Well, I'm at the beginning of week 6. My weight loss? 32 pounds! Yes! 5.5 pds a week! I'm still in fasting mode, which was started 9/16. It was fairly easy to enter, as I wasn't consuming much food anyway before I began it. The first time I water fasted, I had light headedness, dizziness, cravings, the works. Felt exhausted and horrible. This time around, I prepared for it- reduced my intake during my intermittent fasting. Although I feel a bit fatigued, I feel so much better than I have in a super long time. I'm going to do this for as long as I can. My goal weight is 160, and if I can reach that before the Gala, HOLY SHITBALLS. That's 4.7 pds/week! I keep telling myself I can do this! Chances are, I can't. I'm not superhuman, and this is, after all, a life long change I'm trying to make. So, I'm shooting for 170-175. Using the 175 number, that is a little over 3 pds a week. If I can manage to do this fast for 40 days, I'd love it. I should lose about 1 pd a day, which would bring me to October 19th. At that point, I should have lost approximately 40 pds. That is 177! And that still leaves me WELL over a month to lose another 15 pds. I've really started to change my ideas about food. I don't stare into my kitchen cabinets going "Man, I'm hungry, but what do I want?" or drive into Herkimer and drool at the fast food places. Seriously, I don't even remember the taste of much of it now. It's a wonderful change, but tough at times. Certain memories of food come haunting back when I have to cook dinner every night. That can be a bit of a struggle. I keep telling myself "It smells wonderful, but you AREN'T HUNGRY. It's deceiving you. Don't give in!" I'm not infallible either. I still have a few cups of coffee in the morning, and a glass of diet pepsi every night, and I will spoon a TINY bit of sauce out to taste. I'm not serving my family food that I haven't approved of LOL. I am lucky if I've digested in these 8 days maybe 150 calories. So I guess I'm not "true" water fasting. But it works for me. And that is all that really matters. I'm not going to fret over the small stuff- a bit of spaghetti sauce to taste is nothing compared to the huge bowl I would of eaten! I will post pictures soon. If I can at least hold out for 2 weeks on this fast, it will be even better. I will be below 200 at that point, and more comfortable with photos ;)

Complete Fasting State Now!

I am now exclusively on good ole' H2O now- 2 days strong! I haven't weighed myself, as my progress was slowed. This is the reason I decided to go to full fasting state instead of intermittent- I wasn't hardly eating anyway, I was lucky if I ate 250 calories a day. So just going with water seemed the right choice, to get my body into full ketosis, and watch the weight fall off! I refuse to give up my cups of coffee in the morning and my diet pepsi, but I am drinking a bunch more water so I'm hoping it doesn't interfere.

I will say at last weigh-in I was 214. This was also the middle of the day, and probably ingested 20-30 oz of water within that hour. (My stomach hurt, the hunger pains are helped with water)

I am hoping that I will be 210 by Sat-Sun. If so, I'll take a picture of the scale!

Thanks. I know that no one reads this shit, but it does help me.

3 week check-in...

Well, I'm 3 weeks into this as of today. I've been intermittent fasting, low carb, with a few days I took off here and there. So far, drumroll please... Almost 20 pds! So it's working ;) I have 11+ more weeks of this... if I can keep just 4 pds a week coming off, I'll be smokin' hot again!

Well, I'm back at it again folks!

Well, here I am. Again. A year later, and much heavier. Booooo. I have a Gala I need to make an appearance at in December, along with meeting a very hot and awesome actor as well. So my weight loss will be extreme. How extreme? Try 40 pds at the minimum. I have 102 days, or 14.5 weeks to accomplish this... and I know I can do it. How do I know? I've done it before. I went from 196ish back in early May 2006 down to 170 by late July/early August. That was 2-1/2 months, and 25 pds. I didn't exercise, I just did the low calorie diet. By September, I was in the 160's, so 30 pds in 3 months. I'm not doing that diet. I'm going a bit more extreme. Going back to my fasting, drinking water, and I'm going to try to get out and exercise a bit once the kids go back to school. What do I weigh right now? Grrr, I don't really want to say. But this is a public shame spot, and keeps me in line, so I begrudgingly will. 234. That's right, folks. 234 pds. Sad what kids and age do to you. So, i'm going to get back into my mode... I've spent the last few days doing so, and I have to say, it hasn't been as bad as I thought. Only time will tell though. I'm still breastfeeding and trying to break my psychological bond with it, but it's tough. I love feeding my little peanut, but I don't want her to not get what she needs because of my lack of calories. So I'm just going to wean slowly. She's a trooper, loves the boob but will take a bottle as well. It's just my attachment at this point. She's the last baby I'll ever have... it's breaking my heart knowing I won't be doing this again :( Wish me luck, fuckers!