Day 29 24-Hour Fast

Today is Tuesday. My Fast day each week. You would think I wouldn't be obsessed since I have such a restricted diet. But I could have had a salad, cold slaw, etc. I thought my reaction very interesting. My diet foods have replaced the meat, dairy, etc. foods I normally obsess about. But the obsession still remains and that is the problem. I plan to reduce my caloric intake permanently which will require the control and preferably the elimination of all such obessions.

I have believed for years we are a really overfed race. Not merely overfed. That we survive longer if we eat less. I first ran into this when I was 14 and read about the Man from Verona(Italy). The man had lead a life of debauchery. At 40 he was consumptive and expected to die. One morning he woke up and decided to limit his consumption of food to 12 ounces a day.

Well the man lived to be 110 years old and was honored for his work in science, politics and literature. At 80, friends convinced him to raise his consumption. He experimented by raising his consumption to 15 ounces a day and got sick. It took him two weeks to recover. I never followed his edict but it made a lasting impression. It became painfully clear in the 80s with Dr. Walford's studies at UCLA, that reduced consumption was the key to longer life. More later.


Meals........................................None


Readings for blood sugar were recorded:

At 10:00 AM...................................120
At 4:00 PM....................................84


1. Fasted Blood Sugar..........................120
2. Weight .....................................207
3. Waist .......................................40.5
4. Calorie Intake (6/20/04)......................0
5. Prescription Drugs ...........................0
6. Vitamins .....................................0
7. Exercise-class hours .........................0
8. Exercise-weights ..............................5
9. Exercise-treadmill, bike ......................5
10.Walking with 2 15 lb weights..................0
11.Walking........................................
12.Pilates......................................1.0

When you obsess about food, you overeat. It becomes a habit you eventually have to break, When overfed, you bloat and are uncomfortable. You don't have that light ready to go feeling. Try to focus on the latter goal when you eat. Eat to feel light and flat(think in the stomach).

Tonight I put in one hour of pilates. I have the beginner's
version. It is not too strenuous. The only problem is that my old body doesn't bend the way it used to. It is going to take some time. Think "core". Think "powerhouse". Think "flat".