Happy Friday!
I made it through the week with 2 good fasting days…and today, doing a partial fast.

Welcome, BigK! The plan does allow 600 cal. for your fasting day…I personally, decided that it was better for me to have nothing on fasting days…because I have a problem with moderation. But I have to say, that is getting better after being on the plan for a few weeks.

Way to go! on you fasting day, Karen and Alisa.

Have a great weekend everyone….moderation!

Morning everyone and welcome to our new member. Nice to see you back SlimMedown and well done on saving some calories by trying 16:8, I’ve heard alot of people doing well doing that too.

Ratatouille, I think (fingers crossed) I’ve managed to avoid a full blown cold and I think it’s because I’ve been using Vicks 1st response. It’s great stuff for warding off a cold and has only failed me a couple of times in the past so I’ll be using it all weekend and hope nothing appears.

Ailsa, I hardly ever eat breakfast and can quite happily go until lunchtime before I eat, in fact I’ve found if I eat early on it just stimulates my appetite and I end up binging on rubbish so it’s best I just stick to just drinks in the mornings.

I can report the lb I put on has melted away by this morning so I’m going for a low cal day today and hope I can melt another one away by tomorrow.

Well I’ll get off and take my dog for his walk so hope everyone has a great weekend xx

Whoa, well my evening is not over yet, but I do believe that I have just eaten too much (a lot), but it has not been a binge. I ate too much of good tasting food. I did not inhale everything in my kitchen. Hopefully I can make the next few hours till bed time without going down that path.

Hi everyone

Ratatouille I hope you managed to hold out till bedtime last night without bingeing.

I weighed in at a slight loss this morning, the lowest weight I’ve been since my dad died in October so I’m more than happy with that. I know this weight is a sticking point for me but when I get below it I’m probably fine until I reach another sticking point about 3 or 4 lbs down the line. Today is an eat day again but I’m trying to hold out eating much until my tea later. I’ve had 2 clementines (they were needing eaten before they dried up too much) and 2 cups of tea and a latte and my tea will be some nice sausages with mashed potato and baked beans.Tomorrow will be a fast day and this week I’m determined to complete 2 fasts instead of just the one and hopefully another bit of fat will melt away by next week.

Have a good Sunday xx

Good Monday morning here.
Floridagirl, Karen – I too am making this a fast day. I look forward to posting about mine and reading about yours tomorrow.

Alisa, sending you positive energy 🙂 about the 1200 calories a day on NFDs.

On Saturday I did overeat. Wow, believe it or not this is ok for me. Ideally don’t want to do that, but, most importantly to me is that I did not binge eat. I overate. I had too much good, delicious food, but did not continue on eating anything/everything else in my home. This is a good change in behaviour for me.

Bye for now.

Good evening!
Congratulations to Monday FD people! It is over!
Tomorrow is my fasting day.
I did fine today eating 1200 cal, went to cycle/strength class in the morning, busy day at work – all good.
Regards

Greetings from Florida….
NFD for me.

Karen it sounds like you and I had the same kind of day…I was ok, ’til I got home…at least I kept it to just 2 pieces of cheese. Good luck, today, keeping it where you want it.

Alisa…sounds like you had a good Monday. Good luck with your fasting today.

Until tomorrow….

Hello, all
Fasting today, just had my 180 cal lunch.
Karen and Floridagirl, the ‘coming back home’ moment is a trigger for me to eat. I hate it, I need lot of willpower to catch myself, many times I cannot. Ratatouille suggested to go to this blog and write/read as a distraction – I use this suggestion.
I felt hungry this morning, eating 1200 cal on Monday, but the hunger went away after yoga class – yoga does suppress the appetite for me.
Have a good day

Hi,

I found this while researching the fasting diet. This is my first week on it. I did a little under 500 cals yesterday, so I’m eating normal today. I usually have an issue with wanting to snack on the weekends. I can stick to a healthy diet during the week, while I’m at work. I lost 28 lbs since the summer, but I’ve plateaued. I’ve been very inconsistent with my diet and exercising the last couple of months. I’m going to Disney World in October and want to lose 60 more lbs by then. I’m going to try to do 3 days on fast, but at least the 2. I go to the gym Monday, Wednesday & Thursday and try to work out 1 or 2 days at home. I’m going to wait 2 weeks before I weigh myself. I need to get out of the habit of wanting to snack all day long on the weekends. I’m hoping this will work.

Good day to all.
Eat day today for me! Yesterday’s fast was usual-540 cal.
I am doing well so far with the plan to eat 1200 cal.
Cheese, potato chips, crackers are not my weakness, I would not be tempted at all. sorry, ratatouille, I would take your debate ‘to eat or not to eat’ because it would be easy for me to make it strong – not to eat. If I could.
Hello, Kim- our bodies reactions are so not logical, I think.
Floridagirl- is not much left of your FD – keep it fast;-)
Regards

Good morning all
Karen- I want your scale! Very happy for your downfall progress! I do not want see my scale, will weigh in in the end of February. I am fasting too today, your fast is half way done ( time difference) i just had breakfast.
The weather is crazy in Virginia. yesterday was a summer like day – sunny +24 C, today cold – +4
Ok, going to work now..

Hi,

Question to everyone who has been doing this awhile. On your fast day, do you eat nothing or stick to the 500 calories? Do you eat most of it in 1 meal, or do spread it out a little. What do you find most successful? Right now, I eat breakfast and then a small snack at lunch. Granted, I’ve only fasted the one day. I’m fasting again on Friday.

Karen, great news about the nudge downwards on the scale. I too seem to only want to do one fast day a week. I am trying to reconnect with hunger and fullness feelings and being able to listen to my body regarding food. My eating had been so skewed and erratic for so long prior to this(!).

