I will keep this fairly short, but I'm new to the group (sorta). I first joined back about 4 or 5 years ago. This is not my first time with F5, I've been on and off of it during this time. I have keep very good notes on my progress through all of that and I sat down last night and reviewed it all to figure out why this just never worked for me long term?
I keep coming back to it because:
- I know it works because I lose weight EVERY time
- It really helps me discipline myself when it comes to eating and keeps me from allowing food to control my life
- I experience other health benefits from this as well such as lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and lower triglycerides.
- It's very convenient when I don't have to mess with making breakfast and packing a full lunch for work.
- I save money on groceries and snacks during the day
- I FEEL better and I'm more confident when I feel light and my clothes fit me better
- I never battle fatigue in the afternoons or on the drive home, I'm always alert
I know I could think of more, but 7 is enough. :)
So you may be asking yourself, why have I not stuck with this then? Why all of the starting and stopping?
What I experience consistently as I read back through all everything I have written can be summed up in one of my entries from back in 2009.
Here's what I wrote:
"I'm stopping Fast5 because I'm tired of feeling tired, weak, spacey and irritable. Even after I eat I find myself being more irritable than I normally am. The weightloss was great, but it's not worth the side-effects. Also, it's affecting my performance at work. My short term memory really seems to suffer even though it is supposed to be sharper some how? It's not and I cannot seem to subside the spacey feeling using everyone's advice either. I thought I could do this, but cannot sustain this for the long haul."
I would go on over the next 3 or 4 years starting back up and ultimately having to quit for pretty much the same reasons.
At one point I started doing the Warrior Diet and that was horrible and made everything worse. I started doing Weight Watchers and that worked for a while, but I felt that was harder to maintain because of all of the tracking and counting and everything.
F5 fits my lifestyle better than anything else I've tried, I just have to get through this issue of the dizziness.
I have been doing a lot of reading again and I'm back (again) to give this a shot and go at it from one angle that I haven't tried yet. I am on week 3 this time around and I am doing very well actually. What I am changing this time around is my window. In the past I have consistently kept a window of 2:00 - 7:00. Looking back over everything I saw a pattern of extending my window because of one thing or another. I'm doing a window of 5:00 - 10:00 PM like the book suggests this time and today is actually going to be the first day that I hit it. So far this time around, my window has been in the 2:30/3:00 PM time frame when I opened it. Today will be 5:00 PM.
This new window will:
- completely eliminate the need to bring any food to work
- eliminate the issue of eating too early and messing up my window if the family ends up eating later after dinner... I don't have to miss out
- help me keep from over eating... in other words, I won't be eating lunch AND dinner. I end up eating lunch and dinner both, and then some... this will just be one meal (dinner) and a snack or something later.
I'm keeping a close eye on any advice that I see posted. What helps me is to read about what others are experiencing. When I know others have experienced the same things, but stuck it out and the symptoms subside, that gives me hope to keep at it.
One of my downfalls before has been fudging a little when the weight came off. Once I started doing that, it became more routine and before I knew it I had drifted very far from the routine and it was hard to get going again.
Anyway, that was a very long post, I apologize.
I look forward to reading about everyone's progress and challenges and I'm very encouraged that long term success for me is just ahead!
travis
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