Thank you Heather! I like the sound of easing into it eating raw vegetables..
Thanks again!
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> You might start gradually ... move your break-fast back by 1/2 hour
> each day. If that doesn't work, go for 15 minutes. I went cold-turkey and
> was miserable for about a week, esp. the first 3 days. I don't recommend it.
>
> Exercise and drinking liquid with something sour in it (vinegar or
> lemon juice) seems to help me when I get like that too. Dunno
> why, but sour foods seem to offset insulin spikes somehow.
>
> Also, it seems to be easier if you have more protein and less starch
> in the evening. Vit B also seems to help with spaciness for a lot of
> people.
>
> Last resort would be to use the Warrior Diet approach, which is
> to eat raw vegies during the fasting period, at least during
> initiation. When I first did IF it was with the Warrior Diet, in a
> group of people. We ate raw fruits and vegies during the day,
> so it wasn't a fast. But everyone, by the end of 5 weeks, was
> skipping the vegies except to "participate" in group lunches
> etc. So the vegies became a crutch to get past the first
> few weeks, but we got into the fasting part pretty easily.
> That isn't the Fast 5 approach at all, but it might be melded
> in with the "move breakfast back" part to make life
> livable.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:53 AM, seven3403 <travis.foley@
> > I have been trying so hard to make this work and I just can't seem to shake some things, so I'm asking one last time for any help, advice, encouragement.
> >
> > Here's a portion from a log I had been keeping and it talks about my experience over the course of a typical few days:
> >
> > Saturday was a free day... we took the kids on a trip for the day, it was great, I felt fine all day long. �Sunday morning I was back on track, however, I was spaced out all morning, it was hard to maintain a thought or hold a conversation because it seemed my mind wandered so much... I attribute that to the spaciness, I don't know what else to call it. �When I did finally eat, as usual, I would try to eat slowly but even still it made me feel weird. �Monday, I was just "out of it". �I wasn't in that great of a mood, I was short with the kids, I couldn't seem to concentrate long enough on anything that required much thought, so I didn't get much accomplished as far as work goes. �I seemed to be limited when it would come to having a discussion that required deep thought or explanation. �I don't know what this is called, but I was doing things in a strange order...? �For example, let's say I was getting up to go to the bathroom and I wanted to take my water bottle with me to fill it up in the sink while I was in there... simple task right? �Well, I would walk into the bathroom, flip on the light, take the cap off of the water bottle, set the cap and the bottle on the sink, go to then go to the bathroom and think to myself... "why did I just take the cap off of the water bottle, I'm not filling it up until I finish going to the bathroom?" �Just a weird confusion or something...
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> > Any advice, comments or anything is completely welcome.
> >
> > Thank you guys!
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