Hi - new here.
I started doing what amounts to fast-5 a little over two weeks ago - I had had enough, and decided that if I eat fewer calories than I burn, the body's only choice is to lose weight, so I was only going to eat one meal a day. After doing that for a few days, I poked around the web to see if anyone else was doing the same kind of thing, and finally ran across this, which matched up so perfectly with what I was already doing instinctively - I was pretty excited.
So, it's been since Thanksgiving-ish, and I feel I'm doing really well. Not so hungry during the day that I can't deal, and mostly eating well in the evening. Still tweaking exactly how much food is enough, without being too much, but it's settling out.
Today, though - my kids are starting to get the sniffles and a cough, and I can feel that I'm getting stuffy/post-nasal drip as well. I've made some orange juice for them...and I kind of feel like maybe I ought to be drinking juice/eating some grapefruit/pushing other liquids etc, just to prevent or shorten the life of this incipient cold. (We have an event to go to tomorrow as well, so I can't just stay in bed all weekend.)
I'm so torn - because I'm not hungry right now. But I know that if I drink some orange juice...I'm going to be hungry. And at that point - fast is broken anyway, might as well eat something? Might as well just make it a 'normal-meal' day?
For those of you who don't fast every day, or don't fast on the weekends or whatever - how do you find it affects you, or affects any weight loss? I've been doing so well, that I don't want to set myself back at all, either with weight loss (six pounds so far), or with managing hunger.
On the other hand, I don't want to be sick and miserable either. It's a dilemma.
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