Fasting

I had a dream this morning, my last one prior to waking up I presume. I was a blond female college trackstar, with flowing yellow hair and I was starving. The coach didn't feed his athletes and I was running not towards the finish line but a plate of food beyond the finish line on the track. Yeah it got me scratching my head too. Well the hunger part was easy, by 7:30AM, which is the time I got up, I was 31.5 hours into a fast - liquids but no solid food. Surely my body was telling me to eat but the female trackstar part, damned if I know. I've never wanted to be a trackstar or a blond babe in track shoes. Ahhh...wait a mintue (lightbulb goes on), I think it was from talking with Nancy and Rochelle last night at the Tri-Club meeting. These gals are regulars on the Sunday trail runs and one of them asked why I'm a no show for the track workouts. That must be it. Rochelle is Chinese but Nancy is Caucasian. Ha, solved my own puzzle.

So why the fasting? I used to fast for faith related reasons, I've done 32 and 56 hour fasts in the past. I've been slacking though, I just love food so much. Fasting is one of the 12 recommended disciplines for those who want to go deeper in their Christian faith. Sooner or later I will have to return to practicing it. Anyway I've been having problems with my weight. Every December I take off the entire month, no exercise and I indulge in all the bad food stuffs. It's normal for my weight to fluctuate 8 to 10 pounds during the year, reaching my heaviest in December. The problem is that here I am in March, back in shape, being smarter with my diet and I still weigh the same as I did in December. Boggles my mind how that could be. How can I weigh the same as my sedentary self? So I've decided to shake things up a bit internally. After fasting the weight comes back right away but I noticed that weight loss became easier, it's like the body realizes it can go down further. I feel like my body is stuck and I just need to jumpstart it...know what I mean?

So that's the plan, using the fast to break this impasse, this plateau that I'm on. We'll see if that works. I broke the fast at noon for a total of 36 hours. I lost a total of 2.5 pounds which I expect to come back in the next couple of days but I'm hoping my weight starts sliding down from there. We'll see...