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Good day to everybody !

Kind of fasting today. Kind of because I still can't go cycling without taking a breafast but I'll try to stay inside de 500 cal. However I may go to 600 cal without feeling a bit guilty

Good Morning count me in Good Luck everyone.

2nd week for me and Im in today - spurred on by weigh in this morning - loss of 3.3kg since last Monday - wahey! so thrilled with this! this WOE is the mutts nuts! Good Luck everyone!

My first fasting today.
A little worried about hitting the hunger at lunch time. Have bullion and miso lined up...

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Happy fasting, especially those starting today!

I have had a dull but worthy salmon salad and will be off to bed soon. I am just watching a BBC program called the 'Truth about Fat' and realise I am one of those who's full hormone never fully kicks in and once I start eating, I generally can't stop. This is why fasting has been such a huge benefit, controlling those feelings and overcoming them!

2nd week fasting for me and while I'm making progress. I got slightly derailed by the weekend. Looking forward to my first 4:3 this week

I'm in for my Monday fast and feeling I need it after the weekend.

Started well, ran 5k at the gym to make sure I could (I'm on the verge of trying my first ever 'Parkrun' soon).

Now at home but at work too (if you see what I mean). Today is unusual because I have a poetry night this evening at a pub, so I'm hoping I get through it without saying yes to a glass of wine and resisting the crisps ...

Good luck everyone, especially anyone who's new to fasting ... it gets easier!

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Just had a really shitty choir rehearsal. I'm afraid I yelled at the conductor, something a good chorister should never do. *Hanging my chooky head in shame.* But she was just SO WRONG. And now I have adrenalin flowing so there's no point in going to bed and I just want to eat biscuits!!!

I haven't really tried soups on a fast day. Do you just stick to vegetable so it is easy to calculate calories? I love lots of soups with pulses in but find that difficult to calculate amounts and I always want to eat too much of them as they are so delicious

Hi sorry I took so long to respond, Denwoman. I love soup and I did see a documentary some time ago that featured Dr Mosley that talked about soup being better in some respects than eating solid food. The doco is 10 Things You Need To Know About Losing Weight and I have included the link here:

http://vimeo.com/18339967

If you go to 32 mins 40 seconds you will see the 6th thing you need to know and that is eating soup.

Generally, because I am lazy, I just have two cans of Campbell's soup on a fast day. As a male, I get a few more calories in my allowance so two cans of soup (not the condensed stuff but the ready made soups) usually adds up to 2400-2500kj. Perfect. A woman can have maybe a can and a half a day. Never fails to fill me up. I eat twice a day on fast days.

Here's the link to Campbell's Australia for the kj content. Two serves per can, remember...

http://www.campbellsoup.com.au/download ... pt2013.pdf


Anyway, thanks for the question. I hope this helps. Enjoy the documentary if you haven't see it before.

Thanks Fishbaum. I will check out the doco

Resist biscuits, Chook! The conductor probably needed yelling at, and you were just the person to do it.

Sallyo, I'm doing my best to resist! A conductor who can't count is not worthy but I shouldn't eat to make myself feel better. I do feel bad about it. I would have apologised but I had to run our pianist to the train station. Oh well, life goes on.

My usual Monday in, ate far too many carbs yesterday so my tummy is rumbling and complaining. We have a nice day in the highlands of Scotland just back from my run it was 2 deg but that is quite nice for running at least no fear of getting overheated. I will have to try and fast tomorrow as well, I am away on Wednesday for a few days and will be eating lunches and dinners out with various family and friends. Hope all goes well for everybody hang in there.

Thank god I got through my usual sabotaging times today.. That means i'm fully in! I'm nursing a tea at the moment for comfort and warmth!

Hey all, hope those of you wrapping up had a good fast day.

I'm in today because I have to stick to a draconian no-carb diet anyway in prep for a PET (cancer) scan tomorrow to see if persistent abdominal pain could mean I've gone from Stage III to Stage IV melanoma. Scary, scary stuff. But hoping for a clean scan so I can celebrate 5 years' survivorship and get on with life!