100 Pounds in 365 Days

Well it has been 2 weeks and I still love fasting! I honestly can hardly believe how motivated and obsessed I still am.  I haven't gotten bored AT ALL.  This is huge for me since I generally start to lose steam  in a diet after two weeks.  Sometimes I will stick with it for as many as 12 weeks, but the 2 week mark is usually when it stops being 'fun' for me.  Fasting is so much different.  I am not only still motivated, but I am still having fun! This past week I found myself stretching my 20 hour fasting window to 22 hours most days.  On Monday I lasted 24 hours and 15 minutes.  I didn't even feel hungry!  I only broke down and ate that day because I was nervous to push the next day's window too late into the evening!   I truly feel as though I can keep fasting in some form or another for the rest of my life.  My plan is to continue mainly doing 20 hour fasts every day for the rest of my year long challenge.  I think when...

 Well I did it.  One full week of intermittent fasting!  Actually yesterday was actually the one week mark, but it was also my daughter's 10th birthday so we were too busy for me to jump online and post anything. Where do I start?  How about with my daughter's birthday.  I ate the cake and the ice cream!  It wasn't a huge piece, and I did put most of my two scoops back in the freezer to enjoy a little bit each day, but I ate it.  And here's the biggest thing.  I didn't feel guilty for eating it, and I didn't feel an urgency to finish it all off! Something I have realized about myself and my relationship with food is that over the years as I bounced from plan to plan and diet to diet I have come to see certain unhealthy foods as 'cheat foods'.  And the reason I think this perception hurt me more than it helped is two fold.   1.  The word 'cheat' has a negative connotation.  Calling that meatball sub a cheat meal implied to ...

Hi everyone!  Anyone?  Samantha?   <------ If you laughed at that then you are my people! Today is day 6 out of 365.  I am coming up on the end of my first week intermittent fasting and I am happy to report that I am also staying excited and motivated.  359 more days feels like cake to me!  I'm not even craving cake after typing the word cake! I have really been wavering on posting some pictures.  Mostly I doubt more than 3 people in the history of the world will ever see this, but I am still apprehensive about photos.  I mean no one wants the internet to get a hold of bad pictures of them!  But I have decided to do something of a big photo dump on this post.   I need to be able to go back and really see myself at my heaviest.  I need to be really honest with myself for the first time in a long time.   I am the queen of selfies.  I know how to hold the phone just right to only get my face and one shoulder...

FIRST POST!!!! I am a skinny happy young woman trapped in the obese body of a cranky old lady.   I am overweight and over tired all the time, and I'm over it.  This is my journey to a slimmer, healthier me. The situation: I am not as active as I should be under the best conditions.  After over a year of quarantine that has only gotten worse.  In March of 2020 I can remember saying that we'd all end up losing weight since we weren't running around town and grabbing fast food anymore. It has been a long hard year of corona virus exile, and it turns out I was wrong.  All in all, during quarantine I gained 16 pounds! I was trying really hard to ignore the problem.  I gave myself lots of excuses.   -"Pajama pants all day is the one perk of Covid!"   -"It's too stressful to handle a pandemic and be on a diet"   -"But girl scout cookies are so delicious!"    Unsurprisingly the issue didn't go away.  The turning poi...