personally i find dry fast easier.
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when i do water fast i get diarrhea and my lower stomach/intestines feel like garbage, maybe im doing something wrng. but i dont feel that when i do dry fast
Yeah I worked up to 5 day dry, I always stopped when I had dry mouth feeling. I would work through a little bit of uncomfortable thirst, but if it was feeling real dry, I just drank. Would take few days to reach 24 hours, then a few for 36 hours. Then 48 hours. Now the most conveinent thing was after I adjusted to 48 hours for 3 days, I didn’t feel that dryness for 5 whole days before I stopped because I was too bored, I could’ve gone another day or two if I had things to keep me busy. So I don’t think you should suffer through it. But you can be a little uncomfortable to extend the time, just like 1-2 hours of slight thirst will push you further the next time.
I don’t eat or drink until at least noon making a 15-20 hr dry fast daily depending on when I break it. I usually always run as well in the morning before I drink. I pretty much never feel thirsty any more, until I take that first sip of water. I actually found that breaking the dry fast with watermelon is much better as I can eat a few pieces and not be hungry or thirsty afterward, whereas, if I were to break it with water I would want to drink at least 20oz because I get more thirsty immediately after drinking.
You certainly do get used to it… I prefer dry fasting over water fasting because I also never (rarely) feel hunger while dry fasting.
Hope this helps…
As a muslim, we start dry fasting for the month of ramadan as teenagers. I found that through the years it became easier. Now I just think that hunger is a mindset, I don’t even think about food my focus is just elsewhere. I do feel other things like tiredness, weakness, dry skin or dry mouth and those are my signals that I need to eat or drink. I can be with other people who are eating, I can cook for them, go grocery shopping without a problem (my husband who rarely fasts and usually he water fast, find all these extremely hard).