Raw Coconut Oil Fast

I don't know.  I just have it in my head that I want to try this.  I guess a part of me thinks that going super low carb via fat will be easier than going super low carb via protein.  A part of me just wants to try it and see how my body responds, to see how I feel during and, more importantly, after.

Has your bf been educated about the DS and is he supportive of your weight loss efforts?

I have told him the basics about the DS.  He knows I can eat fat a-plenty.  He also knows I need to do low carb.  But, we have struggled to eat and prepare meals together in a way that suits us both.  We both have food issues and both have a strong attraction to carbs and sugar in particular.  To complicate things, I have discovered that brown rice does WONDERFUL things for my bowels!  I struggle with constipation but my bf introduced brown rice into my diet.  I discovered two amazing and wonderful things.  One, the brown rice doesn't seem to trigger gas and stinky farts (as whole grains such as from whole grain bread tends to do to me). Two, the brown rice keeps my bowels moving in a very comfortable way that feels easy and normal.  How nice is that!!!  So, for awhile there anyway, brown rice (carbs be damned!) became my best friend.  lol  I've tried drinking plenty of water and I've tried eating plenty of fat, but nothing seems to be a consistent ease for me toward regularity as brown rice has been.  ... But, now I've gained enough that I don't like how I am feeling in my own body.  I FEEL the extra lbs and the extra fat encasing me -- and I want it gone.  It's amazing the difference 10 or 15 lbs can make between feeling on the trim side to feeling quite fleshy again. So, it's time to put brown rice on hold for at least a few days (not that I've been doing good about getting it in for a couple of weeks anyway) and focus on going back to simplicity.  A reboot, if you will.

Other than for religious reasons, anything containing the word "fast" is bad.  Except, of course, breakFAST

I agree...fast is something I do when I see a spider....

I got my DS so I would never subject my body to a fad diet again.  Candida may get results from yogurt, and you get protein for that, too.  Gaining 15-20% of excess weight is normal, but with some diligence, you can fight it, or watch your boobs fill out and get comfortable with a couple pounds.

I ddin't make my weight loss goals.  I made it down to about 185 and I had hopes of getting down another 50 lbs.  But, when the wt loss train slowed and stopped, it slowed and stopped.  It has been a struggle to lose weight while getting in enough protein and enough carbs.  I did finally accept that I had to get in few carbs to continue my wt loss but then I ran into problems of not getting enough cals after malabsorption and ending up tired and shakey.  Then I worked hard at adding fat cals to get my overall cals up while keeping carbs low.  It has been a struggle and a learning process!!!  Anyway, because I didn't get down to goal, or rather not even that close to it, I do not want to regain any of my weight.  So, I'm up by maybe 10 to 15 lbs right now and I've got to make a real effort to get that back off. 

Before anyone jumps on me about what I'm saying here, I'm using this fat fast as an experiment to see how I deal with the ubber low carbs, to get me used to really low carbs again, and to allow my body to detox and deal with candida.  I am hoping that I drop a few lbs in the process and I am further hoping that I am able to maintain a little bit of that wt loss.

So, today is day ONE of my fat fast and I am off to a terrible start!  I had left over pizza from last night.  I have treated this past week as a free week and have indulged in whatever I wanted.  I was on a mini-vacation of sorts in terms of location and I gave myself a free-pass to enjoy.  But, I'm back home now and starting into a three day weekend, so today is my first day of my planned fat fast.  So far this morning, I've had coffee with sugar (yes, yummy sugar) and whole milk.  Then I had a big slice of left over pizza from last night!  But, even as the pizza sits in my stomach not fully digested, I am sitting here with a protein coffee (no sugar but about a half cup of milk) and I've eaten my first spoonful of raw coconut oil.  I don't know which it was. I don't know if it's the protein I put in my coffee or the coconut oil -- it wasn't my first cup of java so it shouldn't be that -- but something feels different at a chemical level.  I don't feel wanting, I don't feel edgy or unsatisfied.  I feel sated not craving anything.  This is the first time I've had a protein coffee in maybe a few months.  I had switched to focusing on getting in my protein via solid proteins (mostly cheese and chicken -- lots and lots of chicken!).  But, where I began sharing my meals with my bf, it has become more challenging for me to track just how much protein I've been getting in.  While I can track it when at work and I have a better idea of exactly how much of what I'm eating (stick of cheese, chicken thigh, boiled egg, etc), it was harder to track at home.  My bf is the main cook for us (I'm the primary dish washer) and his dishes usually had a casserole consistency to them with all the ingredients cut up and cooked together.  It was hard to have an idea of how much chicken or cheese or rice, etc., that I was getting in.  We are taking a break from doing meals together.  He will make his meals;  I will make my meals.   In that way, we will be less of a food influence on each other.  And, I will be able to track my food/protein better.  My point in saying all of this is that my protein might have been lower than what I like it to be, but it has not been awful.  So, as I sit her drinking my protein coffee and eating my raw coconut oil and my brain is going "ahhhhhh" and feeling good and not craving and wanting, I'm figuring it could be that I am digesting the protein powder more easily and quickly and my body is finding that satisfying (where I haven't had protein powder in awhile) OR the raw coconut oil is actually having an immediate and excellent effect on me.  Bottom line:  I feel good!  I felt edgy and in a state of craving and wanting after drinking my sugar-milk coffee and eating the pizza.  Within the same hour I started the protein-coffee and the raw coconut oil and I feel non-craving and with an extra sense of having energy.  Very nice!  I am sure that cravings for carbs will increase as the day goes on.  I'll post again later to share how it's going!

You asked if there is another name for B2. It is also called Riboflavin. If I get less than 400 mg per day I get tongue sores. Avg B complex has 5mg B2.

OMGosh!  That's great info!  I will check my B Complex and see how much B2 it has in it.  Do you take a stand alone B2?  What's your source?