Howdy fellow fasters,

I have been thinking about best options for breakfast on a fast day… when travelling away from home. This is something that has previously meant i’ve ruined fast days and fallen off the 5:2 wagon more generally so i wanted to get it right this time.

I’m specifically thinking about eat out / take away / fast food breakfast away from home when there is no option to cook yourself.

Here are my options so far and i am looking for something <200 Kcal as i need 400 for dinner:

1. Go to a cafe and ask for 1 unbuttered wholemeal piece of toast with one poached egg (this is my default at home). This would be best but means finding a cafe somewhere that will do things to order.

2. Starbucks soy porridge which comes in at 205 Kcal. Never too difficult to find a branch but I am thinking it might be a bit too carb heavy for a fast day. Does anyone have porridge from starbucks, poet a manger etc on a fast day.

3. Get a balanced <200 Kcal sandwich the day before and save for breakfast the next morning. I am thinking of something from a healthy eating range.

4. Simply skip breakfast completely as it is too much hassle! Only thing then is that I then do start to feel quite hungry by late morning.

I’d love to hear how other people are dealing with the same question.

Thanks

Time&Being

PS: top tip for anyone looking for same for evening meals: try Nando’s Ratatouille for 151 Kcal packed with vegetables and can be accompanied with anything else you find that takes you to your limit.

Well in the end I just walked into the nearest local cafe and asked for 1 poached egg on 1 dry brown toast and it was as easy as that. I paid the full price for double that but will consider this a health tax 🙂

shan88: thanks for the suggestion, hadn’t thought about that and can always fall back on that as a last resort.

Amazon and HappyNow: it’s been a while since I read the book but I thought it was preferable to leave a good 12 hours between the two meals. I’ve been having my fast breakfast around 7am with fast dinner around 7pm. Are you tracking this as 12+ hours from your evening-before dinner to your lunch on the fast day? Or maybe you are not tracking this at all and still finding good results?

In other news: I’ve just discovered turkey rashers for fast days when I am at home and can cook. Am also going to try Oat So Simple which don’t sound great on taste scale but score well on the convenience scale.

I am now into my second week on 4:3 and starting to see the benefits visually: belt going down a notch and things look a little better when i catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror or walking past shop windows. Still a little way to go. Big thing for me last time was going overboard on non fast days and focusing on stats a little too much. The former knocked me off track physically and the latter mentally.