It’s not a dirty little secret: Fasting

In my last blog post I mentioned I would build on my 2 new main resources for building my health aside from yoga. Today I will briefly touch on fasting. I’ll start from the beginning. My junior year of high school I started fasting, but I didn’t know that’s what I was doing. I did it until I was married 3 years later. I look back on that time and see a healthy vibrant young woman and not just because I was a teenager. I’ve dealt with chronic back and knee pain since I was in Jr. High. I don’t remember so much of it during that time I was “accidentally” fasting. It was my “dirty little secret”. I thought I was doing something wrong. When I stopped fasting after I was married the chronic pain came back harder than ever.

Fast forward 16 years full of thousands dumped in weight loss plans, battling terrible post partum 4 times as well as anxiety and depression fasting has come back to my life and I am learning its not harmful but incredibly helpful! Don’t get me wrong I have learned a lot of very helpful things in the last 16 years about my health but this time is different. I am realizing the accidental wisdom of my younger self was right but when you’re young we are often told we don’t know anything about our bodies, pushing out that innate wisdom our body all ready has. Look at babies they may not know how to communicate with words but their body sure knows what it is doing and why.

I have just started my fasting journey and will continue to share as I go! Below is a button to send you to my fasting resource; Dr. Mindy Pelz.