After 45 years of losing weight/trying to lose weight/feeling deprived or guilty at last I CAN have my cake and eat it too - just tomorrow 
After only 3 weeks I have lost 2.5kg whilst eating cakes, drinking red wine and living my life as if I am NOT on a diet...it is brilliant! The fast days are hungry, tummy rumbling days but I don't find it is very difficult at all. Being a vegetarian I am well aware of the health benefits of vegies, plus their low calories. I make a HUGE pot of veg soup with carrots or pumpkin, cauliflower (to make it tasty & thick), cabbage, spinach, eggplant or zucchini - basically whatever I have in the fridge - toss in an onion for flavour and freeze in portions of about 2 cups. I have one of these for breakfast 70-100 cals and very filling and delicious. This leaves me 400+ cals for my dinner and sometimes I will have a dash of milk in my coffee during the day, but mostly I make espressos on my machine and drink black. So dinner will be maybe a gourmet salad with a small knob of persian fetta or haloumi, but mostly lots of veg to keep the cals down. Often I will leave calories to eat a mini choc fudge protein bar (95 cals) for dessert. Another weapon in my arsenal of not feeling deprived is a sugar free hot chocolate I found the other week at the supermarket (stevia sweetened so natural rather than artificial) - delicious and 8 cals...yes 8!! for 4 teaspoons, I make with boiling water and add a dash of milk.
To be honest I feel like I am feasting rather than depriving myself and losing weight. I add a 3rd fast day, but with this 3rd one I am a bit more lenient - i.e I might have an extra 100 cals at night if I'm feeling hungry or deprived. Essentially though I think 2 days is better psychologically as this is a lot more sustainable than having too many deprivation days. Yes I use that deprivation word a lot, because that is how I have felt all these years - eat like other people and get fat or deprive myself (unenjoyably) and lose or maintain weight.
So for me it is pass the cake over - I'm on a diet! Wooppee! I LOVE IT!
After only 3 weeks I have lost 2.5kg whilst eating cakes, drinking red wine and living my life as if I am NOT on a diet...it is brilliant! The fast days are hungry, tummy rumbling days but I don't find it is very difficult at all. Being a vegetarian I am well aware of the health benefits of vegies, plus their low calories. I make a HUGE pot of veg soup with carrots or pumpkin, cauliflower (to make it tasty & thick), cabbage, spinach, eggplant or zucchini - basically whatever I have in the fridge - toss in an onion for flavour and freeze in portions of about 2 cups. I have one of these for breakfast 70-100 cals and very filling and delicious. This leaves me 400+ cals for my dinner and sometimes I will have a dash of milk in my coffee during the day, but mostly I make espressos on my machine and drink black. So dinner will be maybe a gourmet salad with a small knob of persian fetta or haloumi, but mostly lots of veg to keep the cals down. Often I will leave calories to eat a mini choc fudge protein bar (95 cals) for dessert. Another weapon in my arsenal of not feeling deprived is a sugar free hot chocolate I found the other week at the supermarket (stevia sweetened so natural rather than artificial) - delicious and 8 cals...yes 8!! for 4 teaspoons, I make with boiling water and add a dash of milk. To be honest I feel like I am feasting rather than depriving myself and losing weight. I add a 3rd fast day, but with this 3rd one I am a bit more lenient - i.e I might have an extra 100 cals at night if I'm feeling hungry or deprived. Essentially though I think 2 days is better psychologically as this is a lot more sustainable than having too many deprivation days. Yes I use that deprivation word a lot, because that is how I have felt all these years - eat like other people and get fat or deprive myself (unenjoyably) and lose or maintain weight.
So for me it is pass the cake over - I'm on a diet! Wooppee! I LOVE IT!
