My "Fast" Life Days 22-30, The Conclusion

These last few days have been interesting. I've been planning my "exit strategy" for a little over a week now and still don't have a clear cut plan. I do know that I am not putting red meat back into my diet. I went six years without it and I survived just fine. It was around the time that I started up again that I started getting fat. I think there might be a connection. Sweets have never been a big problem so me so I'm not worried about them.

The funny thing that has happened since Sunday is my mind has kept telling me I'm close enough to the end that it will be okay to have the bad stuff. I sat in the movie theater for two hours that day fighting the urge to get popcorn. And there have been other things as well but I fought all the urges and made it to the end.

One thing I have heard from friends and family for the last thirty days has been, "I couldn't do that." I used to think like that myself. As time wore on when someone would say that I started editing the phrase in my head to "I don't have the willpower to do that," or "I don't want to do that." Ultimately that's what it comes down to. Anyone could do a thirty day fast if they wanted to but most of us don't. The words can't and won't are too easily mistaken these days.

So way back when I started I decided to do this fast I said I was going to go to Waffle House at 12:01 on February 19th. Well, I did and this was my reward for thirty days of discipline:



That was the best chocolate chip waffle I have ever had in my life. I think I'm gonna be sick now...

My "Fast" Life Day 1 & 2

I started a fast on January 19, 2010. I'm still not 100% sure why I am doing this but here I am. I will be on this fast for thirty days and while I'm on it I cannot have meat and animal products, dairy, yeast, sweeteners of any kind, refined and processed food products, deep friend foods, and solid fats. Also, I can only drink purified, distilled or spring water. This is going to be a long thirty days. I have also given up ANY kind of carnal pleasure for the duration. Did I mention this was going to be a long thirty days?

Several people have suggested that I blog about this process and being the self important person that I am I decided put the words down on internet. This is how my first couple days went:

Day 1 - I did okay for the most part. I'll be honest, I kinda woke up this morning and decided I was going to do the fast so I didn't prepare at all. I also didn't read the rules as closely as I thought I had. I had leavened bread with my Boca burger. So really I broke the rules twice on this one. Boca burgers have yeast in them. I did not know this until day two. It took me roughly two and a half hours to screw up.

Day 2 - Things were a little better today. I had a better sense of what was expected and what not to eat. The worst part is the caffeine headache. That and since I work in the service industry I have to be around all the food I can't eat. I hate this already.