Rebecca's journal :)

At 10 pm tonight, I will have made it 14 days!! I am so so proud of myself! I had to really up my electrolytes the last few days to keeps me going. I did not make it to the 150’s this round. But I know it’s coming! I am down another pound, Took two days though lol. Even though I did not lose the weight I was hoping too, I am definitely smaller. I see it in my clothes, I see it in my pocures, and I am seeing it in the mirror. And that is awesome!! I will take the pounds I have lost for the physical results I have yielded. It will also be interesting to what adjustments my body will make this upcoming month as a result of these last 14 days.

Now for something kind of gross! I think from all this fasting I may have experienced some e parasite die off! Something I was NOT expecting AT ALL. I saw something in my bed that I think came out of me. Anyway, did some research, found that pretty much all of us (meat eaters or not) have parasites. Getting wormwoo, black walnut, and clove at the health food store today to start a parasite cleanse asap. I plan to cleanse with these supplements through the month of February.

As for my refeed. I plan to start tomorrow morning anytime after 10 am. Looking forward to yummy homemade bone broth, avocado, and my favorite kalamata olives. I will probably have some kimchi too depend on how my gut takes the other food.

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So you have your ReFeed plan in place?


Left: 169lbs. 1st FF2H challenge 10/27/19
Right: 160.8 1/31/2020


Left: 161
Right:160.8 1/31/2020
Practically the exact ssame weight. I got down to 161 in December (before the Holidays!). I love how fasting is toning me up!


Left: Me December 27th 2019. I am unsure of my exact weight this day. But in was feeling pretty good about myself for almost about the turn 35 and still looking not too bad after three children, all c-sections.
Right: 160.8 1/31/2020

Fasting does firm up loose skin!


Left: Me, summer of 2018, weight apx 175 lbs.
Right: 160.8 lbs 1/31/2020
I will NOT be looking like I did any more summers. Looking forward to feeling comfortable in my own skin and a cute dresses :slight_smile:

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Yep! I am planning to keep thi gs super simple tomorrow; bone broth, avocado and kalamata olives. I will also be including coconut water. Days 2-4 same as day 1, but adding cooked veggies like cauliflower and zucchini. I will also be including green juices/smoothies to day 2-4. I have decided that February I am fasting from coffee and counting my fast from marijuana. I will be following the 5:2 eating plan (five. days eating, 2 days fasting. I want to fast Wednesdays and Thursdays. So that’s why my refeed is only 4 days. I am just going to keep my eating super simple, more plant based, clean, low/no toxin/chemicals/antibiotics etc. I am also starting a parasite cleanse tomorrow. I will be using wormwood, black walnut and clove supplements to clear those little offers out! I am hoping I will see an improvement with my facial redness (possibly rosacea). I have learned that there is a link between parasites and rosacea. Which would make sense why fasting did not reduce the redness. I am excited for this next leg! I am so proud I made it through these 14 days!!! I cam hardly wait to see what my results from exercising will be a month from now.

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Thanks. I was guessing you were tall because you seemed thin to be around 160.

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SOOOOOO MUCH PROGRESS!!! Speechless !!!

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Wow, I’ll take that compliment, thank you!

Lol @ shark week. This is a great list

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How are you doing these days? :heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

I’ve been too busy. Just goin’, goin’ goin’. I do not reccomend! I never took my reset day to just collect myself, my thoughts, goals etc. Today I am making myself just stay home and organize and clean. I am feeling overwhelmed that I have so much to get done in life in general. So I am hoping taking a day off just to clean house will help that feeling dissipate.

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Welcome back! We’ve missed your cheerful presence around these parts.

