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Thank you Meon! 3-30 and still going strong. I had a porridge in the morning (200 calories) and two yoghurts for lunch (240). I’ll have an apple in the evening and this is me done. I have to split meals, I can’t go completely nil until evening and then eat. It would be too risky for me personally.
Whatever works for you, I guess.
WillWorkForHealth, thank you!It is nice to be called an inspiration. Now i have to be strong until the end! To live up to it.
Emotional eating is tough. But then it is a terrible circle that needs to be broken one day. We feel emotional, we eat. We put on weight and we are angry and emotional and we eat. And this will be a big percentage of those who want to lose weight.
We need to break the circle to be healthier and happier. Enjoying being in control is my current coping technic.
@tanchora, very well said about emotional eating! I have gone to the freezer and gotten a tub of ice cream in a fit of being mad/hurt at my husband. I feel like this is my opportunity to really practice mindfulness and dealing with my emotions instead of stuffing them. Awesome job fasting at home – it’s REALLY hard!
@Meon – yes yes yes on not needing food. Oh how often I now find that I mindlessly snack. Great job with your mantra!
I finished the Mosley book yesterday, and I have to say that being better educated about the details of the benefits of the fast (and fasting in general) has made it easier to commit to.
Day 9 – FD. Opened with 6.5 miles on the road, 5.5 of that running 9 minute miles (*gasp!). If you had told me a month ago I could do this you could have picked up my jaw off the floor, it really feels unbelievable to be sitting here, not ravenous, feeling crazy, or dizzy.
After the run I let some mild desire to eat/hunger pass, drank water and am holding off for a very, very light lunch (salad with apples/carrots, pre-packaged) – aiming for less than 100 calories, because this evening I’m getting on an airplane and walking into a reception dinner for a wedding tomorrow and I want to (reasonably) enjoy the meal 🙂 Hence:
Day 10-13 – wedding/birthday party/weekend time – Non-fast days, and I will probably not be checking in until Monday. 🙂 Hope you all have a great weekend and rest of your week!
@jbells – good job! You can do it!
Many of here on the other side of the pond are a bit stunned from our election news. Don’t emotionally eat my friends – but do by all means find solace with company! If today is a NFD – drink some wine and take some deep breaths. Tomorrow, hold your heads high, and lets take this gracefully and move on to the next task, next thing we can *do*. By golly (inner dork coming out) we are still here. Sun is still rising in the east and will set in the west. Gravity still works. We can keep on moving forward in our world with what we can control. Be with peace.
Nov 9 FD
Micky42 and WWFH I believe in looking for positives in every situation. Over the last 2 years my personal life has been turned upside down – I won’t bore you with the details – America may benefit from this change (or it may not) but I don’t think Trump can do anything without support so the likelihood is that his influence may be small.. But this will only last 4 years, America will come through it. The UK on the otherhand has committed to a lifelong indefinite change.. however it turns out we have to permanently accept the consequences. Chin up and concentrate on what you control.. yourself..
Tanchora – Did you get through the day on your fast? I hope so.. I was thinking of you.
Wishing everyone a good day..
Nov 10 – FD
Well I survived my second FD, although when I discovered my daughter’s dance solo music was not in her costume bag tonight, and her competition is tomorrow which she needs the CD for, I had a bit of a meltdown finding it really hard to think straight with an empty stomach. I had missed my lunch break as I didn’t get relieved from yard duty (I am a teacher) and once I got home I went full on into dance comp preparation mode so I had only eaten a raw carrot at recess along with a herbal tea. I managed to get the kids fed, cook my boiled egg and then found the cd! Celebrating with a warm milo made with water now, as I was way under the 500Cal due to missing lunch.
Not a nice experience, but I find it easier to fast on busy days and having yard duty means I don’t spend lunchtime in the staff room with everyone’s meals temping me to run to the canteen and forget my fast. Looking forward to a NFD tomorrow though.
My point is to seize control of what you can ..yourself.
