"Do-overs" for New Year's

I couldn't keep it up. I found myself with heart palpitations and very uneasy feelings and said "I give up!" So after a week or so of just eating a serving at least an hour apart, I thought about doing CAD (Carbohydrate Addict's Diet) again. I think it keep me at least healthy. Yes, the weight comes down very slow. But at least there is a feeling of getting to eat well everyday and getting the scale to move down. Tomorrow being a new year...yeah, I know it's a cliche but it's a good time to start something new, or do-overs and embrace what works.

3 pounds down yesterday and today

If I remain at this weight much longer does that mean it isn't working? Or should I celebrate and say that at least I'm not gaining weight. I must confess I haven't been exercising the last few days. Just don't feel like it. I suppose I should just do it.

Another thing: I feel bad today. Not happy, not energetic, not smooth. Is it too soon to stop and say it doesn't work. What do I do when I get to Corpus??? Do I maybe go back to CAD for the duration??? If I were father along with ADF, I might just forgo a few days and then just jump back in when I can. I could go back to the CR diet. I've never felt this bad on any diet I have ever tried.

The bad stuff: feel like my heart is having palpitations, although pulse is okay. Feeling jittery. Did I have too much sugar yesterday. Should I just not have sugar?? I don't like feeling this way.

The good stuff: Today it is hard to find any. Food is about 4.5 hours away.

149.4 Week one

I decided to weigh every Saturday and do the Mary Lou scale everyday. Mary Lou still says 3 pounds down.

Thoughts: As the day goes on when fasting Breakfast and Lunch, I start to feel heart palpitations. Really wanting to eat.

Bad stuff: I must not eat too much, too quickly, too fatty. Still getting stomach pains and diarrhea about one hour to two hours after eating. I think that 6PM meal must be more along the lines of a BRAT diet. That's okay. I love bananas and toast and rice. Apples are okay.

Good stuff. I'm down some weight!! Not having to count calories or give up anything.

3 pounds down...thank you Mary Lou

A new low makes me feel good. Tomorrow will be a full week since I started ADF.

Good points

1. I'm getting used to fasting. Light headedness and rapid heartbeat disappearing.
2. I think my belly looks not so bloated.
3. I really don't think of food.
4. When I do eat, I am not eating bingeing. I don't care to have much food.
Bad points

1. Can't eat supper with Jeff every night.
2. Still don't have as much energy as I'd like. (The literature says that should end soon)
3. Social events may be a problem. (Later on skipping fasting days on occasion shouldn't be a problem once the weight has gone.

2 pounds down...Mary Lou change your tune

Thoughts: It's a lot slower than I would like, considering I am not eating in over 24 hours. But it's too early to give up. I am getting used to fasting and I don't physically feel as bad.

Good stuff: I feel like my belly is getting smaller. I am not as woozy and I don't have as many heart palpitations.

Bad stuff: Wish I could eat whenever I want to..on demand feeding would be great.

2 pounds down..Still the Same

I should have lost some weight. I am not doing a full day fast because I do get to eat at least once a day. But it was over 24 hours before I ate. I looked back at Muse's weight loss and it was like 2 steps forward and 1 back. In other words count on losing and then gaining but not as much..then losing again, but gaining not as much. But always with some forward progress. So, not ready to dispair.

I stopped eating at 1:30, so it will be even longer before I eat tomorrow...like about 29 hours. The good thing is that I really am not hungry. I am hoping that my body will get used to less and less food. I probably will stop pigging out on the day I can eat.

Hunger: 5
Feelings: 8

Fasting thoughts...

It is almost 2 PM and I have been fasting since 6 PM yesterday. Actually, I ate three donuts at 3:45 PM. I was too busy to try to eat more before the 6 PM curfew. So, today, I am thinking more about eating than I did on my first fast day. But I am also working a full day and I didn't do that on Sunday. The stomach growls just once in a while. I went back to read Muse's blog and she says that the hungry part leaves after a couple of months. I feel a little light headed. I keep telling myself I can do this cuz it's only for a few more hours. I am a little lethargic this time but that is good cuz I felt I was a little shaky the first time.

This is just day two of fasting and I could say alot about what I'm feeling or just brush it off. Really, it is doable. I am not fainting or dying. I don't particularly like the feeling but I am calm and not going crazy.

When I get off the fast it will be way over 24 hours....more, like 27, but who's counting. The most important thing is to not go for greasy enchiladas this time and eat as healthy as possible, although, I still have those left-over donuts. That's the beauty of this.

2 pounds down says Mary Lou

So I was at work and fasting. Very interesting. I could feel the pangs of hunger come and go all day. Normally, I would think that I would have to eat or else things would happen, bad things. But I didn't pass out, get extra moody, get a headache, or die. Surprise! So when I went home at 6, I still wasn't desperate to eat. Very, very interesting. We went to El Ricon and when the chips came out, I ate most of them, even the crumbs. The food took a long time to come due to a big party dining there. I didn't quite finish all the food.

Lesson: don't eat greasy food after coming off a 24 hour fast. Diarrhea....

Good thing: I can fast quite easily. Mary Lou says I lost 2 pounds

Feeling: 8

152.4 First Fasting, no supper

Some after work I came home and jogged 44 minutes. I had eaten a lot at lunch and I knew fasting begins at 6 PM, so I should have enough energy to try a jog. I came back not hungry one bit but was afraid not to eat enough before 6 o'clock rolled around. As I watched a movie later in the evening I felt hunger pangs come and go. My body probably thinking I forgot to feed it supper. But I just ignored and I felt that I can feel the hunger and know that it goes away after a while and that I won't pass out or die and that food is coming some enough.

Drinking only water. I usually put something in it and so that will get some getting used to.

Now going grocery shopping. What will that be like?

On a scale of one to ten where one is ravenous and ten stuffed: 5
Feeling in general: 8 (optimistic and happy)

152.8 ...the weighing in

Okay, I couldn't sleep or rather stay sleeping, so I got up to do laundry at 5 AM and decided to weigh in before starting the AFD diet. I think that's what it's called. Alternate Fasting Day. I did lie in bed for a while to think seriously why I want to do this. Mainly, I can think of two things: a need a more no-brainer diet and everything I read says it is a very healthy, disease curing, long-life promoting kinda of a way to eat. I'm already feeling hunger...so without further adieu, I'm heading to the kitchen...not to pig out but to eat as healthy as possible.

Intermittent fasting

I came across this blog that I started earlier in the year. This seems to be me...start and stop things all the time. Do I give up or try something else again??? Well, I've been doing a lot of reading about every other day fasting and I'm ready to give it a go. What do I have to lose? All the experts think it's a good idea, not only to lose weight but to get healthy. I'm gonna use the more flexed version. You don't fast for 34 hours but 24 hours. That means I will get up tomorrow and eat normally (and I will make it as healthy and organic as I can) until 6 PM. Then nothing until the next day at 6 PM. Then I stop again at 6PM and then I can eat the next time 6PM comes around again. So, it means not eating for 24 hours but it also means that I get to eat something everyday. Jeff isn't here to take a good before picture. I am using Mary Lou Retton's scale that only tells you if you lose or gain weight and not what you weigh. But I was weighed at work this week and it was 151 pounds, so I can say that is my starting weight.

This blog is for me but if anyone comes across it...give me some encouragement cuz I know I'd love it. Let's hope that this is the answer to my prayers.