Now I'm having a late breakfast. Eating healthy right now: McRib Large fries McDouble McChicken Large Sweet Tea
Eating: Lucerne lowfat yogurt and some raspberries added ontop. Drinking: Ground some Ethiopian Starbucks beans and brewed a large 16oz cup.
Friday fasting. Wont eat anything until tomorrow morn. All the water I can drink , though. Miss my coffee.....
A little later I'll be making Fettuccine Alfredo based on a recipe from a Great Chefs of New Orleans episode that aired about 28 years ago on Public TV; never bettered.
You're a better man than I. I just finished lunch and I'm already planning dinner. (prosecco poached shrimp over pasta w/ a faux dijon cream sauce... I think).
That sounds wonderful, but as my cardiologist outlawed any form of sausage or bacon, I'm afraid anything more than a whiff of that stuff would be verboten. He would look askance at those beans, too. I justify my fettuccine by counting out exactly ten (10) strands of the pasta, then spooning just a tablespoon or so of the Alfredo sauce over them. Then it's back to a small salad with vinegar & oil, yuk, for dinner. Whatever my spouse doesn't want ends up in our three dogs' breakfast tomorrow morning.
Do you do that every Friday? I've been thinking about trying some fasting after the holidays. Never done it and I worry about how I'd feel in the late afternoon with the bloodsugar levels dropping along with my mood
Not every Friday. Certain days where prayer & fasting are called for. One thing I do notice during fasts: I sure sleep more peacefully. The longest I've gone is a 3-day fast (just water), which can be challenging, particularly if one has a medical condition (I'm Type 1 diabetic) to monitor.
Wow, not sure I could do 3 days. I'm struggling with the idea of just one. It is something I will attempt in January though.
I've done a few 3 day fasts, and many juice fasts lasting from a week to a month. In my experience, if you are healthy then the bloodsugar levels dropping and mood thing is totally psychological. It's not physiological at all, it's that you are hungry and demoralized because you can't eat. It's a response that's intended to make you eat, because at our subconscious level we're pretty much all big babies who cry when we don't get our way. If you call it out for what it is, then it really has no power and you won't really experience it much.
