Fatty 1 – Weighing in.
Posted by actingchick on May 6, 2009
So I finally weighed myself. It was nine days of intermittent fasting with an average of a 7 hour feeding window, generally from 2pm to 9pm. I lost two pounds. Now that might seem like not very much of a weight loss compared to some diets in the first week, and I have to say I was hoping for more (who wouldn’t), but I am happy with it.
After all I got to eat whatever I wanted, and as much as I felt like without measuring or counting points, or not having certain foods. It was relatively easy compared to other eating plans I’ve tried. I mentally resist having to measure and count things, when it comes to restricting what I eat. Although come to think it I never did like math class either.
Now when I say I ate whatever I wanted I tried to keep it mostly healthy foods, eating the veggies, fruits, and lean meats, and the like. In fact I always tried to break my fast with a healthy meal, generally turkey and some veggies and fruit. But after that whatever I wanted I ate. A few cookies, chocolate candies, some ice cream made it past my lips.
I didn’t feel bad about it. The point of this experiment in the first place was to test if I would lose weight while eating “normally” except in a compressed time window. So I would have to say that the answer is yes, the experiment is a success.
I was sort of worried I might binge eat. I definitely ate a larger meal as my break- fast meal than I would have without fasting, but after that I found I didn’t really feel like eating any more than I normally would. Of course I’ve never been a binge eater (I’m an all day grazer by trade), but a lot of people on various bulletin boards I’d read had expressed concern that not eating 6 meals a day would lead to binging.
I didn’t feel the need to suck down a box of ding-dongs just because it was technically within the rules for me to do so. I found it fairly easy to have a treat of some kind and that was that. I think because I could have it, it lost a lot of its allure that comes from obsessing about what you can’t have. Oh, that funny human psyche.
So I’m going to continue for another week and see how that goes.
