SekhemNefer
03-16-2009, 05:28 AM
I love the fasting bandit thread but it is way to hard for me to keep up with 115 plus pages. A monthly support group will work better for me as being easy on my eyes and keeping up with the conversations.
I will start my fast/feast with a combination of smoothies and some juicing today. All the major fall/winter holidays have passed, including Valentine's day and all the major birthdays of family members have ended as of March 15th. There is no major holidays worth celebrating until next Halloween. Therefore, I can fully concentrate on me being devoted to raw without temptation.
I know the first week will be a trial, since I am an an emotional eater. Mostly out of boredom and socialization. But I feel that if I can get through the second half of March, then I can survive anything.
I have read recently that some of you have past the one month mark of fasting/feasting from juicing and smoothies. That is an encouragement for me for I hope I can do the same.
It is like 5:17 AM and I am full of emotion for I am scared at the challenge of overcoming the reasons why I depend on food for so much emotional comfort. And I don't want to fail, especially where is my health is concerned. As of today, I am 230 lbs. and I got a wake up call when last week I felt my left foot go numb to having tingling sensations. Diabetes runs on both sides of my family and all I could think of is that I better get my health in order, or if poor circulation persists, i could possibly lose a limb through diabetes. Right now, I am not clinically laballed as a diabetic...however, I just don't want to "go there".
I suspect that doing this fasting/feasting will be an emotional and spiritual journey in the next few weeks. If I can just get through the remaining months of March, then I can feel that everything else will be okay.
However, in order to not be doom and gloom, I have been raw on and off for 3 years. I just want to say that I am proud of myself, or at least proud of my taste buds for wanting to give up SAD foods more and more. Especially, my favorite SAD foods that were really unhealthy like McDonalds, greasy pizza from Dominos, Haagen Daaz ice cream, potato chips, Doritos, etc. And I have less and less desire to eat out.
Now if I can just move to the next step of living a fully healthy lifestyle.
I will start my fast/feast with a combination of smoothies and some juicing today. All the major fall/winter holidays have passed, including Valentine's day and all the major birthdays of family members have ended as of March 15th. There is no major holidays worth celebrating until next Halloween. Therefore, I can fully concentrate on me being devoted to raw without temptation.
I know the first week will be a trial, since I am an an emotional eater. Mostly out of boredom and socialization. But I feel that if I can get through the second half of March, then I can survive anything.
I have read recently that some of you have past the one month mark of fasting/feasting from juicing and smoothies. That is an encouragement for me for I hope I can do the same.
It is like 5:17 AM and I am full of emotion for I am scared at the challenge of overcoming the reasons why I depend on food for so much emotional comfort. And I don't want to fail, especially where is my health is concerned. As of today, I am 230 lbs. and I got a wake up call when last week I felt my left foot go numb to having tingling sensations. Diabetes runs on both sides of my family and all I could think of is that I better get my health in order, or if poor circulation persists, i could possibly lose a limb through diabetes. Right now, I am not clinically laballed as a diabetic...however, I just don't want to "go there".
I suspect that doing this fasting/feasting will be an emotional and spiritual journey in the next few weeks. If I can just get through the remaining months of March, then I can feel that everything else will be okay.
However, in order to not be doom and gloom, I have been raw on and off for 3 years. I just want to say that I am proud of myself, or at least proud of my taste buds for wanting to give up SAD foods more and more. Especially, my favorite SAD foods that were really unhealthy like McDonalds, greasy pizza from Dominos, Haagen Daaz ice cream, potato chips, Doritos, etc. And I have less and less desire to eat out.
Now if I can just move to the next step of living a fully healthy lifestyle.