that fast sure was slow at the end..
that fast sure was slow at the end..
I’ve noticed that Lerri puts a summary of the post at the top, then puts the gritty details. I would say I promise this will be the last time i talk about shit or poop, but why make such a promise?
So… post fast, how do i feel about it? While I’m glad that I did it, I understand now the importance of starting back on food gradually. I;ve been suffering a bit in the week since i stopped this fast, but i think that at least part of it is about what I decided to have the first couple days after I stopped the fast. The weight loss bits I posted before were not lasting, i weighed myself yesterday, was 194. Still not too shabby, but I did eat rather carelessly over the weekend.
This week, my friend Will who turned me onto the fast has been asking me about my results. He empasized that it wasnt about weight loss, but more about the mental discipline to do this. The last couple days of the fast, I was jonesing hard, fantasizing about what was available at any given restaurant (mmm .. tommyknockers has yummy chicken fried elk steak.. hey, i never noticed that pizza place before, pizza sounds good… maybe just some salad from somewhere or other). I chalk this up to an interesting change i made on Sunday the 9th: I had some aloe gold and some ageless (actually they call it xperia now, and it’s different from the old ageless). That day i had gas for the first time all week, and i think my system was shocked into wanting real food because this was other than the stuff i’d been having all week.
How did I break the fast? well first wtih some miso soup. If I’d stopped there for the night, maybe with some yogurt to recolonize my gut with good bacteria.. Heck, even the sushi i had that night wasnt too bad, it was “simple” food, as will said. Fair enough. Next day, having the beef and bean smothered burritos at las delicias: I should have been warned by the fact that I couldn’t eat the whole thing, i was full after one and a half.
The whole weekend (starting with friday, when i took the day off sick because of my repeated trips to the bathroom) was affected by this poor choice of food. When I wentto the top of pike’s peak, the gaseousness i had before was made worse because of the difference in air pressure - the gas in my gut wanted to expand. I spent a significant part of my time at the top of the mountain in the bathroom.
Will said that the first time he did this, he didnt know what to expect but after the first time he realized that doing this is a chance to basically reset your digestive system, that after doing it you have a choice to go back to your usual ways of eating, or you can do something different. This time I didn’t do anything different. My digestion is different, though. I’m pretty sure i could have had a better time if i ate more simple foods at first. I think that the next time i wil make a point to stock up on fruit at the end, and try to ease into something a bit less difficult - salads for a while might be nice.