You don’t need motivation not to do something molly69. Just don’t put anything solid in your mouth and if at all possible avoid liquids with calories in them – it’s easy! Find something else to take your mind off it if you start thinking about food. You’ve said you’re not hungry, so this is just a mental thing and you know that. Find something to otherwise occupy your mind. Clean the house, make Xmas lists, write your cards out, research something you’re interested in (fasting itself if nothing else). Go for a long walk and try not to go near any convenience shops while you’re out.

If you’re at work, throw yourself into that stupid project that you’ve had waiting on the back-burner until you had time for it. Or engage a colleague in a conversation, the subject of which you know they will happily bang on about for hours. Do whatever you need to do but just promise yourself that you will not allow solids to pass your lips until your 500 calorie meal and try to last as long as you possibly can before you have it. Make it a challenge and WIN it! You can do it molly69 – you know you can.

Yeah – that’s the WORST job to have if you’re on any kind of ‘plan’ I imagine. But presumably all of these cakes are for other people, so enjoy the smell and keep repeating that mantra “I will not eat sugar cookies – these are NOT for me!”

I had to bake a pecan pie at the weekend and as you know, it is basically just various forms of sugar on a pastry base with 3 eggs and some nuts, so that was torture I suppose but I survived without ‘trying’ any and it wasn’t even a fastday, so you can totally do this. You rock! Just think of the power you will feel when you put those perfect, untouched cookies in their box. The cookies are not the master of you, you are the cookie master.

Haha good thing you had eachother! I wasn’t online so sadly couldn’t help out, but you did great without me as well 😛

Also oh my god I can’t imagine working as a baker… especially from home!! I mean at work you may have some colleagues who don’t agree with you eating the merchandise but at home… good on you for not giving in, I probably wouldn’t have been that strong.
I used to work at a restaurant a while back where I usually worked the pizza – counter. (It was a bit buffet-style, so an open kitchen and everything). And I really, REALLY loved them pizzas. So sometimes I would “falsify” an order and write down an extra pizza… then when they were done I’d innocently yell “Ham-mozzarella pizza?! Anyone?” And then act annoyed and put it aside. And yup, eat it myself if no-one was looking. Damn I really loved those pizzas. Still really love pizza. But they don’t have real pizza here in China 🙁

Anyway, I’m ranting about pizza now. Damn I love pizza. And the garlicbread. AH STOP IT!

Just imagine Molly, if you managed to keep strong through that day you had, you can do anything 🙂

Congratulations on your half stone Molly – what a wonderful feeling for you going into the weekend 😀

Naughty Nika the ‘pizza nicker’ (not sure where you’re from Nika but ‘nicking’ is a cheeky reference to stealing, so it sounds like you have the right name ;)).

I’ve got another week to go before my next weigh in, so still some good work to do to get myself back on track but it’s nice to not have an office full of goodies to contend with at least.

Nika,
How’s the Christmas plant going?……..some lights have started going up outside our houses here in the UK….our Street is quick to get in the Christmas spirit……just now seen a tree opposite in a house….ours over the weekend…

Good Luck on the weight loss on Sunday
X

Hi Happylc
I’m sure there are lots of people in the same boat as you. Stress can make things hard, and there is no need to beat yourself up about giving in to food.

With something on each day for the next week you might like to try changing things to the 16:8 (?) where you just give yourself a window during the day in which you eat and you just fast for the rest of the day. That way your eating window can cover the events you are going to and you can fast for the rest of each day.

Times like Christmas are just never good for any kind of eating discipline. They say that most people put on 2 kilos over Christmas – so I think in the long run if you manage not to put on that is a true win at this time of year.

Keep on hanging in there and the new year will be here before you know it.

One other thing to remember – as someone else said – this is a marathon not a sprint.
Not all weeks will work but just stay true to this woe long term and things will work.
It’s almost Christmas now so the insanity will soon be behind us and things will return to normal.

Someone very kindly replied to mine about having a wobble. Can’t find her email and want to thank her but don’t know her name. Perhaps she will recognise this!! Thank you again!

@helen T
” having a wobble. ”

What’s a wobble as relating to fasting?

I looked it up and doesn’t seem pleasant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobble

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