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My Latest Hobbyhorse, Revisited
Apr. 8th, 2007 09:41 pmor, My Second Fasting Day....
I began fasting again Saturday evening at 5:30 p.m. I broke my fast this evening at 5:30 p.m. when my lovely and talented wife and I went out to dinner at a local mexican restaurant. Mmmmm. Chips and salsa, steak and chicken fajitas, refried beans, onions, tomatos, rice... It was all very tasty.
Unlike the first day, by the time I went to bed last night I was starving. I don't know why. On the other hand, today wasn't a problem at all. I was hungry, but not nearly as uncomfortable as I was the night before. I don't know why it was harder last night than today, or than it was the first day I fasted. It's curious. But now I get to eat until about 6 tomorrow evening--yes, I intend to keep this up.
It's been interesting discovering just how often I think about eating not because I'm really hungry, but because it's something to do as a distraction from other tasks or just because I'm bored. During the fasts, of course, I think about it--then don't. But the thought crosses my mind. Quite often. So I get to exercise my willpower quite frequently. "I'm the boss of me! Not my stomach--me!"
In other news, my blood pressure was 114/77 tonight when I checked it. Considerably better than the average of about 130/80 it's been for the last few months. But it fell into that range for the first few days when I started the previous blood pressure meds too. So this may be a transient effect as my body adapts to the new drug. Still, I'm hoping that the fasting will help lower it a bit as well. We'll see.
I began fasting again Saturday evening at 5:30 p.m. I broke my fast this evening at 5:30 p.m. when my lovely and talented wife and I went out to dinner at a local mexican restaurant. Mmmmm. Chips and salsa, steak and chicken fajitas, refried beans, onions, tomatos, rice... It was all very tasty.
Unlike the first day, by the time I went to bed last night I was starving. I don't know why. On the other hand, today wasn't a problem at all. I was hungry, but not nearly as uncomfortable as I was the night before. I don't know why it was harder last night than today, or than it was the first day I fasted. It's curious. But now I get to eat until about 6 tomorrow evening--yes, I intend to keep this up.
It's been interesting discovering just how often I think about eating not because I'm really hungry, but because it's something to do as a distraction from other tasks or just because I'm bored. During the fasts, of course, I think about it--then don't. But the thought crosses my mind. Quite often. So I get to exercise my willpower quite frequently. "I'm the boss of me! Not my stomach--me!"
In other news, my blood pressure was 114/77 tonight when I checked it. Considerably better than the average of about 130/80 it's been for the last few months. But it fell into that range for the first few days when I started the previous blood pressure meds too. So this may be a transient effect as my body adapts to the new drug. Still, I'm hoping that the fasting will help lower it a bit as well. We'll see.