Intro:
Hello all, I’m a 34 year old mother of a 8 month old baby girl. I was carnivore leading up to my wedding in December 2018 and I was happy with my weight (even though I think I had probably another ~15lbs to lose). After the wedding, we went on honeymoon to Ireland and my diet went out the window. That’s fine, right? Enjoy the honeymoon. Well, then we got home and soon after found out we were pregnant. I was hit hard with an aversion to the smell and taste of meat. So I used that as an excuse to binge binge binge. Gaining 75lbs during the course of my pregnancy. I ended up with high blood pressure, pre-eclampsia, and was pretty much held hostage in the hospital and forced into labor at 37+1 weeks. After 3 days of labor, I ended up having an emergency c-section. I was devastated that my birth plan was completely ruined, but I only had myself to blame. I’m still mad at myself for doing what I did. The worst part: I know better. I knew about keto, carnivore, intermittent fasting, etc. I just chose not to do any of it. So here I am, 8 months postpartum and ready to fix this.
Stats:
5’10 Female
High Weight: 237 (day of delivery)
Current Weight: 187.2
Wedding Weight: 162.8
Goal Weight: 145
Currently fasted for: 36 hours
My Why:
- Lose baby weight and prepare my body for future children, if it is God’s will that we should have more
- Remove brain fog and significant fatigue
- Remove inflammation
- Heal cysts that were found during ultrasounds
- Heal dandruff/scalp psoriasis
- I don’t want my baby girl to grow up and see that being overweight, or yo-yoing is normal. I don’t want her to learn any bad food habits through me.
Short term and long term goals:
Short term 1: lose the baby weight and get back to wedding weight by June 13th
Short term 2: lose the remaining weight I think my body isn’t meant to have
Long term 1: learn to have a healthy relationship with food; no more binging, and learn weight maintenance
Long term 2: Only eat meat, veggies, and a little fruit on refeeds (no more bad carbs)
Struggles:
I suck at the refeed. I have a binging problem. Even on a “good day” when I don’t binge, I overeat. I am addicted to carbs. I got down to 176.6 in mid-late April and I was feeling pretty good, then I binged for nearly a month……UGH! I’ve gained back 11 of the pounds that I had lost.
Game Plan:
I have only successfully completed up to 72 hour fasts so far. My goal is to fast 21 days. Only water, tea, and coffee. The ONLY thing that is going to prevent me from accomplishing that goal is if I am starting to struggle to breastfeed.
From days 21-40 I plan on drinking some bone broth if I need it. Aiming for OMAD with only bone broth during those days.
How do I feel right now:
Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert, and the Daniel fast is a 21 day “program”, so I thought that I would set my sights on God to help me get through this. I can do nothing without Him. I know that I have been terrible to the temple He gave me and I need His help to fix that. My goal is to get down the the weight He designed me to be and to maintain it when I get there. I wrote down in a fasting journal that I promise the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin Mary, all the angels and saints, and of course, myself, that I would accomplish this. I feel motivated. I was being too easy on myself before, which led to me giving in:
Example: “I’m going to try to fast for 72 hours” then I would give in that night to dinner.
No more! I’m saying that I am doing this. No giving in, no failure, no excuses.
*Only reason I will stop is if I can’t successfully breastfeed.
**Also, no judgement from anyone on fasting during breastfeeding. I don’t need, nor want your negativity.
How will I feel once I achieve my goal:
I am so much happier when I am at a healthier weight. That happiness doesn’t just effect me, it effects my husband, and daughter. Even more people during non-quarantine times. I will be able to wear all of my clothes again, instead of having to cycle through my super fat clothes. I will be able to move around with ease. It will help me be the best version of myself. I won’t want to hide in oversized pajama pants and old man sweaters.
Daily Affirmation:
You can do anything you put your mind to for 21 days. You have accomplished some pretty difficult feats in life, this will be easy. You took 9 months to put all this weight on during pregnancy, you can get it all off by baby girl’s 9th month birthday.