Tiger Girl
Full Member
Hi everyone
At the end of June I shall be facing the biggest challenge of the journey so far for me - Glastonbury!
Glasto is the highlight of my summer, and I would not miss it for the world. I thought I would face it a bit nearer the time, and now with 5 weeks to go, I guess it's time to work out a plan!
I'll be there for 5 days as we always go as early as we can. It will be Day 121 for me at this point and I will be in development. I don't expect to start management until August.
Initially I thought I would have a little break as could not see any way around the practical hurdles, but now I'm feeling so incredible and completely motivated to keep on going, I'm thinking why add an extra week (at least) in terms of getting to management goal, as a result of having 5 days of eating and drinking?
I know that if I do eat and drink then I will be on super cautious behaviour, but if there is a way around this then I want to stay in abstinence. Also, I just don't know what's going to happen to my bod with real food in it, or any booze for that matter! I've been completely 100% in abstinence so far.
The pro's
- I know that it's *imposible* not to have the greatest time at Glasto regardless of food and drink. The whole place is such a buzz and I will not require food or drink to have the best week of the summer.
- I can easily find hot water to make up soups, and the bars will be a godsend.
- I've had some massive challenges over the last 12 weeks and have got through them all (including a 10 hour flight in business class with nothing more than a bar and 2ltrs of water - now that was tough!!) I truly feel that I've broken through the feeling deprived barrier, so I'm pretty certain that I will not feel deprived or have any of those crooked thoughts around this when I'm there.
The con's
- There is no way I will be able to get through 4ltrs of water a day. If there are any fellow Glasto goers here at mini's, then it goes without saying the loo situation will just not support 4ltrs of water a day! Therefore I'm worried that I'm just going to be hungry - too hungry, and may be unwell due to energy levels or knock myself out of ketosis. The camping situation means that I cant predict how near or far I will be to a loo, and that feels pretty important just now!!
- The crazy upside down way of life on the site. No normal sleep patterns,
and just not being able to keep up with the pace on my little 500cals a day diet!
I can't stress enough that it really is the practicalities that I'm worried about, not the head stuff.
Any thoughts would be most appreciated. Glasto is always pretty unpredictable (well, except the state of the loos!), so I guess I'm trying to prepare for complete abstinence if possible and if I do have to have an alternative, what could that look like?
Please help!
At the end of June I shall be facing the biggest challenge of the journey so far for me - Glastonbury!
Glasto is the highlight of my summer, and I would not miss it for the world. I thought I would face it a bit nearer the time, and now with 5 weeks to go, I guess it's time to work out a plan!
I'll be there for 5 days as we always go as early as we can. It will be Day 121 for me at this point and I will be in development. I don't expect to start management until August.
Initially I thought I would have a little break as could not see any way around the practical hurdles, but now I'm feeling so incredible and completely motivated to keep on going, I'm thinking why add an extra week (at least) in terms of getting to management goal, as a result of having 5 days of eating and drinking?
I know that if I do eat and drink then I will be on super cautious behaviour, but if there is a way around this then I want to stay in abstinence. Also, I just don't know what's going to happen to my bod with real food in it, or any booze for that matter! I've been completely 100% in abstinence so far.
The pro's
- I know that it's *imposible* not to have the greatest time at Glasto regardless of food and drink. The whole place is such a buzz and I will not require food or drink to have the best week of the summer.
- I can easily find hot water to make up soups, and the bars will be a godsend.
- I've had some massive challenges over the last 12 weeks and have got through them all (including a 10 hour flight in business class with nothing more than a bar and 2ltrs of water - now that was tough!!) I truly feel that I've broken through the feeling deprived barrier, so I'm pretty certain that I will not feel deprived or have any of those crooked thoughts around this when I'm there.
The con's
- There is no way I will be able to get through 4ltrs of water a day. If there are any fellow Glasto goers here at mini's, then it goes without saying the loo situation will just not support 4ltrs of water a day! Therefore I'm worried that I'm just going to be hungry - too hungry, and may be unwell due to energy levels or knock myself out of ketosis. The camping situation means that I cant predict how near or far I will be to a loo, and that feels pretty important just now!!
- The crazy upside down way of life on the site. No normal sleep patterns,
and just not being able to keep up with the pace on my little 500cals a day diet!
I can't stress enough that it really is the practicalities that I'm worried about, not the head stuff.
Any thoughts would be most appreciated. Glasto is always pretty unpredictable (well, except the state of the loos!), so I guess I'm trying to prepare for complete abstinence if possible and if I do have to have an alternative, what could that look like?
Please help!