The FastDay Forum

I am finding i'm planning/wanting to use my 500 cals for naughties such as chocolate/sweets/rice pudding etc etc (you get the idea) rather than say lean meat and veg. Is anyone else having these thoughts/cravings?

I can't decide whether it is good in the sense that i don't think ''i can't have that kit-kat'' and craving it (which normally ends in me having it anyway) or bad in the sense that I am just eating a load of sugar!

I use around 300 cals to fill up on a healthy tea then the other 200 for what I fancy, it helps knowing you can look forward to a little treat at the end of a fast, I don't think it really matters as long as your happy with it and its working for you.

I would becareful if you only want to eat sweet things as the crash in blood sugar, leading to more carb cravings may make you break you fast. I use 150 cals for something sweet but no more on fast days, sometimes something like funsize malteasers (which i am allergy to soya so I can't have often) or hard boiled sweets 100 cals worth, mini kitkat you could have 2 finger bar is 107 cals. Though i would say make sure you eat some long lasting carbs too, make a rice pudding with little sugar and put cinnamon or something in, that could be good =)

I would say give in to your cravings on feed day. =)

Up to you really, but if you take the naughty route be prepared to feel grotty, tired and bad tempered

Use the mantra of I can have it tomorrow, do have "it" tomorrow, keep to fast days properly.

Otherwise, I think you need to have a look at why you want to eat rubbish, sounds like rebellion to me.

I've recommended a book before to people called "Beyond Temptation" and it helped me think through the issues very well. I'm not related to the authors...

I think that if you want the health benefits and not just the weight loss then it would be better to try to eat healthy. I find that I'm fine on fast days because of the discipline, but could be tempted with most treats on other days.

On fast days I eat healthy food. If wanting chocolate etc I just put it out of mind as know I can have it tomorrow. I am trying to remove my diet thoughts but am comfortable with fast days. If I ate rubbish on fast days I would feel rubbish but that is just me. I am doing this more for health benefits than weight loss.

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It would make me feel really bad...headache, hungry, grouchy...no thanks! I eat enough cake etc on feed days!

I have bought mini milky bars which are 69 calories each, and 'pink n white' biscuits which are 50 calories. It is helping me to know I can have one of each on my fasting days, and on my first day I had the biscuit as a treat after dinner, and then sucked the milkybar with my tea later on. Not having anything sugary during the day though, I would really suffer froma crash if I did.

I would definitely use the majority of the 500 for healthy items that will keep you going, you can always have extra chocolate and sweets the next day.

They are ridiculously expensive but I find that at around 80 calories each, These mini Green and Black's bars do the trick, especially if you break them into their tiny squares and eat them slowly. http://www.greenandblacks.co.uk/our-ran ... 1566#first

No naughties on fast day. You are mixing fantasy with reality. On fast days it is normal to fantasies about food. You fantasize about all the things you will eat the following day. You crave food, but the cravings are put off until "tomorrow."

I disagree with all the other posts and am quite relaxed about the fast days. As long as the calories add up to 500 I don't see what the problem is. I eat nothing until the evening and then always save 100 calories for a little dark chocolate. I look forward to it and it is my treat for having eaten nothing for most of the day.

I disagree with all the other posts and am quite relaxed about the fast days. As long as the calories add up to 500 I don't see what the problem is. I eat nothing until the evening and then always save 100 calories for a little dark chocolate. I look forward to it and it is my treat for having eaten nothing for most of the day.

I've had a small amount of chocolate at the end of my evening meal just about every fast day, and as you can see from my progress tracker over almost half a year I don't seem to be having many problems keeping it up!

Of course, we are all different, though, so what works for me and you may not work for someone else.

There is obviously a certain amount of flexibility within 'only eat 500cals a day' like most people I try to eat healthily on fast days, its only 24hrs until the next time I can eat 'treats' so hang on until then. I can see maybe having up to 100cals of treat but I don't think I would feel satisfied if I used more than that for treats.

I almost feel like I'm beating the system by eating as much as possibly can for my calorie allowance and that feeling gives me a great deal of satisfaction, and I know I couldn't do that if I wasted calories on unhealthy food. I fill that need with fruit, it's amazing how sweet grapes, strawberries etc are on fasting days, much more so than on normal days

If the OP was in control of their eating I would say fine to eat whatever, but they're not and it's leading to them abandoning the fast and trying again the next day.

Horses for courses, environmental control until you are in control and can exercise the discipline to eat one square of good chocolate, which is entirely different to wanting lots of sugar/carbs as the OP is craving.