** and I hadn’t told him that. He put me on a 5 day water fast. No meds, which scared the living H out of me. I held on to my BP and heart pills like gold for liberation day.

I was told no pills, to drink 1 ounce of water for each pound of weight per day, 1/3 of which was to be in the first 3 hours of the day. At mid-day I was to drink 1 cup of bone broth with one teaspoon of Tumeric with a grind of pepper, a 1.4 teaspoon of red pepper flake and one clove crushed fresh garlic.

Nothing about breathing through my eyelids or soaking up grass dew through my bare feet so I figured “what the h*** I’ve done dummer things.” and I was starting a three day fast that day so it got stretched a couple days.

My weight at the time was 221 Lbs which at 1 oz per pound came to just under 28 cups of water. 1/3 of which I drank in the first hour on awakening. A freaking half gallon of water. Ohhhhhh boy. I’d rather learnt to breath through my eye lids.

What are the odds right no one can figure what’s going on I walk into a health food store that advertises a naturopath on site and get an internal medicine doc. Still a bit confused how life goes round some times.

Anyhow. 5 days water and one cup bone broth, a teaspoon of Turmeric, a garlic clove, and bit of shake chili pepper flakes each day.

I did not urinate. I flooded the county. I was going every 10 minutes. Plus I had tremendous bowel movements. 3 -5 times a day. I broke out in a skin condition of pustules not pimples but more like a burst of blisters. I dabbed them with rubbing alcohol they’d dry within several hours and leave a dead ring of skin. That would be removed with the next dry rub.

Oh yeah forgot that no bathing. Just dry rubs with a loofah sponge and a badger brush. (Still have them and the dry bathing has become a part of what I do while fasting)

I had an ache in my lower left side that was bordering on “can I handle it or should I step in front of a bus” day three it just stopped. One second I was bent in and sideways right and the next I was sitting proud. Man it felt good. my hips and knees still hurt. But when I climbed the stairs from the 8th floor to the roof on 24 it was more a light burn than a pain that had been shooting out my eyeballs for days.

Day 4 I was out of bed had my swimsuit on and a towel around my neck and stopped dead. I didn’t “hurt” I was sore but I wasn’t hobbled. I drank my water and headed for the pool.

After than first fast I have never experienced the levels of pain that I was under. I do take Tumeric twice daily. Golden Tea and broth. Might be the difference. Also it’s less, less refined and overly process food, no refined sugar if I can help it but yeah I have brownie from a premix now and then too. So shoot me they taste great!

Exercise my doc and I came to a deal on that he won’t push it and I won’t cry. I then went to my step daughter who is a Canadian Body builder in top 10 in Alberta. Honey Dad needs this. SHORT, HARD, 8 reps max, 5 resistance and weight exercises that will KILL the body total time 20 minutes. i finish that set and I stagger out the door.

I’m not going to look like Mr. Universe I still look like the blob pretty much. My weight is in my gut. I have no ass. My thighs have wrinkles for weight lose, my forearms have gained an inch. Biceps 1.5. Neck up 1. Chest up 1.5. and I can now walk 8 Km in an hour on good trails or road edges. I’m puffing pretty good but I’m not halt or lame. I can walk 10Km non stop and I’m not sore. I know I can do 16kms and be ok. get up the next day and do it again.

The pain in general which was life altering isn’t. I have days I hurt but I’m not taking 6omg-120mg of morphine a day just to be mobile. Now it’s more like 400mg of Ibuprofen twice a day and not every day.

The gut/bowel issue has cleared itself, third 5 day fast and it never returned (yet).

My biggest concern seems to be that I feel so go I “deserve” dessert. Say what???

Hi:

‘Breath through your eyelids” was made famous by the movie Bull Durham. I guess it has made its way into medical lore. Or vice versa. Whatever.