Stay hanging tight to what YOU believe is good for you:) As I have mentioned in another post, whether what type of measure ANYONE uses to lose weight, it IS possible to GAIN the weight back IF you do not change your eating habits. Does not mean no more cake, doughnuts, cookies etc...But in moderation! If we lose the weight AND have learned to eat RIGHT afterwards it's will help in maintaing our weight.

Some (even I cause I am a 10 year veteran of yo-yo dieting), don't take the time to study on what MAY be causing their over eating. I have had emotional eating issues before, but those have changed cause I have made the connection of stress/anger/sadness/etc plus overeating/binging equals to weight gain. How am I solving a problem with food? Arent I creating MORE problems for myself? There are steps you may need to set up for yourself if you feel that "need" to binge. For myself, I must go to prayer first, if it's a spousal problem, then I need to talk it out with him and not storm out of the house to the drive through to Mikie D's to "eat" my frustrations away, like I am saying "I'll show him." Huh?? Me overeating and getting FAT again has nothing to do with him.

I am tired of dieting. And I am tired of the back and forth. I have been reading many books throughout this partial fast to get ideas about what OTHER avenues I may need to take besides going to food. I was one of those who could eat Mickie D's for breakfast (best breakfast), go to BK for lunch (love the whoppers), and then have Jack in the box for dinner (always order fish "it's fried"). Why in the world would I eat ALL that in one day? In truth? Because I could, I had the money, I can eat like that almost everyday of a month. And no one could say, hey you cant eat there. That was crazy nonsense. And then wondered WHY my cholestrol climbed WAY high, (which I got back down through eating like I SHOULD have been from the get go).

So, I just suggest do some reading on fasting if you can, and not by just anyone but actually books by REAL doctors to get insight on what is happening inside your body, what to do AFTER the fast, and how to maintain. Weird you get people "fussing" about fasting, but let someone mention they had gastric bypass surgery, and they are like oh, well that's different. BUT it has been proven that people who have had even this operation have ALSO gain the weight back AND some. So, again, its NOT how the weight is loss, but WHAT you DO afterwards. Make plans, set up day by day steps. Enjoy that one or two slice of pizza BUT add a huge salad on the side, you dont have to have 5 tp 6 slices ( I can eat a WHOLE large by myself). Why is that?? Because I can, after piece 3 I don't taste it anymore, but because I can I did...duh dumb.

Sorry to rant, I just think people should start thinking how they are going to handle eating again and should ask themselves, is the WHOLE pack of cookies worth it? Could I just eat maybe 2 to 3 with a glass of milk and be satisfied?

well screw them. they are stupid. they are probably either skinny people that dont get what its like to try to lose weight or they are fellow fatties that are too lazy to do anything about thier own situation, hate themselves for it and take it out on your sucessful (and smaller..hee hee) butt. :)

you eat like a fat person your are going to be a fat person. reguardless of what you did to lose weight. out of all the dieting that i have done. fasting is the one thing that i DONT pile it back on with. because it gets me fast results and makes it kinda impossible to eat the fattening foods. usually they make me sick or taste crappy.


when you are done on this fast just stick to eating whatever you want that is not processed. all the diets i have done all frown on EVERYTHING processed. from table salt to white flour. stay away from processed sugar, processed wheat products, and table salt , take a multi vitamin. take a b complex. it will help you from overeating from being depleted from the fast, give you a feel good burst of energy from the b's that also will help you to continue to burn fat.

down with the nay sayers and the fat pants!

:)

I know precisely how you feel because I do have that little voice in the back of my head telling me, P, you were 177 pounds last summer, now you are 230 pounds. You were excited when you lost that weight and now look at you. Back in your size 16 pants, when you were in size 12s. You've started over with that diet and you were good for up to two weeks, but you kept falling off. And, yeah, I am thinking about that a lot. I was reading my journal in Fitday, yesterday, seeing how nutty it sounded with all the start-overs and failures, back to back to back. This is only day 3 for me. And it's the start of it, not the end. Am I scared this will fail too? Yeah, some. But I do feel in control. I do feel different from those times I kept starting over with the low-carb/low-fat.

I'd lost something somewhere. I had been in control for more than a year. Gave myself rewards, every once in a while, stuck to my WOE for weeks on end, with minor treats here and there. I totally cut out alcohol for months. But, I dunno, I guess I got cocky or something. Thought I could eat crap for a week, just to congratulate myself for so much success, go out, party, drink too much. That was last summer. I'm pretty sure that's when I had messed up my body chemistry, because, before that time, I didn't even crave carbs so much. I didn't care about bread, sugar, fried foods, none of that. And I didn't have to have a cocktail everytime I went out. I gave myself permission to go off my WOE for about a week, probably a little longer, and I ate everything in sight and went out with my girl and had a lotta bad meals and a lotta cocktails. Thing about it is she must have metabolism from hell, cause she can eat and drink like a fiend and only weighs about 135 pounds and she's a little shorter than I am. Well, she is a runner also. I'm sure that helps. Anyway, after that, I got back into some bad habits, namely alcohol and junk food. So it was HARD to stop. This past weekend, I must've had like 3000 calories a day with all the crap I ate and drank. By Monday, I was just having another startover, but it was Tuesday morning, when I got on the scale and saw I was up so 241 after having lingered around the mid 230's for months, that got me to crying and slobbering on the bathroom floor for 30 minutes. My b/f slept through the whole thing, but I was having a meltdown. By the time I came out, he'd awakened and could see, even in the dark, something was wrong with me. He asked me what it was and I wouldn't tell him, no matter how much he followed me around, looked into my eyes. I was too embarrassed to admit to him that it was because I'd picked up 5 pounds in a week. And because I could see myself right back at 300 pounds by the end of this year at the rate I was going. So, I dealt with it on my own. Got him off to work, got my kids off to school, then I got online and started reading up some more on fasting.

I had been reading about fasting, on and off, for a while, but was too afraid to try it because of all the people who have told me how dangerous it would be. But after reading information from different sites and, particularly, after reading so much information on this forum and some of the similar ones on this site, I felt confident enough to at least start a fast. Nah, I wasn't totally prepared when I started this, but I'm keeping track of my blood pressure (I have a home monitor) and I am listening to my body. I haven't ever tried something like this before, on purpose, and this is officially the longest I've ever gone without eating solid food. And, most importantly, I haven't felt this in control in a long while. So, yeah, in spite of this being another try at losing weight, I'm confident in this try and you should be too. 10 days is a REALLY big accomplishment and you've never done THAT before. You are probably more informed now than you have been before and you've learned from past mistakes. We all have. You can do this. All you have to do is maintain your focus. I know that for a fact because when I lost my focus is when I lost my way. I won't let that happen again. I simply won't.

That is correct. Keep that faith! You are so on your way to success. Look at how far you have already goten. I am praying for you & all other fasters!!!