Wow, almost 2 months! That is a long time to be away. Since my last time popping on I have been still working towards to my weightloss and fitness goals one day at a time. I have been battling HUGE feelings of frustration that I haven’t gotten to where I want to be weight or physique wise. I think I am at the pont where I HAVE TO increase my output. I know from experience that what we eat is the majority of the battle when it comes to lsing weight, but I have been at this annoying stall for years. I get uncomfortable when I am up over 170-172. only a handlful of times since the birth f Rachel (6/2016) have I blown past 172. And I feel only a handful of times have I gotten below that into the 160’s, usually hovering around 167-168. I feel good in my clothes, and not to sound stick up, but I do feel I look good in my clothes too. But I want to look great and feel COMFORTABLE naked, or at least in a swimsuit. My kids are always begging me to take the swimming or to the water parks etc when summer hits and I want to do that more, and not feel insecure or fat doing so. So I have got to get serious here! I am upping the intensity! I have been doing Yasemin’s “Glow Up” Bootcamp and I am loving the results. Shockingly I was 174.6 at the beginning of the challenge. Yes, I quarantined stress ate. But within 10 days I was down 10 pounds. I did do some fasting and when I ate again, I went back up to 167-168 and seem to be hanging out there. I want to ultimately be in the 140’s but would be so happy to be in the 150’s by this summer. So that is goal #1 for: Get out of the 1effing60’s. And never see the 170’s EVER AGAIN. I am so sick of it! Ugh. In addition to the weight number, I want to see muscle tone. This is something I have never really achieved before. I want to be a person that LOVES to exercise. I want people to see me as a super fit and healthy person. I will say, my family does see me as a healthy nut, which, I would agree with them. I am very picky about what I will eat and the quality of it. But I want to move on from the gooshy, fluffy soft body look. I want to move past expectations and lose the om belly (without plastic surgery) for good! To do this, I am coming up with my own 4 week kickstart plan. I plan to exercise everyday. I will workout 3-5 times a week intensely, and on the non workout days, I will walk. I love to stretch, so stretching will continue to be a daily thing. I think that stretching everyday has helped me at least maintain a somewhat slimmer shape have having three babies. In addition to the working out, I will drink no less than 80 ounces of water daily, and fast one day a week and also allow one cheat meal a week. What has been working best for me when I mess up and go off my eating plan and eat treats I shouldn’t, I just fast it off the following day or so. I usualy will go up two to three pounds after eating sugar, but then fast 24-48 hours and it is all back off again. So I plan to have my fast day after my cheat meal/day. I plan to workout intensely M/W/F (I am making it a minimum of 3 days, but I am open to working up to 5 days a week). And then cheat/treat day either Friday or Saturday with the fast day to follow either Friday or Saturday. I am keeping my treat day open to Friday or Saturday to allow for family functions, dinners, events to play a role in my treat time. Sometimes we like to “party” Friday, sometimes we like it to be Saturday. I won’t be following a very strict fasting regime the other days of the week. I am looking forward to going back to a more natural and organic way of eating. I have noticed during this nootcamp challenge my body really wants my one meal (OMAD) broken into two smaller meals about 4-6 hours apart. My day usually goes like this: Wake up, coffee (HWC and stevia), no breakfast, get hungry around 11 am-1230 pm, if I am not fasting, I will eat and then usually eat again at dinner time with the family, if I am not fasting or OMADing. I think I will still yeild really good physical results if I eat twice a day in a larger eating window. I also plan to expand my typical keto diet to a more paleo style diet. Whole, oraganic foods very little to no cheese, lots of fruits and veggies, etc. I really miss a lot of healthy foods that i don’t eat on keto. I see my 140 lb self eating a more balanced and varied healthy diet, not so restrictive like it has been. So yeah, there you have it. The rough draft of my 4 week plan. I plan to start this upcoming Monday. I am excited to see the results I yield!
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Nice plan. The only thing I would recommend is you schedule in rest days.
