[fast5] Re:Day 1 The first few days will be the hardest - Can you help me?

Hey Lora, the first step for you is that you've been brutally honest with yourself.  You know that you have to do something to fix your body.  I came to that for the final time just recently.  It is very hard for me to lose weight. My metabolism is so slow, I gain a pound if I just walk past a bakery.  After gaining and losing so many times, since college days, having 7 children, I got thyroid cancer a couple years ago. How unfair, I think, for someone with such a sucky metabolism like me to now lose my thyroid! 

Back in March, I found Fast 5 and did it for almost a month.  I was successful, very successful, got over that first really hard week, and I fell in love with the control I gained over my eating, and then quit when we took a family vacation. UGH.  My girlfriend didn't, she plugged away and went down two dress sizes. And mind you, it is plugging.  It took her 4 months. But after not seeing her and then seeing her again one has to finally realize, the days and weeks and months are going to pass anyway.  Even if a year passes, Fast 5 statistics will have the average person losing 52lbs.   I began again in earnest now 3 weeks ago.  The first week was definitely hard. Just like the first time.  But what clicked (and a clicking has to happen for us all, it's just different for each) was that I finally realized that I have to do something.  Something and just do that something forever. It can not be a diet.  For me, Fast 5 is the answer because no matter how much I have to deny myself during the 19 hrs, I can always have any food I want when my window opens.  Mentally, I needed that. I know it's prudent not to have Oreos and ice cream everyday, but I can eat steak and cheese, french bread, a piece of chocolate, my famous tortellini with white sauce, whatever, and not worry and feel the guilt and shame.  So that was the mental part.  Mentally I needed a click.

The physical click will happen to most just because of science.  After a week or so, your stomach will shrink.  After two weeks, you will have to carefully choose what you eat when your window opens.  Not choosing so much because of calories and sugar, although, yes, again that's only prudent, but choosing because your stomach will have only so much space available for filling.  I want vegetables everyday. I want fruit everyday.  So if I break my fast with a big grilled cheese and chips, my room is mostly gone.  That physical clicking is so wonderful!  I now have to eat half a sandwich, or 6 or 7 chips with salsa, a handful of grapes or blueberries, a half cup of soup. Otherwise, I have to live with that dreadful over full feeling that makes me want to throw up.  That is a great advantage that will work to help you succeed.  Physically also you will feel more energized, you will sleep so much better, and as the days go on, I guarantee you that the 'hunger' will diminish.  For me, about 2 hours before it's time to eat, my stomach will start to begin asking for food.  How empowering it is for me now that I feel in charge of my stomach!  I make the decisions, not the food.  The best part are the days when you realize how much power you've given to food, the routine of it, the idea that it will make you feel better.  My best days have been when my window opens and I didn't even realize it! It was time to eat, but I wasn't fanatical about it.

I could go on and on, but whatever you decide, just do something.  You will continue to face failure if what you do is a diet vs a real, solid change.  Many plans work.  As someone just said, the experts never agree.  I did low carb, Suzanne Sommers' way, and I can  tell you, it works.  I had energy and I lost a lot of weight. I was just not prepared to follow those rules forever. So I failed.  For me, it's Fast 5.  I hope that my rambling will encourage you a little bit.

If you need more support, please feel free to email me anytime.  I am so thankful for this yahoo group!  Even though I only really know one person on it, I feel camaraderie because mentally, and the mental for me is key, that this thing works because I know that others out there are doing it everyday.  It is so much easier to ignore the 'experts' and advice of the common way most people eat with a body of others out there, somewhere.

Have a great day.
~anna

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