Well the last pig out session took me up a pound…. Oh the dieting woes….. This is such a familiar feeling!!! I have my work out tomorrow and I will take my frustration out in there and ramp up the good ole heart rate….I really don’t know why I can’t live without ice cream…. My mother and grandmother had to eat it everyday and I seem to follow suit… I did not grow up with them (they are my birth family that I met as an adult) but the ice cream addiction must be in my DNA!! For those of you that have this flavor– Moosetracks– in your state (it’s not in CA that I’ve seen) that is my all time favorite flavor…. Had it on a road trip a few years back….glad it’s not here or I’d have a lot more weight to lose than I already do!!

I think I should change my name to MooseT– that feels way more appropriate to how I feel tonight!!!

Hey FastC- next time you get the Miosetracks urge please think of me!!! I can’t get a decent version of it here… Glad you had a good nonFD day- those are so hard for me!!! I struggle with the choices. I’m guessing we all do or we wouldn’t be on this thread!! So nice to have people that really understand this issue!! Tomorrow is a FD so I know I will make good choices!!

Hi all, so great to read from you! Hope you all had a terrific weekend and are ready for a new week 🙂 (with or without ice-cream)
For the second week in a row now I am having my FD today on a Monday. So far I did them on a Sunday, but it is simply too nice to have a family dinner on Sunday evening. We went out to an Italian restaurant and I had a pizza! Had saved almost all calories of my daily TDEE for this occasion and it was super delicious – not least because I knew that it was fine and that I could thoroughly enjoy it and not feel guilty about it at all. I even had some red wine later at home and a few pieces of chocolate.
I had it all planned out in advance on my calorie app/fitness app that is my best friend for 4 weeks now. Before that I never bothered to actually count calories and plan my food. Since I started the counting/planning I never had a binge attack – and I think the main reason is that I am allowing myself a little controlled something special every once in a while within the limits I set for myself.
Of course, that might not be the great idea behind 5:2. I guess, the ultimate objective is to change tastes and habits, so that one doesn’t have the craving for some bread or sweet or wine anymore.
Not sure that I will ever get there. Before starting 5:2 I was 6 months sugar-free. I didn’t have the craving for chocolate anymore, true. But I am enjoying my limited and carefully portioned chocolate BIG time now.
As mentioned before: there is quite a bit of control involved either way. So, it is not that there is an easy way. Will always be work. But I rather have my mini, super tiny, planned binges 🙂 For now, that is. Who knows what will happen over time.
The scales were good, too. Lost 0,6 kg last week. Am still doing quite a bit of exercise to get in shape and to have more calories that I can eat that day.
Take all good care of yourself. Cheers, Karen

Oh yes Chubs, perfectly tortured 😂 – though it’s been quite some time since I’ve read a sentence that long that actually used proper grammar, not to mention punctuation. I finally told a few of my Faulknerian students, “look, you can’t seem to do this, so please just write shorter sentences and everyone wins.” Oh for the days (long gone, apparently) when someone would have tortured them in grade school and spared me the agony; most are so set in their ways by grad school age that they think I’m the wrong one. Because of course they’ve been told they’re brilliant for 22 yrs. DARN IT JADE, STOP THE RANTING.

OK. So, after a felonious weekend assault on my self-control, I am determined to do this right this week. FD today, looking much better since I fell back into bed at 5 after the dogs needed a potty break. Actually brewed coffee and was going to stay up, but felt really queasy, NOT the best prelude to a FD. It’s why I gained over 50# when pregnant because I was always queasy, didn’t throw up (see? I can behave), but was only un-queasy when eating saltines or bread and the occasional banana split (calcium, good for the baby! and b/f my lactose issues). Then I gave birth to a champ of a kid with a champ case of colic and lost every bit and more w/n 3 months.

Well goodness, I’m feeling chatty today. Promised hubs I’d stay home today, and by that I don’t mean in the kitchen! One can hope. Karen, congrats on the scale news! I’ll do my best to get that body-mind connection going – wise words indeed. Also those to Tango – sometime it is not the right time, but the right time will come, and we know what to do. We aren’t hopeless; we’re actually pretty darn great just to be here giving a s**t about our health and sharing info.

