Everything is just a bit off, again.

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Halfway, essentially through the 48-hour fast.  I must admit, the second day is usually a little more trying.  Not impossible, not a horrible push, just... with an irrepressible itch.  For right now I am hoping that gum will help.  It's a little thing, but chewing on something seems to offer a mild distraction from that... itch.  I don't know what else to call it, the sensation.  While there is no literal itch, a place to scratch, it's like that mixed with a nervous tick.  Still, thankfully, it is rather mild.  Just a reminder to pay attention.

My legs are pretty much back to normal.  Which, actually, is to say they are better than they have been in years.  Further, I am no longer on the water pill.  I have some left over, so if I hit a snag I can deal with it.  I should begin the vitamins again, and supplements.  I think those were worthwhile.  Even in the evening there is only very mild swelling.  If I nap, with feet elevated, that is handled.  It's just that I can't always nap.  You have to be tired to nap.  Hmm... though I suppose I could read.  Reading in bed, with feet elevated, isn't exactly fun or comfortable.  But then fasting isn't exactly first option order of fun either.  :p

Oh, right.  Fasting blood reading was 204.  With it being 220 last night, I had hoped it would break 200.  Then again, chewing regular bubble gum all yesterday morning and the night before?  Or maybe just because insulin is a finicky thing?  It really doesn't, always, follow any rules.  I think, in time, it will.  But on short terms it just does whatever the hell it wants!  Though I will say this, I think the sugarfree gum, for all IT'S problems is far superior on it's own, but then doubling as a tea sweetener?  It is knocking the socks off it's competition in the glycemic index arena.  Like it, don't like it, just know that none of the sugar replacements can hold a candle to that gum on any front... including that the tea tastes even better.  Bleh.

Today?  I have no idea.  Not much.  Anacin, for the first time since fasting.  Minor headache, and other aches.  It isn't the severity, it is the number of various pains.  And it isn't even just the aches and pains, it's that, over the hunger itch, over this and that, and almost as much "just because".  Nothing is bad enough, probably even in total, but with all else...  No worries though.  Given how good I am doing from having been >< close to death just recently?  No complaints whatsoever.  And I'm doing it on my own.