Mmmm, maybe.
Although i don’t drink or smoke., gave up sugar and potato chips for 3 mths and realised I use to go ‘ which choc bar shall I get’ while in line at the supermarket and once I wasn’t on sugar, couldn’t think that anymore and now I don’t do that ( now I’m on sugar again. But I have to be careful. Why have one piece of cake when I can have the whole cake? I don’t seem to have any limits!!)
I don’t drink tea or coffee, cos I don’t want to use it to ‘ wake me up’ etc

I want to live in a way where I am in control of the food and not the food controlling me.
A handful of crisps…not the whole bag

I started back doing no sugar or wheat 2 days a week, for a couple weeks then found 5:2 via my sister who had great success on it ( she is in the uk) so read the book. Watched the program which was in nz in October and decided this might be better for losing some more weight ( lost 6 kilos since April, bmi now 27 so need to drop more )
And also for the health benefits, seeing I already don’t drink anything really bad…ie fizzy drinks, diet or otherwise, I’m a water girl and the odd hot choc

But I will think about what you said and see if I eat for any other reason than it is there, or I’m bored.
I had a habit of getting up and eating when an ad came on. I realised after a few months..that’s not good!

We eat cos we are bored, sad, happy, lonely etc.
that’s more me…emotional eater. But not hugely…more, I like the party in my mouth and every opportunity, I WILl TAKe IT!!

But mums apple pie, or grams sponge, doesn’t make me pine for the food, but I can see how it would for some. It ‘ makes you feel love’

I love eating as a social thing though. Nothing better.
But I’m not a binge secret eater….

Hurray.

If I was, that is a hard thing to fix.

Thanks for your thoughts though…interesting.

I’m an all day grazer and dont like to “.Feel hungry”
But I have since been following this website ( blog) she is an Aussie who lived in France and recommends we follow the French. Eat 3 meals, eat when hungry, stop when satisfied.
Obviously they all smoke..so don’t do that! But eat sitting down not at the kitchen sink.

I love her thinking and I agree , it is the way to go…and I mostly try that, but some days..man. Watch out, if it is moving, I’m going to grab it!

http://sallyasher.com

Another lady is cyndi omeara who is an Aussie who is absolutely the best re food
http://Www.changinghabits.com.au

She says eat food your grandmother recognizes. If you can’t pronounce the ingredients, don’t put it in your mouth
Don’t eat marg, as made in a factory..eat butter, made in nature etc.

So with those 2 ladies as my gurus and now this lifestyle, fasting for health reasons, I should be set forever!!

I agree re I don’t want to blow it after a fast day and I am now much more mindful of what goes in my gob.
I am slipping re grazing. I need to rein that in and just eat if it is a meal time and I’m hungry.
If not hungry, then wait.
Don’t just eat cos it is there.

By all means, take the cake from morning tea home and have it after your lunch, don’t just have it ‘ cos it is there and you aren’t hungry and it is not lunchtime or dinner time’
If it is 3 pm, grab a donut, but take it home and have as a dessert after a well balanced meal.

Sure some days, that’s not going to happen, but 80% of your body is made in the kitchen 20% is polished at the gym.

So eat whatever you like, only if it is a meal time , you are sitting down mindfully and enjoying it ( like the French) and stop when satisfied not bloated.

How easy is that…NoT!

Yes, if it was easy we would all be bmi of 19!

When I went off sugar, the amount of stuff I said no too..I cried. So sometimes brought it home and froze it for when I started eating again.
I had 10000 things lined up on October 11!

Anyway, I then got the runs, sciatica and decided binging after 3 mths is not a good thing and I tried 3 mths no sugar, so I would then be able to control myself around sweet stuff.
At least his way , 2 days a week I do!
The other 5 I need to work on.
Maybe we can do it together?

We are allowed one sugar item a day on the 5 ‘ healthy’ days.
I’m going away in 2 weeks and I can’t do 500 cals, but I’m doing 2 days no wheat or sugar.
So you want to try 5 days 1 palm sized treat?

So that’s one biscuit..not 5 stacked up. Not one whole packet..but one item.

And only one ‘ treat’ a day. Like the French would do ( although croissants are not sugar. Only wheat so when I am in France..they don’t count, but the choc au pain do!)

So choose wisely!

I’m tending to have 2 bowls ice cream, cos I was ‘ fasting yesterday’
Then 3 biscuits..and then some potato chips.

But if I just have one of those things …my fasts will be beneficial!

I don’t count calories on non fast days and won’t ever. I don’t even care what my calorie intake should be.
I care about if it is natural.
Ie full fat Greek yoghurt and not “low fat” cheap full of sugar yo plait etc .
But I do want to care about my grazing habits. They are sabotaging anything good I am trying to do.

We eat as a family each night around the table.
Breakfast is together..but at the breakfast bar in shifts.
Lunch I’m alone usually..with the dog.
I have breakfast then..as not hungry till about 11 ish.

Anyway, want to try?
2 days fasting, sugar really isn’t an option.
And 5 healthy days, one treat. ( and if more than one treat wanted, we freeze it for the next days… So we ain’t missing out, just spacing our binging!)

You could always say, I’ll pop it in the fridge for lunch tomorrow.

See, not wasted. We can move on from the starving African babies that we were threatened with as kids this way.
Not feel ‘ guilt’ for not finishing every last morsel…(or no dessert.)

Just pop it away for another time.

Yum!

Can I live with you?

Yes!!!! Please do!!!

Do you find that the second day after a fast day you weigh less than just after?
Ie fasted Monday, lighter Wednesday than Tuesday, then I fasted Wednesday, and I had dropped a little Thursday but today, Friday I’m 400 grams less ….so my weight for 2 weeks and one day fasting is now 1.8 kilos off, whereas at 2 weeks it was 1.4

So I think I m liking this extra loss after a binge day!!

5. Out of 7 truffles were in my gob…..by 2.10pm.

2 are in the freezer, but not for much longer !!!

Back on the fast day tomorrow though, so best to get rid of them now…don’t you think?!! Ha ha

Enjoy your yummy 500 cal meal tonight, 🙂 those truffles were 500 cals each

See other thread re rant about tdee

My cals are probably 4000 a day, cos a whole packet of toffee pops are 2,600!!

Ok, so not following any calorie restriction on the other 5 days and in 3 weeks ( Halloween was my first fast day)
84.7 kilos…down to 82.7
Whoaaoo

In April I was 89.5

It’s so much better to be 7 kilos ( nearly) lighter.
I wonder where my body weight will end up?

My muffin belly has shrunk. Now it doesn’t stick out further than my stomach!! My knickers don’t hang under it. It’s all nearly flat there…well, flat as in size 14 flat. Not size 18 anymore.

Whoaaoo

Bring on my trip,
Watch me walk..and shrink and move a lot more than I do at home! ( tv and Internet. But both can be done lying down)

Absoluuuooooomont