Day 11, another good start to my day. I woke up well rested and feeling good. No tiredness, weakness, or any other negative symptoms. I actually feel better than when I'm not fasting because my joints and muscles hurt less upon waking. All my recent days on the fast seem to be quite similar recently.
Because I went for a good couple of walks yesterday, and the temp dropped significantly outside today, I decided today was a no-walk day. I'm sticking with moving and stretching my body throughout the day, along with my favorite table pushups and deep squats. It's been quite a journey, and I'm enjoying my last day of water.
I ate my last meal at 6:15pm 11 days ago, so, I decided that was a great time to end my fast. I had my first bite at 7pm.I would have liked to go a few more days longer, but my resting heart-rate was getting very low, and I knew eating would help me regulate that better. It dropped to 38 beats/min while sleeping and 44 resting heart-rate during the day, and had been dropping almost every other day.
I broke the fast with a fasting soup recipe by Buchinger Wilhelmi clinic, so technically it's not really breaking it, but I wanted to ease in very slowly. So I made the batch of soup, and had about 10oz of it at 6:30pm and another 10 oz at 8:30pm. It was delicious!
Because the soup was the first thing my belly experienced, and it wasn't very filling, I noticed that I was pretty hungry trying to sleep, a feeling I hadn't felt for the past 11 days. This might have been a factor in not being able to sleep. I was very restless and basically just not tired enough to fall asleep! I did eventually fall asleep for about an hour and a half, then woke up at 2:30am and ended up lying in bed trying to sleep from then until 6:30am when I got out of bed. Although I basically had no sleep, I was feeling just fine in the morning. I was actually really looking forward to getting the day started to put more in my belly!