Hi Selador & welcome!

Are those optifast shakes any good? I’ve never tried them & admittedly I prefer solid food but just interested to hear what you think…

I like the idea of Mondays & Thursdays for fasting too, breaks up the week nicely & leaves you with the weekend off.

Good luck & hope the rest of the day went well. Keep us updated!

You know the time will fly by if you have a good plan and stick to it. How many weeks of this diet have you done so far?

I don’t know how people can go with those cardboard flavoured things though as you say they serve a purpose. I love my healthy food too much. Here’s an idea for you to try sometime.

Yesterday for my fast day meal i had a fabulous lunch of 5 veg sauté. But i preferred the 4 veg sauté from the previous night even more. It included one medium potato (yes i know it freaks some people out), a zucchini, 1 beetroot, and 2 biggish mushrooms. I chopped the vegies into fairly big bite sized pieces then steamed the hard vegies while i started off the sautéing of the mushrooms in the frypan with 2tsp of olive oil and some garlic. When the steaming was just done, i tipped that lot into the pan with the mushrooms. Added a little salt and let them get coated with the olive oil and try to get a bit crusty. I tell you – fantastic!.

I don’t know what the calories for the potato one were but my one for my fast came to 290 calories and that included 3 tsp of olive oil. This is a filling dish and low GI so the satisfaction of it lasts long. I find steamed vegetables utterly boring so i avoid cooking them that way. But i do love my vegies more than ever now that i make the effort to make more interesting recipes with them.

Anyway good luck with your project.