FastDay User Blogs

Life goes on with its temptations.

Tried 6:1 for a while but it wasn't enough. Rushing about doing what you do. Temptation came along. Why do workshops have c..p food I ask. I must have eaten too many carbs over the couple of conference days while I avoided the sandwiches I succumbed to cake and fruits

Then the late March weekend away in a cottage by the sea with ex work colleagues was much laughter, memory lane stories and of course we had lots of food and wine. That was not fasting fare but was a weekend which fed my soul. By now I was in April, I missed a few fasts, ate a few too many carbs and the scales told me time to do something. ADF was the answer as I was on holidays so I could mooch around home making my drinks for liquid fasting and when not as disciplined I did window fast days. Desired results were to claw back a respectable buffer and April ended with 75 on scales again, phew ... my preferred numbers.

Busy May and June and end of term celebrations Chinese and Indian cuisine and this time if the scales could speak they would have shouted "EEK!" I fleetingly saw figures I had not seen in 18months - just fluid accumulated, gone very quickly but a warning. So back onto 2 days fasting per week and more when I could spontaneously fit an extra.

Now it's July and I have maintained a plateau of sorts for 12 months. So ADF must be it for a bit to repair while getting to know my body, my appetite and my eating habits with IF over the months and years show me one thing my maintenance strategy definitely won't be 6:1 More like 5:2. Oh well ... No harm in that and so onwards I prevail