an update

Yay!

I posted today's post sooner than the "official" end of the protein fast.

But I've never been one to follow every rule anyways.

I started on a Thursday evening and these were on a Wednesday night!

One more day - one less day.... sometime I have to remind myself that it's about 

the trends and not each 1/10th of a pound.... which, for me, might just be the scale!

There is a place - the top half of my abdomen.

[Lower half, too. But that's expected.]

That is where the "stubborn" weight has been for me.

Right over the place where my gall-bladder once was.

That is why I am on a campaign to lose this visceral fat.

Why not try - after all this time, and weight loss, why not try?

So yeah, I lost an inch or two from there!

Much less on the trunk (not that trunk)

My skin feels "tighter."

So - to kind of summarize the past 2 weeks 

on the Protein Sparing Modified Fast:

I was only hungry a few times.

No legs cramps or any other physical problem.

No dizziness or loss of strength -

although with the flu - it's hard to tell....

No hair falling out - my nails are stronger, too!

It's a great way to break a plateau.

This is what some body builders use to get ready 

for a competition. Some people would call it a "crash diet"

but I don't see any crash effects. Even Atkins wrote that

Fat Fasts (etc) are a great way to start - or break a stall.

September 09 .....and..... Feb 11

6 months AFTER I started LoCarb and now.

Most people START a diet this way. 

So the results are more dramatic!

But people notice the difference in person!

I feel great - as in wonderful.

Definitely will be trying this again.... next time withOUT the flu!

There's only positive benefits (for me) and I can't see one negative aspect.

I have this area of adipose tissue/fat

that might always be part of who I am.

It might not ever go away completely.

I can accept that, too. Maybe it's kinda like this

nagging issue with self-doubt. It just comes over me

at times. I didn't use to have it and now I do.

I am learning to recognize it, and deal with it right away.

Once, it took weeks to overcome one thought.

Then, days. Now - just maybe a few moments.

I can't really avoid the triggers on that one - 

Everything is a trigger for that! Even blogging.

But now I can get back to being "ok"

without alot of pony tricks.

So yeah. It might be part of who or what I am now.

But nothing can stop me from trying to make a few changes

for the better around here!

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So that's the Fasting News.

And I just now had an awesome salad!

Yummy-liscious!

Hope your night is great!