Thank you! Ugh, Lesson learned FOR SURE!
My fasting journal
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Hey. Guess what? Today is day 1 again? Whhhhyyy??? You ask? Well, I’m about to tell you. BEACAUSE I CAN’T GET THROUGH DAY 5. Yup, I suck. Well. You know the definition of insanity includes doing the sane thing over and over and expecting a different result. Maybe I’m f$&king insane?
Sounds like an unconscious pattern that you need to create a “pattern break”. Let me illustrate with a story from famed motivation speaker, Anthony Robbins.
Tony would be having a debate with his then wife. However, he would get emotional, start yelling and gesticulating wildly. At this point, his wife would just leave the room. This was very frustrating for both of them. So Tony started asking questions. What he found out was in his family, only when a debate got emotional meant it was getting interesting while in his wife’s family when things got emotional it meant to leave the room to let emotions calm down so a rational discussion could continue.
The “pattern break” that Tony created was when having a debate he taught his wife that when Tony would start to go unconsciously overly emotional she would reach over and pinch his upper thigh. It would “break the unconscious pattern” and allow Tony to continue the debate and lead to a resolution satisfactory to both of them.
According to famed Las Vegas magician Penn Jillette of the Penn & Teller duo, he learned on his journey of losing 100 pounds and keeping it off that ALL eating is habitual.
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Thank you for this. I am curious to how I could implement this? (AS day 5 is rapidly approaching)… any ideas?
The best way is to sit in a quiet place and start writing your thought process for each time it happens. This way you identify the “trigger” where you go “unconscious” and fall into the pattern. The key is knowing when you about to go unconscious and make a different choice.
For example, my binging behavior is work-related. I’m working on a creative project. I lose track of time. I get hungry. Look up and 4 1/2 hours have gone by. I don’t want to stop working. Cooking a healthy meal from scratch is too time consuming so I reach for something that’s convenient. If I didn’t prepare anything, I usually eat something “bad”.
Now, I have healthy “convenient” food available as a choice. I still have some “bad” snacks around as an occasional treat. Now, its a “conscious” choice though.
Hope this helps!
HI Molly! Welcome to the club. I so appreciate your journal and absolute authenticity! Gosh, can I soooo relate! I am still trying to recover from spinning out. Essentially, I will find myself on a good roll with my life, my diet and excercise and something that disrupts my emotions will get me all effed up. Currently I am dealing with court for a child custody issue, but in two states, not one. Anyway, I have a lot of trauma I am still processing from a nearly 6 year court battle with my first husband. I would like to say there was a happy ending with that case, but there wasn’t. I had a hearing this last Monday. Starting last Friday evening I noticed this little tiny hunger feeling in the back of my stomach. I have currently been doing rolling 60-84 hour fasts. So Friday I think was an eating day and I just could not get satisfied. I fought it off for a couple days but then Sunday night I totally binged (something I have’t done for a long time) and I realized the connection: court the next day. Anyway, this last week on my eating days I have been totally blowing it in the way where my eating is out of control and I am totally dealing with that voice that says: hmmm…what else can I consume before I fast again? I am sick of this. EFFING SICK OF IT! I hope you are making it through your fifth day! I would love to be able to truly overcome this shit and have a good relationship with food that is respectful to my health even when my emotions are all over the place. Last night I have started a 21 day fast. My goal is to make it to next Friday and sign up for Yasmin’s fasting call thing and get another 7 days under my belt. I am so close to my goal weight so I think that is what has been what I am using as my excuse not to accomplish these 21 days. There is so much more I want to accomplish with this fast. Like healing my rosacea and my digestive track and the mental clarity. So here we go!
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Lol! I shouldn’t laugh, but legit, your fasting story is identical to mine. I get a little jelly when I see people making it 21 days. I wonder, what makes them so different from me? What do they have that I don’t? Mental toughness I suppose…
And I’m on day 2. The infamous day 5 lingers in my future. My stop start bullshit is causing me all kinds of anxiety.
Sunday is my husbands birthday party and I’m cooking Mexican food. Like the real stuff… authentic deliciousness. And I don’t want to eat it… I mean I want to, but god I don’t want to. I feel like I just need 7 days… if I make it 7 days I can make it 21.
Right now I’m at the station to buy Gatorade Zero. Yeah, I know people have differing opinions on zero calorie drinks, but I’m building a deck in the 100 degree heat. I’m literally dropping buckets of sweat and I need to replenish these electrolytes!
I’m gonna grab my blue Gatorade and I’ll check in later.
Good luck and God speed. (Said totally tongue in cheek).
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Got to build up that fasting muscle! I did a 4, 5 and then a 7 day.
If you’re working in the heat; especially if its for longer than 1 hour then having Gatorade is fine. Majority of people forget that Gatorade was formulated for athletes. I only drank it when I played tennis for hours or pickup basketball games.
I am literally having to say no to all this delicious looking and SMELLING food!! We came to this restaurant yesterday. I was not successful yesterday. No more bullshit! The feeling of failing is not worth the taste of the food. I can wait. I will wait. Day one almost complete.
