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10 days have passed since my last blog and 9 days since my last weight entry and I only managed to stay where I was. I know I am not following the diet properly. I am doing well on fast days, but really bad on feed days, so the weight is just going up and down all the time. I am just taking this period as a practice period for when I will start the diet properly :confused: . Just need to get focused once again as I was when I started in the first place. We'll see. In the meantime waiting for the arrival of baby Ruben. Hopfully in the next few days. Happy fasting to all.
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Okay, it was a weird week for me last week. I decided to go to 4:3 for three weeks to see if I could accelerate inch/weight loss before my wedding. So, I figured I'd fast on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, leaving the weekend alone. On Monday, I was totally starving at work and had an extra 250 calories of snacks (pretzels - I love them). Rather than just scrap the whole day, I decided to keep going. The next couple of days went fine. Then Thursday, non-fast day, I kinda went nuts, having a couple of leftover Easter eggs along with some other snacks. Friday morning (which has been my weighin day) I had a loss of 1.8 lbs. So psyched! Then Friday was a fast day, but I had a few drinks in the evening. Out of curiosity I weighed myself on Saturday morning and had lost another 2.2 lbs! Really not sure what to make of it, but I am very pleased. It does raise the question - since the previous couple of weeks I'd had little or no loss - am I eating too little? On fast days? Don't think I want to...

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Found yesterday's fast surprisingly easy and slept well. Had poached eggs on toast for breakfast this morning in spite of not being particularly hungry. Some people have commented that they don't eat breakfast the day after a fast day but I've decided to do two fast days and five normal eating days. I don't want to drift into doing something I am not yet convinced is healthy ie going for very long periods without eating. I'm happy to trial 5:2 for a month and see how I get on. What I don't want to do is launch myself into something full tilt and find I can't keep it up. So I'm tackling this step by step and if in the future I decide to change my eating pattern on my non-fasting days then I might do so.

As for today I have been surprised that I haven't been hungrier. I've enjoyed what I've eaten but haven't craved snacks or nibbles. That may change and I'm going to use this blog to monitor how I feel about food and eating on fast and non-fast days.

Feel supported by all the comments and...

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I fasted yesterday (Monday) and tried a new tactic - no breakfast or lunch saving my calories until evening meal. I think this will work much better for me as something to look forward to in the evening. Weight loss is slow - 1lb per week roughly but determined to keep going!
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Week 1- Fast day number 2/3.

I am struggling to write this as my hungry tummy is somehow making my computer warp in and out. Ok, that is a slight exaggeration but right now, I am hungry. My focus is on the success of the day, 500 cals consumed in the last 24 hours, by the time I eat breakfast I will have managed 36 hours on 500 calories. So, instead of reaching for the nearest edible item (the dog is looking kind of tempting) I shall soon head to bed, safe in the knowledge that when I wake up tomorrow I shall feel immensely proud of myself.

The lovely thing about this diet, is the comforting thought that this hunger will only be for a few hours. I am not going to die. I might be a little bit snappy (sorry kids) and concentrating may be beyond me, but surely it is worth it? Tomorrow I can enjoy three healthy meals completely guilt-free with maybe even the odd biscuit to dunk in my tea cup. How many other diets can boast this? Um, none, apart from the See-food and eat-it diet of course...

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