All Journeys Start the Same
I ended around 7:30, at the end of day 7. Could I have gone longer? Probably. Should i? definitely. I did not end well. A shipment of quest bars and epic bars arrived from amazon. I held off for a few hours, but in the end I rationalized my way into the boxes. I’ve eaten […]
Adding the asterisk because, at the end of day 5, I was feeling nauseous and light headed, so I broke the fast with some macadamia nuts. Then I ate the whole bag of macadamia nuts. Then added 4 strips of bacon, an Epic lamb bar, four parmesan crisps, and some 5% fat yogurt. And a […]
Had a real temptation earlier. Someone put large chewy chocolate chip oatmeal cookies on the break room table. They also left a tray of gulab jamon, a kind of meatball-sized tasty India honey donut of some sort. I came close. In the end, I grabbed hot water for fasting tea, a bottle of cold water, […]
Weighed 449 this morning. Can’t complain about that. Hoping to reach the 230s on this fast, depending how long it goes. 16 pounds down from Monday. Blood sugar at 12:30p was 92. Slept decently, until around 6am. Been seeing things within the first few seconds of waking, in the dark, that quickly go away. Could […]
I did a slightly better job getting to bed last night: 1am instead of 3am. The fitness band says I got a good chunk of deep sleep. Woke to five fewer pounds, 453 (rounding up/down to the nearest pound.) Blood sugars up a bit from yesterday, just a couple of points. Energy levels have been […]
I’m closing in on the end of day 2 in the current fast. As I expected based on all the bathroom breaks, I lost about six pounds yesterday. My legs looked vastly better when I woke than they did yesterday, though they’ve swollen as the day goes on. I had a pulmonologist appointment this morning, a six […]
Yesterday was a holiday. I made some very carby food choices earlier in the day (big mac, shamrock shake, McD’s cherry pie, some donuts at my favorite local donut shop, artificially sweetened Monster Energy), and at dinner with friends last night I went with a soda, jambalaya I mostly ate the meat from, and a […]
I dropped another 1.4 pounds from yesterday. Could have been more if I’d awakened at a normal time, but I was up early, and on a mission. For gourmet donuts. The seeds of this morning’s binge were planted a while ago, but. the harvest was planned yesterday. When I heard that Blue Star Donuts, a […]
My blood sugars have been high on this fast, possibly because of last Friday’s trip to the vending machine. My Saturday eating pre-fast was high in protein but low in carbs, but I was still gaining the next day before the scale started moving south again. I’ve heard it can take 3-7 days, depending on […]
After my last seven day fast, I’ve been fluctuating in the low to mid 450s, which beats fluctuating in the high 470s. Mostly I’ve been intermittent and intermediate fasts since the 7 day fast ended, but I started one Saturday that I hope to take 5+ days. I’ve done pretty well overall keeping sugar and grains […]