I’ll share a few numbers quick and then move on to two observations.
I dropped 0.6 pounds yesterday to 181.0, for a total of 4.6 pounds in 3 days. My waist dropped 1/4 inch, full a total of 1 full inch in only three days.
As I said yesterday, I don’t have any cravings, and I’m not hungry, but I do still want to eat. After some introspection, I finally settled on the fact that I just like to eat. I had gotten into the habit of eating small things many times a day (i.e-breakfast bar in the morning, apple at 10ish, bag of chips at noonish, leftovers from dinner the previous night at 1ish, applesauce and snack pack at 3ish, large dinner at night) and if I’m at work I usually take an hour to actually finish eating what I started. Basically, I am eating almost constantly throughout the day, training my body to want to constantly eat. I think once I get done with the fast I am going to limit myself to only eating the typical 3 times a day-breakfast, lunch, dinner-and even then I am going to limit the portions. Eventually I should be able to train my body to only want to eat 3 times a day, instead on contantly.
For those of you who don’t like reading about bowels movements, skip this paragraph. I drank the saltwater mixture this morning because I only have to work today (no class!). An hour after I drank it I went to the bathroom and purged my bowels. It came out pretty violently and was only liquid. It really made me wonder how there are so many laxatives in the market, when 2 teaspoons mixed into 32 ounces of water will clear you out very nicely. I guess Ex-lax, et all have better marketing or something.
This fast seems to be going a lot better than the last one did. Last time I was more irritable than normal, and I was counting down the days until it was over. This time I act like I usually do and I even lost track of the days. Yesterday I thought I was in the middle of day 2 of the fast, rather than day 3, so it is obviosuly not affecting me to the point where I want it done.
