re: PuttaDaForkDown

Observations on Fasting

first, let me point out i've been on this weightloss kick for over a year having started jan 2010. so i'm used to being fairly disciplined about eating and the exercise i get.

for the first 12 months of this, i looked up stuff online, listened to podcasts, experimented with different eating patterns, etc etc etc.

the one thing that popped up many times was 'fasting'. i threw that out as soon as the word appeared and said 'no way in hell i can do that..i can barely make it to dinner if i have a small lunch'.

something recently just clicked for me however and i tried it a couple weeks back for the first time.

it was a miserable attempt.

i did it..but i was still drinking lots of water & coffee which contained cream & splenda.

it was hard.

it was dang hard.

i went to bed and could not sleep..my body fighting me the whole way. it simply did not want to go to bed hungry.

but the next morning i woke up..and realized i felt ok. when i weighed in and saw a 4lb drop, i felt GREAT. sure i was probably dehydrated..but i was 215 and dropped to 211 and then subsequently to 209 and lower.

the point is that 'water weight' never came back. and i've had some dang big meals since then.

fast forward to yesterday. i've been stuck in the 207 zone for a week or so now. 207..208..209..208..207..208...you can see my stats refused to go below that even with minding my calories (or so i thought).

so yesterday i said screw this..i'm done with being 207. so i stuck to coffee and water yesterday..and when i got home last night and made dinner for the kids..it was A HELLUVA LOT EASIER to fast the 2nd time around. i was a little uncomfortable and woke up 2-3 during the night, but i made it through.

today i'm down from 208.4 yesterday to 205.9 today.

so..i'm going to run it back. i'm going to continue the fast another day and wait and have a good meal tomorrow morning before my long group ride.

i saw where a guy had fasted 24 straight days..and went to the gym EVERY SINGLE DAY AND WORKED OUT HARD. and he was fine.

the fact is, once you get a day out..you're on cruise-control and you can fast a 2nd day much much easier.

again, i'm not saying this is for everyone..but i do beleive anyone and everyone CAN do this. its a mental thing..we're so conditioned to believe that fasting will cause us to fall flat on our faces and we'll shrivel up and die if we don't eat for 24 hours that we don't even consider this as a tool for dieting.

that's all i'm gonna say. i've already done 90 elevated pushups today and run up 24 flights of stairs and i feel fantastic.

my body is burning fat for fuel and its got PLENTY. no food needed. i'm not feeling faint or about to keel over.

i can't wait to see the weigh-in tomorrow. i'm damn determined to get to 199. enough foolishness.

OK weight is going slow but steady, starting to walk some, need to quit the CIGS, can we start another thread dedicated to that?

Good luck!

Best of luck!

I have two basic salad dressings. One is just red wine vinegar with olive oil and the other is 1 tsb of mayo with 2 teaspoons of wasabi horseradish with a little red wine vinegar. Oh also sometimes switch the wasabi with sriracha.

Neither set the world afire but I can tolerate em.

257/213/175

I have discovered the joys of light jogging. Mixing that in with walking and light weights. I actually got to one mile for the first time in probably 10 years! This will speed up the weight loss no doubt. Although slow and steady is fine by me.

Hulk, check out brocolli salads with low fat mayo and red wine vinigrette. If u r interest I can send u my go to salad recipe.

quote:

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If doing atkins one does not need to eat that horrifyingly bad lite mayo

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mayo is not bad for you period. loaded with omega3s.

weigh in:

2/11/11________________2/26/11_____________diff

210.5 lbs_______________204.9 lbs__________-5.6 lbs
55.1 lbs fat_____________51.8 lbs fat_________-3.3 lbs
26.2% body fat__________25.3% body fat_____-0.9% fat
27.8 BMI_______________27.1 BMI___________-0.7 BMI
53.8% water____________54.5% water
8.1 bone mass__________8.0 bone mass


HULK, there's a glass weight watchers scale at bed & bath that does all your body stuff (see above) and its $30.00. Bring in one of those 20% off coupons and you can get it for $24.

I would strongly recommend you use that scale..and then every 5 (or 10) lbs you lose, record all the extra data. it will very interesting to watch all those metrics change as you lose weight.

C'mon man lighten up.

hulk i think i speak for everyone on here when i say i feel like you're our special project

please use to vent and when you are frustrated or want to give up. we'll give you a swift kick in the arse and help keep u on the straight & narrow.

none of us has all the answers..but we're happy to share our trial and errors and hopefully along the way something useful will show up on the board.