The FastDay Forum

Fast days have become fairly routine, 7 months in. So there I was, trundling peacefully through another fast day, all going to plan - 500 cals divided between lunch (small pot of houmous with veggies and a low fat yoghurt) and dinner (prawn stir fry with Slim Rice).

Then about two hours after dinner, still feeling comfortably full, I got the worst snack attack I've ever had on a fast day. Resistance was futile. I probably got through another 1000 cals in the next hour - cheese and crackers featured prominently.

I'm not particularly beating myself up - rather disgruntled but writing today off as a 16-8 day and will reschedule another fast day. But I am puzzled - this has never happened on a fast day before - I find them mostly fairly easy. I'm a bit low and a bit stressed but nothing major. Blowed if I can find any psychological or physiological reason for this derailment. Perhaps there isn't one - perhaps it's just one of those completely random things.

Oh well. Tomorrow's a new day, eh?

It is puzzling Shachat but I think you have a great attitude.

It seems to be a completely random thing! Don't think too much about it. Good luck!

[Betsysgr8]

Bet you have a great weigh in tomorrow. Some of my most unscheduled and unusual blow-out have preceded a drop in weight. It maybe a body signaling deal that's trying to up the calories so that I don't really go into a real deficit (which I truely want!) just so that I don't lose significant weight. Good luck to you!

I have had less and less 'willpower' myself. I polished off a funsize bag of milky ways last weekend but will be able to have two fasts in. We'll see the results on weigh in day. I truly want this woe to be sustainable so seeing as though I am a human being I am going to have those naughty moments. Just don't want to make it a habit.

[Tracieknits]

I really really really have to save all of my calories for evening on fast day. There's just no way I'd make it only only 300 calories in an evening myself!

But no use crying over spilt milk. You apparently really needed the calories if you were going for things like cheese instead of sugar.

[wildmissus]

Same thing has been happening to me recently and funnily enough it is with mainly cheese and crackers. I was wondering if it is 'diet fatique'. A term I've heard of but not googled yet so I'm not sure how to get out of it............goes to do a google search.

Thanks all, for the kind comments. Woke up still feeling disgruntled - reading all the support here definitely makes me feel more gruntled

Betsy, I dared get on the scales this morning, encouraged by your experience but no such luck, gained 2lbs. Putting it down to usual mad weight fluctuation.

Tracie, I think you're right. I've been trying to move back to one evening meal on fasting days which is how I started this WOL. That should eliminate evening snack attacks in the future.

Wildmissus, I googled 'diet fatigue' after I read your post. Google came back with tons of stuff on chronic fatigue, which really puts my little blip into perspective!

Having spent most of my adult life going round and round like a hamster on a diet wheel, one of the things I really want to achieve is to get away from the mind-set of 'naughty' and 'good' as applied to food, and to me when I eat. Hence the determined NOT beating myself up - shrugging off a blip and moving on is the goal.

Eventually, gruntlement will come naturally, I'm sure!

I love the idea of a snack attack, it so well describes some evenings I have.

The mental attitude of this WOE is as much if not more important than the actual weight loss as it re-educates us and our relationship to food.

Hey Shachat, join the club! I'd been doing great until last night when I gave in to a mad craving for chocolate and ended up eating a whole large bag of chocolate buttons! At least your snack of cheese had some food value!

I have been stressed this last few weeks and it was building to a peak but I'm cross with myself for not being more sensible when I did actually see it coming. Still, only human and all that!

This morning I woke with the most monster migraine. First in weeks. Don't know if its the chocolate (I can normally eat milk chocolate but dark will trigger a headache)Or if my brain is rebelling at all the sugar after months of running on ketones.

We'll agree to draw a line under our shortcomings shall we? It certainly helped me to get it into perspective after I'd read about your escapade!

Done the walk of shame myself a few times recently and they also involve cheese (and rough oatcakes). last night, instead of the dinner I had planned, salmon and veggies, I found myself after some red wine (too much )wandering in and out of the kitchen, justifying the cheese and oatcakes as a stopgap until dinner - dinner never got made, and I managed 12 oatcakes (finished the box) and a large, no huge, lump of cheese, half a jar of kosher dill pickles and some tomatoes.
Maybe it's a calcium thing? I have cut way back on milk on this WOE..

Couldn't agree more, Julie.

Hope the migraine's getting better, Miffy - that's a heavy price to pay for a blip.

I'd love to think it's my body wanting the calcium, Dhana, but I very much fear it was my body feeling greedy. Alcohol derails me completely (not that I can use that excuse either for last night!) - all sensible eating goes out of the window, hand-in-hand with most other inhibitions. I tend to be a giggly drunk who thinks Burger King is the best thing ever. So many reasons to avoid excess!

That cheese last night was a bit special, by the way - bought it on my recent trip to Amsterdam. It's layered mascarpone with a soft blue cheese - words fail me when I try to describe the experience of sheer heaven in the mouth. If I could write poetry I'd be waxing lyrical by now. Once I got started on that (with the Ryvita thins) I was a lost case thereafter.

Weird thing is, it's gone 1.30pm now. All I've had this morning is a black coffee so far and I'm still not hungry. I'm about to go fix myself some (healthy!) lunch but I wonder whether all that concentrated fat last night has had an impact on hunger this morning.

That cheese sounds wonderful! I adore cheese so maybe that's why I find low carb so easy. I wouldn't have needed the crackers. Just me and a lump of cheese, heaven!

Hey, at least all the alcohol did was derail your diet. The last major drinking binge I had.... 17 years ago (it was MAJOR)... I ended up getting pregnant, only 5 weeks after major life saving surgery.
Hubby keeps on saying it takes two to tango, I say I wasn't tango'ing, I was lying back and thinking of England, especially as the stitches weren't anywhere near healed and I could still only just walk normally.

Me and alcohol have had a bit of a distant relationship since then.

Julie you distracted me just then

Cheese is my go to food after effective fasting. I think I am undoing my good work too. I wouldove some healthy recipes for. Calcium rich snacks as I feel it is an instinctive call for calcium too. I do tuck into haloumi and a dill havati and crackers as as those guilty snack