[fast5] Fast on! Fast off!

Well, down another pound and a half this morning... yippeeee!

Defeat does not exist in this dojo, does it?
NO, SENSEI!

I have been wobbling back-and-forth on the edge of a stubborn plateau for the last couple of weeks, and am hopeful now of attaining a more rapid descent down into the fabled valley of lightness and well-being.

I am nearing the end of my daily fasting period, that enjoyable stretch of emptiness when I know my insulin levels are efficiently low and I can enjoy for the last couple of hours a bounteous buffet of sumptuous, predigested appetizers, happily nibbling away upon my own accumulated belly fat.

So, that makes a grand total of 26½ pounds down from the moment I crested at 290 pounds (there, I said it!) – an enviable sumo physique, I might add – maybe 5 months ago, but the accompanying pain in the hips and knees and the limited mobility prompted me upon that fateful day to make a solemn pledge to get down to my old college fighting weight, or thereabouts.  Under 200 pounds, let's say... a bodyweight that begins with a one in the hundreds column sounds about right (I'm 6 foot one and male, for the sake of full disclosure)... I'll fine-tune my goal weight once I arrive in the neighborhood.

For now, it's one day at a time.

I don't want my first post to be too long, and it would be great to hear back from some of you old-timers.  The traffic is a little light on this group's site of late, which also prompts me to write to you today.

One thought hit me this morning though, which it might be useful to share.  I notice that I never wake up hungry.  The transition to fat burning as an energy source that takes place normally during our nightly fast doesn't stop just because we open our eyelids and start moving around.  Cruising from wake-up time to break-fast time (somewhere between noon and 3 PM for me) without eating feels easy and natural.  I think it's perfectly normal Paleolithic behavior not to be thinking about food in the morning.  And for this reason we are scolded with the adage: "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!"

We have to be told that, reminded of that "fact" regularly by our parents, because it is not obvious to us.  And it is not obvious to us because our body is not telling us that message itself.  And it's not telling us that message because the message is a lie!

So I'm learning to listen to my body and reinterpret its messages more skillfully.  When I feel somatic hunger, I don't take that as a command to eat immediately, necessarily.  I look at it as a status update from my gut to my conscious mind that it is currently dining on body fat and can happily do so for a few more hours.  Why else the hell was I storing up 100 extra pounds of butter cookies inside my own skin?  For just such an occasion!  Mangiare!  Bon appetit!

Oh, good (ho, hum)... it's time for lunch...

All the best,

David

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