My feelings exactly! I’ve only been doing the diet for two weeks and have lost loads. I’m away on holiday this week and even though its difficult I’ve still managed to fast. My breakfast this morning included a glass of cava and crusty bread with jam and butter. I usually opt for healthy low fat food on the whole and find it very difficult to let myself have, what I consider, a treat but when I do how fabulous does it taste!

I’m counting my calories on feast days just to ensure I don’t eat too much and i think I will be doing that for some time to come. Do other folk count calories every day?

Don’t you find because you can have foods you fancy on your non fast days that you don’t go overboard on them. I find it far easier to just have a slice of cake or a couple of biscuits because they are not forbidden foods. As soon as certain foods have become out of bounds (when I’ve been on other diets) I have suddenly wanted them more than ever. On this diet I just think oh I can have that tomorrow if I want. Sometimes I don’t even want it the next day.

It’s a bizarre way of thinking and it probably highlights my unhealthy relationship with food but hopefully you don’t all think I’m nuts.

For me, the whole point of feed days is that they do not require any thought, angst, stress, regret, guilt or worry of consequences!
I know that if I overdo it on every feed day for a week or so, then there will be a weight wobble, but an occasional blowout/indiscretion makes life so much more contented than an everyday calorie controlled diet ever could and makes for a much more happy relationship with food – but if people are happy to food obsess every day and it works for them, then that is also good.
Being less likely to reach for comfort foods might be down to the fact that the breaking of habits and feeding associations on fast days, continues on feed days.