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

Barnaby says if you are sick, eat you can get back on the horse...

as for the orange juice?  I don't know.. too much sugar, better to eat the orange. 

Drink lots of water, hows your Vitamin D Levels?  

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.

Laura

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From: flippetskater <flippetskater@yahoo.com>
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.

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