I am Addicted to food…………..

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Cibum Amantem

3:02 pm
22 Sep 14
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I am Addicted to food.

And with this wondrous Addiction, comes weight gain and all its associated problems.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction. Never were truer words penned.

Until this morning I had never heard of the 5:2 Fast Diet. I was curious as to why I was so cold. I’m currently living in the far North of Australia, so it’s kind of a funny feeling, being cold to the bone. So I googled my question. That it was associated with fasting I knew. What I didn’t know was how popular Fasting had become.

How do I manage my health and my Food Addiction? Once a year, every year, before Summer, for a period of about 12 weeks, I Fast.

Not quiet the 5:2 Fast approach, kind of the opposite. You see, I fast for 2 full days and on the 3rd Day I enjoy a small healthy meal. I repeat this pattern for as long as I can stand it, then, slowly but surely I reverse my weight loss until my “Big Me” clothes are a little tight.

I started 4 weeks ago today. I exercise, I fast.

My scales tell me I have dumped a little over 12 kilos in that time. The weight loss will slow shortly. The last 8 kilos takes for ever to budge.

Is my way of controlling my Food Addiction verses my Weight healthy? It would appear that the founder of this revolutionary diet believes so. And its never hurt me.

Ok, I have two days straight with no food intake. But, each morning I swallow fish oil tablets, vitamin D, Calcium, a multivitamin, a Glucosamine tablet and a few odds and sods. I drink water, lots and lots of water. My only calorie intake in this time is from the teaspoon of honey I have in each of my 3 cups of black tea.

The two main side effects? This bone chilling coldness and by the second night without food, I sometimes feel weary and skip my evening walk.

I loose 20 to 25 kilos every year with this method, but I don’t believe for one moment it is for every one. You need to find that switch, the one in your head that says “Hey Mr, you need to stop eating” and engage that switch with a passion. If you cant discipline your mind, you don’t have a snow flakes hope in hell of succeeding.

I am Addicted to food.

Seasonal Fasting is how I control my weight.

Pea Jay

3:54 pm
22 Sep 14
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Cibum Amantem
I admire your discipline for fasting to control your weight. After yrs of yo-yo diets I found a few helps to deal with what I call emotional overheating. One was a book by Beth Moore “Breaking Free.” I don’t think I was addicted to food, because I would overindulge on anything edible. If I had been eating lots of sugar filled desserts I noticed the craving for sugar. To stay off them I use fruit as the substitute. Quickly (2 WKS) I am satisfied with fruit as my sweet. I do have a sweet with sugar, but just eat one piece of pie or 3 cookies etc.
5:2 is what allowed me to loose 25 lbs and reshape body in 8 months. Body isn’t perfect, but on all previous diets I lost muscle as well as fat. I did 5:2 with thought that I would do this for rest of life. I like it. It works with life for me and it seems relatively easy. I do think on my feed days that I cannot go crazy eating. I think the smaller size is now a motivation to be moderate in eating.
You may not want to deal with addiction. You have a good way to keep body size weight in ck. You could try 5:2 and see if you like it. I look forward to fast days.