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Not entirely to plan then! 77g fat, drat it, 95g carbs, 1200 cals. Lost the knack of carb eating tee hee.
I'll try it again maybe Friday, it's within my 16:8 too so covering all the bases :0)

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@Azureblue
I think there is a reasonable logic behind the idea. Perhaps @peebles or @SSure would know more.

Thought I'd see who is coming out to play today. It's a bank holiday in the UK so lots of socialising today and tomorrow. I have friends coming for dinner so the day is all planned out. Gazpacho soup is cooling in the fridge, whole poached salmon, salads and new potatoes, lemon syllabub with home made ginger snaps. I won't be eating till dinner time when I will be watching the size of my portions to come in at a guestimate under 1340 cals.
Meanwhile it's sparkling water and tea and I'm happy with that.

Well that all sounds delicious @lizbean! I'm sure everyone enjoyed that.

I am not fasting today....which is why I'm here. Am off to the seaside with two of my children & am meeting up with friends for a picnic.....hope the weather improves! Despite having an emotional upset yesterday, I stuck to my fast and will do my very best today to not go overboard too. I feel a bit hungry right now, but know that it will pass - so I'll save the eating for lunchtime and really enjoy it.

Whenever I take a knock, my first thought tends to be food...for comfort. Am trying to see this for what it is and not fall into the trap. In short, I am giving myself quite a talking to. Just hope I listen!

Have a nice day all xx

I definitely think all of the above makes senses.... as soon as we feel deprived all we want to do is overindulge..... I definitely think ones mindset has to be in the right place for everything.... so true then is the saying "Anything you put your mind to you can achieve". I have been absolutely dreadful with my fasting plan since I took a break in December to do a Daniel fast.... but I know my mind just was not in the right place. However, having said that, during my "successful" fasting period, I also was bingeing like there would never be food in Africa again on my non-fast days and justifying it mentally with the fact that I had fasted for 3 days of the week, besides the fact that I was not losing any weight but not gaining either, I was so incredibly unhealthy from gorging myself on copious amounts of chocolates and chips and biscuits and breads, things I never normally ate before but I felt like I had to eat as much as possible because I was going to fast the next day. I have never been as fortunately as others who say that their appetites naturally became suppressed because of their fast days, the exact opposite happened to me. So I have been reading a lot of the posts here to try to what I could do to change the situation. I then read Carolines success story, and its crazy, she just did what she knew she had to do... .she fasted on 500 calories on 2 days of the week and then ate normally 5 days of the week, she didn't over think it, she just did it and lost all that weight. Then I realised I am putting way too much pressure on myself.... 3 days may be a bit much for me.... so I made up my mind to do 2 days and 5 days and immediately I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. Now when I have to fast it doesn't feel like I am having to walk through hot coals barefoot and I can't do it. If so many people have been able to lose tons of weight on 2 days and 5 days then I can lost 10 kgs on 2 days and 5 days, was convincing myself that I would never be able to lose weight unless I had 3 days a week fasting. The other thing I have managed to do is convince myself that on my 5 days I can eat normal 3 meals a day but to try to avoid chocolate, however if I feel I have to have one I will and so far its been good.
So I hope I have my mind in the right place now...... when I get hungry today I tell myself just hanging in there till dinner time, cause I have veggies waiting for me.

Well that all sounds delicious @lizbean! I'm sure everyone enjoyed that.

I am not fasting today....which is why I'm here. Am off to the seaside with two of my children & am meeting up with friends for a picnic.....hope the weather improves! Despite having an emotional upset yesterday, I stuck to my fast and will do my very best today to not go overboard too. I feel a bit hungry right now, but know that it will pass - so I'll save the eating for lunchtime and really enjoy it.

Whenever I take a knock, my first thought tends to be food...for comfort. Am trying to see this for what it is and not fall into the trap. In short, I am giving myself quite a talking to. Just hope I listen!

Have a nice day all xx

@HazelNut20.... am sorry you were having a bad day I hope your day got better and was enjoyable at the seaside. I just wanted to mention that I watched a documentary on television about a lady who had bariatric surgery because she weighted over 600lbs, and the surgery literally stopped her ability to eat her "Comfort" foods. Like so many of us she turned to food whenever life seemed too much, and then when she physically could not do that, she had to have an intervention, and she had to go and speak to a psychologist before she ended up having a nervous breakdown. Without the ability to turn to food to get through her troubled times she was completely lost.....

Today's brunch has been :-
one teaspoon of coconut oil with coconut butter
six mixed nuts
two soft boiled organic eggs with iodised salt
two squares of 90% chocolate
two mugs of real coffee (one black, one with some double cream).
Full now :0)
Have a really good day folks \O/

Bumping this up for our recent newbies and all. Fast and non fast days are a balancing act where we calorie count or guestimate, or occasionally are gobbled up by the hunger monster and promptly put the foot up against the door 12 months to goal and 8 months into maintenance I'm winning and I believe that is because my 2 fast days are successful, I reasonably low carb/high fat.
How are your non fast days - are you winning

I wonder why some days it is really easy to stay within TDEE limits and some days it is such a struggle. I know that many factors play the role but how much of it is the body's calling for its needs and for how much of it is our sugar- and snacking-addicted brain responsible? (I hope that the sentence makes sense even if the question itself does not ).

Hi @Callanthe Good question. I can only say it's a different route for us all. I do recognise fasters who I share the same journey and I also see other friends who have different journeys and are successful with their approach.
It seems those who pop into the monthly maintenance tent have learnt to or we are trying to balance and manage TDEE days and holidays - so it would be good for people to pop in ahead of landing in maintenance, read and feel free to ask questions.
My TDEE tomorrow - brunch out and then a salad for supper. Happy with that. Slow and steady works for me

Oh, I'm bored
Today I'm aiming lower than TDEE to balance the Sunday damage. Also I try to go lower carb than usual, around 100 g carbs.
I had two eggs, few grapes and a cup of coffee. Let's prepare a salad - raw salmon, mozzarella, avocado, red pepper and tomatoes which should keep me going until the end of the shift.

Hi @Callanthe thank you, your posts always make me smile, so what's boring you today? My maintaining TDEE with 2 fasts of 335-500 is 1335. I don't 'need' breakfast, never have, nor tempted by sugar and have reduced carbs that led to my relative weight gain over last 15 years . So far I have managed this through guesstimating cals and by listening to my body over the last 18 months and tweaking my diet, what feels naturally. I'm interested in Moogie's Situ post as I cook from scratch and the online counters don't work for me https://forum.fastday.com/post229420.html?hilit=situ%20moogie#p229420
For me the journey has been about finding the balance of what I really need on a daily basis, not huge highs or lows - 'slow and steady as you go' that others follow seems to work for me. And then we also have to look at how we manage stressful situations and how they can blindside us, or not. I read an interesting and helpful article recently (lost it for now) around personality types - it made so much sense to me. I'll try find it when I have time. We are all different - I learn from others everyday. Catch you soon.

@LizbeanI was bored by lack of my funny little carbs, my preciousssss (it occured me now that the sentence "I'm bored" could have been taken as a reaction on your post which had not been intended).

I know that the lower carb intake works for my cravings control etc. But the transition is hard. And boring but today I did it, tomorrow is a fast day and let's see what Thu and Fri bring.

Glad you find my posts funny, it's not easy to be funny in foreign language.

@CallantheAh, my precioussss, thought it might be your shift .... Transit slowly .. it works. Good luck tomorrow.
And your English is fabulous too.

Awww, thank you usually once I hit "submit" I see all the mistakes but I'm too lazy to edit them.

Diving into the bed, good night everybody