I've had several failed attempts since my last entry here. I decided that I'd wait until I had at least a small bit of initial success before starting to write about it again. Here we are.
Late that day, after the meal, she got a short notice request to go to help with the grandkid the next day. There were leftovers from the anniversary meal and the previous day's leftover roast in the refrigerator. She'd planned to consume both over the next couple days, but now wasn't going to be around to do so. I ate it the day she left, delaying the start of my planned fast, to prevent its going bad.
The following day, I started my fast. I weighed 279 that morning. I fasted four days, weighing in at 264.5 the morning of day four - really only three days and a few hours into the fast. That evening, I decided that 92 hours was enough, and I ate a meal consisting of approximately 1200 calories.
However, given the success of that almost four day fast, I decided to see how many four-day fasts I could stack together. Each would be interrupted by a single meal of 1000-1500 calories, consumed within 30 minutes.
The next day, I weighed 265. My single meal had cost me half a pound plus whatever loss I would have experienced that day had I not eaten. The next day found me at 261.5. It had been over 36 hours since said meal, but my weigh-in schedule has me weighing immediately upon waking and I'm working an odd shift this week. That delayed things.
As I write this, I'm fifty-five hours since food. I'm going to try really hard to make it to Friday night, at which time I will have the same meal I ate after the first four days. What meal is that, you ask? Six scrambled eggs, an entire 14-ounce can of corned beef hash, and a handful of walnuts for fiber. And because walnuts are yummy.
We'll see how long I can stretch this out. I haven't been below 250 since January of 2021. I hope to be there in a few more four-day cycles. My last weigh-in under 240 was in March of 2020. My goal is to be there by the end of October. I haven't seen even high 220s since April 2019. Thanksgiving is the goal for that.
Since I've been tracking my weight through Garmin's app, starting in 2016, I have never logged a weight below 220. I hope to change that by the end of the year. God help me.
