I've been fasting. I'm amazed at how much I love it! I feel wonderful, strong, healthy, mentally alert, and the weight is dropping off beautifully.
Family wants to know when I'm going to start eating. I'm not sure I want to. I was reading several websites today about the benefits of fasting and I was impressed with the things they said. Obviously it is a controversial thing. One of the things the sites brought out though that I thought was interesting is that the fathers of medicine (the Greek guys) (3 of them) advocated fasting as a very healthy way for the body to heal itself.
I don't have anything to heal except for too much fat and maybe some arthritis (said it would help that too). So I'm really tempted to see how long I can do this without it affecting my energy levels too much. So far it hasn't at all.
Scale read 245 Monday morning and this evening it reads 238. I know a lot of that is water weight and I know a lot will return when I go off of this. I know too, that this isn't a sustainable way of eating for life. But my dieting efforts had slowed to a stop and I needed something to work. I was getting very tired of relosing and regaining the same five pounds.