Afternoon Clubbers!

Just finished my 2 egg veggie omelette w/ a little sausage and 2 T low cal cheese. Very tasty & filling.
So why am I sitting here and all I can think about is something sweet. I’m so craving today, yesterday was fine. This is when I start thinking about my next treat/binge. Delayed Gratification. I can’t have it today, so when can I and what will it be. I don’t dream in pieces, I dream in boxes. I don’t just see it, I also smell & taste it.
So the question becomes: how do I control the thoughts/images ruining thru my head? How do I focus on negatives after a binge instead of the orgasmic beginning. I can hear the standard reply “just don’t think about it” or distract yourself. Neither is very helpful at the moment.
Since starting this post; I’ve done some dishes, 2 loads of laundry, cleaned up cat throw-up (that helped for awhile) and read an article.
Maybe I should pull out a hypnosis CD, at least I would be focusing on something besides food.

I’m committed to using MFP to track my consumption and stay in TDEE and No Snacking!

Saw this on another thread:
“May the fast be with you”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33690211
Voila! By Michael Moseley himself in fact

OMG, the cat vomit — dog poop here, which is also a great appetite depressant.

Unfortunately, I found that only after I got home. I confess, I had my doughnut in the car. I wanted that lusty business one more time. (It wasn’t “the” doughnut, but close enough.) However, after about 3 bites, the thrill was over, and I mushed the rest up in the bag and it’s now in the garbage with yesterday’s dog hair 🙂 Yum! Thank heavens for pets to distract us from ourselves.

So I’m tagging myself for 250 cals. Told myself in the car “you know you’re going to have to tell them.” HA, but as much as I’ve been mentally drooling about it, I’m glad I had it and enjoyed it without turning into a lunatic. Subconsciously I think I was doing that chocolate experiment! And now the hole in my appetite’s heart seems to have closed. Back to no snacking or eating alone, because by no means do I consider myself cured!!

Strength and big hugs to you all for being here this weekend!
xx jade

Jade: Wow! Who have you become? Only eating half? Crazy good job! That is what “normal” people can do.

Melb: Congrats on not secretly eating. For me that would be a huge accomplishment.

I tried “mentally eating” my donuts. I guess it worked; I have been able to forget them for s couple of hours.

I got hungry & had a 200 cal snack; hummus, mini peppers & 1/2 serving of chips. Shared w/ hubby, so not in secret and not just because I wanted to eat “something”.

Stay strong & keep the “fast”!

Feeling Pleased 🙂
Thanks to the support of the Fast Club, I had my 1st full weekend at TDEE. I managed to enter all my food in MFP, no cheats. Huge success. Fingers crossed; this may be the 1st weekend I don’t gain all my losses from last week back. Really tired of the roller coaster.

I will be taking up the lard baton tomorrow for a FD.

Good luck to those fasting before me on the other side of the pond. Watch out for kraken; they are sneaky.

Another hour to go until lunchtime … I almost caved and went out to buy one of those devilish pecan maple plaits, but saw this thread open in my tabs and hardened my resolve. Green tea and an imaginary pastry it is!

We are mightier than the kraken!

Danish pastry pecan plait= 424 calories.
Well done you!

I love them too. But it would have been a very long FD!

If it has flaky pastry then it has loads of butter, so loads of calories.

And of course there are 9 million doughnuts here at school today. AND a free lunch. Did I get transferred to Texas or something?? I’m not used to all these workplace kraken. Holding onto vivid images of Fast Club walking past pastries….thanks for the strength – we can do it. xx

You can do it Jade!! For some reason I am imagining the centre of those doughnuts filled with yesterday’s dog hair and they suddenly sound less appealing.

I have a different work issue at the moment which is that I am working in a room by myself all day, hence no one to see me scoff, and the vending machine/ pastry shop is so close… pretty sure I would not have put on half of this weight if I had shared an office and known people were watching!

But ho hum, such is life. Too late to change the past – time to work on changing the future instead! It’s almost 4:30 here and I have got through on coffee and green tea, only a little while longer to go……. courgetti and some kind of delicious salad for tea…..

A delicious meal of courgetti, green beans and red pesto, PLUS salad of olives, feta, seeds, tomato, spinach, peppers, spring onion and puy lentils (and garlic bread to keep him upstairs happy). Fruit pie for him and sugar free jelly for me with some berries and WE ARE WINNING. Not just a fast day but a fast day filled with health and deliciousness.

Hope you are all having a good day my fasters!

Great job Clubbers!
I’m super impressed with your ability to “walk by” today’s temptations.

I also managed a successful fast day. I sailed through my team meeting at lunch, with only a wistful look at the garlic bread.

Tomorrow’s going to be my hard day. I have breakfast, lunch and birthday cake! I thought about calling in sick, just to avoid all the Kraken. I think fasting would be easier than trying to control and stay in TDEE.

Here’s to a successful fast day!

Jade: Great job! Way to kick some serious kraken butt. You are gonna rock Saturdays weigh in.

All calories count towards TDEE! Stay mindful!

Hey sounds like the Fast Club is turning into a bunch of Normal People! Well done to everyone’s successes.

Unfortunately I have been reading my updates in between mouthfuls of .. well .. basically whatever I can find, in quantity…. Seriously off the Fast or Normal Waggon

Anyhow am fasting today and have re-done my TDEE after all this Annette-inspired ‘Maths For Weight Loss’ (title of your new book I have decided, Annette!).