CaliB I have had my fling with MooseTracks and every other ice cream flavor made! I’m not sure what brought on the lactose intolerance, but now, a bit of heavy cream in coffee is all I can stand. I remember in my early days here, talking about how I didn’t want to lose my love of sugar and that electric feeling of joy the sugar jolt gave me. But now that I lost my love of ice cream, I find I have other loves. Fruit especially tastes so much sweeter, and I mean it IS sweet but I just pfffted it before. So I’ll compare sugar to a bad boyfriend, the kind you think you just can’t live without. The kind who leaves you heartbroken, or so it feels, and eventually you get over him and actually wonder what you saw in him. That’s how I feel about ice cream, and increasingly about sugar in general. Living without it isn’t bad at all – life is just great in a whole new way.

Good lord I must have swallowed a tai chi book in my sleep! Time to get after this day and make something of it. Hugs dear islanders, good luck to all on the fast train, you can do it! 🚂😍🌴🌴jade xx

Jade, you are a certified hoot! I’m sorry your students torture you.

I know you’re talking about a real issue. I know there are ways my kids speak (and, no doubt, write) that set my teeth on edge. “Me” and “I”, for example. Of course I corrected them and explained why “I” needed to be used as the subject of a sentence and “me” as an object. And they got a *great*, if less structured education. They went to the *very* progressive lab school at UCLA where they were supposed to read their *sses off and “discover” grammar. But, all that aside, they couldn’t overcome the power of the colloquial. They may *know* better but they speak like everyone of their generation.

Most of all, language is a fluid thing. It make make me nutz if no one even *knows* there such a thing as a subjunctive anymore much less *use* it . …even if it *does* clarify whether we are making a statement or expressing a wish. And commas really have gone out of style. And maybe good riddance to a lot of them ’cause sometimes they help clarify and sometimes they just chop the (explicative) out of the flow. But there you are on the battle lines having to hold the fort down! You’re a valiant warrior, babe!!!

What does the MLS have to say about these things? And who, BTW, are our Académie française???

I hope it isn’t an army of 20yos in their pajamas on the internet. 😖

Here’s what you need to consider, Karen, when you dump the bad boyfriend everything else begins getting better. …and EASIER.

What a wonderful bunch of smart ladies you all are, you make the thread a delight 🙂 It’s so good to know you’re holding that slippery lard baton secure for the times when we all get a little shaky (like now for me) and with a good deal of laughter to boot. What with seductive bad-boy boyfriends, ice cream named after large wild animals (exactly what flavour is Moose tracks..?!?) and the ingestion of tomes of Eastern wisdom when sleeping. All seems to be well on the Island of bingers, ex-bingers and dare I say it, normal people.

Welcome FastCanadian, it’s lovely to have you on the Island and you certainly fit right in – it’s so true about the fast-on/slow-off of fat but we’ll get there, one gram or ounce at a time.

CaliB – good luck in your quest to defeat ice-cream. There does seem to be something in the theory that even when people are separated early from birth relatives, there are some mighty surprising similarities that are evident on reunion. I find that really fascinating.

Annette – how’s it going? I recall it’s been a hard time for you recently but I know you’ll get through it. While there’s no doubt that a pound of fat & a pound of muscle ‘weigh’ the same, they certainly don’t take up the same amount of space so the whole clothes versus scales thing has a lot going for it.

Karen, you have my sympathy with the dreaded biscuits at work: I can really relate to the horror of that and it’s weird how food at work can have a whole different set of rules attached for me – it would appear that I think of work food as not-quite-real and therefore not likely to do me any harm. Haha, you’re back on the crazy bus there girl.

Chubs you are such a source of inspiration and of a particularly pragmatic kind that I quite lack – I always take something very practical from your posts, so thanks for that and your exercise regime is so impressive.

Tango (I love that name!) I too had to laugh at the CAN CAN list but good for you for focusing on the positive. I’ve been having a particularly long pity-party myself so your words (and your wise words too Karen) have really helped.

Lolly – loved your comment about not having to be a ‘practicing’ binger… so very true! You’re doing so well.

Jade, I am so totally with you on the issue of grammar. Like Chubs, I had the benefit of learning the ins and outs of grammar alongside the horror of the saints and martyrs, so while it was something of a mixed blessing (pun unintended 😉 ) I do appreciate being able to use the language relatively well. I’m not so sure when I’m grading said papers though and I find myself having to resist an urge toward ex-fenestration of the computer. I feel like a grumpy old lady and I daresay there are worse things in the world, although if I have to hear/read again about all the things I can obtain ‘for free’ I may need sedating.

