Just to tell you, I am proud to get along with the fasting and I am lucky to, that Anna is going with it, no problems at all. That’s what one need to make the fasting period successful.

1. Weight:    morning: 111kg (244,5p)      evening: 111kg 244,5(p)

2. Last night: slept well

3. Ingestion:
Early Morning: water
Late Morning: tea, water
Lunchtime: water , lemon
Afternoon: water and FLEET
Evening : juice, water

4. Excretion: today is another FLEET day, no further comments needed, right ?
5. Exercise – Rest: wonderful 6.30am beach walk, 1 hour,
6. Personal hygiene: as usual, some hands of cold water in the face, after beach walk a cold shower and brush, after the FLEET ceremony hot washing and cleaning shower, with creaming skin afterwards
7. Sensibility: very sensitive,

A few days ago, a bit of a dizzy morning at the beach.

My opinion.

Slowly becomes all of my information some kind of a repeating and usual matter, right ? This is the way we want it. It is a full week of fasting today and life became a new value, a new daily routine. If this is a normal feeling, then its right.

We are so spoiled here, only 3 minutes to one of the best beaches on Uruguayan Gold Coast. In summertime it is crowded during the day, but early morning mostly a few fisherman only, that’s it. Just wonderful to walk along. The challenge for a beach walk is every day different. The tide dictates if you have a hard or an easy walk. Today it was easy, the water far down and wonderful clean sand to walk on. Today I post a few pictures from the beach of the last few days, enjoy.

Yesterday afternoon my blood pressure was down below 100 and 70 and I turned a bit sleepy. This is normal during fasting, but we should prevent it. Mostly it is a lack of liquid, so we need more drinking then the body tells us. I did and the blood pressure was minutes later around 120 over 80 again. Wish I could keep it that way.

Physical performance.

During fasting you can do almost anything else you would do normally. There are but – as far as the use of force is concerned – small differences:
• Everything that requires a fast force deployment – running up a staircase, playing football or skiing – can be a source of difficulties for the fast. The circulation is too much stress. Better are the so-called gentle ones, endurance sports such as Nordic walking, running, swimming, hiking, biking, rowing, slow mountaineering or ski-walking.
• What type of sport one prefers, important is that you do some during fasting.
Once daily to the performance limit. This ensures that the existing capacity is also fully preserved in the fast.

Abebe Bikila, during his fasting he won Marathon Gold at the Olympics in Rom 1960 – and bare feet !!

One can do almost everything during fast, but it is recommended to choose endurance instead sudden high performance, means better a marathon then a 100 meter sprint.

Can the physical performance be increased during fasting ?

The musculature will increase by conditioning, while the body weight reduces. Force and performance obey the law of the requirement, or the function. What works is not degraded, it can even be build up during corresponding requirements. This is because the well-fed faster has enough protein reserves. Only fat will be removed, as energy production and as superfluous ballast. Who, during the fasting is predominantly in bed, is just as much as a fully catered eater, which does not move, loses strength and performance.

Intellectual and artistic leadership skills.

The Faster is able to be artistic and creative – often with far better results than usual.

Peace and relaxation.

Through a regular change between tension and relaxation, between movement and rest are the fastest physical and mental well-being. After every effort, after every bath, after every sauna or massage, after every other application you should rest. Do not read or watch TV or work on a PC, but really resting.  Close your eyes. Exhale. Relax. Give the body time for its metabolism. He builds, builds and builds up. He needs rest. During fasting, therefore, three times daily, minimum, keep the rest times.

What a lovely morning on such a „crowded“ beach.

Always keep warm.

No wonder if you have cold hands and cold feet during fasting. The inner „stove‘ can produce as much heat from the body’s fat deposits as from food.

You can help yourself:
• The clothing should be airy but warm. The most suitable are natural, warming and absorbent materials such as cotton, batiste and wool. Also wear breathable functional underwear. Shoes with cork or wear leather braids and woolen socks. In summer airy sandals or wooden shoes (Hollandse klompen) are ideal.
• Movement creates warmth and stimulates the circulation at the same time. This has an positive effect.
• Hot drinks are perceived as more pleasant than cold. Plenty of tea or warm vegetable broth is required. Of course these are tips for cold countries or wintertime. In summertime, like I have now one would prefer cold drinks over hot drinks.
• A hot liver wrap, daily at noon or in the evening, heats up and purges.
• If only the feet are cold, warm up with the hot water bottle or a hot foot bath. Whoever is really cold needs more, an temperature increasing foot bath is the best cold protection.

The rising foot bath.

Warm warm water (not hot!) Fill water in a bucket. In with the feet and gradually add hot water, so that the feet are always feel new heat. After 15 to 20 minutes, the whole body is charged with heat. Finally, briefly shower the feet cold or wash off.
Go to bed immediately and keep warm.

Another beach morning, the sun has problems to come through.

At low blood pressure.

People with low blood pressure (below 100/60 mm Hg) having usually heavier problems with cold body parts than others. By example weakness, dizziness, concentration disorder.

Low blood pressure is often accompanied through the fasting days. The blood circulation needs help:
• Possibly a cup of coffee, mild black tea with a teaspoon of honey to itself in the morning and the liver wrap at midday. Have your tea the best by still lying down. Good for gently cranking the cycle – Gingseng  tea.
• To stabilize the circulation, physical activity is very important. Just go slow only.

During fasting crisis.

The Faster suddenly feels faint, irritated, or melancholic. Old complaints flicker on. He feels sick, like a flu. On such a day the body has much to do with oneself. He wants to be spared. Bed rest, warmth and an enema is the best way to recover now. Drink plenty of water or tea. Also a glass of buttermilk (I don’t like it) or a glass of Sauerkraut juice will help. Drink slow,  it works miracles. It would be quite wrong, however, to make efforts
to force, or even to break off the fast.

After all, fasting crises are healing crises. They are  the hours and days when miseries and deposits are particularly and intensively extracted from the tissues and circles through the body. As soon as the substances are gone, the crisis has flown away.

Tomorrow I will go on with fasting tips and suggestions. Stay with me.