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A slightly different approach this week, during which I have been awash with sandwiches!

Monday was a Bank Holiday, and also a Scottish Dancing party, so I didn't fast (and had sandwiches for supper. Very odd they were too - tune with grapes? And the dreaded raw inion in egg ones, bleurgh)
Tuesday was my day off - not normally a day I'd pick for fasting, but needs must. I had to take my car to the garage in the mroning, and ran the 3 miles home afterwards. Around lunchtime I was hungry, so had a late brunch of tinned grapefruit segments with blueberries. Mid afternoon I realised I was missing protein, so I had a pickled egg accompanied by some salad leaves and tomatoes. Dinner was home made bolognaise sauce with some zero noodle spaghetti, before dog-training kept me busy during the evening. Enjoyed The Apprentice with a diet ginger-beer.
Wednesday - working lunch. More sandwiches, and my stomach was complaining all evening about this carb-fest.
Thursday - another working lunch with yet more sandwiches. I decided to try doing a 2pm-2pm fast which would allow me to eat the business lunch, but still be done fasting by the time Friday evening came around. And I have to say, it does have its attractions. Really, it's a light meal one evening, skip breakfast the following morning and have a late lunch. I did find some issues - counting on MFP for starters! Usually I can track my non-fast days to my maintenance TDEE level, and also see that my fast days are coming in under 500. Using the 2pm-2pm approach, both Thursday AND Friday were knocked off whack, and I was having to make additional calculations in my head about how much I'd eaten and when. And emotionally - on Thursday evening, normally I'd be able to get through the evening going "nearly there, I can eat what I like tomorrow!" and planning my breakfast. But this time I was going to bed knowing that I would STILL be fasting in the morning.

Overall verdict - I'd do it again if I had to, but I prefer doing straightforward fast days. However, this might be a way that my mother could adapt to quite easily - she doesn't really count calories, but if I gave her some suggested light dinner ideas, and just told her to skip breakfast and have a late lunch, then that's really simple to follow.