Okay, well you may be pleased to know that I’m swaying like a champion again at the moment, and have wrested control of my little vessel from the dastardly lizards and have set sail for calmer waters. Not sure what the trigger was (very possibly you lot!) but I woke from my pity-party with a massive hangover and a desire not to go to another one for quite some time (not to mention never to call the bad-boy boyfriend I had hooked up with on the night 😉 ). I now have a clean FD under my belt and I’m positively glowing with the righteousness of my eating today. Of course I could be shortly overwhelmed as I drift into the tsunami-infested Bay of Hubris, but what the hell: I’m putting it out there and I’m going to succeed today!! Much love and THANKS to you all, Spring xxx

Cheers to you Jade!! I have another FD almost under my belt – wavered a bit on my late return home and very hungry due to last FD being Tuesday rather than Monday which was a public holiday. And of course my righteousness of yesterday means hunger today… Still, there isn’t long to go so I’ll white-knuckle it as they say on Misfit Island [insert palm tree and cocktail emojis here] xxx.

Hi Tango!! Those Bad-boys are a BIG worry, aren’t they?? So much promise and so little delivered in my experience, although admittedly the ride can be an awful lot of fun before the inevitable fall… 😉 Good luck with the up-coming exam though and yes, eating well is something I tell all my students to do in exam week. I’m with you too on adding in some good fats everyday, there’s no doubt the Mediterranean diet seems to have a lot going for it health-wise. I’m also very much at a maximum with 2 days fasting a week and at this stage I just couldn’t voluntarily do a water fast. I have enormous respect for those who can (and more that a little envy) but it would back-fire on me big time, I know. Maybe in time – who knows what I’ll be capable of then – but for now I know my limitations – let us know how it goes if you do it.

I’m just off to bed now, feeling pretty pleased with myself and not so fearful about the weigh-in tomorrow. Sending you super vibes for your peri-menopausal brain cells to retain what ligament and tendon and bone goes where… love Spring xxx

Congrats Spring!! Nothing like a little success to breed more success. If “breed ” is the right word 🤔
And Karen you too with the LCHF on NFDs. For me, bread isn’t the bad boy that sweets are, but yeah, probably the mean girl who loves seeing others suffer, even if they don’t all end up suffering. Perfect. I personally haven’t gone without carbs successfully – I end up feeling too deprived and it only takes a little bit of bread (or rice, potatoes, etc.) to make life seem normal. Kinda why I appreciate the adventure we’ve all been on together, figuring out just what upsets our applecarts and what doesn’t.
Tango, good luck with the brain work! Totally agree, you need the energy, if you’re like me (haha you’re HERE aren’t you?) your brain works hard and burns mucho cals when it’s going full tilt.

Too much Sturm und Drang here for a FD, but pretty restrained so far. Lunch out, nice French place, and I opted for the chicken & rice (with broth, not cream) soup, one small baguette slice, with just water to drink 💪 – I’m patting myself on the back for any good behavior!

Good luck to all who are on the fast train – choo choo 🚇🌴 – and here’s that cocktail, Spring! 🍸🍸xx

Sorry to hog the airwaves, but I wanted to say that I’m doing really well on the 90-day challenge of 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day. Only once have I not met the target and on many of the days I’ve exceeded that by a considerable margin. It’s amazing how motivating it is to have put it out there and to feel accountable to this group, so thanks for that 🙂 I’d love to know how others are going with their particular challenge?? xx

Hi all and welcome Frank- happy to hear about your progress– Spring you are a hoot and I always love your posts! Great way to start my day. Congrats on 30 min of exercises every day- that’s amazing! Today is my FD and I’m hoping it goes smoothly. Thanks to Spring all I can think about is buttered toast and cheese!!!
I am at 9 lbs weight loss so far and it’s funny to me that no one has really noticed. I think I have to lose a little more before it becomes very apparent. I have started to spout about my weight loss method and strangely finding no arguments or resistance- people seem to be very open to this new way of weight loss in my small world– it is Santa Cruz so I guess they are used to way stranger things here than fasting!!!

Happy day to all!!

