- Update, January 16th, 2008 by lauray
16 y
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Blog: Lauray's Fasting Blog
I am needing to make a connection through this blog or somehow.
I am stressed. I am tired. My skin is aged and that hurts emotionally. I am trying to keep up my commitment to fasting. I am moving to the West Coast. I arrive there this evening. I wish I could make a fasting-supportive connection with someone.
I have felt recently as though I have made progress but I don't really know if this is true. I am really scared. I have been fasting little 36-hour fasts but sometimes (though not always!) slamming the food in between, meaning, eating too much at once. It seems the shorter fast allows this slam behavior while longer fasts prevent it. I must fast longer.
I am jsut discouraged and not in control and not focused. I am saying I am starting a 3-day fast today but really do not feel committed.
Fasting is entirely a mental emotional problem for me -- never difficult physically.
It would most help me I guess if anyone wrote back describing a really positive long fast experience... maybe this would get me into the spirit of fasting instead of staying stuckin this little "safe" bad pattern of never fasting long enough for healing. Though the litle fasts are better than nothing, I so wish I felt "warm" or "suppported" enough to brave the "cold" experience of giving up this comfort. Please write YOUR EXPERIENCES FASTING LONG TIMES AND HOW YOU GOT THERE... I had little successes with prayers recently to put my fast in God's hands. ... I so want to achieve a long fast and so don't know how to do it. Am i scared? I know I am ready. I just need... what?
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- Re: Update, January 16th, 2008 by naravahanadata
16 y
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Lauray,
since you DO have this blog, why don't you keep track of EVERYTHING? It might help you to see your situation from distance, get an overall picture and learn how you respond to what - what triggers your urge to eat, what, when and how much you eat, emotions, fears, short fasts, etc. I think it could be really beneficial for you to keep treack for several weeks and learn how it works for you. Otherwise you may just see the mountain and not the stones that it's composed of.
Just an idea.
Anyway, the best of luck to you and try to take thinks more easy - that's maybe the more important part of getting better.
Vanda
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- Re: Update, January 16th, 2008 by jenerator
16 y
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Hi there,
Was just browsing the blogs...I can't seem to figure out how to find the blog I posted myself...anyhow I came across your blog and found it quite interesting! Its my first time fasting and I just stopped drinking alcohol 15 days ago. I'm on day # 8 as far as my juice fast goes. Its been difficult but I really just needed to stop and give myself a chance to succeed at something. Its hard because I cook for a living and I also cook at home for boyfriend and son...but the benefits are amazing. I've always been into nutrition and would love to go back to school for it at some point so its meant a lot and I've got a much better connection now with my body than I did before my fast. I will continue my fast for a total of 21 days. I am a binge eater and gained over 20 lbs due to stress the past couple months. I won't even get on a scale to see what I weighed before the fast. I do however know that I've had to loose close to ten lbs already. I'm trying not to obsess over the weight like I have in the past, I'm trying to just listen to how my body feels. Let me know how things are with you! Thanks! I come on here every night just to read and get some support from other members.
Jennifer
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