Can Jennifer break the record for the longest days without eating?

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Dehydration

Dehydration - cracked earth

On a long-term fast, dehydration can creep up on you like fog in the night and the symptoms of your body desperately needing water might not appear to be related to lack of adequate hydration at all. Today, I want to explore the varying symptoms of dehydration and how I found out that they were all related to my need for more water intake.

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Surgery vs Fasting

In 2010, I seriously considered bariatric surgery as a means to permanently lose my excess weight and keep the weight off for the long-term. I wanted the gastric sleeve because I felt at the time that surgery was my only permanent solution to keeping the weight off for good. I had just gone through Overeater’s Anonymous (OA) in 2004 and lost all of the weight at that time, only to gain it back once again in 2007… plus more. An all too familiar story that I wanted to close the book on for good.

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