Hello Anyone who has landed here!

I’ll be blunt – I’m not writing this journal for you, I’m writing it for me and this is a convenient place to do it!

Having said that, I’m genuinely not trying to discourage interaction but what I will say is that my thoughts may wander a bit in these posts, however, should I truly want some advice, I will ask for it in other parts of the forum 🙂

So I’ve just done my first day’s fast.

An interesting observation – I’ve often gone from 7pm Friday to 7pm Saturday without eating (because of the nature of what I do on Saturday) but because I was deliberately fasting, I felt more hungry today!

The human mind at it’s greatest – what we resist, persists!

So anyway, I had 295 calories in the form of a diet protein shake (USN Ultra Lean Diet Fuel in case you are wondering) with 30g of raw oats in it.

I waited until hunger was upon me to have this rather than trying to pre-empt it. I’d been mildly hungry prior to this but decided to wait until I felt it necessary.

Um… fess up Steve – it wasn’t 24 hours now, was it?

No it wasn’t, it was 22 hours without food, but I generally have a couple of cans of cider on a Saturday evening on my way home from seeing my son, so whilst I only had the shake through the day, I still ingested alcohol calories before the 24hrs were up.

How are you going to deal with that next week Steve?

I’m going to start the 24hrs earlier on Friday.

OK – good – I’m glad we’ve got that sorted!

Saturdays are kind of easy because I’m running around after the littlun most od the day and also beneficial because it’s probably the day that I expend most calories (by running around after the littlun) so I kinda feel like I’ve cheated a bit – I slept a lot of the fast and I was busy for another large part of it.

Tuesday/Wednesday, when I do my 2nd day will be interesting because I’m going to have to invoke a lil more willpower.

Let’s see how that goes and I make the pledge to be honest about it now – Steve – when you read this back on Wednesday night remember you said you won’t tell porkies!

Hmm… if I must…

OK – enough for now – let’s see how it goes!

Sooo…

First fast was last Saturday, next one was going to be Tuesday… which happened to be the day that I got a call out of the blue telling me that my mother has inoperable cancer.

So did I complete the fast? No I didn’t, I scoffed pizza in a bout of unashamed comfort eating.

Once I deal with how I’m feeling about my mum I’ll be back to this, but having a bit of trouble trying to do both at once!