Hi Suzy
The bok has lots of meals of a few hundred calories, but try just doing water. Lots of us do, and for me its easier than agonising over calories or meals. I go from after dinner on day 1 to lunch on day 3, so works out at about 40 hours. Sounds scary but without the stimulus of lots of little meals it’s actually easy.
But don’t wait until there is something appropriate in the fridge – boil an egg and have a bit of salad – just do it

Hi again Suzy
I guess I do it because I can. It feels comfortable for me, I cook dinner for my husband and sit while he has dinner and wine and just drink water. Maybe its a self power thing but I actually enjoy it and feel energised. I either swim 3km or do an hour on the crosstrainer at the gym 5 mornings a week. I do the 40 hours once a week and 3 other days fast from after dinner until dinner the next day (but normal weekends).
I’m 63 and have gone from 90.8kg to 73kg since February. And I’ve lost 23cm off my waist!
But the main thing with this diet is what suits YOU.
Good luck

Hey Suzy, and Ni Hao from Hangzhou! I’ll actually be visiting Hong Kong this weekend to make use of the second entry on my visa 😉 I’m not an expat really, just following an internship here before moving on to New Zealand in January for study. Then it’s back home to have one more year to finish my Bachelor (I’m 22 by the way).

I think the best advice I can give is just start. The first weeks you’ll most likely be trying out stuff to see what works for you. Personally I think having longer periods of fasting are very helpful and important for weightloss, as you force your body to burn fat instead of sugar (as there’s no carbs in your system but there still is body fat). I eat one meal a day, so I do daily 24 hour fasts. On fast days I guess this amounts to a 48 hour fast, if you don’t count the 0-500 cals I eat in the evening on my fast day since they have no carbs at all and my body will still have to burn fat to have energy.
It took me a while to adapt to this lifestyle however, I think diving headfirst into stuff other people built up over a longer period isn’t smart and you’ll just have to find out what works for you. Experiment, see how long you can do without food, set small goals. Start with a 12 hour fast (which isn’t long if you just count your sleeping hours), then try 14, then 16 etc.

There’s no specific place to enter them, you can just put them here as a way to keep your own progress and share it with people. Although I do think adding some sort of tracking system to the profiles wouldn’t be a bad thing… x)

I think you should just eat your salmon and carrots, you’d have to eat a huge load of them to go well above 400 calories. Just make sure you have more carrots than salmon 😉