Oh bless your heart!! I really missed you guys too! I kind of got a little overwhelmed with all my mini goals and wanting to document them here and had yadda where I kind of just chose to avoid the journaling because I felt was failing at it. I know stupid. I am just going to stick to the kind of journaling that works for me; expressing feelings and self reflection. I have still been trucking away the best I can with my goals and my new awesome, slightly kooky and certainly busy new life. I look forward to getting caught up with all you guys and see where you’re at etc. I gotta say Alipio, seeing you look so good in your pooka shell (that’s what I call it any, I may have misspelled it) necklace got me kind of emotional!! I am so impressed with your progress, I have such admiration for your strength to push through and tenacity. Gosh, you’re looking so healthy and glowy it’s awesome! I love that I got to be witness to a certain degree of your achievements. I am happy to be back!

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Left: 10/26/19 169 lbs middle: 1/21/20 164 lbs
Right: 3/11/20 161.8

Left: 10/26/19 169lbs Right: 3/11/20 161.8 lbs

Progress photo time! I am loving my progress!! Still slightly, just ever so slightly butthurt that I have not seen a 159 or 158 etc on the scale, still hanging out in the stinkin’ 160’s lol. But if I can literally be slightly thinner in the 160’s than I was before child #3 in the 150’s, I’LL TAKE IT! I am loving what fasting is doing for me! Since I have been on here last, I have just been doing 24 or 48 hour fasts when it felt right for February. I did stay true to some sort of exercise daily. Whether it was just 20 squats while in a public restroom or 5 pushups before bed, just SOMETHING. I kept Febr pretty keto clean, but I did have a handful of super indulge days the last 10 days of February. As of now I am completing a 7 day fast that I will end this Sunday. I did have a crutch meal at about 1000 calories today (I know, that’s about double the crutch meal allowable, but if felt right, it tasted glorious and it just supercharged nourished my body, loaded me with energy to where I have been working out all day). I may be getting closer to my healthy weight where I can’t sustain such long fasts. Anyway, I am feeling great about my progress. I am just getting super focused on getting super fit and in shape, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I have goals this summer and I am doing all I can to get there, even if it means just failing forward. I am so grateful to our little fasting family. Everyone’s love, encouragement and wisdom have been so encouraging and motivating to me that I have to credit some of my success to what we have going on here, Facebook and Yasmins YouTube vids. You guys are wonderful!! Love ya! Happy to be back!

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Me 25 years old, I think around 225?

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Danggg so inspiring!

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Woohoo! Down a pound despite my crutch meal; 160.8. One more pound and I can see the 150’s. I know I will put on a few pounds during my refeed, and that’s okay. Seeing the 150’s will be more of a mental boost that I need to keep going. I feel super good this morning! Getting ready for some self love appointments (hydrafacial and hopefully there will be time for a pedicure).

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Had a lovely day yesterday! Super enjoyed my facial and seeing all the ladies at my dermatologist’s office. I live about an hour away now from my old world/life. The last time they saw me was in October, about a week before I started my first challenge with this group (i had done almost a year of water fasting/IF/OMAD leading up to the fast forward to health October challenge). I got so many compliments!!! They couldn’t get over “how much weight” I must have lost. Hahaha! If they only knew that it is has barely been ten pounds that I seem to keep regaining (almost) after each fast lol. However, my inches do not come back. I utterly marv at the fact that I can weigh what I weigh, but look how I look and wear the sizes that I am wearing! So yesterday was just awesome, total moral and mental boost hearing all the lovely comments. I did have another meal. While I was in Chico for my appointment, my hunny had a work order in the same area. After he works, he likes to reward him with a good meal out and a beer. We went to a restaurant called the Pour House…super great food and atmosphere. Anyway, I had a very keto friendly and nourishing meal. I told him I am fasting through Sunday SO LEAVE ME ALONE! :grimacing: I forgot to wear myself this morning, so I am unsure of the effects on my weight, but nonetheless, I feel great, and that is what is important to me. I was chuckling to myself yesterday because my guy was flipping out how hungry he was (he literally had gone maybe 3-4 hours since the last meal) and I was like… WHOA it’s been 28 hours since I ate last. Even though I had a crutch meal on Wednesday too, I was shocked how 24 hours blew past and I didn’t even feel it. So I know that if the world keeps going in the direction it is, it may not be food shortages, but food access that may be affected, I know I can go days without eating and I will mentally be okay.

