Week 5 Update

April 18th
Day 36
Weigh In:   337.5lbs

To goal:        87.5lbs

I'm roughly one month in to my diet plan.  I've lost a total of 18 pounds.  I know I've got a lot more to go, but I'm trying to be optimistic.  I haven't told many people that I'm dieting, because I really don't want my attempt to lose weight judged by others.  I'd prefer people notice I've lost weight themselves instead of pretending to notice I look slimmer after I tell them I've been dieting. 

I was pretty skeptical about being able to get over hunger when I started ADF.  I've fasted before for different reasons, and it wasn't a pretty sight.  The first few days were pretty difficult, but it really did get easier.  I do find it hard some days, and I have to be careful not to focus too much on all of the good things I can eat the next day.  I've had a couple occasions where I almost had a checklist of the foods I wanted to eat the next day.  I found that if I do that, I will most certainly over-eat.  The sad thing is, I can honestly say that even my worst normal days on the diet have been more or less typical of how I lived pre-diet.

I feel like things have slowed down a little bit, but in the grand scheme of things, they really haven't.  I've been dieting for just over a month, and I've lost 18 lbs.  I mean, that's a half pound per day.  I figure that I lose about 1 lb every fast day.  That's just crazy to me.  My only regret so far is that I didn't start this years ago.  I wonder how much my life would have changed if I wasn't as overweight as I currently am...That's a scary though.  I'm pretty happy with how much I've lost, but I find myself being impatient.  I know that I didn't gain the weight in a day, and it's going to take a long time to lose it.  Only 89 pounds to go!

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