{"id":5556,"date":"2026-01-06T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:17","slug":"fasting-experience-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5556","title":{"rendered":"FASTING EXPERIENCE &#8211; DAY 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Day Four maintained the mental clarity, and I didn&#8217;t feel terribly sleepy by midday even though I had been awake at 3:30 am for about 90 minutes before falling back to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boredom is getting to me a bit. There is nothing that can slow down time more than deciding to go without eating. It&#8217;s like waiting for Christmas when you&#8217;re a kid.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I am over the hump. Day four is drawing to a close and that means I am on the downside now. I have no doubt I can do another three days.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did have a little less energy today, but I was able to do my usual morning push-ups and later I took the dog for a mile-and-a-half walk during the afternoon while the weather was good.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day Four maintained the mental clarity, and I didn&#8217;t feel terribly sleepy by midday even though I had been awake at 3:30 am for about 90 minutes before falling back to sleep. The boredom is getting to me a bit. There is nothing that can slow down time more than deciding to go without eating. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}