First 48 hours of a fast

38 hours tongue is half white half yellow still so toxic is starting to fall away. I have been drinking a lot if water dizziness is less headach is about the same.
41 hours tongue still yellow have small headach highly productive and only a little shaky.

48 hours tongue is white

Bobb
Imagination
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started fasting again

I just wanted to say it took me about 5 days after the last 5 day fast to feel normal on food again.   That last fast was the hardest one yet.  Yesterday I began my current fast. I wanted to do an eat stop eat plan but honestly the effort to get into a fast makes me think I should stay in it for at least 36 hours.

I usually start a fast after dinner. That way the first 8 hours are while I sleep. I have no problem skipping breakfast and lunch.  I start to really think about food around 3 pm or roughly at 18 hours i usually go into ketosis at about 20 hours so this is just my body starting to warn me that it is going to change something if i don't find some food.  the next 8 hours is the toughest part of day 1.  Next time  I am going to start after breakfast and see if the cycle starts easier than after dinner.  I may be able to sleep through the last 8 hours instead of the first 8 which would make day 1 simple. I would probably start off with a smaller entry meal also. I never eat as much for breakfast as i do for dinner.

I went to bed early to stop the need food thought process. I woke up early with no hunger pains and feeling thinner its always fun to see what your first day fast was worth in terms of weight reset. i won't call it loss because 20 hours of it you just burned what you had already eaten.

At 33 hours I have began the minor headaches section. Usually a glass or two of water is the cure. day two is usually the worst day of the fast. i just try to stay busy go out to a movie whatever it takes to think about something else. I know day 3 gets easier so it's just a push through it kind a day.

Made my first goal. Got a new one

277 pounds today. I can't decide if I want to stay on the fast one more day or not. It's been rougher than the other fasts but I feel relatively good today. Mentally slow and kinda weak but I could go another day at least.

I met my goal of 279 so I set a new one at 263. That was my starting weight at the Pud 11 years ago. When I get there it will make 51 pounds gone from my highest weight.

I plan to do go on the eat stop eat diet when I come off this fast.

Good day it was still easier than working out. :)

Bobb
Imagination
509-431-1821

Day 4 after the superbowl

Wow it was a tough start to this fast I definitely don't want to start on one after a big party. Reduce the start the fast. It took me until the 4 th day to start feeling better.

I weighed in at 280 today finally below the pre superbowl numbers. I am 1 pound from my first goal of 279. Today looks like an easy day.

Day 1 of a fast you get stomach rumblings. That's just your stomach shrinking so those are good. Day two is the rough one. You feel lazy and your muscles hurt you just have to drink water and keep on it go to bed early if you have to. Go do something fun like a movie. Just power through it.
Day three you should be fairly week but gaining energy the headaches are from the detox in the fat burning going on. Enjoy them a little headach is easy to accept when you know the bad stuff is leaving.

Day 4 your body makes another run at food. Give it a small juice or something liquid to push through. Do it just before the end of the day. Just make sure you stop with a very small amount or you will loose the fast. Best way to stop eating Is to drink aloe Vera the stuff tastes so bad you would rather have nothing.

Day 4 I made a vitamin c aloe grapefruit juice fish oil drink for breakfast. C is fir the immune system. Aloe is for the skin. Fish oil is heart and inflammation grapefruit Is for potassium and brain the whole drink was about 2 ounces. Also I tossed in some metamucill about a half teaspoon. I followed this with 2 glasses of water well SE how this goes today.

Bobb
Imagination
509-431-1821

Day 16

Decided to fast for the last 59 hours. It was a good call I am down to 284 and feel great. I could easily go more on the fast but I don't want to burn out and the superbowl parties are coming so I wanted to neon real food by Sunday.

Day 2 of the fast was hardest. Day 1 was nothing even the headaches and body acid aches were way less.

Looks like water fasting is about 3 pounds a day on average for me. The cool thing is how good food that I could not stand before is. Like prunes they were so sweet and good. I could stand to even eat one before. I started drinking vita water instead of water to come out of the fast. It even tasted sweet. I also had some clamato. It was super salty. Bottom line the more I understand the fasting processes the easier it is to do. Like stomach rumbling it's not hunger it habit and it's your stomach resizing. Good thing are happening when your stomach rumbles.

I am going to modify the slow carb diet to be more Atkins like but I do appreciate the beans so I am keeping them just less of them. I am going to do the eat stop eat plan with it next week and see how I do.

My energy has been great. My skin dried out a bit I am going to add some aloe Vera to my diet to help with that. You never have to worry about eating to much aloe it's probably the worst tasting thing ever.

I only 5 pounds from my first 20 pound goal. I am planning to enjoy Sunday and get back on track Monday.

New plan

Okay I have been on the slow carb diet for a couple of weeks. Here iscwhat I like. I like the day off concept it gave me some freedom and let me not think about food. I didn't lose any weight but I didnt gain any either. I was full all the time.

The bad was I eat to many carbs which prevents ketosis. I appreciate the slow carbs and kinda liked eating from cans. I didn't get to see the numbers fall so it didn't have great satisfaction. I felt weak occasionally and terrible occasionally. So I need to eat more vegetables fewer carbs and find a balance.

I noticed I eat for flavor if I put flavor on something I want more. So bland is good. Flavor the veggies!

I also noticed if I cook I eat more. I made a big pot of beans so I ate a large portion of the beans. So per canned carbs give me portion control. I'm also going to have Cobie make up the food in advance that should help keep me out of the kitchen. Oh bush brand beans are the best.

I'm also like the cannedvegtables but I am experimenting with frozen vegetables. Instead of cooking the frozen veggies I put them in a jar and rinse them off. Then fill the jar with water added a little salt. Then set it in the fridge. This way there is a big thing of vegetables ready all the time. I don't cook them so they are more nutritious and it keeps me from cooking. I think this and canned vegtables with a few cheap fresh vegetables should work for vegetables. I can always boil the frozen or refrigerated ones for some variety.

Today I was at 290 pounds I ate like a pig and felt horrible mist of the night it was all on the diet but wasn t good.

Anyway I am going to keep the slow carb diet focusing on vegetables. Less flavor and less cooking. The slow carb method is cheap and easy but I just can't get into a really good fat burn. I figure it's the carbs. Honestly I did way better on my short term fast

I am going to start adding a fasting cycle to the slow carb so we will see how it goes.