My weight is up again! What is this?! Okay. My outrage is over. But, OMG! Work tonight was amazingly hard! We had an issue that caused the call and chat queues to blow up with people trying to contact us, but we had literally three people with the ability to handle the volume. I worked straight through a 10-hour shift without any breaks. I didn't even get to drink my tea!
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 359.4 lbs ⇧
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 325 lbs
My weight was already up before I came to work, and that had me stressed enough. After work, my shoulders were no longer shoulders; they were the manifestation of stress and tension. I lived to tell the tale, though. But I am just holding out hope that my rise in cortisol (which I'm sure I could not avoid) didn't cause me to gain 10 lbs over night!
This will not break me. Even if I gain a bunch from this, I am determined to continue this lifestyle. I have lost so much weight already, going back would be dumb and very not worth the effort it took to get where I am now.
I also recently discovered that pickles are a free food that will not break my fast. They are also beneficial while fasting because they contain necessary electrolytes. I'm very happy about that. I love pickles. My husband hates them.
I can also eat olives sparingly as well as needed for hunger. I'm not sure I want to do that, though. Those are all fat -- the good kind of fat -- but they do have calories. And while I would not technically be breaking my fast to consume these, I kind of want the ability to say that I ate nothing at all for however long my fast lasts, you know?
I have toyed with the idea of eating nothing but pickles and olives for a year. I wonder how I would fare doing that. I think I do need some protein, though; right? maybe not. I mean, per Dr. Fung, while fasting, the body retains its muscle mass. It doesn't seek to feed on it when there are plenty of fat stores for the production of plenty of ketones to use up for energy. That would be dumb, and the body is just not that dumb.
I wonder if my husband would allow me to try this extreme fasting regimen. I could eat nothing for 5 days (as I am doing now) and restrict my eating to olives and pickles on the 2 days a week I would eat. These foods will not break my fast, and as long as I keep my calories under 500, according to Dr. Fung, I would not be losing the benefits of fasting. it would be like I was fasting all day every day.
And seeing as both foods have electrolytes, I would be good to go for a while. I would keep something in my digestive system to keep the processes working, so I wouldn't have to worry much about re-feeding complications. I'm going to have to consider this some more. Maybe I will ask in the forum about this to see what others have to say about it.
I relish the thought of eating nothing but olives and pickles graph:
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 359.4 lbs ⇧
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 325 lbs
My weight was already up before I came to work, and that had me stressed enough. After work, my shoulders were no longer shoulders; they were the manifestation of stress and tension. I lived to tell the tale, though. But I am just holding out hope that my rise in cortisol (which I'm sure I could not avoid) didn't cause me to gain 10 lbs over night!
This will not break me. Even if I gain a bunch from this, I am determined to continue this lifestyle. I have lost so much weight already, going back would be dumb and very not worth the effort it took to get where I am now.
I also recently discovered that pickles are a free food that will not break my fast. They are also beneficial while fasting because they contain necessary electrolytes. I'm very happy about that. I love pickles. My husband hates them.
I can also eat olives sparingly as well as needed for hunger. I'm not sure I want to do that, though. Those are all fat -- the good kind of fat -- but they do have calories. And while I would not technically be breaking my fast to consume these, I kind of want the ability to say that I ate nothing at all for however long my fast lasts, you know?
I wonder if my husband would allow me to try this extreme fasting regimen. I could eat nothing for 5 days (as I am doing now) and restrict my eating to olives and pickles on the 2 days a week I would eat. These foods will not break my fast, and as long as I keep my calories under 500, according to Dr. Fung, I would not be losing the benefits of fasting. it would be like I was fasting all day every day.
And seeing as both foods have electrolytes, I would be good to go for a while. I would keep something in my digestive system to keep the processes working, so I wouldn't have to worry much about re-feeding complications. I'm going to have to consider this some more. Maybe I will ask in the forum about this to see what others have to say about it.
I relish the thought of eating nothing but olives and pickles graph:
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