Hello Weight Losing Fans,
Today I stepped up onto the Digital Scale weighing in at 212-pounds. That's down 3-pounds.
Yesterday I was talking to a coworker friend. He was insisting I take some of his cough drops. I have taken them before and sucked on them like they are hard candies. I would make short work of them. He was insisting take some of these cough drops. I kept telling him no. He wanted to know why. I told him I am fasting. The First thing out of his mouth was, "What is this for religion?" "Then he had the idiotic response, "are you a Muslim.?" Remember 20-years ago someone would have asked if I were a Catholic? My oh my, times have changed. I said no. I then explained I am tired of looking at my fat belly in the mirror. Then he said, "Oh you don't look fat, you don't even look that old. " Ugh !!!!! I told him I am 40-pounds more than I should be, and I am tired of it. He wanted to know how long have I been fasting. I said, "This is the second day." Of course there was the usual response "oh that must be hard?" I told him, "no it's not." He then wanted to know how long I plan on fasting. I told him, "As long as it takes." I said, "I am in the second day." He said, "You must be really hungry." Not really, I replied. Him, "Oh I could never do that." My thought, "Yeah, that's why you are a pork chop with nasty skin." The sweets are destroying this guy. He then wanted to know if it's hard? Well, Duh.. ! Come on, deprivation is never easy. Especially, especially, it's not easy if you have border-line diabetes. We then got into a discussion somehow about my longest fast. I told him a long time ago I fasted 9-days. He had a hard time imaging that. I am still alive after not eating 9-days.
This brings me to a point; for me 24-hours without eating is easy, now anyway. Most people, most people don't, I mean most people do not have the fortitude, to go 12-hours without eating, let alone go 24-hours without eating. Over, and over I have mentioned fasting, and get the darndest responses. I can't list them here. I watch sometimes this guy named Cole on You Tube. He has a You Tube Channel called the, "Snake Diet." He's been around many years. His videos are brutal. To be honest, I do not think 10-percent of the people who watch his videos even consider fasting more that a day, much less to a point any significant fat is burned off. I had one of his videos pop up a few days ago on my suggestion list. I think I watch 10-minutes. I thought, "yeah I really have to do something." Alternate fasting hasn't gotten me anywhere and the weight is creeping up. I decided to attempt a 3-day fast. Here it is day three and I am fine. I consume some coffee. I take my vitamins and minerals, and drink water. I feel fine.
I have no idea how long I will go. I have no idea what the results will be. I really feel fine.
Day-3 of my fast. Starting weight Wednesday was 217-pounds. This morning I was 212-pounds.
I have some growling in my stomach.
That's the way it is for now.
