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Gosh I hear you!!! That was totally me for my first few fasts, but I promise you, it gets easier!!
I try and put off eating for as long as I can too, because as soon as I start, its as though my belly remembers what its missing and wants more more more!!! I have really paid a lot of attention to what calories I’m feeding myself on fast days, got to make them all count and last as long as possible. For me the salty foods keep me fuller for longer, so snacking on olives has been a big help. I like to have a decent lunch around 2pm and then a snack around 5 and then dinner at 8pm, that way I don’t go to bed with a growling stomach. What are you planning to eat for the rest of the day?
I write a weekly blog post about my meal plans and progress, feel free to have a peek and see what foods I’ve been eating. I’m 7 weeks in and other than succumbing to christmas temptations, am having great success, so stick with it!!!!
Good luck xx Meg
http://meg-made.blogspot.co.uk
Before you eat something you need to take a moment walk away from that yummy desk and walk around the office. While doing so steer clear of the kitchen and ask yourself, “Am I really hungry or is this all just in my head.” I find 99% of the time it is all in my head. I have a serious issue with food, mentally (I believe passed down generation to generation in my family).
So for me it is a mind game not a stomach game. So take a moment walk away and really think about your next step. I promise you that if you walk and realize it is in your mind you will. Believe me you will NOT starve if you don’t eat. What you will feel is so proud that you made it.
Don’t give up it will pass and then you can get back to work.
NatashaD, I fully sympathize with you but it does get easier.
For me it works best if I put off eating anything until early evening and then have a light meal. As Megmade is saying, once I eat even a very small thing it seems like my tummy is waking up and wanting more!
So the best is to let him sleep and wake him up towards the evening. This way I can also eat a little bit bigger dinner and have a good night sleep.
Good luck with it!
Stef
Natasha, congrats on the 5lbs! Superb that you stuck to it. It does get easier doesn’t it?
The funny thing is that my stomach shrunk so much that I have difficulties eating my 500 cal in one go. Yesterday I had my fast day and in the evening I had chicken, brussels sprouts, broccoli and salad and I could not eat up my plate! My stomach hurt after dinner!
I drink tons of water and green tea on my fast days and rarely feel hungry.
Hehe Nika, well if you are the proud owner of two pairs of trousers and one of them is in free fall it is perhaps time to go shopping? Not sure though whether you will be very successful in Hangzhou? Perhaps you have to learn how to sew 😉
Anyhow I hope you all have a great week!
Stef.
Haha Stef, I’m the proud owner of two pairs of trousers which are BOTH coming off without undoing the button! They’re not falling off me yet (one of them might, but I wear a belt).
I understand that there is a HEMA in Hangzhou though, so I may go there – or at least some sort of store that sells basic clothes (not all those fancy girly pink fluffy mini sugarholes you see everywhere)
Not feeling so swell again, so may pick up some green tea on my way home. Sounds nice.
Haha! Natasha, please shoot a video when you run down the street naked. The idea made me laugh out loud. Like you I’m staying on 4:3 at the moment because I do not want things to slow down.
I also love pasta! I am still calorie counting on non-fast days and I am horrified to see how quickly I can reach my TDE… It is not the big portions but quite often the small things that I have trouble with. A cookie here, a biscuit there, a little bit of ice cream (well usually not that little 😉 ) and wow am I quickly over my TDE.
I am frankly worried how I will ever be able to do 5:2 without calorie counting. If I understand it correctly, then the 5:2 way of life does not mean to only fast two days a week, but you have to eat healthy on the other five days as well. I do eat healthy most of the times but I do like a bit of junk food here and there and have I said that I would die for ice cream?
So for me at the moment it seems to be either 4:3 or ADF if I want to keep my weight down.
Anyhow time will tell, and at some point I will just try 5:2 without calorie counting and I will see what happens.
Best wishes,
Stef.
hi guys just jummping in, i did 4 3 for ages and lost well on it, like you i was very worried about going back to 5 2, it took 4 weeks for things to settle back down and weight to start shifting again, i was up and down each week in the 4 weeks settling time, i started 4 3 because weight loss had slowed to almost nothing, if you go back and look at rockys feed fast hiit posts from sept to dec you can see how 4 3 and going back to 5 2 affected my weight. best of luck everyone and keep on going xx
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