DAY 19: MISERABLE

March 28, 2022 ~ Monday

Fasting Update: Day 14 of 28. Half way!! What can I tell you. I am miserable because of the muscle pain. NOT the fasting. NOT the lack of eating. That is easy compared to the muscle pain. It generally makes everything not worth doing. I did not even make my bed this morning. Dr. Streutker was in this morning and said this is a healing crisis and we will work thru it. We could try some juice or broth for a day or two, but I said that will not help the muscle pain. Food never has helped to stop that. In fact, I used food to try and stop the muscle pain. I will have more labs tomorrow. If my electrolytes are crashing then yes juice or broth, which will not break the fast, to restore them but not for muscle pain. Damn statins.

Daily fasting numbers: Weight-187.6 Weight lost during fast-18.4 Weight loss since adopting diet-47.4 BP-116/77 Heart rate-77 Oxygen level-96 Temperature-97.2 Glucose-118 Sleep- 5h one minute pulse rate-steady 75 Muscle pain level-6 (scale 1-10) Energy level-4 (scale 1-10). (Dr Streutker wants me to use a 1-10 scale.)

Lecture: Today’s lecture was on “Escaping the Pleasure Trap” by Dr Goldhamer. Yes, food as well as sex is part of the pleasure trap because both ramp up the dopamine the brain receptors want. We all know that people can get trapped in pornography and it is because the brain wants an even bigger hit of dopamine. Same with alcohol and drugs. Well, eating processed food and highly concentrated food will stimulate the same exact dopamine production and the brain will want more and more. Anyway, I brought up my statins damage and my muscle pain during Q&A. Dr. Goldhamer was happy about it! He said I am having a healing crisis and this is a good thing. If I persevere and follow the whole plant food based diet, I will heal. I told him I was so happy to be providing him with entertainment. This was all in good fun. He has seen this time and again – people getting well from diseases that our standard medical profession is only trained to treat. Never, to help you heal. Maybe that is because we will not listen to them. Still, they are just not equipped to work with people who are addicted to processed and highly concentrated food. Please do not hate me!!! I am miserable and a bit cranky.