Hello Everyone!
Just a quick post to update you with my very unscientific experiment which is simply trying to stay below my TDEE and also not too have any biscuits. Mixed success or failure depending on how you define it!Days that have been biscuit free I have kept to my TDEE and not been looking for food all the time. Biscuits seem to lead me down the path of scoffing anything and everything, which backs up Lustig and what I had suspected for some time. I am an addict.
I have been bored at work and it has been a struggle to keep away from those dear little packets of biscuits that are left out freely for consumption.But I am going to have to learn to avoid them every day. It can’t be that difficult, I have given up puddings every day and sugar in my tea, just those little perishers to get out of my life.
I will update you tomorrow with any improvements on weight/measurements/clothes tomorrow , which will give me time to catch up with all of your posts…and there have been loads!

Annette and Karen Meier, the woman next to me at the office has a large container of chocolate. On fast days, I can resist, but otherwise….ugh. I blame HER for my weight gain.

Best ice cream EVER…Purity Ice Cream Mocha Chip from Ithaca, NY

Oh HO, a new idea emerges….2:3:2 🤔 I like it! Thanks and welcome Frankster 🌴 I do tend to have a few social days each week involving a cocktail or three. I think I might as well accept that as a regular part of my schedule. Now to run a 5k in 30 minutes HA HA don’t anyone hold their breath for that.
Congrats Spring, that’s a s**t-ton of grams gone! I jumped on the scales, and was pleased simply not to have found those grams here. It has been touch and go in my head lately, lots of family drama, nothing awful but the idea of passing up ANY momentary pleasure just doesn’t fly. I’m lucky to get so many chances at momentary pleasures, I guess! I feel like an eating robot – if there’s a party or company, I eat. If it’s just me, I don’t. I wonder what THAT way of eating could be called.
Annette, wow so you’ve narrowed it to biscuits. Well done! Had to laugh at Karen’s “biscuit friendly environment” tag of your workplace – BINGO 🎯😂 Hope you get a good report from the scale/tape measure. And K-lo, I’m the person with the big basket of chocolate here, but it doesn’t really tempt me, just junk Hershey’s. If I filled it with Cadbury i would drain it like a sieve. Why, look at me being all snooty about my chocolate! 👑 I guess that’s an improvement over shoving it in my face with the door closed. Yes, I think it is.
Sheesh I need to get out of the office but I can’t finish this one task because this man will NOT answer his phone. And he doesn’t have email, darn it. And that last “2” of the 2:3:2 plan needs to start 🍷🎉🍸 Well, soon enough I hope. Keep up the great work, it’s lovely to see all this activity on the Island ♥️🌴🌴🌴♥️xx

Good morning everyone. It is so good for me to read the posts here about binging. It is always one of those very secretive things for me — does anyone ever binge in front of other people? Not me! LOL The secretive part is probably the worst for changing anything. I do find that since I have cut out sugar and wheat (‘almost’ totally), I binge much less — those are certainly the triggers for me.

Anyone hear of EFT–Emotional Freedom Technique. It is this tapping technique that is used for eating disorders and all sorts of disorders — very successful for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Anyway, you tap on different spots, mostly on your face, and say things like…..even though I ate too much chocolate, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. It’s amazing to me how I can feel it lower my stress levels. If I can force myself to do it when I feel like binging — or in the middle of the binge — I can stop. Even though I want to eat and I’m not hungry, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Anyway, it’s a tool that has helped me some.

I’ve been eating pretty well this week but didn’t have a single successful Fast Day. Would last until about 6pm and then just ate more than planned. Might not have been a binge, but was definitely more than my 500 calories. Hope this week will be better.

Some of this is my lack of mobility with this hip. Most movement really hurts. But the good news is that I have a date for surgery in mid-June. Yea! Really look forward to getting back to things like walking and bike riding!!!

Happy day to you all.

Hello everyone!! I was drawn to this thread like a moth to a flame!! I guess I’ve never really given the “binge eating” some thought, but as I’m reading these threads I kept telling myself “oh my goodness!!! all of these people are living MY LIFE!!” which just means this was quite the awakening I needed. I don’t even know how I stumbled onto this website, let alone how I registered and then even better how I managed to find such a wonderful thread!!! I am so happy that I have. I registered today and am planning on starting my first Fast day on Monday 05/02/2016 because it’s a very slow day at work and that’s when I can go an entire day eating everything in sight.

