I had my weigh-in today and let's just say - it was not what I was expecting.
That is a 0.4 pound difference from last week, which could be rounded down to zero. So, that was not what I was hoping to see. I felt as though I was on point with my eating last week (minus Thursday), but maybe I'm overdoing it on the carbs. So, I figured today would be the first day I tried out the FastDiet.
In short, the FastDiet is a 5day-2day diet where for two of the days a week, you essentially fast. You eat 600 calories total split between breakfast and dinner. And the time between the two meals is as long as possible. Since today was also the first day of my period and I rarely get hungry on day 1 of my period, I decided to give it a whirl. I had a mostly normal breakfast (minus the yogurt protein shake) and had a protein shake + leftover salmon for dinner.
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| Breakfast |
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| Blurry pic of dinner |
So, I have no disclosures to make - I don't work for FastDiet, I don't get paid by them or anything, but I learned about it while in Malawi. One of the docs at the hospital I worked at did the FastDiet to lose weight. Supposedly there are a bunch of health benefits to fasting (read the book if you're interested in learning more), but the basic science behind it is that when we first inhabited the earth, we lived in a truly hunter and gatherer society where there were times of feast and famine. During the times of famine, we essentially fasted, and that's what our bodies are actually used to, and that's how they function best. The author backs it up with lots of literature and his own experience. He gives you all his medical tests pre-fasting and then shows them to you all again post-fasting for a while (I don't remember how long, but it wasn't long). Anywho, everything was better post-fasting. Now, the other thing he did was compare it to just normal calorie-restricted diets and it seemed to be having more positive health effects faster. Soo, anywho, I decided to give it a whirl. And let me tell you, given the way today went, there basically wasn't any time for eating anyway.
However, a little after lunch time, I was asked if I'd gotten lunch. I said no and that I was fasting. I was met with mostly some "suit yourself" and "whatever"s, but one person asked me if I was basically trying to starve myself thing. No. The answer is no. You go back to eating normally on the days you're not fasting, but you fast two days a week. I figured since calorie restricting wasn't helping, why not try something new? I'll give it my best go this week and report back. Today wasn't hard at all. In fact, after the day was done, I was mostly just dehydrated.
But I could have been dehydrated from nearly bleeding out (not really) this morning. So, when I went to put on my backpack this morning, I thought my backpack strap had pinched my upper arm. It really stung, but as I was on my way out the door, I mostly ignored it and moved on. However, once I was in the car, I took a look to see if it had already started bruising because I pinched it hard. Nope. Turned out, I had ripped through the middle of a mole/skin tag on my arm and it was bleeding profusely. So, I grabbed the scub shirt I wore yesterday (I was taking it back to exchange it for a new one) and stripped off my shirt, put the dirty one on, and used the bloody one to hold pressure while I drove to work. Once at work, I grabbed some tissues on the bottom floor near the entrance and held pressure until I got upstairs and a co-resident bandaged me up. And I left my bloodied shirt on the front seat of my car. I'm sure any onlookers would've been majorly grossed out. Oops.
So, that start to my morning (shitty weigh-in, nearly bleeding out), kinda reflects how the rest of my day went. I understand that starting out as an intern is going to suck and there's going to be a major learning curve, but yikes. I doubt my doctor abilities like whoa.
And to top it off, I hurriedly did some grocery shopping tonight and bought a big ass watermelon only to find out when I cut into it that it was totally going bad. I tried a piece to see if some of it was salvagable, but nope. So, goodbye $5. Does anyone know if you can get your money back for bad produce that you tossed? I mean, I took a picture of it...
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| You nasty, watermelon |
It can only go up from here though, right? Even if I literally didn't have time to get to the gym today because I stayed so late at work and then had a bunch of HR, insurance, and all that bullshit to do and will likely have a sore back tomorrow, things will be okay, right? SOMEONE SAY YES.
How do you deal with really bad days? Do you have a certain person you call or talk to? A certain activity you like to do? Some advice please!
