The Vikid Fast - Day 8 of 20
Coconut meets coconut & Adipose Power
So a Coconut met a coconut… and it was good!
Pure nectar, in fact nothing tastes so good. For the last few months I have been buying this amazing raw coconut water from Thailand. Raw as in, unpasteurized, without heat treatment.
Then it occurred to me, why not just buy the real thing? I mean it’s not that expensive here.
Now let’s do the calculations:
1 bottle of Raw Coconut Water costs $5.7 at 500ml = $11.4 / ltr
1 Real Coconut costs $1.08 at approximately 250ml = $4.4 / ltr
I’ve been playing a mugs game for the last few months. I just had to meet my brethren directly and skip the middle man, not to mention the plastic bottles!
The real thing’s got the wonder pulp inside the shell too. I’m not eating that at the moment but come day 20 and I know what I’ll be doing.
This is what happens when you get off being distracted and just think! Ha ha… and it’s pretty close to as fresh as can be.
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Adipose Power
Let me tell you about yesterday:
Up at 4 am bright as a light bulb. Followed by 45 min walk/run, 25 min Swim, light weights set. Then a 30 min mediation. Afternoon, met a friend, watched him destroy a Mille-Feuille at Paul’s. Afterwards, 1 hr strolling around a mall. I then proceeded to meet my uncle for a beer (I had water) and then met my cousin for dinner, where he wolfed down some Lebanese food. I had water again. It looked and smelt amazing but it had negligible effect on me. I was happy to watch the feast!
Got to bed at midnight. Was up again this morning at 5.30 am. Did 45 mins meditation followed by 30 mins of reasonably intense yoga, followed by 25 mins swimming and then 10 mins in the chill pool. I also managed to pick up the guitar, something I haven’t felt like doing in a long long while.
So I think it is reasonable to ask what is going on? I haven’t eaten in 8 days and I have more energy than ever. Yes, there are times when I think, “What the hell am I doing?!”, but on the whole this whole experience, so far, has been wonderful and enlightening.
I must be running on Adipose Power. So I decide to check and indeed I am at ketosis level 8.
Which means I am now running on pure fat as fuel and there is plenty of that to last a few months at the rate I am going! My digestive system is probably taking a long a well deserved break, saving me tons of energy for other activities.
All systems seem to be operating well, mental acuity included. I have no excessive lethargy. Old clothes are starting to fit again too, without the proverbial “belly tuck”.
And That’s all Folks, the experiment continues…
Have a lovely day!
The Vikid Truth