I would wave across the pond, but I'm sitting two blocks away from the other pond facing Hawaii. 
I stumbled across Michael Moseley's documentary in a post on the myfitnesspal site, where I've been a member for over a year, logging and logging and logging and not dropping weight. I watched his film and had a little bit of an epiphany. When I was a teen and a young adult, I actually fasted (and feasted) naturally. I always skipped breakfast, lunch made an appearance most of the time but not always (and it was usually small) and then I'd have a nice big dinner. When I would go out with friends I wouldn't worry one bit about what I ate or how much, and I would naturally fall back into my pattern the next day.
So after putting on weight with advancing age and childbirth, years of swallowing the hype of "you MUST eat breakfast or the sky will fall," I jumped on the bandwagon yesterday with my very first fast day. I do have his book on order, but it won't arrive from Amazon until Thursday.
So Sunday evening, I finished dinner at 6:30 pm and had nothing but zero cal liquids the rest of the evening. Monday, I decided to go for what seemed to be the majority opinion on this forum (THANK YOU THANK YOU for all that you have shared) and saved my 500 calories for one big evening meal. Then nothing again until this morning at 8 am. I survived on black coffee, water and crystal light until then and did just dandy. Had a couple moments of hunger but no biggie. Even managed to do a short Insanity workout and a TurboFire Core workout, though my energy was a bit lower than normal.
Sunday morning I weighed in at 159 lbs. This morning, after my first fast day, I weighed in at 157. WOOT!!! While I know it will bounce back up a bit, that's still a really motivating start for me. And I weirdly feel.....back to normal. If that makes sense. I've been stuffing myself silly in the name of "current science" but I don't think my body gives a rats patootie about "current science". Well, until now that is.
So long and short...well maybe longer up there....is hi there. I'm really glad to be here. I hope I'm here for a while, though not all of me.
I stumbled across Michael Moseley's documentary in a post on the myfitnesspal site, where I've been a member for over a year, logging and logging and logging and not dropping weight. I watched his film and had a little bit of an epiphany. When I was a teen and a young adult, I actually fasted (and feasted) naturally. I always skipped breakfast, lunch made an appearance most of the time but not always (and it was usually small) and then I'd have a nice big dinner. When I would go out with friends I wouldn't worry one bit about what I ate or how much, and I would naturally fall back into my pattern the next day.
So after putting on weight with advancing age and childbirth, years of swallowing the hype of "you MUST eat breakfast or the sky will fall," I jumped on the bandwagon yesterday with my very first fast day. I do have his book on order, but it won't arrive from Amazon until Thursday.
So Sunday evening, I finished dinner at 6:30 pm and had nothing but zero cal liquids the rest of the evening. Monday, I decided to go for what seemed to be the majority opinion on this forum (THANK YOU THANK YOU for all that you have shared) and saved my 500 calories for one big evening meal. Then nothing again until this morning at 8 am. I survived on black coffee, water and crystal light until then and did just dandy. Had a couple moments of hunger but no biggie. Even managed to do a short Insanity workout and a TurboFire Core workout, though my energy was a bit lower than normal.
Sunday morning I weighed in at 159 lbs. This morning, after my first fast day, I weighed in at 157. WOOT!!! While I know it will bounce back up a bit, that's still a really motivating start for me. And I weirdly feel.....back to normal. If that makes sense. I've been stuffing myself silly in the name of "current science" but I don't think my body gives a rats patootie about "current science". Well, until now that is.
So long and short...well maybe longer up there....is hi there. I'm really glad to be here. I hope I'm here for a while, though not all of me.
