At 46, One Daily Drink Helped Me Stick to My Fast and Lose 13 Pounds

I Could Start a Fast. I Couldn't Finish One.

By 10:30, I was thinking about toast. By 11, I was in the fridge.

I'd try another coffee. More water. A walk to keep busy. Some days I made it to lunch, but I was so hungry that I kept picking at food all afternoon.

On day five, I ate half a granola bar while packing lunches. Then I ate the other half because I'd already “ruined it.” By the weekend, I'd deleted the timer app.

I went back to trying to eat less all day. A tiny lunch left me in the kitchen at night. A bad day meant I'd start again next Monday.

I did a lot of starting again. The same jeans stayed at the back of my closet.

“What Are You Drinking? You Haven't Mentioned Lunch Once.”

My friend Leah and I were working at her kitchen table. It was nearly noon. I was on my second coffee; she had a bottle of bright orange water.

We'd both tried fasting. I'd given up. She was still doing it, and her clothes were getting loose.

When I asked how she got through the mornings, she held up her bottle.

“Bondi. I have one when I start getting hungry. It makes waiting for lunch a lot easier.”

She showed me the little stick pack. Bondi was made for the fasting window, to help with hunger and cravings for a few more hours.

I'd bought powders before. Most had ended up at the back of the cupboard. Leah poured me a sip of hers. It tasted like fruit, without the chalky finish I'd come to expect.

That night, I ordered the three-flavor trial. I was willing to give fasting one more go if I had some help getting to lunch.

The next morning I could try it, I mixed the Blood Orange stick when the urge to make toast began.

I drank it and went back to my emails. The need to get up and find food eased off.

When I next checked the time, it was 12:08.

I'd reached lunch. And I hadn't spent the last hour telling myself I wasn't allowed to eat.

Getting to Lunch Was Only Half the Change

The part I hadn't noticed was what happened after a hard morning. I'd eat lunch, then go back for crackers. Then something sweet. I'd waited so long that I felt I deserved it all.

Bondi helped me get to lunch without feeling that way.

It has a blend of fibers, with 4 grams in each drink, to help you feel full. It also helps with cravings. I wanted both: less hunger in the morning, and less of that urge to keep picking when I did eat.

With coffee and water, I was often counting down to a big lunch. With Bondi, I could wait, eat a normal meal, and be done.

And I liked drinking it. One stick, cold water, a quick stir. Nothing to cook or measure. It fit the morning I already had.

That was what I'd been missing each time I tried to eat less.

This Time, I Stayed With It Long Enough to See a Change

I finished the six-stick trial, then ordered a full pouch. I kept it beside my water bottle so I'd remember to mix it when I got hungry.

I still ate normal meals. I still went out for breakfast with my family some weekends. But I stopped treating one early meal as a reason to give up for the week.

By week two, I was reaching lunch most days. I wasn't picking at snacks all afternoon, either.

At the end of week three, I was seven pounds down. I got off the scale, let it reset, and stepped back on.

Same number.

By week six, I'd lost all 13 pounds.

I pulled out the jeans I'd stopped wearing. They buttoned. I sat down in them. Then I stood up and looked in the mirror again.

I wore them to lunch that weekend with my shirt tucked in.

I'd spent two years thinking I needed to try harder. Being able to keep going was what finally let me see a change.

“Sugar cravings went away, I was able to extend my fasting window”

Julie B.Rochester, Minnesota

That's why I wanted to share this. If you keep giving up at the same point, you may need help with that part before you throw out the whole plan.

You Can Start With Six Mornings

You don't have to choose a big pouch based on a fruit picture and hope it tastes good. I've done that. Those pouches are still in my cupboard.

The Bondi trial gives you two sticks of each flavor: Green Apple, Blood Orange and Mixed Berry.

Try them during the part of the morning you find hardest. See which flavor you like. See how you feel when you'd normally be back in the kitchen looking for food.

Six sticks won't tell you what you'll weigh in six weeks. They can help you answer the question I needed answered first: does this make my plan easier to stick to?

The sticks are free. You pay $4.95 shipping today.

They're part of a limited launch run. While the trial is still available, you can try all three flavors before paying for a full pouch.

I wish I'd tried this before I spent another year starting over.

If hunger is where your plan keeps falling apart, give yourself some help there. Your next morning is a good place to start.

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