Alternate day fasting question (TRIGGER WARNING)

(Mother of Puppies ) #1

I did an effortless 36 hour fast after listening to Megan Ramos’ advice.

It was so easy and felt so good that I decided to “go ADF” indefinitely. (A really good decision, for the amt of food I can eat. :joy:)

My issue is that I’ll set these plans and something comes up and I eat and say I’ll start the next day, over and over.

Now I’m losing trust in myself.

I know I can do it physically, but what is it that causes endless procrastination loops?

Now it’s been two weeks. What’s going on? How to overcome this?

I’m sure someone’s been through it.

(Candy Lind) #2

The same reason I have put off my next fast for 2 more days. When you have food issues, they don’t stay confined to one area - they spread their insidious tentacles into all aspects of food.

Could it have something to do with our given name? :wink::innocent:

(Mother of Puppies ) #3

Yessss :joy::joy::joy:

#triggered

I had a chance to speak with Jackie Eberstein and she actually told me to avoid certain people and avoid Whole Foods completely. (Due to their dark chocolate almond butter bar and fresh cookies).

Your words help, though. My “binges” now would not have even registered with the old me.

#ProgressNotPerfection

(Robert C) #4

I’ve been through a similar thing trying to follow one of Dr. Fung’s fasting schemes from his Obesity Code book.
It was essentially 3 1-day fasts a week - and that was the problem.
They say those accumulate (if your goal is just fat loss) so essentially equivalent to fasting Monday to Wednesday.
But, for my brain, that meant starting 3 fasts a week - and only the Monday one was happening with regularity.
My lifestyle let me do a 3-day fasts instead - Sunday dinner to Wednesday dinner.
It worked for a while, got my fasting muscle in shape, and now I can fast around all sorts of schedules.
Just an idea - might be better if you are more of an “all or nothing” person.

(Mother of Puppies ) #5

Cool!! That sounds like a good alternative!!

#6

I’ve done ADF, weekends & all for a while- & just stuck to it, only varied it for a very special occasion. There was no thinking about which days to do, I just stuck to the alternate days. I lost most of the weight I wanted to with that, but I do love my carbs, & found I was eating too much on nonFDs, undoing any good fasting was doing… so after I found keto & the advice was not to fast to start with I stopped the ADF & just did 2 FDs for a bit. Once I was used to keto I’ve gone back to 3 FDs per week, Mon, Weds & Fri- & I just stick to those pretty much rigidly- I have to, or if I started to vary them, then I would be like you & keep putting it off. I have to be disciplined or it all goes pear shaped! I am all or nothing as RobC mentions! I have found I can fast a little longer than the 24 hours I used to do though, so maybe this will change & I might be able to do one longer fast, but currently keeping disciplined is the only way for me…

(Alec) #7

What are the “somethings” that come up?
Are they reasonable reasons to break a fast or not?
Are you fat adapted?

My guess is that you don’t really want to do this for some reason. You need to find out why.
Cheers
Alec

(Mother of Puppies ) #8

Good info @jules4!!! Thank you!!!

I’ll try a more structured fasting schedule

(Mother of Puppies ) #9

I’m easily triggered.

I adhere better if I don’t go out in public.

#weird I know

I need to journal to remember what the trigger was, but I’m sure it was something ridiculous. :joy:

UPDATE: I’m at FORTY HOURS!!! Whoohoo!!!

(Allan L) #10

ADF is worth it if you can get into it. I lost a load of weight in a short period of time by fasting for 42 hrs every other day.