Day 2

Day 2 of my zero carb life. I want to find an IF pattern that's doable but challenging. 72 hours might be a little bit too much, even though I've done it in the past. 24 hours is very doable, and I think I like to do a 40-hour fast which I started last night at 10:00 p.m. I realize that even though I had beef from my one meal at dinner yesterday, it contained cornstarch and sugar in the spice mix, which makes me really disappointed. I think I must always prepare my own food or know exactly what's in the food, I can't trust anything! 


Want to have better self-control when it comes to fasting. Like if I tell myself I'm going to fast for 2 or 3 days, I just need to stick to it. I'm getting two lacks in myself control and it's not making me happy. That's going to be definitely a goal next year. 

Unrelated to food, one of my goals next year is also to keep my thoughts to myself. My mouth gets me into a trouble a lot especially with MPS. So this is going to be a big goal for me. Just internalize thoughts and think before I speak with everything I say! I think that will help a lot.

Two more thoughts I have this morning. The first one is that I want to join some kind of group of people, preferably non-ejections. I want to have a group of friends that I have some kind of relationship with to kind of externalize myself from the house. I think that will help me have a better relationship with my own family. 

The second thing is that I want to start focusing on my own body and my own health for myself. Not for anyone else... Because then if anyone upsets me, I feel like what's the point of making myself feel and look better for them? I'm only doing this for myself! I think that's what AE has been trying to tell me for a long time.

IF makes me feel good because I feel much lighter and much more energetic. However, I have to fight off urges to eat which don't really come from hunger. I'm not sure where they come from and I want to explore this feeling so that I can fight it off more strongly. 

I really like having a limited amount of food that I am choosing to eat. The seven foods that I eat are 
1. Beef (ground, steak, etc)
2. Butter (avocado oil or EVOO if I'm eating someone else's cooking)
3. Braunschweiger (or bacon)
4. Eggs
5. Salmon
6. Sardines
7. Chicken

What I would really like to do is focus on one food everyday. It would be ideal is a 23:1 or OMAD fasting. I think I really like the idea of just having one meal a day, just eating for about half an hour or so, and not thinking about food for the rest of the day. I feel like this would eliminate any snacking and any bingeing, which would solve a big problem for me.

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