Alisa, burrrrrr! I find those kind of temperature swings are hard on the body. Stay focused and think 5X!

Floridagirl hunger on a non fast day is not good. I hope that managed to satisfy it and then continue on in your day.

Kim, if you read different threads in the forums on this site you will see a lot of people do different things on Fast Days. I think that the book says eat 500 calories or a quarter of your TDEE (not sure which). I know some people eat nothing, others do back to back fast days etc etc. On my fast day I eat a boiled egg in the morning and I do not eat until dinner time. That works for me.

I did indeed have a good nfd yesterday after a binge the day before. Thank you for your support! I am rather proud of myself because it was an unstructured day for me food wise (that is normally when I can go off the rails). I wound up having a very late lunch mid afternoon in a patisserie with a friend. I had a wonderful bagette with a generous portion of ham and cheese. Now, I could not assign an “accurate” caloric value to it. This would normally not be a good thing for me and cause me to continue to slide food wise in the evening (because I am so all or nothing with food), but instead, I told myself “ok, this is going to count as 800 calories (??) and I am going to continue tracking on My Fitness Pal for the rest of the day. And, I DID! I came in just at my tdee. Hurray.

have an excellent day

Good Friday morning!
My second F-day yesterday was usual – 540 cal – done!
I am eating my favorite breakfast now, the cycle/strength class was very good! It is very cold -6C.
I planned 1200 cal total meals in the MyFitnessPal. Breakfast was 300 cal.
The app asked me this morning to enter weight because the last entry was two weeks ago. I did, the number was ok, about the same, not closer to my goal for this month.
Have a good healthy day

Hi,

2nd day on my fast this week. Had 460 Cal for breakfast & drinking a couple cups of coffee today with cream, so thinking about 560 total cals. We’ll see how this weekend goes. I love to over eat and snack when I’m bored.

Morning everyone from a very cold and wet North East of England.

Ratatouille, I just want to offer my support and hope your fast went ok yesterday or if not, that you didn’t binge. If it’s any consolation I had a teeny tiny one last night after a good day, 2 bags of crisps and some biscuits but I’m back to being good again today so we’ll see how that goes.

SlimMedown, how are you doing?I hope you put your binge behind you, moved on and got back on the train. You can do this.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Karen x

Hello from very confusing Virginia!
Yesterday we had -6C, tomorrow will be +25C.
I had a very nice dinner last night with my husband and had some wine and cheese – enjoyed. That was over my planned 1200 cal. The work part of the day was a bit stressful – all the problems and issues came at the same time. I usually loose my cool and get anxious trying to decide what to do first.
My cycling class was great this morning and I just had lunch. There is a new exhibition in the art museum – we will go there today. Our art museum is a great place to spand time.
I am wondering what hobbies people have?
Talk to you soon

Ratatouille, it sounds like we are ‘enjoying’ similar weather from both sides of the pond! it’s rained all day in my part of the UK but I suppose I should be thankful I’m not getting the snow other parts of the Country are having. Yay, on completing your fast day, you’re back on the train and going well 🙂

Alisa what on earth is your weather doing, is it Virginia in the US you live? So, my hobbies are, reading, writing to penpals, travelling to other parts of the world when I get a chance and walking my dog (a Cocker Spaniel) Harvey. I suppose walking the dog isn’t really classed as a hobby because he needs walked anyway but when the weather’s good I really enjoy it and it’s good exercise. Last year I attempted couch25k. Basically it’s a running programme for complete couch potatoes to work up to running 5km (just over 3 miles). I was just about to finish the programme and only had the last run to do when I hurt my knee running across the park (it took weeks to get better) and since then I’m afraid I’ve not done much at all. My dad was also ill last year and died in October so my head hasn’t been in the right place to start it again. I’m feeling a bit better about things now though and might just get my treadmill out and finish that programme at last.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekends x

Greetings.

Hmm. My hobbies? Well, up until 6 years ago it was hiking in the mountains and doing handwork (needlework, knitting) and travelling. Then I had a forced career change and my desire to make things became my job (yippee! but a lot of time and focus). I also now get to travel for my job. So, all day I work at my hobby and at night I take it easy.

The first few years of starting my business were exhausting and I looked after myself by looking after my business – at the cost of my physical well being. Serious overconsumption of food was my reward at night, at home, and on the way home from work. This year my business goal is to achieve a certain amount of sales and to do more physical self-care. I am off to a decent start.

Have a good day everyone. We can do this.

Happy Monday…I hope that everyone had a delightful weekend. 🙂
FD today.

Ratatouille, good job completing that fasting day!

Alisa – hobbies…unfortunately, I love to cook, love to try new recipes, love to feed people. Just trying to do it now with healthier recipes. I also enjoy reading. Living in Florida, my hubby and I love to spend time on the water, boating and fishing. We actually have our house for sale, so that we can move closer to the water. Once we move, I may try my hand at some new hobbies, I am actually thinking about getting a few chickens and doing some gardening!

Have a pleasant Monday, everyone.

Happy <3 Day!
NFD

My fasting day went well…how about you?
I did bring a small piece of chocolate for lunch today. 🙂

Good morning, happy Valentine’s Day !
Thank you for sharing your hobbies, I enjoyed reading.
Things I like are: my work, I keep trying to be better at it, taking classes, reading… I practice yoga and take cycling classes; love cactuses, have few of them. It would be nice gardening but summers in Virginia are hot and humid, I cannot stand humidity. My husband and I have been traveling a lot, we visit art museum, concerts…
Today is my F-day, I am eating the same raw bars.
I read that keeping a journal helps with weight control. My journal is boring- I try to do/eat the same things, so it is just the same entries on and on.
Does anyone have a successful helpful diary?
Regards