40 Day Fast

trejon
trejon Posts: 203 Member
edited September 2024 in Motivation and Support
May 31, 2011, I am starting Juanita's Bynum's 40 Days to Starting Over Journal. I have also decided that I am going to also include with it a 40 Day Fried Food Fast :smile: . This is not about me losing weight but me getting out of my own way so that I can have a better all-around life:heart: .

Anyone wanna GIVE UP something that they cannot imagine not having for 40 days with me? It is fine if I get no responses at all on this but I would love to have a support team with me! Wish me blessings......

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  • debnu1
    debnu1 Posts: 1,568 Member
    OOOh that is a hard one, I am going to have to think about what I should do, but I think chocolate or eating out will be on top of the list!
  • abyssfully
    abyssfully Posts: 410 Member
    On May 21st I vowed to not eat chips for a month. So far so good! Good luck - you can do it! :)
  • HealthyEscape
    HealthyEscape Posts: 255 Member
    Il give up fast food (especially mexican food)! Only okay on my list is Submarina and Subway and I know what I can eat there that makes it that way :-) Good luck to you!
  • kaytedawg05
    kaytedawg05 Posts: 209 Member
    sounds awesome... idk what i could give up for 40 days that i've not already decided to omit from my life for all but a few times per year... if i think of something I'll jump on in... otherwise BEST WISHES to you! sounds like a great motivation :)
  • lfcutie
    lfcutie Posts: 103 Member
    i will give up soda on my "cheat day"...the other days i usually don't drink it.......on my cheat day i love drinking soda but i will switch to sparkling water when i want to feel fizzzzz....good luck!!!!!!
  • MyaPapaya75
    MyaPapaya75 Posts: 3,143 Member
    Cool! friend me ..I will give up rice for 40 days..brown and white
  • KarenLouise1981
    KarenLouise1981 Posts: 144 Member
    CanI join in and support you?? I'm prepared to give up jellie sweets from tomorrow!! They are my weakness and went the first 3 months without them and felt great (other than some withdrawl symptoms from the sugar!) Then uni assessment time came around again and my habit of having a bag with each paper crept back in! Now, 3 weeks later I still can't give them up but i'm holding them responsible for my scales stopping moving and I have 1kg to go before my partner gets back from overseas in 5 weeks. He will have been away for 6 months and hasn't seen me since I started this!

    Best of luck guys, lets keep one another strong!! xx
  • Gary1977
    Gary1977 Posts: 804 Member
    Nice topic! I've already given up most of my bad eating habits, but I'll go along. I do have a diet soda every now and then or even crystal light packs. For the next 40 days, I'll only drink water. This will not include the 1/2 cup skim milk I have with cereal. But anytime that I drink a fluid, it'll be water.

    P.S. This will also not include a post work out protein shake. I haven't been drinking too many of them, but I will be as I'm going to start doing more strength training. Good luck to everyone in this "challange":drinker:
  • The_Saint
    The_Saint Posts: 358 Member
    I have not had a slice of pizza of any kind, in more than two years.....
    Be careful, 40 days can sometimes just come and go right by, a year later you'll remember you gave up something.....
  • cphmet
    cphmet Posts: 3 Member
    Oh yeah, my biggest diet sin is alcohol...I havent been able to give it up completely, though I did cut back quite a lot. 40 days of absolute sobriety seem like a challenge worth taking on...
  • 34ladyjay
    34ladyjay Posts: 2 Member
    ok im with you on giving up chips for 40 days i wish you the best of luck as well as my self cuz thats going to be really hard for me..but with God i can we can do all things ok..
  • nads2184
    nads2184 Posts: 124 Member
    i have loads of things that I would like to give up, but it really depends on the day there are different sins I eat lol . However, we are all on the same journey for a healthier lifestyle. So yes I am diffinately up for the challenge. fast food is my sin and i started this forum yesterday and nothing since, so day 2.


    Good luck all. x
  • jessilea53
    jessilea53 Posts: 87 Member
    R&B's smothered hash browns. 40 days...its going to be very hard, but I will do it! I started when I started 5/22. Here we go...
  • bluekitty2201
    bluekitty2201 Posts: 24 Member
    Hi I think I will give up eating out! Except for Subway. I eat the low cal stuff there anyway. This will save me cals and money! Thanks for starting this!!
  • trejon
    trejon Posts: 203 Member
    Alrighty I have a support group :laugh: . You guys do not realize how much a LOVE fried foods :devil: . This is going to be the toughest 40 days of my life. I woke up this morning trying to figure out how to tweak these 40 days. I can do this. You can do this.
  • CarissaNew
    CarissaNew Posts: 223 Member
    I am going to join also. I am going to give up fried foods also! I don't eat fried food everyday, but would love to give them up completely!!! :)
  • trejon
    trejon Posts: 203 Member
    Not one but TWO happy meals came in front of me today and I did not take one nibble. I have 40 days of no fried foods and today is only the second. I wanted tempted but survived!
  • debnu1
    debnu1 Posts: 1,568 Member
    Hooray! Keep up the great work!! I am going to finally commit to avoiding all fast food. Instead of eating out for dinner I am going to make it for the next 40 days! We can do it!!
  • trejon
    trejon Posts: 203 Member
    Ok if you say so! Day 3 - I am itching like a crack head.....:indifferent:
  • bmw4deb
    bmw4deb Posts: 1,324 Member
    Ok I'm in.......SALT this is really gonna be hard for me
    I know its not a food but i have it on everything
  • CarissaNew
    CarissaNew Posts: 223 Member
    I totally forgot on the 1st day and had some sweet potato fries! :ohwell: So this is day 2 with no fried foods :smile:
  • KarenLouise1981
    KarenLouise1981 Posts: 144 Member
    How is everybody doing today - and those who "forgot" they were giving up foods are you back on track now haha! Day 3 and a jellie sweet has not passed my lips however my body has started acting a bit weird. I have had a headache for the last day solid - it will not move and last night I only managed 6 hrs sleep where I normally need 10 or I can't open my eyes properly!! Anybody having any weird withdrawl symptoms yet?

    Stay strong, you b*tt will love you for it! x
  • trejon
    trejon Posts: 203 Member
    Day 4 was AWESOME! I feel alot less crackheadish :glasses: ! The weekend will be interesting with two funerals and a 50th birthday party. The plan is to take something with me that I CAN eat. I know that there is going to be FRIED food all over. Glad to see some are hanging in and that some just remembered:noway: !
  • trejon
    trejon Posts: 203 Member
    Tomorrow is Day TEN! Shut the front door and close a window! I am really doing this.
  • KarenLouise1981
    KarenLouise1981 Posts: 144 Member
    Ww Trejon is it day 10 already??? I have not had a single sweetie and guess what - I even broke my plateau slightly!! Got weighed on Monday and I had lost 0.8kg :happy: I hope this is due to our fast (and the 4 sessions of spin I done last week!) i'm starting to feel great. How is everybody else doing? x
  • trejon
    trejon Posts: 203 Member
    I think the wagon ran over a few that started on this journey with us! However I am planning to getting it done! Man it has been tough and is a daily struggle. However I am saving money and calories. Really not trying to lose anything. I am three under my goal weight.
  • trejon
    trejon Posts: 203 Member
    Welp today is Day 15. I new would have thought that I could do this but I really am getting it done. However I have substituted booze and sweets for those calories. I gained 2 pounds in the first 12 days. This week really trying to be good. I guess that is what you do focus so much on one thing that you foget others.
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