I did want to share this: I actually was able to go across the monkey bars!!! I took my youngest forma walk to a newly discovered park in our neighborhood and my hunny encouraged me to try the monkey bars. I at first told him heck no, because I was NEVER able to do it, even as a kid. Anyway, thankfully he pushed me to at least give it a try, so I did. And to my utter amazement, I did it! I still am in shock. Having a lower body weight coupled with the simple daily exercising I have been doing is manifesting results!

Today I have nothing planned hallefreakinglujah! Well, except just organize my house a bit, you know, do the things that aren’t on the usual house cleaning list. Like organize my room, declutter the garage, etc…

So that wraps up my world for today. Just gonna keep fasting through Sunday. Organize a bit, mix in some push ups, do my walk, and make time this evening for more self love; probably a bath, nice lotion rub down afterwards, and a self pedicure lol (didn’t get that yesterday).

Tomorrow my daughter is having her 14 year old birthday party that her father and his girlfriend are throwing for her. She wants me to come. I said I would. I have a lot of mixed emotions. However, I’m a mother fucking bad ass and I am not going to let a pos weasel like my ex keep me from my daughter’s life. I highly doubt he’ll try anything. However, public crowds has never stopped him in the past. I will have my 6’3" 220 lbs man with me, so I don’t need to feel afraid. I am looking forward to looking and feeling fine af. I purchased a lovely top the other day and I can’t wait to wear it tomorrow! I’ll try and remember to share a picture or two tomorrow :slight_smile:

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Okay…I just weighed myself…my hunny told me to just do it and not care if it went up from eating. So I did it lol. And to my surprise…weight went down…160.2. So close guys to seeing that 1-5-anything. Will I see a 159.9 tomorrow? We’ll see! This marks weighing the least I have since baby #3. Actually, come to think of it, I weigh less than prepregnancy weight. I weighed 164 at conception. This is cool! Woohoo! To anyone who is reading this…please know I have my ups and downs. Just pushed through a down period, you know, this is life. And now I am on an up! I’m super enjoying this wave!

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Wow! What a crazy ass five days!!! Freaking the world, or at least the portion of world I reside in has gone mad. Funny how infectious fear can be! I’m totally guilty if stress eating! Anyway, I didn’t finish my 7 day fast completely…I started thinking thoughts that if everything starts shutting down (which things are more and more where I live) then it would be better in enjoy good healthy food. But then within 24 hours it turned into alcohol which then opened up the sugar cravings. Aye. Anyway, I decided that I am not going to let the world’s fear and madness get to me any longer and to live to my best self regardless. I hoped on here today to reduce the amount of damage I started and to hault the flow any further. I just hoped on the scale was up about 9lbs…granted, I was fully dressed, finished about 24 ounces of water and just ate breakfast. So I am probably up around 5 lbs since last Friday. I am starting a 72 hour fast right now. I just want to cleanse out from the sugar and fear I have been consuming since being on here. I also have been in a sort of paralysis the last couple of days so I am getting my ass moving now too! Luckily for me, this health crisis/scare bullshit hasn’t effected my company negatively. My partner and I have had an onslaught of work orders (I own a property Preservation company that serves northern California and southern Oregon). Anyway, i amm heading out now to complete some work orders and will definitely be getting some exercise.

How are the rest of you doing?

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I’m handling the craziness my clients are going through better than I was Monday when I got buried under a bunch of calls because I have several restaurant clients.

Like you I gave into stress eating the last couple of days, which I haven’t done since early summer last year before I started my treatment protocol.

I’ve gotten back in control with a 1 mile walk and full body workout today. Also I’ll be starting my 2nd 21-day fast this Friday.

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