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Different eating pattern today
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Wow!

by Revel3 on 14 Jan 2014, 10:54

Have weighed myself this morning after 8 days (3 fast days in those 8) and have lost 5.6lbs! I am really pleased with that loss. I know that is a beginner's blip and I can't expect to lose like that regularly but it is a good boost to start with. I also know from previous weight loss experience that I am likely to fluctuate around my new weight for a couple of weeks, up and couple of lbs and then down again, before I lose my next chunk. So I'm not going to weigh myself too often, probably not even once a week. I'll try and hang on until end of January as I'm then more likely to see another big loss.

Even more pleasing however than the large weight loss is that I'm finding this so easy. I hope this isn't beginner's blip as I really haven't found fasting a struggle at all. I think I may get bored with vegetable soup every fast day so will start finding some other recipes. I like having breakfast and as I'm quite active I don't want to go for really long periods with no food at all. So I have two eggs for breakfast and that uses up quite a lot of calories. I might try cutting down to one egg and see how I get on. I know many fasters don't eat at all during the day and essentially go 24 hours without eating then have a 500 cal evening meal. But psychologically I think I would be panicking and waiting to pass out! Just having a light breakfast makes me feel I'm not starving myself, just eating very lightly. And it seems to be working. I can always play around with this if my weigh loss plateaus.

So a very positive start and here's to the rest of January! This may just turn out to be a whole new way of life after all! :grin:

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