{"id":1529,"date":"2010-03-23T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2011-03-26T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T21:11:40","slug":"sponsored-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/sponsored-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsored fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother is doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/JamesFotherby\">a 72 hour sponsored fast<\/a> with some friends to raise money for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mssociety.org.uk\/\">MS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three whole days without even a single scrap of food entering our bodies, only having water to keep us going.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m joining in &#8211; it started at 11am:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/lastMeal.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/lastMeal.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"My last meal before fasting\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/lastMeal.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/lastMeal.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/lastMeal.jpg?w=1240&amp;ssl=1 1240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/lastMeal.jpg?w=1860&amp;ssl=1 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ate the following a few minutes before 11am:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Massive plate of home-made lentil curry.<\/li>\n<li>Massive bowl of nut based cereal.<\/li>\n<li>Massive energy drink.<\/li>\n<li>Some vitamins that were lying around from years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m totally stuffed now &#8211; let&#8217;s see how I am in 72 hours, cold turkey! I&#8217;ll probably miss coffee a fair bit too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, 26th March Update. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1545\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weightLoss_WiiFit.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1545\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weightLoss_WiiFit.jpg?resize=300%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Weight loss chart\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weightLoss_WiiFit.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/weightLoss_WiiFit.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proof! Wii Fit can't lie!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I managed it. The first 30 hours were the hardest then it plateaued and I coped fine. I wasn&#8217;t even all that hungry by the end. I was very busy with work so I had a lot to take my mind off being hungry. After the first 24 hours, I had lost 4lbs, then 6lbs, then 4lbs &#8211; so I lost 1 stone in total &#8211; not that it means anything because I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll just go back on (but I&#8217;ll try not to let it).<\/p>\n<p>I expected to feel drained and have trouble sleeping or getting up early, perhaps even stomach cramps but none of that happened, my energy levels were ok, physically.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from feeling hungry, there were some other negative side effects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mild headache started on day 2 and lasted into day 3.<\/li>\n<li>My brain stopped firing on all cylinders part way through day 2<\/li>\n<li>Upset stomach started on day 3.<\/li>\n<li>Aching carve muscles started on day 3.<\/li>\n<li>Felt a bit &#8220;away with the fairys&#8221; from day 3 &#8211; not dizzy but not quite right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother is doing a 72 hour sponsored fast with some friends to raise money for MS: Three whole days without even a single scrap of food entering our bodies, only having water to keep us going. I&#8217;m joining in &#8211; it started at 11am: I ate the following a few minutes before 11am: Massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,24],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-charity","tag-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}