I am a 28 year old women I’m a Spider-Man fan so I just always use the name Peter Parker online. I have been on my water fasting journey since the 14th of this month. Last week I did very well and lost 11 pounds , This past week I’ve done so poorly but still maintain a 10 pound weight loss. The scale fluctuates between 189 and 190lbs. I am 5’4 so that is a lot of weight for my frame I want to get back to a comfortable place . I want to enjoy shopping again. I want to run with my daughter and not feel like I’m dying. I’m trying to get back on track after such a sucky food week for me I’m praying the support from others will help. I’ve never joined a group or anything I usually “diet” “make life changes” alone so this is new for me. I am also on a spiritual journey right now and fasting definitely helps me feel closure to my higher self . This is a growing experience and I look forward to what the future has in store for all of us ! Best of wishes to everyone on this journey
Peters journal
Hi Peter! 
I love that you decided to go with that since you are a spider man fan. You said you run with your daughter… do you guys do any parkour? If not, maybe when you get closer to your ultimate goal, you should look at getting into it. I did it for a while with my daughter before my last big weight gain (I was already 30 lbs over the weight I prefer, working to lose weight, than thanks to some significant autoimmune conditions I gained another 30 lbs). You said you’ve been fasting since the 14th of the month… that’s amazing. It sounds like you have hit a few bumps in the road this week, and believe me, it happens. I managed to convince myself the night of day 1 that I wanted to start on nov 1 instead of the 27th and allowed myself to break my fast. After a few hours I felt so disappointed and down about it. That night I also committed to getting back on track.
If you fall off the wagon somewhere on your journey, get up, dust yourself off, get back in the wagon and continue to the end of your 21 days, remembering how it made you feel. If you fall again, do the same thing. Don’t let yourself get in your own way. This is your fast, your journey. While you have other people on the journey with you, myself included, this is YOUR journey for you to decide if you are going to make it through to the finish line. Think of a race or other event… sometimes it may be about finishing. Doesn’t mean we aren’t a little scraped up and bruised or limping over the final line. Do this for you! You can do it!
You should be very proud of what you’ve accomplished so far! Taking the first steps are the hardest by far. Like you, I don’t normally do any type of group thing and usually do things alone, particularly things that are major life changes or decisions… Over the last few years, I have been fortunate to grow closer to a strong community of friends, and that helped me decide to try the group thing with this fast.
It sounds like we are a lot alike. I would love to hear about your spiritual journey and how fasting has helped you find closure with your higher self. Right now I find that I’m struggling some with that on a personal level as well.
If you need anything, I’m here. You have a whole community that is here for you. You can do this, don’t let yourself convince yourself otherwise.
Thank you so much for you kind words !! They really mean so much to me. I have been on a spiritual journey for a while but lost my way. I recently moved to neveda from New York and just wanted a fresh new start all around. Trying to be healthier trying to get back on track with my journey and fasting definitely has been helping. I work 7 days a week overnights which is the hardest time for me not to snack but every morning when I get off I shower make a cup of tea (no sweetener of course lol) come outside light my candles and sage and just thank the universe for strength , thank the universe for the life that I love and the life that is coming. When you cut out eating it’s good to find something to preoccupy that time, with my time I’ve been practicing meditation, manifestation, the law of attraction, scripting as well as just giving gratitude to the universe, to God. My overall attitude has been changing so much since I’ve really been practicing these things. I’m able to stay more positive, be more thankful, realize that there are things in my life I want to change and know that I have the power to change them, which helps me to be more focused when fasting. Not to say I don’t slip up because I am human but I do get right back on the horse because I know if I don’t want the change it won’t happen and everyday I keep pushing is another day closer to my goal! I hope your weight loss journey is going well . If you’d like I can suggest some of the videos I’ve been watching on YouTube that have been helping me so much on my spiritual journey. I’m even teaching my 9 year old daughter about my learnings because that’s how much of a shift I’ve felt in my life.
My current water fast of 40 days I call the Jesus Fast. That’s because I do a daily walk of 1 to 2 miles, learn 1 new thing and perform an act of kindness. God bless you on your journey.
