Three days fasted bikepacking! 87.3kgs

 Date  Monday 29th May 2023

AM 

What will test me today?   Getting through to my window.  I want to do a 36 hour fast but I am not sure how I am going to get there.

How would I usually respond?   Close my window after 18 hours and give in.

How could I respond that would make me feel pleasantly surprised with myself when I look back on it tonight?   Get to 24 hours and then decide to push on.  Not too sure atm.

RETURN AFTER 3 DAYS AND 2 NIGHTS BIKE PACKING

So we got home yesterday after having done 150 kms on the tandem, staying on camp sites, sleeping in the tent.  It was really fun and it was tough.  The cycling fasted was fine and although I was starving by 3pm on the second day I think this was probably because I just kept thinking about food.

The evenings were a bit of a disaster because at Brantome the only thing available was pizza and it was a really crap, a bought in base of shoe leather, although the topping was nice.  In hindsight I should have eaten the topping and left the base but I was hungry.  I had an ice cream too but I honestly am not worried about that at all.  It was the pizza which I am kicking myself about.  A lesson learned though.

The second night sadly it was pizza again but this was a whole different ball game in that the whole pizza was home made including the base.  It was really delicious and I confess I ate most of it.  I also had another ice cream for dessert.  That meal was really good though.

When we got home the first thing I did was to weigh myself.  I was stunned really as I was 87.3.  I was 86.9 on Friday.  I feel cheated!  I feel angry.  It's not fair.  I know I ate the foods listed above but I bloody well cycled 150kms in bloody hot sun.  

I have to get my head around healthy eating.  That's healthy eating, not diet eating.  Pizza is not healthy.  Beer is not healthy and ice cream is not healthy.

I need a plan for next time we go.  I need to be able to either eat meat and salad or veg, going back to my keto.  Not drink beer and maybe the odd ice cream.  I have to be sensible.  This is not a holiday.  It is not a special occasion.  The reason I got here is because when I am not watching the things I eat I do not have an off switch.  I always need to plan.

I have joined a FB group called dehydrating for backpacking as Mike suggested taking rice or noodles that one can add flavours to.  Rice and noodles are seriously not keto but I am going to have to make a plan to be low fat, veggie on the days when we can't get food.  I need to chose that for my health and weight as opposed to eating for speed/convenience/laziness.    Planning is the way forward.

Because I didn't lose weight I was thinking that I would try and do a long fast today and not eat until tomorrow.  Can I do that?  Some days I feel I can but today doesn't feel like one of them.  Tomorrow I have Bev and Lizette coming for lunch and we are having lasagne and tiramisu.  Not exactly diet or keto food but this is a special occasion with friends.  If I do a down day today then tomorrow I can eat whatever I want and not have to worry.

I am going to try hard.  I am going to try and drink plenty, salt plenty, keep my mind occupied and keep busy.  I know I can do this.

PM

What tested me today.

trying to fast for 42 hours

What happened?  

I didn't

How did I respond?

I ate at about 25.5 hours.  I had half a duck breast and a double handful of grapes.  I actually felt full and wasn't hungry to go to bed.  Not what I planned for but I managed it. 

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