I am starting a body reset water fast. However, i do not set a length goal as I do not want to focus on that. I will just do what feels right and break my fast when I need to. Might even do multiple 48 fasts with clean refeeds in between… I will see how it goes.
My main fear with fasting is that my training suffers from it and to impair muscle recovery… I also fear lowering my metabolism even if I know there are strong evidences that it does not. I still have this lingering back thought that it might. Also, Im scared of binge eating when I break my fast as I tend to slowly stuff my face with everything I can get my hand on when I decide to eat again. I don’t binge on a regular basis. So I don’t like this feeling of not being in control of what I eat. Im hoping that fasting long enough will truly break my addiction to sugar and give me control again…
I am not new to fasting but never went past 60hrs. My motives for fasting are gut related. Everything I eat causes tremendous bloating. Last night my stomach was so bloated that I looked pregnant. I had not overate. I have heartburns and gas, indigestion. Im tired of it.
I want to fix that.
Im having some inflammatory reaction in my joints and muscles as well. I know something is off. My recovery when I workout is much slower and my performance took a hit. I have lower legs and upper back muscle tightening issues and this is setting me back in my training. I believe they might be related to food sensitivities as well.
I have been following a low carb diet but lately been relax on it as I was fearing that my performance issues might be caused by not eating enough carbs. I tried eating more carbs and it made a few things happen but not the right ones. My performance did not come back. I bloat, I have gas, I gained back the 8 lbs I worked hard to shed, Im feeling sluggish.
Also, I havent been eating as clean as I could with the holidays and my sugar addiction came back. I sure want to kick that bad habit out of my life again and stop craving all that junk…
I also have 20lbs to lose. I workout and gained quite a bit of muscle mass. I want it to show!
I want to lower my body weight set point. Ive quit smoking in May 2019 and my weight is much harder to manage since ive quit.
I have dandruff and hormonal acne.
When I feel that my body is ready to receive food again. I will start with probiotic food. I will break my fast the right way. I want to be disciplined in my eating again. I want to choose what I feed my body. I want every food entering my body to be a conscious choice for nourishment and fuel.
I enjoy food and I love to eat but now I do not experience the full pleasure of eating because of all those side effects.
Sugar is like alcohol to me, I can’t touch it. It’s addictive and I have to understand that although is it labeled as food, I can’t have any. It is poison to me, just like alcohol. One chocolate bar is too much and 10 is not enough. haha. Some people just can’t handle the, ‘just have one… or just have a little bit.’… I don’t binge but day after day, it creeps in and I end up going as far as getting up in the middle of the night to have a sugar fix to go back to sleep. Enough is enough… I will starve those yeast overgrowth and bad bacteria and then put some good stuff in and restore my gut…
Fasting is the fastest way to accomplish such a mission… Let’s go!
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