Good luck to everyone doing this. I've found fasting very useful at times but can't really do it while doing my job, so I'll be cheering from the sidelines.
I look forward to seeing the quality of the spelling and grammar from fasting posters deteriorate as the hours go by
By day 3 I'm pretty sure my posts would look like fdhksgladhsgflhgasfvwelyl.
Hi there. I enjoyed reading the TEAMFAST thread, and came in here to see the lead up.
I agree with you about fasting and some aspects of working.
Fasting never affects my spelling and grammar. But I have discovered that on Day 3, even though the ketones have fully kicked in and I have energy, this is not a good time to actually mix more fully with non-close fellow humans in otherwise nuanced interpersonal relations. My patience and tolerance for which I would normally draw on in such human to human/s situations, obviously disintegrates. This bizarrely happened in the last two four day fasts I have had, so I have to see it as a personal fasting pattern, and will adapt my life/working life and fasting periods to this info accordingly. WAY more serious than getting spelling and grammar wrong. (Ketones usually promote mental clarity I would say, and good for clear expression and thought, rather than bad writing.)
I figured that mother nature probably intended me to get out there with a bow and arrow or a slingshot - alone! - and shoot some hapless fat and protein source so I could end the no-eating period, rather than participate in a sit-down meeting dealing with complex interpersonal/group issues. Such day 3 moods obviously suited better to killing than attending meetings!
I thought I would post this so other fasters could benefit from my recent bad experiences hastily departing from meetings in order to escape unwanted frightening images of punching opposing faces! - Ketonic energy can be a false friend in the fasting arena! ho ho ho. Avoid meetings! Work alone during that period, suggests Aloe.
(yeah, if a carnivore and own a rifle - go hunting instead .) (Alone!)