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Hurrah!

Good job!

Very well done Pia & your English is very good!

WOW! Congrats
I have only just signed up and yours is the first post I've read. Couldn't ask for better motivation - thank you.

Thanks a lot to all of you . I am happy to have found this forum . Alwasy getting good advices and support for a newbie like me . I found out something strange this morning. People say always weigh yourself after fastday, and for me it is logical to do so.
I did yesterday and I did thursday morning after my fastday wednesday. Both days I have lost weight, and I am very happy about that - but the strange is if I check again the day after, as I did this morning after my feastday yesterday and my feastday Thursday too, I have even lost more weight . Could it be because I drink so much water on fastday ( that I could almost swim ), and still have that in my body the day after fastday? ... Todays weight said 500g more lost and it was the same friday morning after my feastday Thursday. The best part of it: THE WEIGHTLOSS WAS STILL THERE THE DAY AFTER . I will try to test the next couple of fast/feastdays to put myselv on scale both days.

Pia

Great results! Seems like you are getting into weighing daily which I think is a pretty good strategy (though I don't do it) provided you are ready for the ups (in weight) as well as the downs! The downward trend will be even more obvious.

I guess what you've found with the extra weight loss on feast days could be explained by water loss? Anyway who cares if it's working! Just don't be too upset if it reverses, bear in mind this is not a rapid loss diet, even though it has that word 'fast' in the name

To put this in context, I fasted on Thursday and had a good moment on the scales on Friday morning. I was even lower on Friday evening after a game of squash and before dinner. Now (Sunday morning, 41 hours later) I am some 2 kg heavier. I'm not panicking, but it does show how weight can yo-yo around on a short-term basis with this way of eating.

I know Dominic . But I have been on a long term diet before this with only 1100 calories a day - every day like that, and the last couple of weeks nothing happened at all. My guess is that my body was starting to get used to this low intake. Now I am changing my calorie-intake everyday and with 2 or 3 fast-days every week with only 400 calories - at least for now it is working *lol* ..

I am feeling pretty good, even on fast-days, more than I expected from the beginning, so it is a very nice surprice for me too .

Goosey69 - Good luck to you. I am sure you can do it too

hi pia- do you measure yourself? I am really glad that I measured my waist to start with eventhough I was disgusted with it at the time but found out today that I have lost 13cm round my waist together with a very good weight loss that is good enough to keep me going!!!
good luck to you- have a good week- ursula

Hi Ursula - yes I measure myself around my waist only, but I have just started this friday, so I will wait a little bit longer before I try again

I can imagine that is a good motivation, seing that in fact we are really getting smaller . I am looking forward to that too, also it is a good idea, if the weight is not moving for a while - to see that we are getting smaller, no matter what the scale is saying.

Thanks and good luck to you too Ursula.

Pia