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 ;)