Re: Day 1 of 10

Thanks for the support. I'm actually fasting right now, not just limiting calories. What I feel is that my body has a lot of fuel (excess fat) it can use to burn for energy and what not plus ive been taking supplements i know thats a controversial issue here sometimes but to me supplements help keep the body from being malnourished without adding excess junk. I've read so much info on the web about fasting but my mother has no open mind to it, she thinks im starving which im not ive read over and over again that starving occurs once all your fuel resources(fat) is gone and then true hunger comes back. And yes she is overweight actually she weighs slightly less then me, but she's been on a diet for about 3 months and lost 40lbs which is great but she has all the free time in the world to lose weight im only 21 and haven't really lived my life plus college starts back soon for me and i know fasting isn't a quick fix but i have fasted before and been able to drop alot of weight fast, the one thing that always happens is when you are fasting your emotions become very sensitive, so someone at work or something would upset me and id come home and break the fast, but now ive learned to try and stay away from stressful situations and try not to let things bother me. My mother tells me that yeah i could lose a lot of weight fast but once i lose my weight and end the fast ill just go back to eating the weigh i did before and gain all my weight back which is what happened to her a few years ago, she lost 150lbs and gained it all back. I've been overweight since about 13 and i cannot imagine losing all my weight and then gaining it back, ive been so overweight and miserable for so long that once i hit my goal weight i am never going to eat the weigh i did before, then im going to establish a healthy diet, which i could do now, like it kind of sucks because there has been days when ive eaten three sensible meals and maybe a snack thats low cal and it didn't make me feel deprived at all, but if i sticked to a diet like that like you said it would take me at least a year to lose all the weight i need to lose and im sorry i know a lot of people will say its not healthy and everything but i just can't wait that long and i know when to break my fast, when i start feeling unhealthy, but i have recently read on a different website of a women weighing 375lbs who went on a supervised 90 day fast and lost 150lbs. Now i know results like that aren't true for everyone but i think it could be close. For the past five days i have fasted and exercised moderatly never to the point of exhaustion and feeling dizzy or anything and I think that as long as I feel well and im losing weight that theres no problem with me continuing. The only problem im having is the fact that i have to hide my food to throw away later, like i said id rather not be tempted anytime of the day but when i am its more like a craving then hunger, i just wish i could get the support from my mom, I mean when i first started she said she wouldn't support me but she wouldn't stop me, well one day in and i got the guilt talks that i knew would happen, so now i have to lie so her which i hate but she just doesn't understand I mean all overweight people have similiar troubles physically emotionally etc but she became overweight in her adult years whereas i have had to live through jr high and high school being about the heaviest in my class. Its different its more draining emotionally and I want to be happy.

Sorry about the rambling but it helps and so does your support so thanks once again :)