For myself, I have 9 days left in this 30-day workout phase before starting my final 21-day fast. Here’s my rotating 3-day workout schedule:
Day 1: Lower Body:
Quad, Hamstring, Hip & Ankle Stretches
Dynamic Stretches: Squats & Side Squats
Upper Ab crunches, Oblique Twists & Leg Lifts
1 mile walk
Day 2: Upper Body
10 sets of 10 rep burpees (Gentle Burpees at this time)
10 sets of 10 rep Dumbbell Reverse Fly
Upper Ab crunches, Oblique Twists & Leg Lifts
1 mile walk
Day 3: Complete Rest
Workouts are to tear down the muscle fibers. Rest is required by the body to rebuild them to make them stronger. Also if you need to take an additional day of rest, TAKE IT! As older folks we need more body repair & rejuvenation time than the kids. LOL.
I have made a plan with my sister that we have both agreed to commit 4 weeks to. Starting this upcoming Monday, we are doing group workouts M/W/F at 10 am. The other days of the week I am not working out I will be walking. I am not too old that I can’t walk everyday lol!
So nearly 5 weeks later, my sister and I still workout 3 times a week. We both have goals to look and feel our best for our two big family reunions coming up Aug. 7th and Sept 5th.
Even though I havent achieved the weight I’d like to he yet, I am super proud of myself for continuing to workout! That’s over 2 months of consistent working out. Woohoo!
Now, to the fasting. Enough of the bullshit! No more! I am so sick of not hitting the fasting number of days I see out for. I want 21 days under my belt damn it! So here I am, finishing day one yet again. I am totally capable of completing a 21 day fast! I am doing this!
Today is my last day that I am allowing myself little helps to get into my 21 day water fast. Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening I ended up breaking my fast at about 24 hours to eat a very strictly keto meal. Ugh. Today I haven’t “eaten” anything. Just put 1 TSBP of HWC and and a small pat of butter and a little more butter this evening (almost a tablespoon) melted to keep me from caving again. I can tell my body is already in deep ketosis. How? My breath! AHHH! That dreaded kind of metal taste and how I hardly have any energy but my brain is on fire.
I have a big court trial tomorrow for a child custody matter. Essentially my ex filed a bogus motion in a state that our daughter has never lived in. I countered with a motion to dismiss that has cost me $6500 
So frustrating!!! I loathe liars. The stress from this ordeal has really affected my eating plan. However, despite the court drama, I have not missed a workout with my sister and sister in law. I have been keeping up with my personal workouts too. Buutttt…I did allow myself to live it up last Wednesday and Thursday eating all kinds of tasty foods and treats. I still have about 4 lbs of the 8 I gained to shed off 
But I am doing it and that feels good!
Even though I consumed so liquid fat, I am still counting it towards my 21 day fast. Day one done.
Day 2 done!
I did it! I made it another day without giving in to the 30+ temptations/promptings to eat, to taste or snack on something. I also won my trial today!!! Like super won! Big, fat epic win! My ex is facing potential criminal charges for lying to the court! Omg, I can hardly believe this! I was also awarded attorney fees. Praise God! He is so good. One of my prayers I prayed was that not ONE lie would be allowed to be spoken in court. And that actually happened. My ex was about 30 minutes late to the trial (we were both appearing via the computer, our attorneys appeared in person). When his face popped up on the teleconference screen, he was able to hear anything, only see what was on camera. Hr didn’t realize it, but we were able to see and hear him. Long story short, the judge said that due to the overwhelming amount of evidence i presented that proved that our daughter has always lived with me in California he was going to be handing over the entire case and transcripts to the sheriff’s department for investigation of false statements and fraud on the court front my ex. So he advised my ex that anything he said would be used against him. So my ex said nothing but that he didn’t object the motion to dismiss his bogus case. OMG!!! Talk about an answered prayer hallelujah! I am so high from being so overjoyed and relieved that the case in Montana is gone.
