Fasting to Relieve Food Compulsion - Support Wanted!

by Lo
(Bermuda)

I live in Bermuda and am in relatively good health. I have been obsessed with my compulsion to eat nutritionally-exempt food since I was 15.

The struggle for energy and control led me to alcoholism. Sometimes going for days without eating and emotionally replacing my fears in the hands on alcohol.

Now after two and a half years, a recovering alcoholic I have one last demon.........my compulsion to consume terrible foods.

I find myself looking forward to binges and then have to live through the guilt and remorse afterwards. It smacks of my days of drinking.

I wish to fast for spirituality,weight loss, peace, health and a new life. I start but then my mind gets caught up in emotions and I get fearful of the unknown.

I read about all you very brave people and I truly wish that I could do what you are doing. Bravo. The state of health that you are experiencing, the energy and renewed joy of living send shivers down my spine.

I have started a 17 day fast. Just two and a half weeks which seems doable for me. I have fasted for nine days once in 2006 and I felt amazing.

I just need to establish my first four days and see where I go from there.......but for now as with my life I shall have to take it one day at a time.