Lesley – eating 700-800 as your evening meal will make you store some of that as fat… The goal is to eat 400 or 500 cal. In that way the whole day is still somewhat of a fast.

Nothing much was happening in the Ashes cricket, so I had time to report the commercial post 🙂

Couscous,
I got an email telling me post had been deleted – bad internet peddlers!
Good luck to you too – keep away from me on fast days, as I might accidentally eat you 🙂

It does appear to me that at some point – might not be at the point where the body is really lean – “something” happens where the body fixes on a weight.
It might be that there is less energy and so less exercise effort is made, possibly without perceiving this.
Or maybe calorie counting is not as careful or conscientious as it could be.
I’ve spent 4 weeks being 100% zero cal strict on fast days and I was managing to up my exercise, but something took over my will about 8 days ago and I got lazy for 4 days – back on track now – anyway, my point – the last 4 weeks being ever so strict had a small effect – my weight is down about 3-4 pounds – but the effort is practically at the point where it is effecting life happiness – not quite there and with the really slow progress it is going to take real concentration to persevere.
I just got an electric abs belt (sit ups/crunches not compatible with dodgy back) and so created an exercise schedule calendar to do a 30 day plan (I did not know until just now that you can have multiple Google calendars – nice!) – not good entering an exercise reminder for xmas day! But at least I’ve recorded what I need to do, less easy to denially ignore.
Everyone is different (this post is not a criticism of anyone but myself), but for me, every time I say that I’ve plateaud and there is nothing more I can do, I am basically wrong – as soon as I discover where I’ve been complacent then positive effects do occur.