24 hour fast - hour 18

I've now reached 75% of my goal, which is coincidentally when I've faltered during past attempts at fasting.  I think those times will help me finish these last six hours.  Perhaps out of foolish pride I'm starting to question whether 24 hours is enough time to get the benefits of fasting that I've read about online.  Maybe next week I'll try doing 36 hours.  If you're reading this and have any experience with this please post a comment.

24 hour fast - hour 17

Sleeping from midnight to 11am did wonders for moving through this fast.  Upon waking I felt some hunger.  At one point this morning I woke up and had some gas from yesterday's food so I know there are still some digestive-type processes going on.  Onward ho!

24 hour fast - hour five

11pm, The Kitchen is Closed.  On hundreds of other nights during the year this is when I'd go for that late night snack.  I don't need to read journals or articles about how late night snacking leads to weight gain.  I'm living proof!  Maybe one more post tonight, if not then after waking.

24 hour fast - hour four

4 down, 20 to go.  I've never run a marathon but I imagine I feel similar to the novice marathoner that just finished his or her fourth mile.  They're moving along, confident in their training and preparation, and not anticipating the rough seas ahead.  I've run enough half marathons and 25K races to know that tomorrow will be difficult.  Today at work I learned of a concept called "attitude regardless of circumstances".  I know  I've created circumstances with years of poor eating habits.  Tomorrow my attitude will be paramount.

24 hour fast - hour three

After that nap I decided to go out for a walk with the family.  I no longer feel bloated and now am in the state of being neither hungry nor completely full.  This usually a danger period for me because my mind thinks about food before I do.  What snacks and drinks am I going to have later?  A rum and coke with chips?  Or a healthier choice of a bowl of cereal?  Tonight it will be neither.  Getting to the state of hunger is what I think is the key to losing weight.  When I force myself to feel hunger I only eat two meals a day, which is theoretically cutting my caloric intake by 33%.

24 hour fast - hour two

I spent the better part of this hour napping.  The big dinner is still being digested.  One of the reasons I'm doing this is to experience fasting firsthand .  Possibly like you, fasting is just something I've investigated on the internet.  There is no shortage of stated benefits and dangers of fasting online.  I'll tell it to you straight.  I'm 39 years old and am 50 lbs. away from a "normal" BMI.  I am very active physically but do not lose weight because of my eating habits, which I'm convinced is predictive of so many of our health factors.  I'm occasionally sluggish and have trouble concentrating at work.  There more posts to come.

24 hour fast - hour one

It's just past 7pm and I've completed the first hour of a 24 hour fast.  It was quite easy to do as I ate spaghetti and meatballs for dinner before 6 o'clock.  I have some experience fasting in the past year.  Occasionally on a Saturday I'll see how far I can go.  Usually at about the 16 to 18 hour mark I succumb to hunger.  This time I'm going to blog about the experience as a way to crash through that mythical wall.  More to come soon.