I’m not nearly as gung-ho as Fitforties. I hope your success and enthusiasm rub off on me. I’ve been kind of laughing/rolling my eyes at myself this morning because when I woke up I literally was laying in bed thinking, “Well, I’m not going to get my second fast in for the week…” and mentally giving reasons why any particular day this weekend wouldn’t work. Last night at about 8 p.m. I thought, “Dang, I wish I’d eaten dinner earlier (I ate at 6:30) because then I could have begun my fast and still had a good dinner with everyone else tomorrow….”

ANYWAY, as I lay there in bed telling myself why each of these potential fasting periods wouldn’t work, I realized it had been nearly twelve hours since I’d last eaten, and therefore I should do at least a 14-hour fast, which was less than two hours away. Better than nothing, right? From there, I negotiated with myself that I probably COULD do a full 24-hour fast if I let myself go over by 100 calories. I made a list of everything I planned to eat and decided I’d eat 500 calories plus any fruit or veggies I want. WHAT IS THIS NEED TO NEGOTIATE WITH MYSELF LIKE THIS? It’s so laughably stupid. I can always do the first fast of the week really easily, but the second one is so much harder to commit to. The fact of the matter is, now that I only have nine hours to go and 300 calories left, I’ll probably do just fine without adding those veggies and fruit, but the fact that I’ve had to coax myself like this is ridiculous.

I’m glad I did push through, because I want to get to where I was before mid-December, when I was fasting twice a week easily and feeling good results and had that change in appetite on non-fast days. I am hopeful that all might kick in next week, which will be my third consecutive week of two-fasts-a-week. It sure hasn’t kicked in yet!

Thanks, guys! HappyNow, you’re such an inspiration. I’m 14 hours into my first fast of the week and it might be hard because last night, I was CRAVING peanut butter on toast and a glass of milk…eventually, I had it, which blew more than half my calories, which means for the next ten hours (awake, no less), I won’t be able to eat much at all. I’m going to have chicken noodle soup and a no-dressing salad for lunch, which should be enough to hold me over.

Hope everyone has a successful week!

P.S. I finished that last fast just fine. I’m finding myself still doing the same thing today, to a lesser degree. “Well, if you HAVE to end your fast early, so be it. Just do it as long as you can….” and “What if I did three 800-calories fasts per week instead of two 500-calorie fasts?” ETC. Seriously, though, wouldn’t an 800-calorie fast be a breeze?