Doriana’s journal

[Doriana_Salamone]

Hi! My name is Doriana and I’m a musicaltheatre student.

I have been trying to lose weight since I was 17, when I began to gain weight (I’m 22 now). I began binge-eating because I was trying to heal a trauma and my coping mechanism was eating a lot. Of course, it didn’t work, but I still do it when I don’t feel good.
I gained 66 lbs in total and I always have knee pain.

I started with intermitting fasting and then OMAD and it helped to not give in to the cravings and control myself more.
That’s why today is my first day of waterfasting. I aim for 4 days, but if I can do more, that would be great.

Goals: weight loss
I can’t dance anymore, because I have early stages of arthritis. Being overweight doesn’t help in this case. We have 6 hours of dance lessons (3 hours ballet and 3 modern jazz). I can only follow one hour of each, because I get knee pain. Loosing weight will help a lot with the pain.

Current weight: 194 lbs
Goal weight: 123 lbs

Trigger: Emotial feeling (boredom, loneliness, sadness, …) and giving into the feeling. What helps is working on myself and trying to understand where that feeling comes from. When I don’t give in I feel much better and these last weeks that has been really motivating me to keep going.

I’m really motivated to do this! I love myself to much to see and feel myself suffering any longer.

[Miramar]

Hi @Doriana_Salamone and welcome to the forum!

Figuring out what emotions you are trying to hide with over eating is half the battle.

Some people lose weight and never deal with the emotions and put it all back on.

Some people lose and deal as they go, which can be a lot to deal with all at once.

And some figure out the emotional build up, and can let the weight go effortlessly.

Sounds like you have a busy schedule so I hope the latter is in your possession.

I was a dance major in college (many moons ago) so I know workouts can be demanding, and with arthritis? Ugh. As you lose weight and inflammation recedes that may go away.

If I were still in school and knowing what I know is be planning fasting days around the long activity days. Unless I were just fasting every other day or doing OMAD… but that’s me. Only you can know you.

Good luck! And again, welcome.

[Van]

Good luck on your journey @Doriana_Salamone! I hope you find yourself as I am also trying to figure out myself on this journey

[Doriana_Salamone]

Thank you!
Honestly it’s been easier to work on my emotions since I began fasting, because I use binge eating as an excuse to not deal with it, so it has helped a lot
It helps also that we don’t have school anymore and now I can really focus on this journey

[Doriana_Salamone]

Thank you!

[Compdude]

Welcome to our fasting community!

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As a former windsurfing amateur competitor I empathize. I started my fasting lifestyle on August 9th of last year and at the time suffered from gout and sports-related injuries to both knees with the left one the most problematic.

Now I no longer suffer from gout and have no knee pain, except for occasional stiffness in the left.

If you have any questions, let me know!

Btw, my favorite contest during competition was “windsurfing freestyle”: a 3 minute choreographed gymnastics routine in a square offed area marked by buoys. As soon as I feel ready, I’m going to start shuffle dancing and hopefully compete again in windsurfing contests in the Senior Division.

[donna]

Welcome @Doriana_Salamone! When you are ready to eat again, you might look into an anti-inflammatory diet. Just getting rid of wheat helped my joints. I no longer eat grains or sugar and it’s helped.

Most Americans are addicted to grains and sugar, but we don’t have to be.