Thank you so much for sharing! It sounds like you are definitely finding peace and harmony. My source of divine frustration (you could call it) has a lot to do with my food choices and therefore life choices. I was vegan for nearly a year - the movie / documentary on YouTube called Earthlings really hit me hard, so after a year I decided spiritually I was okay with the idea of switching to pescatarian - I was watching some clips on unique interspecies friendships… one in particular was interesting as there is this one area where dolphins bring fish into the cove for fishermen and the dolphins literally even cue them on when to throw their nets to catch the fish and everything. It’s quite incredible… that made me open minded to wild caught fish (not farmed fish) and seafood. I have found myself “sneaking” meats and foods I don’t morally believe in eating, all because I like how they taste.
My struggle has been on the realization that we all have souls… take a cow for instance. It still feels fear, it still feels love, it still protects it’s young… etc. I grew up in Texas, and never had a “moral issue” with eating beef, I knew the whole process was not nice - come on you can’t butcher anything and it be a “nice” process… but in that documentary I mentioned, they actually show footage from some different places and to see the fear in the animals, to see the horrific nature which it is done… the way they truly suffer (even “halal” is still a brutal and gruesome process). Or how we (society) continually condones and approves of the rape and forced impregnation of other species - such as cows or goats, in order to have dairy products… particularly when we find it disgusting to think about drinking the milk of our own species beyond a certain age…
I just find myself questioning my soul and my choices. When humans are tortured at all in any way, we think it is absolutely horrific… yet we condone mass genocide and mass torture of other species… I’m struggling because I like the taste of meats, but spiritually it truly destroys me knowing how I am contributing to the process.
I know, all of that sounds crazy… I’m not a “tree loving hippie” as they say. Just a regular mom in a blended family. One daughter is a vegetarian - she has been for years even before my choices, my step daughter recently became vegetarian, and my husband and step son are avid meat eaters… So I can’t escape meat… I try to cook mostly pescatarian, and that helps since they eat what I cook… but I am just truly having a moral / spiritual dilema with how everything makes me feel, and thinking about my choices and how karma always comes back to us in the end - whether it be this life or a next. Sooo there is my spiritual struggle… as crazy as it is.
Any words of wisdom?
I’ve been a meat eater all my life. While I sympathize with organizations like PETA I look at it from the standpoint it’s part of the cycle of life. We’ve been eating animals for millions of years and herd animals for thousands. Also don’t forget the fact that animals hunt other animals for food. If you’ve ever seen any nature documentaries on YouTube it can be pretty brutal. BTW, you need protein to maintain lean muscle mass. After our youth spurt we lose an average of 3% muscle mass every year after the age of 40. Lean muscle mass is a major part of our daily metabolic rate. So it’s recommended we need to eat more protein and do resistance training to offset this natural decline. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
I agree with you compdude… it is a natural process, and while animals eating animals is normal, the commercialized nature of what we do on the commercial side is over the top. We’ve gone beyond eating for survival. Other animals (non domesticated) eat for survival…
Studies have proven that we can get plenty of necessary lean protein from non meat sources and eating animal meat is no longer necessary to our survival, the way it may have been before we reached the societal evolution we’ve achieved, like back in the cave man days, or in very very remote areas of the world where they are separated from other food sources and luxuries…
I’d be really really curious if you watched the earthlings documentary (all the way through) how you feel about the processes we (humans) have and whether it has gone too far… I very much respect your thoughts and continue to appreciate all of your advice… I’m not trying to change anyone’s opinion of eating meat… just trying to find a spiritual balance personally and figure out how to either completely cut it off or come to terms with the idea spiritually.
No. I haven’t watched the earthlings documentary. However, Dr Benjamin Bikman, a PhD researcher based at Brigham Young University did a study that showed our bodies process protein differently depending on whether we were on a low-carb or a high-carb diet. In other words, he scientifically debunked that meat is bad for you. Also here’s a tweet from a microbiologist and weight lifter PD Magnan that provides food for thought.
I don’t think meat is bad for us… I just question whether the way the commercialization of meat is being done is morally right and necessary. Will you think about watching the documentary? I really would love your thoughts on it.
Ok. I’ll plan to do that sometime in the next several days.