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by throwaway82729 2804 days ago
Were you able to sleep without problems? The biggest problem for me was not being able to sleep or waking up in the middle of the night due to hunger.
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I just finish a 21 day water fast yesterday - it’s the first time I’ve done it. My sleep was only slightly affected. Not because I was hungry, after 3 days your appetite more or less subsides. The only notable thing that happened as it relates to sleep is that I would only sleep for 5.5 hours and my body would wake up, not groggy or tired. Typically when I eat “normally” I get about 7 hours.
After a couple weeks I stopped thinking about eating until it was time to eat in the morning. Your body gets used to it. You just have to power through the adjustment period.