AndyaknowV’s BodyBlog

My goodness gracious……There are so many reasons that people fast and I think that sometimes the benefits are often overlooked because people hear that there is no eating and they automatically freak. Fasting has many healthy attributes. I appreciate the comments!!!! Good and not so good!!!! I lost a bunch of weight at the beginning of this year and I have basically hit a wall and that is one of my reasons for fasting. Fasting is also easy for me being that my problem with weight loss is that I do not eat enough….yeah it is a terrible thing I know…but that is the fact. I can go for forever and not eat and when I do eat I can eat excessively at one sitting until I am about to throw up…..I cannot explain it but food is not all that attractive to me…..Let me give you an example:

Since I begun the Masters cleanse I have not had a single problem with the exception that I cannot drink the salt cleanse. I have not had hunger pangs, no headaches, nothing out of my usual…because I am used to not eating. But of course, everyone I know tells me that I should eat. I went (before I started the cleanse) with a coworker to a chinese buffet for lunch one random day and I ate so much I could not breath!!! Seriously, after the first plate I was full but that did not stop the second or third plate. I ate about a pound of plaintains (my favorite food), 10-12 crab rangoons, 3 salmon steaks, a huge plate of green beans, lobster and cheese, several fried shrimp, and several spring rolls…..and the only reason I stopped was because we had to leave and go back to work. I dont even know what is feels like to be hungry anymore. Even after fasting for a week,,,, I still dont know how it feels to be hungry. I am sure it is all mental and I know the first thing everyone is going to say is "just stop eating when you are full" but that is exactly the problem. The eating just does not stop….so I dont go to places like that where I can eat and eat and eat and eat,,,,,,Normally I cook at home everynight and that is prob what helped at the start of the year with the weight loss in addition to the phentermine given to me by my doctor but I dont want to be on phentermine for the rest of my life and I no longer qualify because of the weightloss. I consistently follow the positive changes that I have made : Dont eat animals, limit fried foods (dont even cook it in my home), focus on eating colors,…..I mean the list can go on and on. Anyway enough of that…..basically fasting is a mental thing for me. I need my mind and body to be in sync and it is OK to "start from stratch" No one will die from missing a meal…and certainly not me. Now for weightloss purposes yeah I need to do better as far as the eating goes I agree but for my sanity, I will be fasting. The body will correct itself and I truely believe that….One thing that I think is soooo important is listening to your body….not to everyone who has lost weight or who is successful at yoyo dieting.

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