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Today, for the first time in ages, I woke up feeling wide awake.

My transition to the high starch diet has been pretty strange - as I posted earlier, I gained 8 pounds in the first 6 days. It's now Day 7 and I've gone down a pound on the scales.

My sleep has been AWFUL since the start. I have been tossing and turning til the wee small hours unable to fall asleep all week, even though I have felt extremely tired. I've been moody and lethargic throughout the days, and have been questioning the validity of the diet.

Last night I fell asleep quite quickly. I woke up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep for ages, but when I woke up at 8am I felt amazing for the first time in a long time.

That energy has remained with me all day. I am doing extra things that I would normally procrastinate. Like bringing in my wheelie bin from the street - I usually leave it until I'm passing, which can be a few days sometimes. However, not only did I bring in my own bin today, I brought in the bins for the whole street - 7 bins. I just felt like doing it - it's like having energy to burn, whereas normally it is like having no energy, so I stay still so as to refrain from running out of what little energy I have.

I have been vegan for 19 months so it's not the dairy or the meat - the only difference in my diet is higher starch and zero added fat and zero fatty foods. (Of course dairy and meat are full of fat).

I did not realise that fat gave us zero usable energy. It just stores itself away on our bodies. It's the starch that we burn. Wow! I am burning it today, and I'm loving it!!

I'm so grateful to know this stuff.

My reason for doing this diet was to increase my energy, and I know that when my energy increases, my weight will drop off.

Looks like its starting already.

I'll never look at fat in the same way again.

Good riddance!!

Excellent to hear, glad to read things are changing for the better.

When I am eating really well, I find I need less sleep because the sleep I get is more restful. Took me a while to figure that out, because I was getting annoyed with waking up really early and not being able to get back to sleep. I adjust my schedule and have more awake time to do fun stuff.