Accountability journal

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Intro
Hi I joined this group a few months ago and failed at my fast. I’ve done 7 day and 18 day fasts before and lost 35lbs but lately I’ve fallen back into my binge eating habits and gained it all back. I’m starting a 21 day fast today.

Why
I’m doing this not just to lose weight but to break my habits and fix my relationship with food my bad habits. I’m technically at a healthy BMI but I won’t be for long if I keep this up. I’ve been binge eating my entire life, I’ve always been obsessed with food for as long as I can remember. I eat whether I’m hungry or full, happy or sad. It’s ruined so much of my life, I’ve constantly cancelled plans and skipped class to hide at home and binge.

Long Term and Short Term Goals:
Long term goal is to stop binging and eat in moderation for the rest of my life.
Short term goal is to make it the full 21days.

** What is your game plan?**
I plan on water fasting until Feb 4 and then doing omad after that

How do I feel right now?
I feel nervous that I won’t succeed

Daily Affirmation
I am strong and I can do this

[Yasemin]

I know exactly how you feel regarding cancelling plans to stay at home and binge and I know exactly how you feel about being nervous and feeling like you will fail.

Here is the secret. Take baby steps one day at a time, and if you fail once, you’re one step closer to success!

That’s why I put “Fail Forward.” on all our new swag! No matter how many times you fail, you can dust yourself off and get back on track! I failed MANY MANY MANY times

We are here for you.

This is me, if I can do it, so can you

Instead of jumping into a fast, try doing intermittent fasting and skipping snacks, then move slowly to OMAD where you can have one delicious meal every day! Then when you’re comfortable you can try some smaller fasts! Maybe that will be easier to start and slowly control your food addiction! That’s how I did it!

You got this!

[Compdude]

Hi welcome back!

Since cravings and binging is what’s causing your latest struggles, here’s another means to address it to give you more choices. Both Anna and myself coincidentally chose the Potato Diet to resolve this issue before we began fasting. Anna did it for 10 days and I did it for 14.

I found out about it from this interview with the Las Vegas magician, Penn Jillette who did it for 14 days:

Anna found it from a podcast with Andrew Taylor, who did it for.a year.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or @Anna