The FastDay Forum

Hi Bronny, hi all, I somehow missed this thread!

I'm a vegan too-on fast days I only eat 1 meal in the evening, I generally eat soups, stir frys, curries, salads in the summer, basically plenty of veggies, some form of protein like beans or lentils or tofu, and as few carbs as possible. I don't drink milk in tea or coffee, but have you tried a flavoured tea like roibos? A friend who is trying to become vegan now drinks that as she doesn't like any other vegan milks and she can't drink regular tea without it. Otherwise I love hazelnut milk, and it's fewer calories than you'd think.

So my meal plan on my last fast day was:
Breakfast-black coffee
Lunch-nothing (sometimes I have miso soup or marmite in hot water)
Dinner-pad thai with a small portion of rice noodles (zero noodles would have been better!) Lots of veggies and a small portion of tofu, I made the sauce myself (water, soy sauce, tamarind paste, agave, lime, garlic). I even had a piece of freezer fudge after!

Hope that helps!

[janeg]

Hello and welcome to the forums Bron!
I'm veggie, don't do tomatoes and eat quite a bit of eggs and cheese. So my menus won't be of much help to you!
Yesterday- a feed day- my main meal was quorn pieces, pepper (capsicum) and onion in flatbread like a fajita- think that' vegan. And it was good! I used a bit of smoked paprika and ground cumin to season. Yum and I think would come within the 500cals.
Can thoroughly recommend breadandwine's website (even though I'm not vegan!)
Good luck with this WoE, shout for info/support and do let us know how you get on

Hi Bron

Welcome to the forum and to this WOL! Always nice to see another vegan on board.

Thanks for the plug, janeg! How're you doing these days?

Nicky's tips are excellent - if you can survive all your fast day on minimum calories you've got more for the evening meal. These days I just have either warm water or coffee when I'm fasting. Sometimes I'll follow that with a low-cal dinner - other times I'll eat a normal dinner, since I'm maintaining now and occasionally I'll fast for a complete day. My advice would be to take things gently and ease your way into longer fasts. That's certainly what I did in the beginning, going down to only half my calories two days a week - and I still lost weight.

ATB! B&W

[janeg]

I'm cool thanks B&W, still 5;2ing (well 4:3ing) diving and not eating tomatoes! Got a sourdough started on the go just now along with a ginger beer one- getting quite domesticated in between working
Hope life is still being good to you