All these amazing, good feelings I am experiencing has definitely left me feeling like I would like to celebrate eat. But I didn’t cave! I stayed the course and didn’t eat food. I motivated myself by saying how awesome it is going to be to see what I will look like at 10 or 14 days fasted. I am doing all I can to get to day 5 where I should be more in autopilot mode. There were about two times today where I felt hungry, but mostly it was all emotional/mental hunger. I feel good today. My energy started to crash about 3 pm, I remedied that with a nitro cold brew coffee. It helped. Now it’s almost midnight and I still am awake lol. I am tired, but wanted to hop on here and document my day.
I was also down another 2 pounds today 
I also did a twenty minute water aerobic workout in the pool tonight and made time to layout a bit (I am working on a tan right now and using the sun to further tighten my skin and it is working!). I am also pleased with mybwatwr intake and I did take my potassium and magnesium supplements along with my sea salt. I did finish my night with some smooth move laxative tea because I can tell there is still food in my digestive track and I am concerned that without food it might not pass in a timely manner. So I am giving some help to get those kinds of toxins out.
Alright, goodnight!
Day 3/21
Finishing up day 3 here. Energy has been up and down. I get tired seeing all the mom work I have ahead of me. I have had to tell myself, it’s okay if the dishes take you 2 hours instead of 20 mins. Hunger is diminishing. I got a hair cut today! I could hardly breathe, that sucked. But my hair turned out so nice. 4 months of no trimming, so it was well needed. The salon I go to does scalp massages and special botanical treatments, etc so it is a very relaxing and therapeutic experience. My hairdresser was the first friend I met in Redding. I didn’t even think I was going to get her today because I told the receptionist I just wanted the soonest appointment. It was so nice to see a friendly face! At least half of it anyway.
Today’s weight: 163.4. I am still contemplating if I will continue to weigh myself. I am still undecided.
I am just feeling a little tired physically and bored That’s why I am here…for some entertainment lol.
I did lay out another 20 minutes and that did give me a boost of energy believe it or not. I also did my workout with my sister and sister in law today. I kept my input pretty light. Usually I really up the intensity, not today though. I decided to invite my sister and sister in law to workout with me via zoom M/W/F at 10 am my time. They live in Idaho and Utah and both have a gang of little children. So I am so proud of them for their commitment. They look at me as their coach and motivator, but they are really keeping me accountable. My sister weighs about 30 pounds more than me and is 7 inches shorter and my sister in low is about 75 pounds heavier and is 6 inches shorter. So they have some weight to lose, they are also 10 years younger than me. We started May 16th. My sister has lot 12 pounds. I would like to add, my sister JUST had a baby, like two months ago and is breastfeeding. My sister in law is one month pregnant. With them, they would think I am crazy for fasting 21 days. I have told them I do all sorts of fasting, but since I have always looked healthy, and never had to go to the hospital, they don’t give me any flack. I will tell them on day 21 that I have gone without food for 21 days. I think for them to see my transformation over the next three weeks AND not dying, they may be open to use fasting to not only lose excess fat, but get their insulin under control.
I have been using sodium, potassium and magnesium everyday, actually, a few days before I started going without food.
CORRECTION: Photo on left I weigh 164.5
I was not able to find a logged weight in myfitness pal or in my fasting app, so I guessed. I saw that I had another photo from that day in my journal and the weight I logged was 164.5.
I know the changes are small, but I feel super sexy today. I am loving my tan so far and to tautness in my skin from all my previous fasting fails. I say fails, because 9/10 I set out to do 2 days, 3 days, 14 days whatever and would 9/10 fail. But those fasting fails still add up!!! I have not had these ind of results with any other dieting fail. So be encouraged, if you only fasted for a day or two instead of 21, your body is still benefiting!
One thing I would like to add about these two photos. I remember taking the one on the left because it was after a longish fast…like 5 or 6 days or something. I like that I liked myself then and I still like myself now and I and still improving. Yes, It has taken months, but so what! I didn’t go in the other direction which is SOOOO easy to do at 35 with three children.
3/21 days fasting (evening).
