Well, first weigh in today and 2lbs down, I’m chuffed!

I haven’t counted calories on non-fast days, but I have been aware of what I’m eating. I really don’t want to have to go down the road of logging every piece of food I put in my mouth if I can avoid it, this is one of the attractions of this diet for me. I will do that if needs be, but as a long time dieter I’m pretty aware of what’s what anyway.

We ate out Friday night, 3 courses (quite a posh place though so teensy portions haha!), then pizza express on Saturday, where I had a very lovely bosco salad. I’m not kidding myself that salad was low cal, it had mozzarella, garlic mushrooms and bread sticks with it but it was very yummy, and a hell of a lot better than having a pizza.

All in all I’m very happy 🙂

Fast day today, good luck to all you fellow fasters, and I hope you all have a fabulous week 🙂

Kits x

Thanks for the support Angie and Monkeyslim, it really helps! I got the Fast Exercise book today too and as I’m on my own in the office I got my exercise on too 😉

Fast day again tomorrow, weirdly kind of looking forward to it, it’s sort of empowering!!

xx

I can’t count, obviously. Yesterday was fast day number 5 not 6! Ah well, it’s over. For some reason at the end of each fast day I feel guilty, like I cheated, even though I haven’t, I’m not sure why! I’m careful with protein portions, I don’t weigh the salad but I have a good idea of portion sizes and I over estimate (probably by quite a lot) so I should come in under my calorie allowance. The scales have been moving down anyway, and I *feel* like stuff is fitting better too. One of the pairs of jeans that I bought in the States in Jan I can now get off without undoing them /does a little happy dance. Sooo, not sure what the guilt is all about but hey ho! We will see what the weigh in says on Thursday morning 🙂

Have a great day, fasters and non fasters alike 🙂

Kits x

Thanks monkeyslim 🙂

22lbs is fabulous! I’m fasting again today, feeling good so far, I have on the other pair of jeans that I bought in the States in january today, they were a bit on the tight side too and now they are falling down, hurray! So I will weigh in tomorrow but I’m not going to worry too much if the scales haven’t moved, I can FEEL the changes so that’s the main thing!
No guilt so far today but then I haven’t eaten anything yet, so far, hot water and lemon before walking the pooch at 6:30am, several coffees, 2 with skimmed milk, one black, and a berocca. I’m feeling good 🙂

Let me know how your weigh-in goes tomorrow!

Kits x

Sooooo… long weekend is over (boo!), but, I’m weirdly happy to be on my fast day again, I usually do Monday’s so I kind of missed it yesterday! I haven’t been excessive with what I’ve eaten over the weekend, my lovely husband did all the cooking (yay!) so everything was fresh and cooked from scratch, had a bit of chocolate, and baked kladdkaka (swedish chocolate cake, first time I’ve made this and oh my goodness it’s GOOD!), and banana bread and had some of both, but I don’t feel like I really over indulged over the four days. We’ll see after weigh-in (Friday this week as I’m now a day behind with fast days).

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend 🙂

Kits x

Aaaaand fast number 8 today, it’s 14:30 and no food yet, not in the slightest big hungry and also not in a horrible mood like on Tuesday!

I started running again last night, 2 miles on the treadmill, and I’m walking the dog for around an hour every morning as well as the short walk in the evening and am feeling positive and inspired to exercise more 🙂 I entered the ballot for next year’s London Marathon yesterday (wish me luck, I won’t find out until October if I’m successful though!), for the second year in a row (wasn’t successful last year), which gives me another goal. I’m not a natural runner but I’ve always, always wanted to complete the London Marathon. Is anyone here a keen runner?

Whether fasting or not, I hope you all have a fabulous day 🙂

Kits x

Good morning lovely fasters (and also of course, to those of you who have different fast days to me!).

Thanks ushush, only just seen this sorry for slow reply! How did your fast day go?

Fast day number 9 today, I can’t believe how quickly it’s going actually!

I didn’t weigh myself last week, I’m not quite sure why not, I used to be a serial weigher, and would weigh myself every day when on Cambridge. I think I will weigh myself on Thursday morning this week, once I have my 2 fasts completed.

I’m definitely finding not eating until the evening the easiest way to do this, I think once you’ve set your mind on that your body kind of goes ‘oh ok then’ and doesn’t really bother you all day 🙂 I drink loads, water, tea, herbal tea, coffee, sometimes a coke zero (but only one of those because of all the stuff I’ve read recently about the sweeteners they use in those and diet coke), I start the day with hot water and lemon, then when I get to work I have coffee with skimmed milk and a Berocca (tropical today, how exotic 😛 ), then various as above. Tea I always have black anyway, coffee I have sometimes black, sometimes with skimmed milk. I don’t measure the milk, as I don’t eat all day I find that whatever I have in the evening gives me plenty of spare allowance into which I know the milk will fit, skimmed milk is so low in kcal anyway. I also treat myself to an oxo drink mid afternoon 🙂 I also have stopped being exact about calorie counting for my evening meal. I usually go for something like chicken breast with salad dressed with a little olive oil and lemon and well seasoned, or some grilled veg like aubergine and courgette, again well seasoned. Omnomnom… and I know that having not eaten all day, I don’t need to count every last calorie for that evening meal. Happy days, I hate counting calories haha 😛 So far this is working well for me, obviously, if I find I am putting on weight, or plateauing for several weeks then I will go back to basics and count properly.

I got another run in yesterday, 2.2 miles, felt good 🙂 I’ve entered a little 5k race for life coming up in June, as well as a Zombie Survival Race in November (so excited for that one!), and I’m hoping to do some in between too, maybe a 10k after the 5k, fingers crossed 🙂

So I hope all of you that are fasting today have a fabulous fast, and to those of you that are not, have a great day also!

Kits xx

Thanks for the support lovelies, feeling better now so I should be good until dinner time 🙂

Kits x

Yes Usush 🙂 I went through the weighing every day thing when I did Cambridge though, I think whatever works for you at the time is good 🙂

We are all different I think, and have different ways of dealing with things like this 🙂 I’ve been at both ends of the scale and varying degrees in between. Fortnightly is fine at the moment but I may end up monthly like Maja. Today I put on two different pairs of trousers for work, both were way too big, so things like this give me a good indication too 🙂 Guess however I was feeling yesterday (fat!), changes are still happening 🙂

And my poached eggs and tiger bread last night were heavenly 🙂

Have a great day all!

Weeee fast day number 14, can’t believe I’ve been doing this for 7 weeks…!

Well, today is my first fast day that I have started the day with exercise, just a nice job around the village with my dog, and it’s a beautiful morning too. I’m a little worried this will make me more likely to get hungry earlier, although no signs of this yet. Also, I have not had a coffee yet…. this may not sound like a big deal but usually by now I’ve had at least 2. Right now I have a berrocca and a cup of raspberry and echinacea tea. Can’t remember the last time I didn’t want a coffee first thing… oh well!

Elan, thanks for posting! 🙂 Don’t be nervous, we’re a friendly bunch 🙂 Sounds like you’re doing really well, I’m glad the sleeping has settled down for you, I have to admit, it’s not something I’ve had a problem with, in fact I’m always soooo keen to get to bed on a fast day haha! Keep us updated with how you are doing 🙂

Have a fabulous day all, whether you are fasting or not, whether you are weighing yourself, once, twice, not at all or every half an hour, it’s all good 🙂

Kits