Just read an article by Lucy Cavendish in in Daily Telegraph and felt compelled to write. I did my first Fast Day only yesterday and I really feel I have made an enormous amount of progress already. It is today, my non fast day which is most interesting. I over eat, a lot, I have four kids so am constantly making food and helping myself whilst eating. Today, after the discipline of yesterday, I am controlling what I eat easily. Not sure how this has happened but I feel a mental shift already. Lucy Cavendish must be in the minority because although I fully expected to think about food all day I did not.

I do have a few tips for anyone’s first fast day….. A. Do not choose your Four year olds birthday to start because Baking on a fast day really tests you! B. do not ask your Four year old what she wants for tea because making a Roast dinner on your Fast Day also tests you!

I hope this feeling of control lasts?

Thanks for replying! Second fast day and although I feel hungry it is intermittent, and can be solved with a cup of herbal tea. It has really been a big wake up call about my bad habits. I can see that if I break bad eating habits on non fast days I would be just eating like my friends who are slim, and that is probably why they are, they don’t panic at the first sign of hunger, and if I am honest I have probably never been hungry in my life.