I came to this forum after finding Y on reddit. Went there for support for Alcoholism and found so many communities and fasting being one of them. Go back a few more months where I quit drinking and started flirting with IF. I’d always been low carb and low sugar but never budged anywhere on a scale until I cut out the obvious sugar and empty calories…booze! So I lost 16 lbs. I quit booze and found omad and during omad I found ice cream. Lots of days of one meal consisting of ice cream. Then I got back to the 170/180 range. Which is where I currently reside. The lies we tell ourselves in our own voice is so deceiving. “You can eat that, look at what you gave up!” While I still am proud of giving up booze I would like to regain my relationship with food and the voices inside my head telling me I can’t. Although I’ve been told that getting to my goal will make me look sick and that it isn’t healthy I want to see the 150s again. My downfall is disappearing so if you do not hear from me I’ve more than likely told myself I couldn’t do it and am sulking somewhere binge eating. I do hope this keeps me accountable. Thank you for reading this. On a personal level I live in Colorado Springs and have an 11 year old who is supporting me in this. We had a last meal of sushi and went over ideas for her to eat and stay healthy while I repair my relationship with food. I absolutely want her to have this healthy relationship too.
Peace love and lots of water!
Has it really been 5 months
Welcome to our fasting community!
You have a strong “why”. Now you need a plan that will give you a daily goal to keep you focused, IMHO.
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Hi @Tosha_Ellis, congrats on deciding to make positive changes! A couple of things to support your goals:
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Read, watch videos, keep educating yourself. Learn all you can about fasting, sugar addictions, etc. I recommend Annie Grace’s This Naked Mind to solidify your decision to let go of the booze. It will really help.
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Sugar, grains (wheat, rice, corn, etc) and alcohol are highly addictive due to triggering the opioid receptors in the brain-- they give a boost to dopamine, the feel good hormone. Find some non-food ways to boost your dopamine (play, meditation, exercise, massage, buy yourself flowers, etc.).
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Know that every time you say no to your appetite, you are saying yes to building your fasting muscle which will get stronger every time you use it. Appetite is not hunger. Consider setting non-food rewards for reaching mini-goals. That helps too!
You are not alone! Many of us have dropped sugar, grains, and alcohol and are finally free of those siren calls. You can do it! 
Just keeping myself accountable
Just after giving up alcohol, my brain exploded with all sorts of intriguing ideas of why I should do this or that. But it was all to try and get me to drink again. Ultimately, I replaced alcohol with sugar. It took me a few years to figure that out. So for me, eating sugar is still playing in the alcohol/sugar sandbox .
Day 2 weighed in the am @ 176.8 water and salt but my energy wasn’t the worst. Lots more bathroom breaks than I am used to but no feelings of anything other than wanting to eat. Working 10 hours and my work has a full cafe makes things kinda hard but I avoided that area like the plague and deleted the daily food specials 1st thing. Also working near a young lady who is pregnant really is a treat. She has food all day every day.
Day three 174.8 this morning I had a banging headache but had a cuppa black which is something I do not do and getting my water in. Put in to leave work early and curled my hair last night. Only day three I truly thought I’d be more lethargic but the only thing I’m struggling with is this headache. I’m not hungry. Not completely drained of energy. Today is okay. It’s still early though.
Yesterday was tough at the end of the day but I took an epsom bath, did a face mask, and then actually read. Watching tv was a nightmare food adds galore. This morning 172.4 hopped out of bed at 5:15 am and almost fainted letting my dog out but that subsided and a morning headache is gone after a cup of black coffee. I don’t think I like coffee anymore. I like sugar free stuff in it but notice it font help so black it is. Oh and a gallon of water today.
You are moving right along. Keep up the good work.
Any particular reason so much water? Do you sweat a lot? It’s important to have enough water to keep things moving, but too much can flush out electrolytes, so you’ll want to make sure you replace that.
Things should get easier any day now.
I’ve never felt so dehydrated if I’m being honest. I have cotton mouth horribly.
I get that even doing I.F. Which I’m doing now during my current workout phase before fasting again 3/22.
@Tosha_Ellis
The dry mouth is from electrolyte loss
Make sure you are getting adequate potassium and sodium and magnesium every day
Dr Berg says 4700mg potassium daily
Also you are making less saliva when you’re not eating … less saliva = dry mouth
A NON fasting adult makes 0.5-1.5 Liters saliva a day and this is needed to break down starches
Your body autoregulates
You are a Fasting adult NOT consuming starches so you’re body will make significantly less saliva = dry mouth
Add electrolytes to your water
Also sea salt (like Himalayan) has far more minerals than table salt so opt for that over table salt (like Yasemin says)
Sending you warm wishes and positive energy for your fast today 
Thank you so much I did take magnesium this morning and am going to be getting potassium today surprisingly enough I don’t have them in my house.
This morning I weighed in @170. Growing pains in my legs and I got tired while braiding my hair, but moved right along got it done and took another long soak last night to get away from thoughts of food. Does anyone else feel like when they do refeed they want nothing but steaks? Ha. Okay maybe not but today is day 5 and Mother Nature decided it was time for my monthly which I thought I had a couple more days because I track my cycle but nope here she is. I’m sure I’ll be slowing down on the loss but I hope to continue to my mini goal of 7 days. That would actually be the longest I have fasted. 
Unsweetened coconut water is a good source of potassium. You can also buy NoSalt which is potassium chloride at the grocery store near the table salt.
Your menstrual cycle can definitely affect your fast. Dr. Mindy Pelz has some YouTube videos on the subject.
You’re making great progress!
I called it at 120 hours! I’m ok with this I feel like I made huge growth with that and I’ll keep IF Zander omad and Keto. I’ll def do an extended again but at my 1st attempt I’m pretty proud!
Good job. Something to build upon.