Losing Weight!

Thursday evening is the time of the week that I go to TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) to weigh in. I started with TOPS in October, and now weigh more than when I started. The good things about TOPS are the cost - very affordable, the accountability, the cheerful people in this particular chapter and the nearness to my house. The bad thing, which is actually a good thing too, is that you find your own way to lose the weight. Although they have a plan, and do ask you to keep a food diary, there is no certain way to lose weight. Everyone is free to choose what works for them. The only bad thing about this is, it's tempting to just "wing it" and weight is not lost. That was what I did, and it's what I heard another woman say this last meeting. Like the author of the Fast-Five book says, just cutting back or changing what we eat, but eating all day doesn't really work. At least not for me and others who are successful with this daily fasting type of diet.

I am glad to be free to use the Fast-Five diet plan. It's not for everyone and the nay-sayers will put it down in a heartbeat if they knew that this is the plan I've chosen. However, I have told a few about it.

Well, this past Thursday night was the first weigh-in since I began the Fast-Five again. I lost 3.6 pounds!!! Yay! Just wanted to tell the world. I didn't perfectly follow the diet plan, but I'm doing an A-, and I feel so much better. And BIG "Atta-Girl" to me --- I'm losing weight!!!

I Do Not Advise...

The "Fast-Five" diet book says that it's okay to drink unsweetened or artificially sweetened drinks during the 19 hour fasting time of this diet. So, this morning while I was out doing errands, I stopped and got a Diet Mt. Dew. I know they're not healthy for a person - everyone knows that. But, I thought I'd just have this to enjoy a "treat" rather than having plain water.

Since I've been doing this - this is my fourth day - I've not had any cravings during the fasting period. I'm amazed at that, but the book said that's the way it's going to be! I love this diet. However, as soon as I drank the soda pop, I felt hungry. Not just wanting a certain taste in my mouth, but my stomach started aching that hunger ache. I'm blaming the drink.

I had read that diet sodas actually can make a person gain weight because of several factors, and one of those factors is that it makes the brain want food. Hmm. I hope I don't make that mistake again. Deceptive food - if you can call a diet soda a "food", really.

Just wanting to warn you. I do not advise diet sodas during the fasting period.

I'm back on the Fast-Five diet! Best diet I've ever had - other than the raw food diet. That was very difficult for me, though.

I started this daily fasting (again) on Thursday, and this is Sunday morning. I've lost two-ish pounds already, and I'm feeling great!!!

This is a great diet. I feel good, I lose weight and I can feel a little pride when I can say I'm conquering this weight.

I'm 5'2.5" and weigh 242.2 as of this morning.

New Fast

The Facebook ladies on Sacrificial Diet are in the second week of doing a 40 day one-meal-a-day fast. I just learned yesterday about it. I'm going to join them on Tuesday. That will give me time to get it in my head first.

I slipped a couple of days. I ate outside of the five-hour window, so I am sure there was a weight gain, but I'm not checking! I'm back on it now.

Tomorrow I will pick out another verse of the week. There are so many from which to choose!

Every Day Battles

It's still a struggle for me to throw away old habits of eating from a fast food place. Yesterday, it was just convenient to go through a drive-through and it was in the allotted five hour time, but fried sandwiches and french fries are what I'm trying to get out of my life, at least, mostly.

I did eat a great lunch, though. I got some romain lettuce and diced up some avacodo and tomatoes and put on it, wrapped it up and ... yummy! Since I didn't bring along any onions, I just had to salt it. With it, I drank unsweetened tea. That food was so good. I know the salt and tea weren't the perfect choices, but it was much less sodium than a hamburger, I'm sure.

I am staying within the five hours. I feel good about that. I almost over did that yesterday. I was mindlessly eating pistachio nuts while watching a movie. I'm not one that has to have food with a movie, so this was an exception.

Baby steps. Seems like I'm taking baby steps in everything! Time I updated to toddler steps at least.

Deeper Study

With this Fast-Five diet that I'm doing, and the improvements in food choices I'm making, I'm feeling much better physically.

Success breeds success.

I'm looking more into fasting. I'm learning about juice fasting with books, the internet and a movie/documentary called "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead".

I'm looking at doing a juice fast possibly in the Spring, if I can keep up this Fast-Five fast, which I do plan to do.

Angela stayed with her fast until she lost 100 pounds. That is what I plan to do. I feel so much better, why not stay with this? Juice fasting, however would be another type of fasting that I will have to read more about before I feel comfortable doing it.

If you've done juice fasting, please comment and let me know how it went!

Gaining Strength

The verses of the week are really helping me grow stronger in resisting the temptations of food. I am not perfect by any means, but I'm getting closer to it! This week's verse for some reason really meant a lot to me.

Yesterday, before I wrote here, I had eaten some left over pizza - dead food! - and before noon at that! The craving overcame me and I didn't have the strength to overcome the craving. I guess that's the reason I was drawn to this verse.

For the rest of the day, I ate only fruit. I felt better, even cleaner, as a result. This morning, the scale showed I had come down in weight. Yay!