Haha – it’s worth it Dave.

Have a look at what you’re eating on your fastdays from now on. I think Michael Mosely started off the trend of people having breakfasts on fastdays because it worked for him in the documentary but I’ve never found eating early on a fastday to be helpful AT ALL. If you have something carb-heavy like cornflakes or even porridge then you’re setting yourself up for hunger later on.

You’ll learn pretty quickly that it’s not ‘really’ hunger and break your body of the ‘pangs’ but you’ll still WANT food quicker if you eat lots of carbs on ANY day, so toast or sugar puffs on a fastday morning are a huge no-no. If you really MUST have breakfast have something really protein heavy and wait as long as you can before you eat again.

My personal recommendation is to dump breakfast completely. Tough it out with just water for as long as you possibly can. Have something filling but low cal (porridge or soup) if you need it for lunch and then a more substantial late meal. AVOID carbs as much as you can. You CAN eat them if you WANT to but you’ll pay for it in the necessity for extra willpower when you get the ‘carb-munchies’ an hour after you’ve eaten.