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ALL of that looks so amazing! Did you make it through today??? I did. Tomorrow is day 4…
Day 4 in session. I made it through the Mexican Fiesta yesterday in spite of cooking chile relleno, carne asada and guacomole… just a few of my favorite things 
. Nonetheless, I feel proud of making it through the day. At times water simply makes me nauseated. But, I find if I do not drink through the nausea I end up with a wicked migraine.
I toyed with the idea of getting on the god forsaken scale today. . . I decided tomorrow was a better option lol. It’s simply so defeating. I wish I could be one of those folks who loses 10lb in 4 days. Doesn’t happen for me. I typically don’t experience any significant loss until day 7 or 8. I have done this successfully in the past. Lost the 25 lbs that I gained following a hysterectomy and mastectomy. Those were some dark times…
I made black coffee this morning- tasted like toilet water. Opted for a few ounces of Gatorade Zero (I know, I know). I am just not as hardcore as you straight water fasters.
Well, mentally prepping for tomorrow. Though, I don’t quite know why, but this time feels different. I don’t feel hungry or tired. I don’t feel compelled to eat at all.
Hope I didn’t jinx it.
Best to you all.
M
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I go to Celestial Seasonings herbal tea as my alternative to water.
No, it was food that I watched all my loved ones eat at the restaurant lol. I did not make it through Saturday or even last night. BUUTTT…I did keep it super keto. I actually have used the last three days to ease in to my fast. AS Wednesday and Thursday I really carbed it up in ways that I very RARELY do (like bites of cake and cookies). Anyway, I am still going for 21 days. Today is day one after my three days of “easing in.” I think this was actually good to make sure I am in ketosis as opposed to just totally failing and going back to carby foods because I tried coming off the sugar too fast. I am fasting the next 6 days with a girlfriend of mine. She is breaking for 4th of July, I am not. Yasmin’s birhtday is July 19th and I promised her I would reach my first goal weight of 154 by then. I was 168 today. I can do it. I am actually excited! Although I kept breaking my fast, I was making it about 24 hours, and kept it Keto/OMAD. There are benefits to that. I think today would be your day 5 right? How are you doing so far? Did you make it passed the hump?
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MADE IT!!! I can’t believe it!
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How did fasting go today???
I made it today! And tonight! Lol. Day two done. I actually had the best day of 2020 by far. I had an epic win in my custody case today. EPIC EPIC EPIC!!! I am just overjoyed. Essentially, my ex made up a totally bogus custody case in Montana attempting to take our daughter whom I’ve raised by myself since her birth away from me(I live in California). He purposefully lied to the court there telling them that court had jurisdiction because our daughter had resided in Montana for 6 months and that I am a whacked out drug addict. Truth be told he kidnapped her at the beginning of the COVID 19 shutdowns thinking the world was ending and ran to his Montana mountain home. He had her for two months, I had no contact or any idea if her location. It was awful. It was hell. But eventually the pressure of criminal charges, he returned her a 6 weeks ago. So, in court, the judge dismissed his bogus case, awarded me attorney fees AND is tranfering the case to the sheriff’s department for investigation of making false statements to the court! That NEVER happens. The judge said he was overwhelmed by the amount of evidence I provided to prove our daughter has always lived with me in California.
So with all that said, I was tempted heavily with the feelings to celebrate eat. But I didn’t! I did allow some stevia added to my sparkling water and a splash of HWC to my starbucks nitro cold brew (that was me celebrating lol). I was so stressed out over this trial. It was amazing. I am so grateful to be passed that part now. I kept telling myself I am really going to be excited to see what I look like in 10 or 14 or 18 days of fasting, telling me that kept me from totally breaking my fast. I also was down 2 lbs today.
How about you? How did today go?
Thank you for checking in on me too!
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Congratulations! 
Now that stress boulder you’ve been steadily pushing up the mountain is gone, your fasting journey will become easier. Of my top 7 reasons people fail at fasting #4, #5 and #6 are all stress related.
So happy for you!
Oh thank you! It was so hard Alipio! That damn stress! Stress from pure uncertainty about the future. I have seen the damage first hand a careless/even corrupt judge can make in making the wrong decision. A couple seconds of words said in court that leads to heartbreaking change in your life. I feel on top of the world now instead of under it. The stress I was coping with was the reason I am not on day 7 or 8. Instead of it being a fasting day it turned into a keto/omad. I must say, I did okay considering what I was facing. But I want an amazing body transformation so I am in this for the long haul. Day 3/21 now 
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Oh Lord!! How awful and then wonderful, for you! I’m so happy for you guys. Kids just don’t deserve selfish parents.
Your celebratory HWC is right up my alley lol! I’m still chillin our on day 6. Not hungry, but definitely bored lol. Not eating is boring.
Oh I know! I see how much eating was used as a way to excite myself and my senses. Now I am trying to use sun bathing, walking and time at the lake to excite my senses instead of something sweet or salty. Speaking of salty…I bought these salt flakes that have been smoked. they are so similar to the salty bits of bacon left over in the pan. So I have been using those to replenish the salt I am losing and to excite my taste buds a bit lol. I was shockingly 3 lbs down today. I am contemplating not weighing myself anymore until the end.
I am so happy to hear youre on day 6!!! That is fantastic! Hell yes! Made it past day 5 
I decided to join Yasemin’s fasting call group starting tomorrow. I really want all the help i can get to make it past day 5.
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