I am more of a cake, cookie, brownie, eater… just love them.. and pizza oh gosh I can down an entire pie (I’m from NYC can you tell???)

I’m excited to start… I have a vacation planned to Disney for the last week of July and I just want to feel comfortable even if it’s by wearing a simple tshirt while not trying to cover my huge arms.

Does anyone have any pointers on how to keep track of the 500 cals I will be eating and when to eat them?

Oh hey there Pizza, we crossed. Welcome to the island! You named a few of my heartthrobs aka bad boyfriends right there. I’m in rehab at the moment but I’ve been known to sneak out the back door when one of them comes calling😞

Most people like the My Fitness Pal app to track daily calories. It has tons of foods in its index so I find it pretty easy. I don’t always track mine, but one plus is that it also has a step counter, so if you download MFP onto your phone, you don’t need a Fitbit or anything, if counting steps is your thing. I kind of like to see how many I’ve done when I’ve gone for long walks or jogs.

Good luck! Do stick around, we have some good laughs and I’ve learned a lot over the course of the last year. We’re all works in progress but we have made progress! The secret is learning not to be afraid of hunger on FDs and the learning how to behave on non-FDs, which is why I’m in rehab 😕 But as you can see from my previous post, rehab on the island isn’t too painful! All right off I go to burn some lizards. 🔥🐲🔥💪😍🌴🌴

To answer your question jade about resisting the meal I cooked for family– I only managed to not eat because I went on the site and wrote how much I wanted to eat it. Just putting it out there helped me to control my urges more. Love the site!

Yes pizza — Chicago pizza is all that and then some!! My favorite is Lou Malnati’s deep dish corn meal crust spinach and garlic– if you ever go to Chi town you have to get it!!

I am noticing that since I started this diet, my desire for meat has decreased– in the book it also talks about this happening. Don’t know if everyone experiences that but I know I did.

I read many fasting diet books- my 2 favorite by far were The Every Other Day Diet by Krista Varady and the Fastdiet by Michael Mosley– he also has a documentary about this process called Eat, Fast, Live Longer- just google him and you can find it all.

Best of luck!!

Welcome Frankster, and you’re doing so well! How does 2:3:2 work by the way? Are you fasting 2 days back-to-back then three days off then another 2 B2B fasts? And are they the same days each week? I suspect they must be if you’re more relaxed on the weekends.

Nice to meet you too K-Lo, I’m not sure I could do a FD next to a colleague with a container of chocolate, so well done you.

Pizza, welcome and I hope the first FD goes well (you’ll still be asleep as I write this). Drinking lots of water and keeping busy on FD’s are my two main weapons. As for when to eat, everyone is different and I have changed a lot over the time I’ve been doing 5:2 and now I eat the same few things on FD which is boring but predictable and a cinch to plan. Then I hold out for as long as possible before I eat. Would love to do water only but not my gig. Good luck.

Calib – I know it’s a few threads back, but that’s an interesting question about when people start to notice weight loss. Over the years I’ve learnt that I need to lose at least 10kg (about 25lbs) before anyone notices (or will comment) but that’s because I’ve always had a lot to lose. I know there are also all sorts of ‘formula’ for the loss needed to change clothes sizes but I also find that after 10kg I need to get a new size but that I can generally make-do till then. Unfortunately, it works the other way too, so that I can gain 10kg before I have to get bigger clothes. I am determined NEVER to buy bigger clothes again, but it is a daily struggle right now. I’m also glad there is support among your friends – in my little town/workplace I was stunned to find out how many other people were doing 5:2 as well.

lolly – let me just say : HATS OFF TO YOU!! I was procrastinating the other day and read your thread and wow, you are doing an amazing job girl!! I’m glad the exercise is making you feel stronger but I can relate to not being a natural mover, in fact I’m sure I was a sea lion or similar in my last life as love nothing better than to eat, lie in a sunny spot before the next meal and swim every now and then. I literally have to force myself to move although I always feel better for it.

Annette – good to hear from you and it sounds like you have really narrowed the battle down to those biscuits – do they have to be there? I worked in one place where someone asked for them to be removed, or replaced with a healthier option and no one objected to them being removed all together? Just a thought if you have a regular team meeting or similar. Look forward to the update on measurements.

