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I've arrived in California and decided to fast ten days to begin my new life here. Please write with encouragement to fast! Love, Lauray
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written by NITTI109, February 17, 2010
Good luck with your new start in California, and best wishes with your current fast.
written by lauray, February 07, 2010
hi -- I could not figure out how to edit what I wrote so here is an additional piece of info:
I have just moved back to California and am in day 2 (just passed the 24-hour mark) of what I aim to be a ten-day fast supporting my new life here.
I have posted here before and my issues with fasting are that I am sometimes feel emotionally "not strong enough" to get through times when I "just need comfort" or "just can't stand it" -- whatever "it" may be at the time. Usually the lack of purpose, "boredom," loneliness, "bleakness," for which there seems to be no other "solution" than food.. I have done some work on connecting to my life purpose and want to go further with exploring the exact thinking that makes me break a fast . the fears etc. -- in which others all too often participate. The lack of support is a BIG factor. .. Often I feel that I could succeed in my goal fast of several days' length if only I could just get a jump-start from a supportive influence that just said to me , "just do it!" and rewarded me for doing it somehow, with a sense of entering a new life, making an accomplishment; even being part of a group or joint effort... and which let me feel that the fast would form part of a new routine or way of life or pattern, and not be a wasted effort. -- a drop in a sea of helplessness and failure.
My reasons for fasting are to heal from depression/anxiety and to get in a state where not overeating is easy and not a white-knuckle struggle. and where I am committed to a non-triggering diet (for me, sprouted items - livign food only , and of course raw. and non-starchy and rather bitter-tasting. and with at least a little green leaf. the totally fresh, non-triggering diet, which I natually stop eating when i have had enough, when eating is no longer ok with me)... above all I want a life in which I am free of this lethargy and brain fog and fixation on food and am instead engaged with others and with life and myself. Not addicted as I am now. Only to raw foods, but addiction is addiction. It ruins one's life. It takes one's life away. i need to get healthily detached from food and have it not be such a crutch and emotional anesthetic for myself.
Please reply with encouragement to fast!
Lauray
I have just moved back to California and am in day 2 (just passed the 24-hour mark) of what I aim to be a ten-day fast supporting my new life here.
I have posted here before and my issues with fasting are that I am sometimes feel emotionally "not strong enough" to get through times when I "just need comfort" or "just can't stand it" -- whatever "it" may be at the time. Usually the lack of purpose, "boredom," loneliness, "bleakness," for which there seems to be no other "solution" than food.. I have done some work on connecting to my life purpose and want to go further with exploring the exact thinking that makes me break a fast . the fears etc. -- in which others all too often participate. The lack of support is a BIG factor. .. Often I feel that I could succeed in my goal fast of several days' length if only I could just get a jump-start from a supportive influence that just said to me , "just do it!" and rewarded me for doing it somehow, with a sense of entering a new life, making an accomplishment; even being part of a group or joint effort... and which let me feel that the fast would form part of a new routine or way of life or pattern, and not be a wasted effort. -- a drop in a sea of helplessness and failure.
My reasons for fasting are to heal from depression/anxiety and to get in a state where not overeating is easy and not a white-knuckle struggle. and where I am committed to a non-triggering diet (for me, sprouted items - livign food only , and of course raw. and non-starchy and rather bitter-tasting. and with at least a little green leaf. the totally fresh, non-triggering diet, which I natually stop eating when i have had enough, when eating is no longer ok with me)... above all I want a life in which I am free of this lethargy and brain fog and fixation on food and am instead engaged with others and with life and myself. Not addicted as I am now. Only to raw foods, but addiction is addiction. It ruins one's life. It takes one's life away. i need to get healthily detached from food and have it not be such a crutch and emotional anesthetic for myself.
Please reply with encouragement to fast!
Lauray
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