I recently met up with some friends who haven't seen me since I started Fast Five and they were gratifyingly surprised and complimentary about my new weight. Nice that they can see the difference even if I can't! Sometimes it feels like one long plateau.
One friend in particular started in immediately with subtle sabotage about how unhealthy fasting is and that I shouldn't follow society's beauty standards, etc. She's always been the thin one of the group (and still is much thinner than I am!) and I'm wondering if she was feeling threatened. She pressed breakfast and lunch on me at every opportunity and pointed out how weird it was each time I joined the table to socialize without eating. Made me realize that I'm very lucky to have an extremely supportive boyfriend and friends who refrain from undermining my efforts. This is new for me -- I've never really had to deal with that type of cattiness among women because I was never attractive enough to be a threat.
My darling boyfriend, in contrast, supports me completely and is starting to experiment with his own fasts. He chose the GM diet (or cabbage soup diet - editorial here, recipes here). It's a 7-day very low calorie diet meant to cleanse and jump-start a new eating style. I didn't feel that I especially needed to do it but I joined him for moral support -- and I'm so glad I did! It has blown my most recent plateau to bits! I really recommend the GM diet to anyone who needs a motivation boost. It provides much more instant scale gratification than FF.
Has anyone else tried the GM diet? What was your experience?
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