Hi everyone. I’ve known about this forum for a couple of months now but haven’t done anything because I’m so busy. I know that’s probably an excuse because I start fasting and have 8 million day ones!
I have an interesting journey. I am 62 years old and have been overweight most of my adult life. However, as a child I was super skinny. I could never gain weight. My nickname in high school was toothpick. I hated it. I hated being teased.
That all changed after I had my first child. My husband and I have 8 children and they were all born within 12 years. I was always overweight and struggled to take the weight off After each pregnancy. Another thing I have developed over the years is what I would call a food addiction. Whenever I feel stressed out or happy or sad or anything I am mediately think I want to run and go eat something. I never used to think like that but now I do. I want to overcome that.
I heard about fasting on a different kind of forum. Someone put a link up to a Dr. Jason Fung YouTube video. It was pretty short maybe 20 to 30 minutes. As I watched it, I knew in my heart and mind that everything he was saying was true. Right then and there I decided to do every other day fasting because that’s what he talked about in the video. I didn’t know about any other kind. I immediately started doing it and begin to lose weight. I checked out his book from the library called The complete guide to fasting.
Since then I have done all kinds of fasts and all different ways of fasting. My longest fast was seven days. Then I broke down and ate about a cup of homemade tartar sauce. Then I fasted seven more days.
Now I struggle just to make it past one day. Although in the last little while I have done three successful three day fasts even though my goal has been to go seven or eight days or even 14 days.
My mind plays tricks on me and I give even though I’m not truly hungry. I’m just craving things that I think of in my mind. I tell myself little lies and then give in. Of course I feel disgusted afterwards and resolve to do better than next day.
I am here because I feel like if I write in my journal every day it will help me to put my thoughts down on paper and get past that temptation.
I also want to read other people‘s experiences and help them in anyway that I can. My highest weight was 210 pounds. I am down to 150 and want to get to 125.
Thank you for reading and listening!