Hi and welcome! I just showed up here myself and am very excited
about the concept.
I have done quite a bit of fasting for colon cleansing purposes,
including very long fasts (always on juices). It is amazing how
visceral and emotional eating actually is, much more so than we ever
realize... because few stop to ponder it.
It takes some doing, but all of the games your mind plays with you
around food do come to an end. It requires re-training, but through
perseverance and repetition, the subconscious can be taught!
Have patience with yourself. Keep doing what Dr. Bert says... just
follow the program and be gentle on yourself during the acclimation
period.
I don't have an acclimation period because of my fasting experience,
but having gone through it all in learning to fast, I am
sympathetic. A forum like this is an excellent way to help you stay
on the right path. Keep in touch and keep doing the program and you
will find yourself back where you started, eating that big meal,
losing the weight and feeling great! Your subconscious won't have
much to say at the point, I bet!
Enjoy whatever you eat when you eat it! Enjoy that light, clean,
clear feeling when you're not eating it.
Cheers,
z2
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.
>
> I am glad that I finally discovered Fast-5! When I was younger, I
wsa
> a one-big-meal a day type kid (much to the chagrin of my three
> squares a day) and never had a weight problem. In college, I was
> super thin because I could only afford one meal a day and, unlike
> home where snacks were available, didn't have the oppurtunity to
eat
> anything from limbic hunger.
>
> After college, I started working out since I was always an athlete,
> but couldn't go pro in anything. To get fitter, I bought into the
> mini-meals and gained weight. Since then, my weight has been all
> over the place and I developed a whopping case of bulimia. As
> counterintuitive as it may seem, the Fast-5 has really helped
manage
> my eating disorder (waayyyy more than the meal plans from
treatment)
> and I feel happier and saner about food.
>
> My problem now is that I often eat at the beginning of the window
and
> then panicking at the end and forcing myself to eat again because
a.
> I fear the hunger to come (although I like the how I feel when I
> fast, the IDEA of the fast seems to trigger this) and b. I miss
> eating. Food used to be my BFF and now I don't want a lot of it.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? I feel like I'm short circuiting
my
> progress by eating from limbic hunger during my window. Thoughts?
>
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