So…I have been doing what some would call a dirty fast. Or at least that’s what I’m calling it. It’s not a pure water fast. I have been allowing coffee with cream, sparkling water with stevia, and melted butter. Just now I made a bowl of broth with melted bacon drippings. I know, wild. I guess you can also call it a fat fast. Essentially, I am doing my best to not break my fast with eating, and chewing. So even though I have consumed a couple hundred calories today, I am still feeling exhausted!!! As though I been water fasting. My body has dropped about 8 pounds since last Friday morning. So it’s working. And I like that it is working.
I decided that I am going to weigh myself to test this experiment out: fat fasting to water fasting. Essentially, when my body stops dropping weight, then i will transition to a strict water fast. With either style of fasting, I am going until 21 days.
My reasons for fasting this way:
Well, for one, this actually wasn’t originally my plan. After gaining a bunch of pounds after my two day bbq and sweet treat overload, I decided friday morning that I was beginning a 21 day fast. Since I never eat upon waking I was already 14 hours in to my 21 day fast. Welp, 10 hours later I caved and ate a super high fat, minimal protein, and no carb “meal.” By meal I mean random foods that fit into those requirements listed previously in my fridge. I repeated that patter Saturday and Sunday. Feeling frustrated about not getting past 24/25 hours without eating, I told myself I would start again Monday and allow myself three days to consume liquid fat. So HWC in my coffee, melted butter with extra sea salt etc. It helped curb the unbearable parts of fasting: being hungry!!! Anyway, doing this since Friday, I have lost 8 lbs. And yes, I AM FASTING FOR WEIGHTLOSS. Just felt like I needed to get that out there. I do continually remind myself how many other amazing benefits come from fasting. My insulin levels are still low. And that is great. Now, some say it may interfere with autophagy. And that may be true, but my real life experience is that my skin is tightening whether I do a water or dirty/fat fast.
Tonight I went on a walk with my daughters. A 45 minute round trip walk I have done several times with my daughters. I got so tired! Despite having consumed calories from fat. I literally had to have my older daughter push the stroller, then push me in the stroller I was that fatigued!! I even had to make a pit stop at the park to sit and rest. It was wild how wiped out I was today. That part is really hard for me, I have so many people to care for, so much house to keep clean, guests to get ready for, my goodness, the energy needed to so all that! Well, I just hope I can keep up lol.
Day 3 done.
I’d discount the 1st 3 days of weight loss as that’s due to your body turning to your glycogen stores to make up the caloric deficit. Each glycogen particle is 3/4ths water. Since you are consuming some calories, I was tempted to say discount the 1st 4 days. However, the fact you are exercising and walking balances that out by burning off the glycogen stores in your muscles.
The hunger and lack of energy are symptoms of a slowing metabolism. Its the reason for the transition symptoms that you are experiencing. Once you transition into ketosis and the body is reassured of another energy source your metabolism will speed up again as it sees there is no longer any reason to conserve energy.
This morning the weightloss was 0.6. Soooo… I am challenging myself to ONLY allow 1 Tbsp of HWC in my coffee. I’m not ready to go black yet. Back in the day, like the early days of fasting nearly 2 years ago, I couldn’t even drink coffee on day two, my energy was way to high! That is not the case anymore.
The reason I am approaching my fast like this is that I don’t want to slip into erratic eating and give up for whatever period of time. I wanted to hit 154 for my bday Jan 2nd, didn’t make that. Then again by summer, didn’t make that. Now I am shooting for Yasemin’s bday. I will make that. Even if that means fat fasting for a week then water fast for 2-3 weeks. I keep getting so close to one fifty anything but I seem to cave/self sabotage right before! The lowest weight I have reached so far since getting pregnant in 2015 is 160.2. So this is how I am getting there. I think by day 6 I will be able to start pure water fasting to be honest. I am just still in that getting past the hump phase.
Oh, and this time…my keto breath is DISGUSTING! Like it’s grossing me out! Any tips?
Black coffee w/stevia in the morning and herbal tea late/afternoon seem to help delay the onset of keto breath until the final week of my 21-day fasts and even the final weeks have never come close to the horrible keto breath I suffered during my 40-day where it got so bad it would wake me from a sound sleep to brush my teeth and rinse out my mouth with mouthwash.