Jade I’m happy to hear that there were no nasty surprises on the scale for you. I am plagued with too much out to dinner/party activity here at the moment too and I do find it tricky. It’s weird though how some days I can sail through it like I’m encased in Perspex and other days/nights the food is literally screaming out to me to be consumed. now. I LOVE your rehab cave idea – the perfect place to chill and as you say, plenty of room for all ☺ Also, preach away sister, I couldn’t agree more about the ‘what really matters in life’ in comparison to the struggle. My darling husband loves me through thick and thin, which is mostly me thick and him thin. You’re food diary from the weekend is making me drool… get thee behind me lizard!!

Queen – lovely to hear from you. Sounds like it is really tough at the moment but the insight you have is so essential and sometimes just being able to know what’s going on is half the battle. The sheer pleasure of eating will always be an issue for me too – nothing else calms me as instantly as a mouth full of comfort food but I’m glad you’re not beating yourself up about what’s going on.

caspersmum – wow, another amazing story. I do find these stories inspirational, especially today when I feel tired and grumpy and hungry and I’m only 3 hours into a FD… I will have to come back and re-read when my resolve is more dissolve (in about 20 minutes…).

FastC, you made me laugh thinking about binging in front of other people. The shame factor around food is so high isn’t it, and so laden with moral judgment? We were talking on here the other day about what other people have in their shopping trolleys and I have to confess to feeling smug when doing the ‘good’ shop and embarrassed if I’m shopping for a party and the trolley is filled with the usual suspects. And yet what does the food in a shopping trolley really say about anyone? About who they are as a person, what they care about/worry about/what their values are? I have a sister who uses EFT and she finds it really helpful and I think anything that makes you mindful in the moment and recognise what’s ‘going on’ has got to be helpful. Glad to hear the hip surgery is that much closer too.

Okay, well, I’m sitting here still in my PJ’s and I really need to do something other than write on the forum, especially as there is way too much food talk for a FD 😉 I’m going to go and make myself some soda water and the first coffee of the day and hop aboard the White Knuckle Express to the end of the day. Strength to all of you fasting today. Spring xxx

Rats lost a post but suffice to say GO SPRING WELL DONE — the white knuckle express is quite the appropriate name. I really laughed out loud when I saw that, but no ifs and buts about it most of the times I have been on it 🚄🚄🚄 white knuckles all the way. Unless I mistakenly take the local instead of the express, and the local unfortunately makes 15,000 stops, all in my kitchen. Weird huh?

Ok off I go to do battle with the Chinese (faculty lunch, that is) and I’m hoping to get out of there with my dignity and control intact. But let’s just say it’s going to be nip and tuck. Check in with you all later. Happy new workweek on the island! 🌴🌴🌴💕xx

Hi and welcome, Pizza. Now is the chance that you have waited for all along: you knew it would be tricky, no? So go ahead and RESIST the temptation. You are holding it in your hands. In the one hand you have the muffin. Empty, shallow calories, giving you about a 2 minute joy and afterwards you wish you had never had it. On the other hand you are holding something very precious, your first FD!! Such a triumph that you started with it, really want to make it work. Treat your 1st FD really careful, make sure it gets home alright and tug it in nicely tonight. Tomorrow it will have grown a bit and gotten stronger.

Karen

Hi all, I am totally absorbed in this LCHF thing – am doing it since last Tuesday now and feel very good about it. Had one more FD since then, that was last Thursday, but no FD since. Am really keen to get used to it, so I will not interrupt until this Thursday. Then I will weigh in and see whether this is something worthwhile.
It took me a while and lots of reading to work my head around the concept. Tricky to figure out how one should apply it. I didn’t want to give up control over the calories, so I had to find out how much protein, carbs, fat I need based on a calorie count that is low enough that I would lose weight in any case. Pretty amazing experience to eat all this delicious cream again! Full fat everything. hmmmmm. And totally reduced on carbs. No bread, pasta, rice, beans, sweets etc etc. It is so much easier than expected. And no cravings, well one exception: last night I added Stevia to my 10% fat yogurt. That was a mistake, the sweet taste immediately started a craving for more food. So I had a small slice of cheese and went to bed immediately to prevent any more eating 🙂
Only downside so far has been a certain lack of energy when exercising. I guess I might need to increase the carbs slightly, but that is for another week, I first want to see some good results weight loss wise.
Happy fasting, Spring. And bon appetit or whatever they say in China, Jade!
Take care, all, & have a good start into the new week.
Karen