I said I would do an update after a year. This was me when I was 118Kg - 260 pounds. I was this weight on November 14th 2007, although the photo was taken before that date.
And this was a photo of me a few months ago, I don't look that much different now apart from a 2 inch drop around the waist...
I lost around 90 pounds in a year by water fasting. On November 14th 2008 I was around 170 pounds.
For me fasting was easy, but I really was overweight and pretty well nourished at the start. Apart from a few headaches and aching legs now and then, I can't say I had many problems at all. My fasts have been 7 - 27 days long, though now I prefer 10 day ones maximum. I kept the rate of weight loss slow towards the end, and now, at BMI 27, I am considering perhaps completing the journey by healthy eating alone, though I may do one last fast in the run-up to Christmas just to help closer to BMI 25, the top of the normal healthy weight range.
Fasting has taught me the value of healthy eating, and I know I need to change my lifestyle as well to get the most out of it, i.e. gym and so on. If anything I could feel a bit sorry for letting myself get into that state in the first place, what's the point, I need to get on with life.
Good luck to you whoever you are, pls choose what's best for you, in some cases it seems it has to start with the mind and not with losing weight.
Oh yes, my skin is as smooth as a baby's bum when fasting, and compared to those days when I drank booze and ate processed food, there is a huge difference. I think my cardio vascular system is under far less strain now, and my organs such as liver are probably i much better condition.
Ole ole ole! what a handsome man you are, mouse! I am not in the same mood I was about 20 years ago...because of that alone I am not planning a trip to UK just to meet you, ha ;) :) You can certainly inspire romance with your looks, dear friend!
Not only you look handsome, but your inner self is even more beautiful. Besides, during this, your personal journey, you have shown discipline and character... (that is certainly SEXY, HA..) I am sure you too feel empowered with the results, cause we conquer ourselves when we master our bad habits.
I am a very emotional lady, which I know it can be, often times, a very bad trait. But..that is me..I will die this way. God Bless you! You are an inspiration, a leader...I thank you for your example...and I also hug you! :) :) :)!!!!!
All I can say about your before and after is: STUNNING CHANGE! You make it sound like it was relatively easy for you compared to others, how wonderful. This was just the thing I needed to see looking around on this forum. I will definitely will be reading your posts to learn about your journey along the way to your huge weightloss. You are an inspiration for me, thank you for sharing.
Hi Willow, and others! I chose you to reply to cos you are new and I don't know you, ha ha! Well, not YET anyway!
During my journey I learned how easy it was for me, but how hard it is for some, and a little bit about eating disorders (ED) along the way.
It'll make me really happy if I can sort out just one person with an ED, that's how I'd like to return the favor to those on this board. For them it may not even be fasting, they come here looking to fast, but I hope they do what it takes to sort themselves out, and one day feel blissfully happy with themselves rather than the despair which they probably now are feeling.
I have planted enough clues around to point them in the right direction, he he! Not that I have much of a clue myself, but either way I hope I inspire them to keep going. They have my support and best wishes, at least.
So whatever your journey is Willow, I hope it is successful, whatever it may be, fasting or otherwise! And the same goes to others who I already know, and especially those who I don't know.
Hi Steve, I’m so glad to meet you, thank you for replying to me. I came to the forum because a friend told me that one of her co-workers was fasting and it intrigued me so I did a search and came up with Curezone. This looks like a great place to be. I read several of your posts and found them to be open and honest, you are very giving of yourself. I saw the picture of your huge pants on your now skinny body, WOW! I also saw the picture of your refrigerator jam packed with good stuff, was that a bottle of wine I saw on the bottom shelf? ☺ I want to learn to love all those good things.
Ok, so here’s the scoop on me. I just turned the BIG 50 but I still feel like I’m in my 20’s. I started out in life to be very skinny but when I was 5 my parents put me on a plane and sent me to spend the summer with my beloved Grandmother. She lived in the south and introduced me to all that good southern cooking, fried foods and very fattening desserts. I don’t know if my metabolism was reset due to all the different types of foods or what but ever since then I have battled my weight. Maybe I just like to use that as an excuse, I might have turned out heavy anyway, I don’t know. By age 6 I was a chubby kid, then a chunky teen, and now an overweight adult. Since my late teens I have been on every diet known to man, I find that I have no trouble losing weight (well, it does get harder the older I get) but I have never been able to change my eating habits once I lose the weight and I am convinced that is what it’s going to take for me, I need to change my eating habits. I think that fasting might just help me with that, what do you think? I’m sure like with any diet much of it is mind over matter; I would think that would apply even more with fasting. I think I’m going to give it a try after Thanksgiving. Lately I have been eating when I’m not hungry but that is probably due to the fact that I’m home all day now and I’m used to working so it’s most likely out of boredom. I’m self-employed and decided to stay home for a while, in light of me stuffing my face maybe that wasn’t such a good idea huh? I’m 5’5 and I weigh 185lbs, I know that is probably obese, I feel most comfortable at around 130-140lbs. I think if I fasted for 7 to 10 days at a time I would be able to accomplish my goal in a few months. I have never had any health problems but I do smoke, I want to quit and will before I undertake a fast. I’ve never had any kind of eating disorder except over eating all the wrong foods.
