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A lot has happened since my last post. رمضان and عيد الفطر came and went. And more than ever, I’m in a perfect position to carry on fasting without interruption.

A main reason I neglected to document my progress since last post was the difficulty of using and customizing the blogging platform on which I settled back then. This newer platform seems a lot more promising though, and should hopefully compel me to be more regular with my posts.

The other reason is not being able to settle on a process for taking and editing progress pictures. Being the extreme man I am, I’d settle for nothing less than full-frontal, rear, and side nudity in my progress pictures. And achieving that without getting disowned by my family or going to prison has proven to be very difficult. I’ll figure something out though, so cheer up 😉.

While we’re still on the topic of extremism, I’ve set a new goal of becoming a 100 kg by the end of 2025. That would mean a weight loss of 76.9 kg in 236 days or 34 weeks, which works out to a weight loss of 0.32 kg per day or 2.27 kg per week. This is physiologically possible if my past experience is anything to go by. Whether I’ll be able to withstand the emptiness that comes from not eating for such extended bouts though remains to be seen.

Now that all is said and committed in public, all that remains is to toil in the mortal coil of the next 236 days. Until the next post 👋.

Seems like a weird title for a first post. But not much sense trying to get it perfect the first time. So here goes.

As you may have deduced from the blog’s name and this post’s title, I’m a very overweight person trying to become a normal weight by fasting. I’m a man in fact. As far as I can tell, I was born with a penis and testes, and still retain them to this day.

I’m not sure what the dictionary definition of fasting is, but as far as this blog is concerned, it’s the severe restriction of caloric intake to induce fast weight loss. In my case, fast works out to around an average of -0.67 kg per day.

There’s no set duration inherent to my definition of fasting. And I’ve done it for anywhere from a fraction of a day up to a record of 40 days. This time, I’m trying to do it for 48 days.

I’ve been fasting for quite sometime now. About five years. And unless I had an ungodly amount of weight to lose, it’s reasonable to deduce that I should have reached a normal weight by now. Except I haven’t. And it’s not because I do have an ungodly amount of weight to lose. Not an amount that five years of fasting shouldn’t have been able to handle anyway. After all, it’s fasting that got me from around 200 kg to around 150 kg in as little as three months.

The actual reason I haven’t been able to reach a normal weight thus far is the same reason I got to become a 200 kg behemoth in the first place. I eat way too fucking much. And no matter how much closer I get to becoming a normal weight, I always find a way to eat myself back to where I started.

I can sit and hypothesize, analyze, and theorize about why I eat too much all eternity long. But doing that never gave me any useful information as to how to stop eating too much. And I’ve come to accept that indulging into such thoughts is a fruitless endeavor that better be left lying.

Over these years, many reasons have prompted me to get back to trying to fast myself into a normal weight. The latest of which is a sudden and severe bout of pain to both one of my knees and ankles. I maintained mobility throughout the worst of it and am gradually becoming better, but having such an experience in my early thirties gave me a glance into a very probable and frightening future. A future where I can’t even walk around and are left to waste away, or even worse, become a burden to people who actually care about me. No thanks.

Other than having a clear motive and just doing it, writing about my fasting experience seemed to immensely help me stay on track during my last bout of extended fasting. Starting a blog had also been a longstanding desire of mine for some reason, and here we are.

For the time being, I will be writing in fair detail about my current fast. I’ll try my best to stick to the format of one post every three days. Each post will include my current weight at the time, and an honest attempt at providing accurate progress pictures that aren’t outright porno. I still have that to figure out, as well as editing my blog into a layout and style that I feel comfortable with.

I hope my ramblings weren’t too obnoxious to read through. See you next post 👋.