Well done Jaybee78, yes I can understand how being in a staff room full of other people eating and the food smells would be a huge challenge. Yard duty seems a good day to have a fast. I am lucky to be alone in an office.. nothing else to tempt me except what I allow. I am also on a farm so if I don’t bring it to work it is not available – no local shops.
Have a good day everyone . .
Hello everyone. Sorry, a bit late with reporting.
Day 9: FD. Finished successfully, was very difficult to sit at home and not eat!!!
Busy day at work today and funnily enough no time to enjoy my lunch.
Weighed myself today and I am roughly at the same point as I was after losing weight last week. Meaning that stuffing myself at the weekend pounds only disappeared by this point and I have two days to lose weight for this week. Not good! Confirming my determination to buy less treas this time.
Zumba tonight as well, which helps, as it’s a very intensive class.
Hi ladies.. is it very late to join u all? I have a note of all the FDs I have done since Nov 1. I haven’t been on the site since more than 3 months, when I was a regular, but had to leave fasting since I was expecting (but lost the baby later on). I am getting back into the hang of it still.. tough to motivate yourself after such a long gap. Your company and accountability would be great to succeed :).
Thanks WWFH! Here are my details:
Day 1 – FD
Day 2-7 – NFD
Day 8 – FD
Day 9 – NFD
Day 10 – FD
Starting weight was 72.27 kg (160 lbs), and November goal would be to lose 5 pounds.
I have started going to gym 3 days a week and try to move more throughout the day. And I weighed in 1 kg lesser today 🙂 . All the best everyone! Have a great day ahead.
Day 10 – FD
Day 11, 12, 13 – NFD
Yesterday was a hard fast day, and I really appreciate having this group to have to report back to – otherwise it definitely would have been a NFD.
Went my second run for the week this morning, one more to go, then I’ve met my goals for the week.
The NFDs this weekend will be a bit of a write off, have a hens weekend I’m at, and don’t think I will be very good at resisting wine etc…
Good luck everyone, thanks WWFH for running this 🙂
Day 10 – NFD
Did 40 mins yoga today morning. Yesterday’s FD made me very active in the night.. slept just 3 hours 🙁 . Today is going great.. not having cravings so its a YAY for me :). Great going Karlanz.. we just have to be consistent in our efforts and the results will be wonderful!! Hope we all have a wonderful day ahead (specially with food control).
Day 11 = NFD.
Good to see you here, Minimee. Very sorry for your loss. Some things are much harder to bear than others, so take care of yourself and good on you for keeping up the fight.
FD yesterday went well. Cautiously happy this morning to see that I may be breaking through my stubborn plateau. Scales back down to my lowest weight. Will try to make it to an actual and permanent loss by next week. Stay strong everyone!
Porridge in the morning, two yoghurts in the afternoon and an apple in the evening. I have to be more imaginative, I assume, would have to research the recipes or look at soups in a supermarket tonight. They should be pretty low on calories.
It got much easier a minute or so ago. My hunger’s disappeared!
Hehe.. my favorite way to curb hunger is to talk to a friend! It makes hours go away (whenever I can take out that time)! I try to limit my calories till 4-5 in the evening.. generally have around 150 calories till then, and rest 350 are remaining for evening snack/dinner. This works out best for me.. though I sometimes go up to 600 also.
Try Batchelor’s slim a soups.. around 45-55 calories per cup.. or better still.. make your own soup.. I make tomato soup in soup maker and the whole 4 cups is just 175 calories. I am a fan of corn on the cob also nowadays.. just 70-80 calories per cob and soup and corn really fills me up. Sorry for blabbering so much :).
Ok, thank you MiniMee! I might have a look at those soups.
Day 11: FD. This was difficult, I seemed to be super hungry. I don’t know whether it was triggered by super intensive zumba the night before. I even woke up feeling extremely hungry this morning, well before the alarm.
The scales showed some weight loss. Not as much as last Saturday but this will do. I am heading in the right direction!
