I never even realized that it's been 30 days since I started this whole diet challenge. I have lost 31 pounds in the past 30 days. At the end of the first day I weigh in at 339 pounds. This time next month I can be less than 300 pounds for the first time in years and I'm really excited for that milestone. That much be weird to some people, being excited to be 299 pounds but for someone who was 370+ (unfortunately forgot to weigh myself properly so unsure of my starting weight) just a month ago and banging on the door of 400 pounds 299 is something great to celebrate.
So a few days ago, I had eaten nothing for 2 days without even realizing it. I honestly was not hungry and on the first night when I went to make dinner (not because I was hungry but because I felt like I needed to) I started reading stories about people who did a water fast. It all started, when Alistair began to wonder how long someone could go without eating if they were really overweight (like 500 pounds). I found a lot of stories about successful weight loss while water fasting. I read about a woman who water fasted for 45 days and went from 165 to 110 and had a lot of her medical issues clear up.
I made the comment that if I water fasted for 4 months I could be 120 pounds and Alistair immediately went into protective boyfriend mode. The thing is I was only half joking and he knew it. I decided that I would try to water fast for 7 days. The body isn't technically starving until it's not consumed food for a long period of time and it is below 2% body fat so no real harm will come to my body dong this because I have WAY more than 2% body fat and my body could survive several months on it's fat reserves.
Alistair is doing it with me. He doesn't need to at all he's 165 pounds of muscle and doesn't need to water fast at all. But he says he is doing it to support me and if I'm going to suffer than he wants to suffer with me. And it will be a good challenge to see if he can go without any food for 7 days. I've been trying to talk him out of it, he really doesn't need to do it but he insists that he's going to do it with me. It really shows me how lucky I am. That my boyfriend is willing to not eat anything for 7 days in order to support me.
I'm not doing this for weight loss. I'm happy with the amount of weight I'm losing (31 pounds in 30 days is great). This is more of a psychological thing. You can't be over 350 pounds at 20 years old and not be addicted to food. I need to show myself that I don't need food. It's not necessary for my happiness.
So, as is tradition with any religious style fasting, Alistair and I are going to have a final cheat meal. He's going to a pizzaria and getting a large pizza that he is going to chow on. I'm going to make my own pizza, a large with whole wheat crust and a little more cheese than I usually have and at like 11:45pm I'm gonna make a low fat milkshake and have some of the low calorie mini cheese cakes. It will still only be a total of 1,400 calories which is like 3x as many as I usually eat in a day but it's within a normal 2 lbs a week range.
I hope I can do it. The hardest is getting over the first day of hunger after eating something but after that you're good to go and only get hunger pangs if you're laying around doing nothing and thinking about how you haven't eaten. I haven't decided if I'm going to work out this week. I want to, but I'm worried about working out really hard and then being so hungry I can't keep going or getting light headed during a work out because of low blood sugar.
Alistair and I have set some ground rules for this fast. When one of us quits both of us do, and we quit if we become irritable and start fighting with each other, if we feel sick or something feels wrong in our bodies or if we pass out for whatever reason. We don't want to endanger ourselves over this. It's just a challenge and not something we want to hurt ourselves over.
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