After you do it, it's not a big deal. Throwing in a single 24 hrs fast day a few times a day helps you stay in control of your self. Do it out of will power. The longest was 21 days.
It teaches you that a lot of your "hunger" was fake ( usually thirst ) and that you have food addictions. Theres something that triggers you and you want to eat this certain item... That's not you being in control...
I am strong and will succeed-I'm freaking sick of carrying around a good 50% more in body mass than I'm comfortable with.
I'm so grateful I have frame from the confidence learning skills and giving up tv over 20 years ago.
Grateful my self-proprioception is still that of the person I was14 years ago. I don't recognise myself in photos, but in the mirror I still see fit, strong me, so my selfesteem has stayed relatively high.
I'm capable of achieving anything I set my mind to and I deserve to reset my food craving brain and take back the controls.
Rescheduled the dietitian appt. that was tomorrow because I want to avoid hospitals like where I meet her; I'd like to have her shocked by the changes I can affect in my habits. There's nothing like the validation by another woman and she's in a career I once strived to be. I was in a cook apprenticeship(unfinished Red Seal yet) and planned to study at uni at night for free to become a Registered Dietitian(free tuition employee benefit by working fulltime in the university kitchen as the apprentice)
Regret dropping the ball on that one. That was a 2 year work + 1/2 year chef school aberration in 2003 and 2009 from all the working with steel.
Steel pays better though.
I actually whined and complained like a little p@$$y about how hard my 1 day fast was to her at the last appointment. I'm ashamed. I can get her attention and validation next appt., with my fasting successes, that will drive me to keep succeeding. Health care team members are there to be used for attention and validation. My private opinion.
She did approve of intermittent fasting and so has my regular doctor so what's stopping me?
I'm writing a lot. I should go journal write, lol