Any advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated. I’m glad I found this forum. Thanks.
Congratulations, you are the millionth customer... or whatever, hahaha!
Looking at your story, I think you are going to have a whopping success too. We have a LOT in common, and as a self employed person you are probably self confident too. I think self confidence is 90% of the battle.
I gave up smoking about 10 years ago, that made me put on weight. Now you can do this on a fast, give it a try, but I used acupuncture. See what works best for you.
Happy 2009 Willow! Be interesting to follow your progress.
Thank you for your vote of confidence Steve. Yes, I am a very self confident person, I attribute that to the way I was raised, I was always told I could achieve whatever I wanted and be whatever I wanted to be in this life. I just grew up believing that, it really does make a difference in whatever path we choose. And yes, I also believe that you can achieve anything if you set your mind to it so it is 90% of the battle.
It is a wonderful feeling to help someone that has no self worth start believing in themselves. Self confidence has to be built up and sometimes people need help with that. I have watched a women I'm helping in that area blossom as her confidence levels go up, she isn't at all the same person I used to know. She went from a downcast glance person to one with a glowing personality. I guess it's like a passion for me to help people in this area. Maybe it's like your goal to help someone with an ED huh? If we all used our gift, whatever that happens to be to help just one person this world would be a much better place.
Have a great weekend Steve.
Willow
Sounds like you have the kind of job I want, hmmm. Mind you I would probably end up as unconventional as Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Robin Williams in Patch Adams or Joanne Whalley in Breathtaking (you probably don't know that one). And if someone was telling me "I hate myself, I am a failure", I would need a good pair of headphones and an ipod, or some means of changing the conversation, e.g. "Oh look, is that Brad Pitt over there?"
You are going to have an interesting time though, giving up smoking tends to make you put on weight, but I think you should try that at the same time or before. I used acupuncture, see http://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1186991#i - maybe try this first? Although they do say that fasting makes you want to give up smoking too. But the acupuncture feels as though you had never smoked, it's weird!
Anyway good luck Willow, be interesting to see how you cope with the two things, smoking and weight loss. I am sure you will though...
Oh and I fixed your duplicate message, see your email, ha ha
How funny, I was just checking my real email and found one from CureZone telling me you fixed my duplicate message and I was just in the process of emailing you back when I clicked on the link in my email and it brought me to your new message. Thanks for fixing it, I don't know how that happened.
You are right I never heard of Joanne Whalley in Breathtaking, I'll have to look that one up, but the other two were good movies. It is a fact that listening to people who have no self esteem can get a person down if your not careful, but that isn't what I do for a living, like you I don't think I could listen to that all the time. I am actually a General Contracting Coordinator and Interior Designer. Its just that I must have a gift in that I am able to help people who suffer from low self esteem, so people get referred to me by word of mouth. I don't have a formal degree in counseling and don't charge people anything, its just that by talking to a person a few times I'm able to tell if I can help them, some I can't help because there are underlying emotional problems that I can't handle but the ones I can help bring me joy just by watching them open up and change their lives. There are many less fortunate than I and thats just my way of paying it forward.
This is off topic Steve but could you tell me how I can the BOLD writing and add smiley faces? If its the TinyMCE Editor then I can't use it because I have a Mac laptop and that doesn't support Mac's.
I usually use Tiny MCE but this is done using FCK. However according to FCK, the word "this" in the previous sentence should be large and in red. It isn't on my Firefox browser. However the other stuff below, and the bold FCK seems to be fine.
I would have thought this would be browser dependant, so maybe this link will help if FCK doesn't work either?
The other alternative is to paste HTML written elsewhere into the text editor, there is an option at the bottom of the text editor that says "Select only if all text paragraphs are enclosed in valid HTML tags." Never tried it but I expect it works... unless it's a victim of the recent "upgrade", ha ha!
Ok so this is just a test to see if I can do this in color and get the smiley faces!
Oh, Steve I think I will try to quit the smoking with fasting, maybe that will be the easy way out. Lets hope this works. I'm going to cut and paste now.
I don't know how to make smiley faces but you can make something bold in text mode by typing:
< b > bold text here < / b >
Type it without the spaces, I added them so it would show. You can also underline things the same way by using "u" in place of "b". I'm assuming other HTML tags can be used in text mode also but I haven't tried any.
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