Hello and welcome, wishing you every success in your journey xx

Hey KatKat! The very best of luck to you!!! You sound positive already ! Just remember us guys are here if you need a bit of support! X

So you should KitKat!
You sound so positive and seem to be managing you fast day well. If your tummy rumbles tonight – ignore it. Something good is happening inside is all 🙂
Having a family to feed to is a trial but I just give my husband whatever I am eating on fast days plus a jacket potato or some pasta.
Keep up the momentum!

Good luck. Decided to fast today instead of tomorrow – do like the flexibility of this plan – after an enjoyable guilt free pizza/wine weekend!

Hey Katkat,

Where are you?
I like reading your posts!

I got weighed today, even though I said I would not until my 1st goal of October 19th however, after measuring myself yesterday and putting the figures into a uk ‘dress size calculator’ I was feeling a little down.
So, although extremely behind on my Biological Psychology Assignment (and it being my only day off) I trotted (well, drove actually) five miles to the nearest talking weighing machine. Emptying my purse and only finding a button and a bit of fabric (a swatch from curtains put up weeks ago in the quest to finding matching accessories, rather than have to shop for clothes!!)I then had to search for a cash machine. By now my head was telling me that it is an omen and I shouldn’t step on the scales! I ignored the little voices and ten mins later, armed with a ten pound note, I purchased a packet of soluble paracetamols (had a headache since I started the diet), in order to get the required change (70p!!!!).
I stepped on the scales whilst mentally counting the many pounds my clothes could weigh, even though I wore the same thing last Thursday. I clutched the fat handles with eyes closed (at this point I need to explain the handles measuring my fat content, on the machine and not the ones currently bulging over the waistband of my jeans – though its not too bad if I breathe in!). The flashing lights of the machine measuring my height, to me, seem’d to be drawing attention to the fact that I was getting weighed, therefore not happy with my self image, therefore a source to be pitied by the passing crowd! I gingerly turned round, there were no crowds pointing at the overweight middle aged woman on the scales, just me and my soluble paracetamols.
The lights stopped and I entered my details, wondering if the result would be more favourable if I entered a different age or height! After a few clicks and ticks and a posh lady telling me to step off the scale, it was time. The wait was rather like being outside a photo booth, waiting for passport photos you know are going to be painful no matter how many times you brush your hair, which lipstick you chose to wear or whether you breath in or not!
The ticket in my hand I prolonged the agony by waiting until I got into the safety of my own car. No matter how you feel or what you are doing, your car is the comfort blanket protecting you from the outside. I opened the crumpled ticket to which I was clutching, eyes slightly shut I peered at the myriad of numbers. After breath in and a retake, there it was in black and white…I had lost 10lbs since last Thursday! I fumbled for last weeks ticket to check I wasn’t mistaken, I wasn’t….I wanted to shout out of the car window, though cowardly settled for texting my mum instead! Smile on my face, I drove to Sainsburys and got my cholesterol checked (for free). HLD’s plus LDL’s came to 5, another bonus though I naughtily didn’t cop on that I’d fasted yesterday and hadn’t eaten breakfast, but still a good result.
Wow, wow, wow. I can do this! I can be in control of what I eat and when. I can lose weight without feeling like I am thinking about food all day long! …and so can you! My next plan is to get this blooming assignment in and join a gym. I do no exercise at all (since I started a spare time degree) therefore I always have a assignment as an excuse. However, since starting this diet I feel like I do have more energy so maybe I can squeeze an hour here and there to give my body the exercise it deserves.
So a big, Well done everybody and keep going and good luck to those who are just starting out. I can’t describe how I am feeling though for those who aren’t so new to this, I’m guessing you already know. Yipeeeeee.x

Really enjoyed reading your post – I was dying to get to the part where you read the ticket 🙂 and what an amazing weight loss you had. Well done you! It is so motivating!

I am relatively new too – in week 3 – and I have lost 5.5lb so far.

The fast days have definitely got easier – I have done 6 so far and decided to add a sneaky extra fast day today (already done Mon/Weds this week) as I am going on holiday quite soon. I actually didn’t plan to – but wasn’t massively hungry when I got up and didn’t eat straightaway and I then became so engrossed in work that I realised it was afternoon and thought that I’d continue to fast until my evening meal. I can’t imagine that happening in the first couple of weeks so I am definitely making progress!

Enjoy your birthday meal Beth5