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[Shelly]

@mattyb sorry forgot to mention I do have sleep apneoa and use CPAP. The longer fast was done about 5 years ago when my stresses were higher. The family stressors are not going to go away and are related to my childrens disabilities and another with mental health issues. Yes I have done some CBT since starting that fast and have maintained the same weight for a year now. The thing is that my reaction to acute stress is over the top and as I understand from @gbolduev that fasting will make cortisol receptors more sensitive and enable me to be more resilient. My thoughts about eating have changed over the years, the all or nothing thinking was holding me back I have since cut sugar and all caffiene from my diet for the last 3 months. At present I am not feeling like eating much and I have holidays until the end of January. So it feels like a good time to fast and instead of re feeding with fruit which is the mistake I made before. I would like to try the lemon egg soup idea. I figure that If I can do some shorter fasts and come off successfully it will build my confidence in being able to do it plus I think that it would be good to come off keeping carbs low. I am more interested in the fasting to fix my cortisol than my weight, I figure if I can fix copper and cortisol that will be half the battle in the weight loss anyway. I have finally come to the point where I realise that I cannot go back to the eating habits that I had before. I am starting a juice fast today but if you really think it is contraindicated will stop. I expect that it will be very very uncomfortable as the stress levels will be pretty high but if I can break through that I hope to gain some benefits for being more sensitive to cortisol. Extrinsic stress levels are low at the moment so I will only need to deal with myself and I am able to rest as I need to. Thanks for your input.

 

[Canari]

Go for it, do some short fasts and you will gain confidence for a longer one! Not only in your mind, but in your body. It all work alone thanks to the nervous system. CBT is useful but does not go to the core explicitely. With thoughts you have to access not the cortex but the ANS. All method that works with thoughts or emotions work at the deeper level of the ANS, because anyway all brains, the 3, are related. But the master that directs all including reliesing hormones, is the ANS. Of course we can act only indirectly on this one, but the somatic methods are doing this.

 

[Shelly]

@Canari Figured I have nothing to lose ( except some weight) and everything to gain. Wrote out some affirmations as to why this is good for me and I figure that the only way to learn to come off a fast is to come off a fast and try things until I find what works, thought wise and food wise.

 

[Orion]

I figure that If I can do some shorter fasts and come off successfully it will build my confidence in being able to do it plus I think that it would be good to come off keeping carbs low. I am more interested in the fasting to fix my cortisol than my weight, I figure if I can fix copper and cortisol that will be half the battle in the weight loss anyway. I have finally come to the point where I realise that I cannot go back to the eating habits that I had before.

I started with a 3 day water fast in August, then a 14 day water fast in September, this prepped me for a 2 month long Breuss fast covering Oct/Nov. I found each of the 3 fasts got easier, and hunger blunted quickly, but daydreaming of food never goes away.

The lemon/egg soup works great for breaking the fasts, and is delicious.

 

[mattyb]

@mattyb sorry forgot to mention I do have sleep apneoa and use CPAP. The longer fast was done about 5 years ago when my stresses were higher. The family stressors are not going to go away and are related to my childrens disabilities and another with mental health issues. Yes I have done some CBT since starting that fast and have maintained the same weight for a year now. The thing is that my reaction to acute stress is over the top and as I understand from @gbolduev that fasting will make cortisol receptors more sensitive and enable me to be more resilient. My thoughts about eating have changed over the years, the all or nothing thinking was holding me back I have since cut sugar and all caffiene from my diet for the last 3 months. At present I am not feeling like eating much and I have holidays until the end of January. So it feels like a good time to fast and instead of re feeding with fruit which is the mistake I made before. I would like to try the lemon egg soup idea. I figure that If I can do some shorter fasts and come off successfully it will build my confidence in being able to do it plus I think that it would be good to come off keeping carbs low. I am more interested in the fasting to fix my cortisol than my weight, I figure if I can fix copper and cortisol that will be half the battle in the weight loss anyway. I have finally come to the point where I realise that I cannot go back to the eating habits that I had before. I am starting a juice fast today but if you really think it is contraindicated will stop. I expect that it will be very very uncomfortable as the stress levels will be pretty high but if I can break through that I hope to gain some benefits for being more sensitive to cortisol. Extrinsic stress levels are low at the moment so I will only need to deal with myself and I am able to rest as I need to. Thanks for your input.

Sounds like you've taken good steps to fixing the underlying issues. I don't see a reason not to fast with all of this in mind.