Started today, Am I doing it right?

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apantoja

3:46 pm
15 Jun 15
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Hi,
My last proper meal was at 7pm last night and I had a snack (~300 cal) at about 10:30pm.

Today is my 1st fast day and I have eaten 64 calories so far:
1 coffe/milk = 16 calories at 10am
Salad = 27 calories at 1pm
1 coffee/milk = 16 calories at 4pm

I’m planning to eat about 440 calories tonight at about 8pm. Go to bed and then have a normal breakfast tomorrow at 9 or 10am.

Is this OK ? Is this nearly 36 hours of fasting? A colleague here suggested me to have a small breakfast and small lunch and nothing at night during fast days but I’m a night person and dinner is usually the bigger meal of the day for me. I don’t want to go to bed with an empty stomach, so I’d prefer to leave at least 300 calories to eat at night.

What do you think?

krishna

4:42 am
16 Jun 15
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There are two ways in which you can have this fast.

1) Do a straight uninterrupted fast without taking anything in between. This is supposedly more efficient and a complete fast. In this, after your 10pm last snack, wait till next day 10pm (24 hours) and then take something or wait till the next day morning (36 hours) and have your breakfast. From your reading I could hardly sense 11.5 hours of fast (in the night).

2) Second way is to not count for the fast time and just concentrate on the number of calories consumed (either at one shot or all through the day), which is what you’re doing here.

Personally I follow the 2nd option and have had a good weight loss of around 3-4 kgs/month.

MaryAnn

6:07 am
16 Jun 15
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It sounds right to me! Some people take even fewer calories during the day and save it all until dinner, but I think you should just do what you are comfortable with. I eat a soft-boiled egg for breakfast every fast day, for example, and lost plenty of weight.