The FastDay Forum

First of all a big thankyou to everyone on this forum for keeping me sane on fasting days, especially in my 'danger hour' around 3pm when I could kill for a bar of dairy milk, but a quick browse of the new posts always keeps me on track and motivated until the cravings dissapear.
One thing I love about this forum is the little box of stats that appear under each posters avatar. I don't know any of you in real life, but I feel strangely proud when I see the BMI of regular posters slipping down and down each week. I especially enjoy seeing people who are near a 'milestone' BMI of 25 or 30 breaking through the barrier!
So thanks everyone and please keep updating your stats on the progress tracker as it keeps me motivated!
Gail x

Love the phrase 'danger hour'. Mine occurs at around 6pm.

It's just getting into danger hour for me now! Something else that has really helped has been telling all my work colleagues about the 5:2 diet. Now they (supportively!) laugh along with me if they offer me cake and I say 'Not on a Tuesday!' I think I may be converting one or two of them aswell

I have around 12 danger hours so if you have only one then you're OK!!!

My danger hours are from about 10pm until bed time - usually about midnight. One of the joys of retirement is not having to get up early!

When I'm fasting the next day, I try to go to bed as late as possible. Yesterday, for example, I went to bed at 4am. This provided my waking up after 1pm.
Although I usually take naps, I preferred to go for a coffee with a friend so that I will feel sleepy and go to bed early. That way, I minimise the hours of the fasting days.
My danger hours are as many as the hours I'm not sleeping or eating.

Interesting, GailS, so you find it helpful to tell the work colleagues? I haven't told anyone (other than oh and dc) I've only done 3 fasts so far, so I guess I'm waiting for some visible progress before I start talking about it. Maybe I should think about being more open about this wol.

My danger zone is afternoons on normal days, I have to give myself a real good talking to to prevent binging not always successfully I might add! Yet on fast days I have no problems, my brain just seems to accept that it's not allowed on those days & it doesn't even enter my head.

Interesting, GailS, so you find it helpful to tell the work colleagues? I haven't told anyone (other than oh and dc) I've only done 3 fasts so far, so I guess I'm waiting for some visible progress before I start talking about it. Maybe I should think about being more open about this wol.

To begin with I kept it quiet from work colleagues for the first 4 weeks. I only plucked up the confidence to start talking about it after I had lost about 10lbs. I guess like you I wanted to have some results first so that people would think 'look how well she's done' instead of 'Oh another stupid diet'. But now I'm really glad I did tell everyone! It definitely keeps me on track. Everyone is really interested and asking me questions about it all the time. And I never feel tempted to eat cake at work on a fasting day because I would be so embarrased if everyone saw me 'cheating'! If the diet was still secret I could well have slipped by now thinking that no-one will know I'm not supposed to be eating