Oh my gosh!!! Oh man, mine hasn’t women me up…but I wonder about my honey 
I will let you know if black coffee with stevia helps at all. This is by far the worst I have ever experienced. I have told myself that i will be starting black coffee on day 6. I will allow 1T of HWC on day 5, just so I don’t cave. I am so close to the 150’s. I know when I see that, my confidence will soar. I have been trying to get back to the 150’s since the birth of my youngest 4 years ago…geez. anyway, so close! I have got to say, lightly tanning is really tightening up my belly skin!
Day 4/21 of my Customized Protocol to end binge eating, weight gain after fasting, and maximized weight loss in a minimal amount of time.
This is the phase where I plan to be shedding the most excess weight: fat and water, predominately, with hopefully very little muscle. I am emotionally okay with losing muscle because rebuilding muscle will be so much more rewarding that rebuilding/regaining FAT.
I am currently my first fasting zoom call with Yasemin. I am so glad that I decided to commit to this. I am looking forward to my new self.
I was able to lay out for about 15/20 minutes. I forgot how the sun helps me with hunger cravings! I am also liking how quickly my skin is tightening up. I fell great today. This is what I wanted! I have noticed the trend:
My weight creeps up to 172…173 or god forbid 176! i decide to water fast, and fast! And go for 10 days, no 15 days so I can get into the 150’s! I start. First 24 hours usually fine. Day two, I start rationalizing one day omad. I either will cave or actually make it to day 3, 4 or 4.5! Or on a whim to day 5, 6, 7, 8 or once 14! I drop A TON of weight, usually, 5-10 pounds. I don’t refeed properly, and eventually regain everything. This time, I went from 171.6 to 161.5 (I just weighed). Holy shit! 10 lbs since Friday morning? Wow. And I allowed calories? Wow. This is the cool part, I feel good! Energy is stable. I only had 1 T of HWC. Tomorrow I will have the same. Next day it is pure water, black coffee and sparking water. I feel confident that I will make it to day six feeling good, and I mean fasting good. Not regular eating, no keto breath good lol. So with me, I drop weight rapid and for me, it causes me to feel so depleted that I break my fast. This time I feel like with 3 OMAD super minimal protein Keto days then to 3 days of allowing several hundred calories of pure fat to only 50 calories from pure fat today the end result is good energy.
Recap of Day 4/21 of my Customized Protocol to end binge eating, weight gain after fasting, and maximized weight loss in a minimal amount of time.
Yesterday was great! I had great physical stamina, my mental clarity was also great. My patience was sucky, I’ll be honest. I am still emotionally decompressing from him the court trial. Yes, I won. But I spent a lot of money and energy on the process. And it hurts that my ex would do something like that. Preparing for trial over last weekend kept me away from my children emotionally and mentally. So I am playing catch up with them. When my children don’t get what they need from me, they act out. And that stresses me out, and also stops my decompressing phase. Which results in bitchy mode. And being in a fasted state doesn’t help that. In an attempt to bring my girls back to a state of happy homeostasis, I only required 30 minutes of cleaning (up their own damn mess…which they did great) and we played in the pool the rest of the afternoon and evening. I was able to get in a mini workout too. Nothing too intense, just a lot of toning exercises. I want to keep my butt through this fast lol. All I in ways of calories was about 1/4 cup of broth and 1 pat of butter. That was it. I did feel light headed a a couple times throughout the day, and. when I would, I would have a pinch of salt and water. I did get acid reflux out of nowhere! I have never had that with a fast. So I quickly slammed 2 tsp of ACV in a cup of water and it was gone almost immediately. I wasn’t able to fall asleep without the ass of melatonin. My body was tired at midnight but my brain was totally awake. I also was sure to take potassium and magnesium in the morning and evening. My goal is to get through this first 7-10 days without caving. In the past I cave because of heart palpitations, or extreme fatigue, or boredom or just feeling like I HAVE to eat something. Not this time. I am going to fast for a really long time!
Day 5/21 of my Customized Protocol to end binge eating, weight gain after fasting, and maximized weight loss in a minimal amount of time.