NFDs now until Wednesday. Have a good weekend everyone!
Hi everyone
I expect it is too late to join the challenge 1/2 way through this month but I was wondering if you will continue in December? If so I would really like to join. I’m currently in another November challenge but it’s gotten far too large and im not feeling the support from it that I got in earlier months with a smaller group.
I would say good luck to you all for the rest of this month but what we all really need is good support, good planning and good intentions, we will all be lucky anyway if we have those things sorted.
Day 12 – NFD
Day 13 – FD
Congrats Micky!! Its a Sunday today but I am having an FD, since I won’t be able to have many FDs from Mon-Fri.. if I am able to I might have 4:3… has anybody done 4:3 amongst us? Have you guys looked into fast exercise promoted by Dr. Moseley? I just bought the book and would start reading it.
Lany.. I agree.. a smaller group is the best for constant support, which is very imp while getting healthier. I am sure you can join this challenge now also (I myself joined on 10th), though I would wait for WWFH or somebody else to confirm 🙂 .
Have a great day everyone!! WE CAN DO IT!!
Hello and back from the weekend. Congrats on all the successes!
Tomorrow Day 14 is a fast day. I’m still trying to figure out this whole exercise and fasting bit. I’m going to try to start the day with bulletproof coffee and see how that goes with my run.
@minimee I just clicked on the link on top for fast exercise, on the surface it goes along with the fitnessblender philosophy that longer exercise is not necessarily better. I like their strength training and HIIT workouts (and husband likes their results on me lol). And they are FREE! I like running too, so don’t do it exclusively – in fact it’s been a while… too long.
Does anyone notice problems sleeping, going or staying asleep, on fasting days?
Nov 11 -13 NFD
Nov 14 FD
Back to back FDs Meon?! Go you!
Tanchora do you find porridge makes you hungrier?
As I have lesson 2 off, when I tend to get hungry I decided to start with 1/4 cup oats made up with water and topped with a few blueberries. I thought it would get me through until lunch but it didn’t, and had to have my minuscule portion of cashews at recess time.
One large carrot for lunch (no time to open my tin of tuna) and then I caved at the lollies being passed around at the curriculum meeting this arvo. So I am having dinner early so I don’t snack on anything else. I think I might still squeeze under 500… Just a corn thin, topped with lettuce, smoked salmon and boiled egg.
J-Ray, they say fasting can interfere but I find the opposite, I just go to bed earlier to avoid food, and recharge!
Day 14 – FD
@coldpizza – it was a long weekend for me too, and I was out of town for a hens weekend to make food/drink choices even worse 🙁 suffice to say my FD yesterday was hard, I was hungry all day. Presumably because of the amount of sugar I ate over the weekend…
Once again, just being part of this group has come to the rescue, and I managed to stick to my guns. I did my third run on Sunday, even with being away, so I did meet my goals last week. Now to try and do it this week, which has the actual wedding in it (essentially a four day event – eek).
Best wishes to everyone 🙂
Day 10-13 NFD
Day 14: FD
Today is going OK so far, decided for a 35 minute strength training workout (including warmup and cooldown) since I did a hard 3.5 miles yesterday evening. Started the day with a modified bulletproof coffee, probably around 100 calories, with coconut oil, which is supposedly reported to provide readily available ketones and get you into fat burning mode. Who knows; I’m feeling a bit hungry (like I finally burned through my glycogen stores) but want to hold off the bulk of calories for the chili I have in the slow cooker. Today is a home day so I’ll probably clean my house like crazy to stay busy while I smell the good smells!
@wwfh, I think there may be an error on the spreadsheet, someone is listed as having 5 FD in a row, way more hardcore than needing to be here lol.
To all who feel like they overdid it over the weekend, it’s ok! That’s exactly how the program works. Studies find fasting people eat about 10-15% more on NFD, not the 175% needed to make up for the restricted calories on FD. There is freedom we get to enjoy guilt free through the discipline of following the program just a couple days per week.
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