Day 6

Okay the fast was way better than this diet. I'm full and in pain all the time. The fast must have shrunk my stomach. I am constantly reevaluating how many meals I am going to get out of a can of green beans and a can of black beans. I tried to eat 4 oz of protien yesterday and laid around like I just ate a whole pizza.

So Ian going to up my green beans to half a can per meal, get my black beans to about 25 % of a can per meal and try to keep the protien at 4 oz per meal.

I used to think I couldn't eat 4 oz of protien and be totally freaking full.

No weight loss since the switch off the fast but I am holding at 290 so that's a good sign but my energy is way down I must be shifting gears or something.

Day 4 of the fast

290 pounds. Dam!

I made it all day. Then about 8 pm I had some v8 juice instead if my usual clamato. I thought it would be better as the clamato had a lot of sugar. Then I ate a hard boiled egg. That was what did it. I ate something.

I ended up eating about 4 ounces of smoked salty salmon. Yep protien and salt and I lost my whole day.

Anyway I could SE no problem fast 3 -5 days. Day 4 was easy I just should not have eaten kinda ruins a fast.

I started the 4 hour body diet this morning I have a plan let's see it work.
Still targeting 279 as the first goal. 11 pounds to go.

I will say one thing I was eating this morning and food with nothing on it tasted good and I was worried about getting full before I ate all the three things in the diet. I feel stuffed right now and I ate about a cup of food.

Conclusion - fasting is easier than dieting, I will do it again if I need a reset of my system. The detox and two day ketosis made me feel great. I wouldn't eat anything and I would make a fresh vegetable drink in the morning instead of store bought at night.

The start

Date 1-20-11
299 pounds - down from 314 way to much pain up in that weight range,
total inches - 134.5
estimated body fat at 40%  aiming for 20%


Since I eat what I want other than things that cause me pain like caffeine, red meat, and uncontrolled feasts I can only maintain a weight I cannot lose weight.  I am a technology worker and I don't move much. So I am fat.  In the last 10 years I have gained 50 pounds. I was never not fat.

The reason for change
Pain mostly- I am tired of the foot,hand,neck,face and left chest pain. I am tired of checkup that basically tell me i have exceeded my design parameters.  Messages work to manage the pain but my massage therapist died so I have not started with someone else. The pain is greatest in the winter when I stop moving around even more. I have decided that pain makes things harder for me to do. It makes me want to do less things. I don't do things because I am fat and it's more comfortable to not be uncomfortable so not doing is a trend and it makes me feel bad.  Bottom line this is a bad place and if I don't get myself out of it it will get worse.

The Start- thanks to my brother
I cannot control the volume of food I eat when I start eating.  The solution don't start eating. So i devided I have never not eaten for one whole day in my life."I wonder what would happen?"  My goal was to just not eat for one day.  A fast just to do it. So I skipped lunch I rarely eat breakfast anyway. After a few mental battles everything was relatively easy. so i skipped dinner and tried to stay busy as to not think about food.
Fast - day 2
Day one was painless and easy and I dropped my weight to 294.5 best I had done in years. So other than a minor headache in the morning (cured with water) I felt good so I kept going. I thought I should have a plan for when I stop fasting so I can keep a good thing going. I should also set a goal and tell people my goal. So I randomly picked 20 pounds as my first goal.  279 pounds would be a great start for the first month. I really didn't have a timeline but I know time is important so I added it later. Anyway day 2 had come and gone with out any effort at all. I decided to follow the four hour body book as my plan.

Fast - day 3
Day 3 started of hard to get up and out of bed but once I got moving it was a relatively easy day except for dinner time (I just powered through that because I wanted to see what my weight would be in the morning).  I was not hungry and weighed in at 292# . Ketosis had started I was burning fat my toxic yellow tongue was now white. I went for a bike ride to get my cheap 4hb food. I also cleaned out my pantry I didn't throw anything out except stuff I was never going to eat. I just wanted to know what all I had in the cupboards so I did't buy more of something I already had.  This was Just part of getting a plan together for when I came off the fast.

Fast - day 4
I started out with a headache again but not hunger at all. I only seem to get hungry when my wife is cooking or eating something. Must be like the carp in Hawaii that start to swarm for food when they hear the dinner bell. (pavlov) I am typing this now and I don't know if I am going to keep fasting or start the 4hb plan. I know I am curious what will happen if i just hold out one more day it's kinda like finding the line of diminishing return.  If I ever do this again I want to know what to expect. I also weighed in at 289 this morning so 10 pounds was pretty dam'd easy. I had not been able to get here in the last two years. I consider this fast just a jump start to a real plan. I also know what it feels like to just not eat and it's not a big deal for me. we'll see how today turns out.