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I'm doing a MWF 4:3 classic this week. I gave into some broth at lunch today. Maybe I needed salt?

Anyway… good luck, Friday fasters!

One of my usual 4:3 days in maintenance.

Lots of tomatoes, baby peppers and broth to get me through the day. No kayaking today but there will be some over the weekend.

A peaceful, untrammelled mind to all Friday fasters.

I'm here today too and back into routine. Getting things ready for a spate of house guests so have plenty of practical jobs.
Good fasting to all!

Morning All

Count me in for a semi fast today as I'm continuing from my fast yesterday through to tonight's dinner or even to Breakfast tomorrow if todays goes well.

Have a busy day at work so wont be home till six O'clock, I will not have time for lunch so it will be another good day for a fast I think as the Bank Holiday weekend is here, lots of black coffee and water for me today.

Good luck all for your fast today

Good luck fab friday fasters! You all sound in fine fettle! X

We are off out for lunch today so although I will not be fasting I will only have lunch, with wine, of course! We are in France after all so the wine goes without saying. Probably just have a salad so a sort of light day rather than a full fast, good luck everyone

Ballerina x

Have a lovely holiday Ballerina!
My third fast of the week in trying to lose some inches to make my dress fit better at my sons wedding in two weeks today!
Good luck to all Friday fasters! Nothing to eat for me until my M & S Fuller Longer supper of aromatic lamb this evening. Also no alcohol has passed my lips for the past ten days & not until the wedding celebrations so I'm going to be a real cheap date & will get pie eyed on one glass of wine!

I'm aiming for 750 to match the 750 I did yesterday. Nothing to eat so far, doing a 5 mile fast walk shortly and will have some almonds and bloobs on my way out. After that, the plan = mushrm and walnut burger and Warburton's Thin @2pm, and @6pm, 100g of cooked brown rice stir-fried with asparagus (the massive tree trunk kind), courgette ribbons, wilted spinach, mushroom and 20g of pecorino, plus garlic, parsley and 1/4 of a reduced salt veg oxo. I enjoyed this so mush yesterday that I'm having it all over again. Good luck to fellow fasters.

Slightly tricky day. I'm not actually hungry but I crave something sweet when I have pain, particularly if I'm not taking any pain management. I'm trying to break the association by observing the impulse and urge, accepting it without judgment but not acting on it. That's the theory, it's taking a long time to work

I read a beautiful summary of why this should work.

A good analogy I got from Gary De Rodriguez on conditioned behaviour was likening neural pathways to tracks in a forest. When choosing a path through a dense forest, it's generally your first response to take the pre-existing, well established clear path available rather than create a new path by smashing straight through the thick scrub into the unknown. The well worn path may not be the quickest or most direct route or even take you to where you want to go but when making a quick or unconscious decision it seems the obvious option - just go the way you've always gone. Changing where you go requires creating a new track which is not easy and even after you make a new path for the first time, the next time you come back, the old familiar well worn path still has its appeal compared to the skinny, faint little track you just hacked. The choice is still there to take the old track. Not only do you have to repeatedly keep taking the new route to make it become the most obvious option, you have to stop using the previous track to let it overgrow and fade back into the forest to where it appears like it was never there....

Of course, the difficulty is that I'm trying to replace eating something sweet with *crickets*. Perhaps it would work better if I listened to a piece of music instead of replacing a sweet item with nothing?

[carieoates]

I'm aiming for 750 to match the 750 I did yesterday. Nothing to eat so far, doing a 5 mile fast walk shortly and will have some almonds and bloobs .

What are bloobs @wasafan?

Yes I'm in too, just had an oxo as feeling really cold.

SSure that is a really helpful description for establishing new behaviours thank you
I have just been picking pounds of plums from our tree & had already spent an hour cutting & cleaning 7 lbs of the wretched things & then cooking them into a compote. Despite giving loads away we still have lots to fully ripen on the tree. I have been trying to resist eating many carbs but I think I am going to have to give in a make a plum crumble tomorrow!
I am now ready for my supper of aromatic lamb followed by a few strawberries
I am hoping that my weigh in tomorrow will reward my good behaviour all this week with some weight or inches loss!!

Sorry @carrieoates , I meant Blueberries.

@SSure that's a very good and very useful analogy
@Isis plum crumble? Gorgeous after a Sunday roast.x

@SSure that's a very good and very useful analogy

SSure that is a really helpful description for establishing new behaviours thank you

@CandiceMarie, @Isis - it resonated with me when I first read it and since.

Sometimes we berate ourselves when a new habit that we want to form doesn't take as quickly as we'd like or need it to take. But some of those habits are so long-standing that they are the behavioural equivalent of that obvious path, the one that we need to forget exists and encourage to get lost in the tangled growth.

I'll be home in 30 mins. Time for some miso-coated grilled white fish, griddled courgette, and marinated peppers.