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Hi Metchick
Good luck, how did you get on yesterday? I hope it went well, I started on 1st June and didn’t find the first day too bad at all. I LOVE bread, I recently discovered how to make sourdough bread and it is soooooo yummy! So hard to stay away from those carbs, but I am going to allow myself a slice on the non fast days – I think I deserve it – and so will you! It’s hard just to stop at one though ….. :-))
Hi Metchick
Yep, can’t stay away from cheese, if it’s in the fridge it gets eaten! Sounds like you had a great first day fast. I am fasting again today, had a Pilates class first thing and had my second cup of coffee just now. We do crunches in Pilates as well, it’s great to do on an empty stomach, I am sure I got up a bit higher today! I will have a small lunch and dinner, that regime is working for me at the moment.
I had a look at the new Fast recipe book in Smiths today, lots of yummy meals and all calorie counted which makes life so much easier. I am tempted by it, I am also addicted to cookery books! Is your husband fasting as well, does he cook for himself as well as baking?
Hope the rest of the day goes well.
CP
Ooh you talked me into it! Just ordered it on Amazon together with Celia Brooks’ veggie fast diet cook book to get over £10 – those naughty people at Amazon know what they’re about. Hunger pangs don’t last too long for me, a glass of water usually helps. I wonder what sugar free sweets might do?
Have a good day.
CP
Well, I don’t eat meat of any kind but I do eat fish. Thanks for the advice, I think I will steer clear. Nearly fell at the first hurdle today. We have just been to the cinema (Godzilla, what a turkey!), but late back for my husbands tummy rumbles, so he suggested fish and chips, but even though I wavered I held fast (ha ha) and am having some oven baked cod with marinade for 240 calories – a close call though. Hope your day went well and those hunger pangs disappeared.
CP
Hi Metchick
It’s been a lovely day too here in sunny Hampshire. Excellent news on your weigh in – do you weigh regularly? I have a problem with our digital bathroom scales, if I move them from one bathroom floor tile to another I can gain or lose 5lb in one fell swoop – they are not to be relied on, so when I weigh myself I never know quite how heavy or light I am – depends upon how I feel on the day! Husband says it is because the tiles are cold and it affects the digital whatever’s. Ho hum, I guess it should be about how I feel and not the numbers……
Have succumbed to a bottle of white wine tonight, yes I know white wine is not my friend but I love cosying up to it! Anyway, we are celebrating the roof going on in our loft conversion today and our upstairs taking shape in our erstwhile bungalow – back on the wagon tomorrow.
Ah ha, hence the Met! I am also not having breakfast, just a very small lunch and then about 300 calorie meal in the evening. This works well for me, although I do have a couple of cups of coffee in the morning as the day wouldn’t be worth living otherwise :-}
I wish my scales were more accurate. I have moved them into the living room where hopefully they will settle down! I will report back on progress at the end of the week. I want to lose about a stone and a half to two stone, how about you, do you have a goal? No golf for me (rotator cuff injury) but I have been for a walk up to our allotment and done some digging so that will do for now.
Hi Metchick
You really are doing well, this WOE obviously agrees with you. I feel like I have lost weight and even erratic scales show a downward trend, so it’s all good. I fasted Monday and again today. Never have a problem with fast days (well, apart from the growly tum), but on these warm evenings and non fast days the white wine often beckons!
CP
Hello Metchick
The lady vanishes – amazing! This weekend, well husband will be fossicking about in our new upstairs (well it would be but the stairs are coming in a couple of weeks, so it’s our up ladder at the mo), so I will be up the lottie to harvest more strawberries, Swiss chard and broad beans and do a bit of gentle weeding. Then I think we will go for a walk after lunch. Sunday we may do a bit of garden visiting, so very laid back. What about you, will you be knocking them for six on the golf course?
Hi Metchick
Congrats on your continuing downward trend! I had a horrid fast day on Thursday, don’t know why. I was conscious of being hungry all day, could have gnawed my arm off! I tried all the distractions, drinking water, miso soup, keeping busy, but somehow it just bugged me all day. I held out though, and am pleased to report I have broken through the 11 stone barrier albeit marginally to 10 st 13 1/2 (although whether the scales are to be trusted is another thing, but I definitely do feel thinner). Next fast day will probably be Monday, so I hope it goes better than Thursday. Do you have any bad days – or tips?
CP
Hi Metchick
No I don’t have breakfast either, I hold out until lunchtime when I have a bowl of soup, then miso soup at around five pm and evening meal of around 250 cals. I think I probably come under the 500 too. I think it’s a psychological thing, maybe the novelty is wearing off! I don’t intend to stop though – I’ll need a change of wardrobe at this rate, some things are starting to look a bit baggy!
Enjoy your golf – and your week.
CP x
Hi Metchick
Wow, you are doing well, you’ll be on the maintenance 6:1 before you know it.
The week is going well thanks. Went out with our wild life group this morning, countryside was lovely. Masses of veg from the lottie, beetroot, chard, carrots, lettuce, mange tout, potatoes (my husband is eating most of those) and lots of lovely raspberries.
My weight according to erratic scales is stable, but as I had wine Friday, Saturday and Sunday I am not surprised! I have, however, got into a pair of trousers lurking at the back of the wardrobe which I have never really been comfortable in, AND been able to sit down in them and walk into town in comfort – so brill! Fasting again tomorrow, so hopefully downward trend will continue.
Are you going to go to 6:1 when you reach target weight?
CP
Morning MC,
You really have this WOE cracked! I had a bit of a blow out yesterday, we went to an Asian music festival, and there was the most yummy veggie food stall. My husband wanted to try jellabi, which is basically deep fried sugar syrup – hot, crunchy, delicious!! I don’t feel bad about it, it was too enjoyable! Today is another day …
CP
Hi MC
I think we are all entitled to go a little mad sometimes aren’t we? And it’s such good fun! And you have certainly worked hard enough. According to the erratic scales I probably should be down about 11lbs but am actually down 9. It’s not so bad, as I know now that if I concentrate on it I can start losing again. This WOE has given me the confidence to realise that, so I am back on the wagon, albeit with a rickety wheel! BMI is at 23, I am aiming for 20 so will see how it goes, how I feel and how I look! I already feel (and I think look) better. You off on your hols soon?
CP
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