The Seventies

Cue up my favorite disco song of all time…

I stepped on the scale this morning and it said 178.5! Welcome to the seventies!

To be fair, I spent the last 24 hours fasting (I did it y’all!) so maybe that number was a bit out of the norm but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.  Even if I go up a pound in the next day or so, I’m still out of the 80s where it seems like I was stuck forever.

Fasting yesterday wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.  I have yet another nasty cold though so that probably helped.  I started the fast after dinner on Wednesday.  I didn’t work out the next morning because I was feeling sick and very sleepy so sometimes you just need to listen to your body.  It was odd not eating breakfast at work the next morning, but I got over it by actually focusing on work.

I started getting a little hungry at 3-ish but I drank some green tea (yuck!) and got through it.  At 4:30 I started to feel really terrible and nauseous.  I don’t know if that was a lack of food thing or part of me being sick.  The feeling eventually passed and it was time to go home!

The time between when I come home and when I have dinner is a big munchy time for me.  It was tough not to grab something out of habit.  I just kept drinking water and busied myself with cleaning since The Mister’s sister is coming to town.  I fed Lewis some kind of apple cinnamon mixed grain stuff and I could smell the cinnamon (through my stuffy nose!).  I was getting really antsy for something then.

Once 8PM hit, I knew that I wouldn’t fail in the last hour.  At precisely 9PM, I pulled my broiled tilapia out of the oven and feasted.  Maybe a little too much too fast though, I felt really gross after eating.

I can’t say this is something I will do again.  There is the whole thing with intermittent fasting that I have not delved into yet.  But right now, I’m fine with focusing on the basics to lose the bulk of this weight.  When I am down to that last 10 pounds, I might need to try drastic techniques.  At this point though, sticking to my program is producing results.  No need to change something that is working!