7 Responses to Fasting Progress Report – Lisadi

1. lisadi says:

   August 15, 2010 at 7:04 PM

   Day 1:

   I wasn’t able to start the juice fast on Thursday as planned. I had a family emergency arise, that required me to be able to focus and be present 100% of the time. I know from the 10 day juice fast I did last year, I’m not 100% present. I tend to go into a “zone out” mode, and get tired from talking, activity doesn’t kill me, but people wanting me to talk drains me. Weird!!

   Today is my day 1. I just woke up, so I’m not faced with any struggles of hunger yet. That will be here by mid afternoon, and my challenge starts then. As my toddler naps, I need to fight the urge to raid my cupboards.

   My husband is in support of the juice fast, with plenty of guard up. He doesn’t like that I’m also using it as a kick off to a diet. I’ve tried explaining to him it’s my way of trying to kick my binging disorder in the bum. I need to face it head on, get past it, plan how I want to come off the fast, and change my eating habits. Hopefully I will be successful, and in 6-12 months, he will see it was a great thing for me to undergo.

   So here comes my first day, my first goal is 20 days, and I hope to hit 30 days. But, I do plan on taking this one day at a time.

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2. lisadi says:

   August 16, 2010 at 1:15 PM

   Day 2:

   The hunger is there, ugh. I hate that empty feeling in my stomach, where I want to sit or stand with bad posture, probably in some sort of subliminal hope the hunger will subside with this stance. I feel slightly flu’ish, but I feel better than I did on day 2 of the last fast. I don’t like this foggy’ness though. I feel like I’m not quite understanding people, and I’m also getting annoyed with small talk. Yep, I’m a grump when hungry

   I bought some Azteca Fire tea from Teavanna. For those unfamiliar, it’s an herbal tea that tastes like chocolate covered cherries. It’s my treat while fasting! I ordered Sucanat, I’ve never had, but it looks like Tom on this site uses it. I also ordered Celtic Sea Salt to replace my regular sea salt. I’m getting my kitchen stocked slowly as I fast. So once I’m done, I won’t have to load up on some of these hard to find products.

   I need to jump online and try to find which path I want to follow once I’m done. My husband is a STRICT vegetarian, I’ve alway been a meat eater, primarily chicken, with a once or twice a yr steak. I also love my junk food and organic wine. Give me wine when my husband is working late, and I will raid my cupboards of all the junk food.

   I stepped on the scale this morning, I was 156.2, but, I didn’t get an accurate start weight, I was somewhere between 157-158 (probably closer to 158). I know the first few days are water. I’m looking forward to 1 week into the process, when it becomes a much higher ratio of fat I’m seeing drop off the scale.

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3. lisadi says:

   August 17, 2010 at 12:58 PM

   Day 3….. 154 lbs

   So here I am, hungry, with my internal voice screaming at me to make a smoothie, or go buy a veggie delight sub from Subway…. Why oh why? I don’t like this hunger, I am envious of those who make it to day 3 and on and don’t experience the hunger anymore. I’m also frustrated because the fog is heavy today, and to focus with my toddler is difficult.

   I did wake up with a pounding headache, so late this morning I broke and took 1 ibuprofen. It took a little edge off, but is barely helping. OUCH

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4. Ron says:

   August 17, 2010 at 9:12 PM

   Hi Lisa, I wish I could say something profound to make you stop thinking about food. But alas…YOU are the only one that can stop yourself.

   Prayers are a good way to persevere through a difficult time. And a good time of thanks!

   So be happy you made it through 3 days! Half of the first time fasters don’t make it past ONE! God Bless, Ron

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   • lisadi says:

     August 18, 2010 at 1:18 PM

     Thank you for your kind words! I’ve posted an update, I did break the fast today.

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5. lisadi says:

   August 18, 2010 at 1:17 PM

   I had to stop the fast. I woke this morning with the worst headache, I could barely function or move. Which is not acceptable, as I gave up my career as a biochemist to be a full time SAHM. I took 2 Excedrin, but with all the caffeine in the Excedrin, the shakes came on bad, I had to eat. Shortly after eating, the headache completely subsided, and the shakes from the Excedrin stopped. Right now I’m going to stick to a vegetarian diet.

   I also learned with a 22 month old son entering the terrible 2′s, I may need to wait until he pulls out of it before I attempt a fast again. The tantrums, for what seemed like no reason to me, was hard to deal with rationally and calmly while in a fog and hungry. The last thing I would want for him, is to have me lash out over something petty because I’m fasting. It’s not fair to his little innocent world.

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6. Tom Coghill says:

   August 19, 2010 at 2:05 AM

   Pianful headaches indicate your body is toxic. You may try eating salads and just fruit for 2 days before trying another juice fast.

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