deepening into the fast

Date:   12/14/2011 4:49:39 PM ( 13 y ago)

Just a short note today, going well - the dizziness has stopped, it wasn't constant or a problem, just noticed it more than usual when fasting when getting up etc, those little headrushes, but seems to have disappeared now. Feeling good, the cravings have left me as well - I'm deeper in now and past the desire, able to focus, feeling no issues with the fast and just really wanting to continue for another 2 or 3 weeks for sure. Been at the gym everyday, going hard and I get home and kinda veg for awhile or have little nap times on the couch as I've used up pretty much everything, try to rouse myself again and do a little something - it's nearly Christmas, so good thing my family is overseas, want to keep fasting right through it all - and there's really nothing to stop or interrupt that, for me, Christmas happens right in the middle of summer, which is the easiest time to do a long fast, and I'm not getting this far in and breaking it for some conventional holiday. I'll probably end up breaking it when I go away kayaking though, but hopefully thats after my 30 or 40 days, don't have any dates yet for the upcoming trip, but should be early in the New Year. Feeling a little frustrated with how long it all takes, and how much I've worked - Have lost heaps of weight, my jeans that were all tight a few weeks back and loose, I'm probably getting down another dress size already, but strangely as thre weight comes off and I get closer but no potato to the goal I also see how far there still is to go... Another 10lbs? Maybe more really... Hard to say until I'm there, I'll know :) Tell myself it takes time, I'm not 20 anymore, and I just have to be patient and keep going. It'll be awesome to see the end result - but realize it might not be this fast, it might still take a few more and another 6 or 7 months... The good thing is, every one I do is making changes and helping, rome wasn't built in a day, and I can't expect to change all this in a heartbeat... I've come leaps and bounds, just am picky, I know what I want to get to and I'm now for maybe the first time in my life, starting to question and not listen to the line of thought in my head that says "it's hard for me" "I'm one of those people that can get so fit and then stabilize... blah, blah, or I've never been a real skinny girl, etc" I realize that yes, I have been, and that all this is just crap in my head. It comes down to that the body is adaptable and it's what I do and practice that is going to determine what my body reflects. People that are so called naturally thin, probably live on coffee and cigarettes lol, so what's natural? Partly joking, but my point is I know I can and will get there in a matter of time and that the skills I've developed to fast this way are going to hold me in good stead for a long lifetime - it does so much good, detoxing, purifying, rejuvenating, re-directing vital energy - just think about the energy that is freed up to scavenge the body for things that might one day produce illness etc. Getting off and keeping off weight I don't need that only weighs me down - and so much more, keeping me young, teaching me beyond all this my own strength and something I value so much, to break limitations and understand we have strengths most of us never tap - not talking about super human stuff here, just simple stuff we most of us don't realize. What I do isn't hard or demanding, the hardest part was teaching myself and my concepts that - and practising it over years now, it is incredible how easy it is. Imagine if other people with serious health and obesity and bad self image issues could just learn this? Most people think they couldn't live a week without food, but it's so simple and we are definitely made for this.
I notice as I deepen into the fast actually, I make progress in the gym, I have more speed and stamina and energy doing cardio and blast past former times and plateaus with huge bursts of energy that come out of nowhere and suprize me - as I lose weight, sometimes I have to go down a bit in what I could lift on some exercises, simply because I don't have the same bodyweight behind me, but only a couple, mostly everything there has stayed the same, was able to drop weight off the assisted dips and pull ups too as I wasn't dipping and pulling up so much of my own. A lot of what I've learned has gone against all these myths about fasting I'd previously heard - I def don't lose muscle, metabolism, yada yada - and I do lose some energy sometimes, in that I can sleep an extra hour or something, but not when it comes to performance, I seem to excel there - so figure out that one... guess its' the highs of liberating a lot of energy that normally goes to digestion, and just goes to show how much this does for us. All for today, might blog again something after the weekend :) Hope my tale inspires a few others who have similar interests.

 

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