Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Breaking through a plateau?

Oh hey, that's very nice of you. :-)

Well, I weighed in this morning, and I'm at 131 even. Lowest recorded weight was four days ago - 130.2 - and that was after a full two days of fasting (i.e., I skipped one usual window). I don't usually do that, this was only about the second time, and the first time was because I was simply shifting my window to have a family breakfast - but I felt I needed some kind of 'boost'.

I'm happy that I'm more or less 'maintaining', just wondering why the weight doesn't seem to be coming off much anymore. I'm not cheating anywhere - I'm perfectly happy just eating in the evening. I'm not even usually hungry until my window, and not starving even then.

All I can think is that somehow, I'm still taking in more calories than I'm burning...which is strange, because I know I was eating more food when I was eating three squares, plus indiscriminate snacks - and I wasn't gaining weight on that, just maintaining at a higher point.

I hate counting calories, but maybe I'll have to. I don't see how I'm eating more than 1200-ish calories, maybe 1500, during my window, because that's really a lot of food at one time, and I'd feel overfull. I'm only eating what I would have normally had for a normal dinner, and then maybe something like a couple of grapefruit near the end of my window. I'm sure that I used to regularly eat 2000+ calories a day...so this next-to-nothing loss is mystifying.

I'm generally eating healthier than I used to, as well - because if my choices have narrowed, I have to think....do I really want to eat *that*, and then not have room for *that*?

Anyway. I'm still sticking to things, because it isn't really difficult. I just wish I'd see more progress than I am.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Chantelle <chantelles@...> wrote:
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> I¹m behind in email. Curious as to where you are at by now. I have some
> ideas/answers for you, but felt like to be revelant I need to know your
> current status :)
> chantelle
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> On 12/23/10 7:59 AM, "flippetskater" <flippetskater@...> wrote:
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> > Or is this even a plateau?
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> > So, I started around Thanksgiving. By Dec 11, I was down to 133.4 - a loss of
> > about 7 pounds. I felt a cold coming on (and posted here), so, with things to
> > do and no time to be miserable, I broke fast and ate 'normally' for about
> > three days (one day was a snow day here - and it's always a bit harder when
> > I'm home with the kids).
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> > Due to that, the weight climbed again - I lost a week's worth of progress, and
> > it's taken me until *today* to get back down to 133.4.
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> > I'm so discouraged and disappointed - I feel that if I just had stuck with it,
> > I wouldn't have lost so much ground - that I was on a roll that I've
> > completely lost. Since that third day, I haven't broken fast a bit - not even
> > a taste of something. I haven't overstuffed myself during my window, either.
> > It's a normal meal - totally what I would have eaten for dinner previously. I
> > tallied up the calories for one of my meals out of curiosity - 1050 - and
> > after that I made cookies with the kids, so I had two cookies and some milk -
> > and I couldn't even finish the second cookie, because I was full.
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> > I'm not sure what to do to get back on track. Part of why I'm doing this is
> > because there *isn't* anything to count, or keep tight track of. I *hate*
> > counting calories. I *hate* trying to keep track of nutrients. (I'm an
> > English major - I was told there would be no math.) I also generally hate to
> > cook. It's like a science experiment that I fail at. And if it takes longer
> > to make it than to eat it, I'm really not interested. Feels like an utter
> > waste of time - there's so much else I'd rather be doing.
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> > I've never tried 'low' *anything*, really, because of that. (I lost 15-20 lbs
> > on Weight Watchers, but once I got down to 19 points a day, I was just hungry,
> > and it was hard to find food that felt like 'enough' at each meal, when those
> > points were spread throughout the day.) I just know that if it starts to
> > involve too much counting, math, or interminable chopping or pot-watching,
> > it's something I won't stick with, because I hate it all so much.
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> > I know I sound like I'm complaining - I'm just really bummed.
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> > Has anyone here combined a longer water-fast with the plan? I'm wondering if
> > a 3-day water fast might jump-start things again.
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