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I've spent most of my adult (and a fair amount of my teens before that) on a diet. I suspect if you're on this site and reading blogs then so have you. Sucks, doesn't it? What I can't work out is when my relationship with food got so messed up? When did I start to live to eat rather than eating to live? My Momma is a big lady and my brother and the sister who doesn't watch her weight are big too, so I could blame nature AND nurture if I really tried hard; but that would be a cop out and doesn't acknowledge the fact that if I watch what I eat and exercise regularly then I lose weight. My problem is that constantly watching what I eat is exhausting and the guilt attached to inevitable slip-up(s) is crippling, so every time I fail it becomes that little bit harder to start again.

Take my last jaunt into diet world. I'd hit my 12st weight alarm, that weight you get to when enough is enough, and knew that I needed to do something about it. But what to do? Rosemary Connelly utterly failed...

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Sometimes this WOL seems too good to be true; here I am, able to have my yummies most of the time, and still lose weight! As far as any changes to my eating habits on non-fast days, they've been pretty natural and intuitive...as an inveterate overthinker, this is unusual for me. The main change has been to how I deal with "hunger" on all days, which has led to other changes--such as a major decrease in snacking/nibbling. Not that I made a rule about not doing it, just that when my mouth/appetite says, Ooh, that looks good!, I automatically ask my stomach/body "Are you hungry?" I don't need to be starving to have it, just assess where I am.

However, I will try not to look that gift horse in the mouth, just accept it as a gift!
For those who think they have pretty good willpower (that is, they could deal with 2 days a week of "deprivation"), but who DON'T think they can (or want to) deprive themselves every day for the rest of their...


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Day one in the FD house.
Monday 06:30 finished off some wine……..liquid breakfast, whilst catching up on some TV.
08:00 decided it was time to start my new journey. Thought the best way to start a fast day would be to miss eating, especially after my vino, so I headed off to bed without any supper.
Woke about 16:00. Decided to get my cookery books out and see what could inspire me. Decided on breakfast burritos, but whilst trawling around Tesco I thought noodles in a tarragon chicken and tomato broth, (left over from Sunday), would be better. Unfortunately I got my noodles in a muddle and thought udon noodles were the same as shirataki. I didn’t realise my mistake until I had finished. I also found out that I had doubled up on my portion size, (forgot I was cooking for one). Nearly 500 calories blown in one go.
Off to work with my peppered cucumber slices tucked in my briefcase. That will teach me to read things properly.
When I got home the next day the hunger had gone off, so a glass...

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Into my third week now and the scales are showing a steady loss which is maintained during the weekend of naughtiness. I have to say that I owe a lot to low cal hot chocolate about 36cals and ainsley H's low cal soups, Thai chicken 92cals and hot and sour 66cals. Somehow a filling, hot liquid seems to fill that gap.
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Second Fast of the week as follows:

Calories 481
Carbs 103g (81%)
Fat 4g (7%)
Protein 15g (12%)

Breakfast - small banana
Lunch - zucchini and carrot 'pasta' with fresh tomato salsa
Dinner - roasted garlic and cauliflower soup
Snacks - blueberries
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