Yay, Michel – slay that dragon, you have the power! Glad it was a fine time at the scale this morning. You are blazing this week. Your tag on the previous post reminded me to log my calcium chew – but still just 439 yesterday. Whew.

Hey mcca, I’m just pretending to be normal. It’s confusing! FDs I get, but those other 5 days are weird. I feel robotic, checking with MFP to see if I’m hungry or not (because I can always eat). But if I don’t check, I will usually exceed tdee. Every day. NOT normal.

The one-by-one approach to cutting bad habits does work, though in fits and starts. When I cut out snacking between meals, I overate at meals–such as by adding a doughnut, which didn’t taste nearly as good surrounded by real food. Not to be deterred, I ate one by itself, Sunday, but felt unbalanced (because my insulin resistance had lowered?). I wanted to either jump in a sugar lake or have a porterhouse as an antidote, but MFP said “well NOW you have to eat a light dinner, hahaha.” So I was whiny and actually mad AT THE DOUGHNUT for not being so orgasmic that a light dinner was an acceptable penance. But the real progress was that it wasn’t orgasmic, so I guess I’m no longer a doughnut perv? That has to be a step toward normal.

Good luck with your FD. You can do it! Right, “Maths for Weight Loss” what could be easier? And when Annette says it’s not food, it’s habits, I think she is onto something more important even than calories.
xxx jade

yeah, she is a wizard 🙂 🙂 🙂

I was doing so good and then……
So, I did a drive by on the lunch. I took a look and left w/ nothing. Went back to my desk and imagined eating chips & salsa. I waited for everyone to go thru the line, giving me time to decide exactly what I wanted. It all worked great until I went back in & there was a big box of still warm chocolate chip cookies that had just been delivered. Needless to say I was eating before any logical thoughts had even been formed. I could have eaten more, no one was around, but I did manage to eventually stop.
I also had a nice light salad with tomatoes, 1/4 C chicken and about 1/4 C alvacado. And on the bright side, I was able to pass on the taco shell, the chips & salsa, the tortilla, the cheese and the dressing. MFP says I’m already close to TDEE.

I’m hoping if I imagine eating the cake over & over, I will be able to skip having any. Keep your fingers crossed.

Hope everyone is doing better than I am.

Michel are you sure you didn’t overcharge yourself for those cookies? it doesn’t seem possible that you were close to tdee. But…better than any short-term calorie count is that you stopped! Seriously awesome – you thought about it and stopped. You regained control. Darn kraken, no fair shooting us with warm cookies.

Yep, tomorrow is another day and we’re getting better at this each week. I can’t believe how normal we’re all acting. I managed tdee today, no huge temptations around. If I had to engage the warm cookie (or heaven forbid, warm KK) kraken, it would be a lot harder. xx jade

My spell is working….

I suspect that diet coke isn’t helping with the lack of concentration or the tiredness either.It may not have sugar in it, but it will have sweeteners which will also keep you searching for sweet things to satisfy the craving. Try drinking water instead, you will feel better and the cravings will subside making it easier to cope with any food cravings. These canned drinks are full of chemicals too. Best avoided.

Thanks Annette – one step at a time, is my motto! There are times in a girl’s life when water sadly does not cut it! Diet coke is my emergency, last-ditch kraken defense, maybe one a month if that. I agree not ideal but certainly better than delicious pastries!! 🙂

Good luck and fierce resolve to all the fasters!

Morning Fasters!

Yesterday was a huge FU. I had an incident at work that resulted in a mini explosion and left me extremely wound up for the rest of the day. Tasmanian Devil comes to mind. I was a little out of control & so was my eating.

I’m fasting with y’all today and I will be in control.
Let’s do this!

Hello all Bingers

I too find the non fast days the problem. Fast days are written in stone and achievable. When you have to choose what to eat and try to keep within your TDEE when there is so many tempting things our there is difficult. Feeling sorry for myself as going to my son’s for tea and cake tonight and am worrying how I will resist eating too much. I know his wife will have gone to a lot of trouble. Am keeping telling myself I am not a dustbin. Lol

Topsy

Melb: Not eating all day would be huge. I’ve managed only 300 cal before (all protein) but I’ve never tried going to bed totally empty.

Topsy: Welcome! I agree with you, sometimes NFDs are harder than FDs. This is not supposed to be a diet, but for some of us “normal” eating always exceeds TDEE.

Holding fast to the lard baton. So far I’ve used it to beat off both the cookie & the cake kraken. Darn things were hiding in the kitchen waiting for me. Screw them–I’m fasting!

If I could remove these fizzy cans of chemicals that keep us searching for the next sugar hit(whether they are diet or not) I would. They are keeping us hooked. Ditch the Crystal Light Jade, have you seen what is in it?

It is really hard when something happens that upsets and angers…leading to a lot of consumption that is never enjoyed. I am finding that it is getting less and less, although I have yet to find the perfect solution that doesn’t involve food. I think that I am more aware that scoffing in a rage doesn’t make me feel any better. I used to think it did, but when I don’t even savor the food as it goes in….all quite a waste when I have inhaled a million calories and I am still upset/angry.

I am still searching for a solution. My slender friend cannot eat when upset. How weird is that?