Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Effects of 'skipping' a day?

Saturday, December 11, 2010

[fast5] Re: Effects of 'skipping' a day?

Yeah, I decided to make a full meal for the kids, and join in.

I tend to stick to orange juice, because I hate to eat oranges. I can't stand the pith, and the membranes, so if I eat one, I can spend an hour picking off every bit of pith and turning the membranes inside-out to get at the meat. Not really worth the effort and mess!

I have no idea where my D levels are, though I guess they're low. I do take a D supplement.

Hopefully the rest of the day and tomorrow will be better - and Monday won't be so hard. I've been doing so well so far, and it seems to really be working. I just hate the thought of setting myself back. I'm determined to get rid of the weight this time.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Laura Cody <lecody2001@...> wrote:
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> Barnaby says if you are sick, eat you can get back on the horse...
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> as for the orange juice? I don't know.. too much sugar, better to eat the
> orange.
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> Drink lots of water, hows your Vitamin D Levels?
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> I am sick too... probably a cold, but its not too bad, so I am going to try to
> make it to 2 pm which is when I usually break
>
> Hope you feel better soon.
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> Laura
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> ________________________________
> From: flippetskater <flippetskater@...>
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, December 11, 2010 11:07:51 AM
> Subject: [fast5] Effects of 'skipping' a day?
>
>
> 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.
>