Today is the start of day 5 of my protocol. I just weighed and I weighed the lowest since the birth of my daughter: 160 exactly. So that is another 1.2 lbs down.
I am so ridiculously close to seeing the one fifty anything! Geez. So hopefully that will be tomorrow! I really hope my period doesn’t mess this up for me. A couple fasts in the past I have done during my TOM and I have gained weight, like 1-3 pounds. So frustrating. But I know it’s not fat.
I feel really good right now. The temperature is nice outside, my girls are all still asleep, the house is quiet and cool. I am going to enjoy my cup of coffee while laying out naked I am really digging my tan! Why did I wait so long to get some color! It has made such a beautiful difference. I keep catching my honey just staying at me…gosh that feels so good! I’ll check in in the evening.
Day 5/21:
It is the end of day 5. To recap a little more on Day 4. Day 4 was a day from hell. NOTHING went the way I had planned OR hoped. On top of that, I felt everyone in my circle/family/support was either picking or critiquing me, disrespecting me etc. My whole day was spent serving everyone else. That is normally how I spend all my days. Serving others is not a bad thing, and something I do enjoy, when I am not one, emotionally tapped out and overwhelmed AND in a fasted state. I just spent the whole day cooking and cleaning for everyone and hostessing Nate’s friend who stayed two nights with us. My Friday (day 4) was supposed to start with me laying out naked in my backyard, followed with my 10 am workout with my sister and sister in law, make a quick breakfast for the kids, then hop on to my fasting call and then head out to Chico to meet up with my sister, do lunch, hang out, and go to a couple stores we needed to and then take my girls to their dad for his week and then come home and take a bath. Well, NONE OF THAT HAPPENED. My guy left around 7 am and wasn’t supposed to be home until 7 pm. Well, he and his friend and son come back due to the job being delayed due to a material issue. Do they tell me? No. I am literally walking in my birthday suit out to the backyard when I here my front door start to open so I bolted back to my room. Now instead of relaxing, getting a my tan on while my girls slept, my adrenaline is still going from bolting naked. Then I find myself making all of them breakfast. Then I decide to make my girls something even better than the quick cereal I was planning before our planned lunch date. I bust my but and make them bomb ass breakfast burritos. My 14 year old grabs her plate, no thank you, but she did eat it without complaining so that is sort of the same thing. My nine year old finally rolls out of bed and grabs her plate and says: Why does it always have to be breakfast burritos? I’m thinking WTF?!! It is never breakfast burritos, that takes too much time! I was trying to be nice and make something special. I look at the clock and it is 10:28 am. I am late for my workout!! I am late because I chose to make something that took more tie for my girls only to get no thank yous AND a complaint. I am now starting to get pissed. before I can even text my sister and sister in law, I am trying to quickly wash as many dshes as I can before lunch hits and the mess quadrupples. My sister and sister in law both agree to postpone our workout. Then I miss the fasting call because instead of going to Chico, I am now going to the pool with Nate, the girls, his son and his friend. I didn’t have a bad time per se, but I missed my call! Someone turned off my alarm, probably while I was suiting up one of the kids or doing something for someone else, nonetheess, I missed MY TIME because everyone else was taking it. I get it, their my family. But the whole day just went on like this. I was now fucking infuriated! So I try to make the 530 pm call while I am driving to drop my girls off to their dad. Call failed due to the poor service while driving. It was like no matter what I fucking did, if it was anything that only bettered or benefited me, SOMETHING was there to take it away or eff it up. UGHHHHH!!! Such frustrating day. I only ended up eating about 400-500 calories of fat, drank lots of water, exercised and took all my supplements. My energy was fantastic! My mood, shitty. I ad a rough day to say the least. The whole feeling that I am giving up real eating and giving all my time to all those around me, when I needed just a bit of time to myself and then not getting it, really effected me in a negative way. I mean, I couldn’t even get the time I would have gotten if I WAS eating.
