Introduction:
First off I guess a brief introduction is in order. My name is Troy and I am a 42 year old father of three who wants to see his kids graduate from college. I am vastly overweight at 460 pounds and just want to be off this roller coaster and to live a healthy life. I have been ping ponging through multiple diets since my early 20s. I wish I could go back and smack my younger self upside the head before I even started this ride because the weight I was when I first started "dieting" is my current goal weight. Throughout the years my weight gradually increased from 200 pounds to almost 480 this past fall. I started doing keto with a dab of 16:8 fasting at that time and had some success with it until I could no longer handle the restrictions and fell off the wagon hard. went down to 425 and am now back up to 460. The last few months I joined WW with my girlfriend who is having success on the program and with the exception of the first week I have been losing and gaining the same 5 pounds since I started. I am still planning on going to the weekly meeting with her for support and I will still use their app as a food tracker, just going to slightly adapt their model and eat my points/calories in the two hour window instead of the whole day.
How I started fasting:
Last week after my most recent bounce back of another 5 pounds I started to do some self reflection on what I was doing and why it was not working for me. I realized that I was eating a lot of the time just to fill out my points or when I was bored, depressed etc and not when I was hungry. A very common story which I assume most of us can relate. So I came up with a Plan. it came down to one simple word. Why? why am I eating this? and if the answer was not that I was truly hungry and my body needed sustenance I would not eat it. I started giving myself 15 to 30 minutes to reflect on my eating and if I was still hungry I would eat. This quickly ended up going back to me intermittent fasting. With my current graveyard shift and schedule I mostly ate in a two hour window. I am now on day 3 of a 22:2 eating schedule.
Why am I here?
I like to journal and connect with people and have in the past have shared my posts on Facebook or a blog but have come to realize when it comes to fasting there is a lot of negativity from the general populace that I just did not want to subject myself to so I searched for a community of like minded individuals where I could receive and give support and I ended up here. Look forward to getting to know everyone.
Journal entry #1 Day 3 - June 20
Weight 460.7 (as of Jun 15 )
Mood: Optimistic and a little bit tired
No hunger urges as of yet. I have been fighting the urge to have an energy drink. I have weaned myself of them as I am worried of the affects of the sweeteners on my insulin resistance. I had a black coffee instead . I am not sure I will ever get use to the taste of it.
First off I guess a brief introduction is in order. My name is Troy and I am a 42 year old father of three who wants to see his kids graduate from college. I am vastly overweight at 460 pounds and just want to be off this roller coaster and to live a healthy life. I have been ping ponging through multiple diets since my early 20s. I wish I could go back and smack my younger self upside the head before I even started this ride because the weight I was when I first started "dieting" is my current goal weight. Throughout the years my weight gradually increased from 200 pounds to almost 480 this past fall. I started doing keto with a dab of 16:8 fasting at that time and had some success with it until I could no longer handle the restrictions and fell off the wagon hard. went down to 425 and am now back up to 460. The last few months I joined WW with my girlfriend who is having success on the program and with the exception of the first week I have been losing and gaining the same 5 pounds since I started. I am still planning on going to the weekly meeting with her for support and I will still use their app as a food tracker, just going to slightly adapt their model and eat my points/calories in the two hour window instead of the whole day.
How I started fasting:
Last week after my most recent bounce back of another 5 pounds I started to do some self reflection on what I was doing and why it was not working for me. I realized that I was eating a lot of the time just to fill out my points or when I was bored, depressed etc and not when I was hungry. A very common story which I assume most of us can relate. So I came up with a Plan. it came down to one simple word. Why? why am I eating this? and if the answer was not that I was truly hungry and my body needed sustenance I would not eat it. I started giving myself 15 to 30 minutes to reflect on my eating and if I was still hungry I would eat. This quickly ended up going back to me intermittent fasting. With my current graveyard shift and schedule I mostly ate in a two hour window. I am now on day 3 of a 22:2 eating schedule.
Why am I here?
I like to journal and connect with people and have in the past have shared my posts on Facebook or a blog but have come to realize when it comes to fasting there is a lot of negativity from the general populace that I just did not want to subject myself to so I searched for a community of like minded individuals where I could receive and give support and I ended up here. Look forward to getting to know everyone.
Journal entry #1 Day 3 - June 20
Weight 460.7 (as of Jun 15 )
Mood: Optimistic and a little bit tired
No hunger urges as of yet. I have been fighting the urge to have an energy drink. I have weaned myself of them as I am worried of the affects of the sweeteners on my insulin resistance. I had a black coffee instead . I am not sure I will ever get use to the taste of it.