Today was a better day. I finally feel like I got to decompress from court. I only had my youngest, and with no one around to fight and bicker with, the sound of peace in the home was more present. Didn’t do much, but I did get 40 mins to lay out to myself, and 35 mins to walk this evening by myself. However, the walk was to walk off the stress from my 4 yr old having a number 2 accident in her underwear IN THE STORE! Got her home, got her showered and right to bed. I have had the evening to myself.
This morning I was 161.7. So I told myself today, okay, that means water fasting now. I have been doing o good on the fat fast. But as soon as I told myself that I was water fasting, a part of me revolted and justified the revolt and I surrendered. But before I get to my unplanned refeed, I did have some positives. I woke up feeling rested. I woke up and was able to just make grits for the fam. I had some awesome coffee and was able to lay out. My guy has also been really eyeing me the last couple of days and cornered m in the bathroom 
Let’s just say, I feel super sexy! My tan and 10 pound weight loss has definitely boosted my confidence and apparently my appearance. I liked feeling super wanted today. Nice little dopamine pump. I did make it to my zoom call. I was able to take a really nice shower uninterrupted and shave everything lol. I was able to get myself all dolled up and putting on a dress that belongs to my 14 year old (it was given to her and it’s just not her style). All that made me feel really good. However, like I said earlier, toaday was to be my first all water fast day and no more fat fast. All that changed. First is started with a small portion of high fat foods ( a couple hundred calories). I stopped there. But then my honey was saying he wanted sushi. The last THREE time I have said no because I was on some fast day. Well, today, I just said, all my friends (even most of my fasting/diet friends) are all celebrating 4th of July, I am too. I will continue to lose weight becasue I will go right back to water fasting. I have attached myfitnesspal of what I ate today, I ate everything between 330 pm and 1130 pm. I celebrated if you will, I made sure to enjoy EVERY bite and not get mindless. I did drink lots of water, And shice I ate, I took all my vitamins and supplements. I am choosing to look at today as my mini refeed before completeing the 18 portion of my water fast.
That’s where I need you guys. I believe I can get back into a fast tomorrow. I am posting this for accountability. I do believe what I am doing is working and will work. I just pray my mind gets back to where it needs to be to finish this fast. After being so upset yesterday, I think today is a runoff of yesterday. It was like I needed the feeling of reward so bad because it was either robbed from me by my time being hiacked or just straight up ungratefulness from my family. I don’t feel bad abuot today so long as I use it leverage to now go into the water fast portion. I have been in a fasted state, I just reupped my body of vital nutrients, I kept it within my calories and macros, etc.
I am extended my protocol by one day to make up for the unplanned refeed, so 22 days instad of 21.
Day 5/22 done.
Day 6/22 (1st day of water fast portion)
Today was a success! I didn’t eat anything lol. Just coffee and water. I have the in the back of my stomach low grade “feeling” of hunger, but not hungry. Not feeling triggered. After my fasting call this morning, I have decided to NOT weigh myself. I want to so bad, but I think to keep me focused on my fst, I am going to have to focus on other things aside from my weight number. I am really liking how I am looking. My tan is looking so nice and I swear the sun melts away fat because I am noticeably smaller. I am wearing smaller sizes too! I have had to go to the store to get bigger clothes for my growing children and I decided to get a few things for myself. Some dresses, skirts, bikini tops. Everything looks so cute! Very encouraging. Now I am just working on all my things on the computer for the rest of the night. I do plan to take a quick walk around. Didn’t take any mag. potas. and salt because of my refeed yesterday. Feel great, just a little tired, but I have been out and about all day. I also did get to spend some time laying out. Feeling recharged and like I finally got to decompress.
Just came back from my walk, about 35 mins. I feel good. Keto breath is already starting to come back! Just about 22 hours after my refeed. I don’t use test strips. I have a pretty good gauge when I am in ketosis. My body has a different feel. And you can’t mistake keto breath! I used to get it years ago when I did keto, but haven’t in a very long time. Not until the fast fast last week. So to already be in ketosis is pretty impressive to me. I am also feeling the physical tiredness but my brain is on turbo. I completed a few of my computer work tasks and that always feels good. Going to finish at least one more before bed!