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I'm fasting today too. Been watching a marathon of movies to keep my mind occupied and had a cranberry juice with shaved ice as a treat to deal with this Australian summer heat.

[Betsysgr8]

Welcome to the forum Andrea! I moved your post from the Saturday fasting today thread to start a Sunday thread. I'm not fasting until Monday but I'm sure there will be a few others joining you a few hours.

I don't normally fast on a weekend, and have never done so before now. However, I will be taking a break from this WOL over the Christmas and New Year period starting from tomorrow and so, I won't be fasting at all during that period. Normally, I would be fasting tomorrow, but I will be travelling tomorrow to visit my parents over Christmas, and that means that there won't really be the same opportunity to fast then in any case. For that reason, I have decided to fast today which means that this will only the be the first time that I have fasted during a weekend since I began this WOL.

That means that this week will now go down as a 5:2 week (I have got used to doing 6:1 until now), and I am fasting today despite the fact that the results of my daily weigh-ins over the weekend show that there is no actual need for me to do so. That is because when I weighed myself this morning, I discovered that my weight is down by a further 0.6kg from yesterday. With that, I have now just beaten my all time record for my lowest ever weight under this WOL by 0.3kg, and is equivalent to 10 stone 13 pounds.

Whenever I have fasted until now, I have consistently recorded a weight loss of about 1.7kg at the following morning's weigh-in. I can't have burned all of that in body fat as it is impossible to be at a big enough calorie deficit for that. Therefore, those weight losses can only be almost entirely due to a loss of water content. Now, the question that will now answered is whether or not that reduction in my water content will be less this time as a result of starting off from a much lower weight.

If that does end up being the case, the resulting weight loss should be smaller, especially as the low current value for my weight also probably shows that my body is currently carrying much less in the way of undigested food than normal. If I still end up losing that same 1.7kg at tomorrow's weigh-in, my weight at that weigh-in will then be 67.5kg (I am currently 69.2kg) and not only would that smash that record for my all-time lowest weight (which will be beaten anyway with today's fast), but tomorrow's weight would then be the equivalent of 10 stone 9 pounds which would now be challenging a potential target of 10 and a half stone.

This weekend's weight losses have come from some very careful eating over the weekend resulting from the fact that my recent record at weekends under this WOL has not been good (last week at this time, I was was 73.6kg and so, my current weight is a massive 4.2kg or 9 pounds lower than what it was at the same time last week), and also because I am a bit scared to eat more just now in any case, in case that leads to a massive weight gain of around 6 pounds that I got on one occasion last week.

I have talked about a weekend curse, quite a lot on this forum recently but this weekend's eating habits and the resulting weigh-in results have shown that there was never going to be any chance of the weekend curse striking again this time. That is, unless you believe that the weekend curse has still happened as a result of my weight having dropped to below the lower limit of the weight range that I have been trying to maintain in the longer term (I would now actually have to gain 6 pounds by tomorrow's official weekly weigh-in, to be at figure of 11 stone 5 pounds that I've become used to recording at those weigh-ins, and that is unlikely as I will be fasting today).

However, I'm not even bothered about that just now as there is likely to be a lot of over-indulging over the festive period and there is where I am likely to gain a lot of weight back again. By deliberately going below my weight maintenance range on this occasion, I will hopefully be giving myself some extra leeway going into those festive over-indulges and I know that I will be gaining that weight back again anyway, I'm happy enough with that. Furthermore, nearly all of the weight that I gain with over-indulging will usually be due to water retention with the biggest such resulting weight gain occurring with the first day of over-indulging. That means that this weight gain actually slows down over time as I continue to over-indulge and so, going into that from a lower weight should provide the best opportunity of being not all that much above the upper limit of my weight maintenance range when I come back to this WOL in the new year, or possibily even still being within that maintenance range when I come back.

[janeg]

Going to give it a go today. Usually fast on a Sunday anyway, but today, we leave the beautiful Budapest and travel back to the sandpit. So coffee first, pack , then off to the airport. It's a cheapy flight, so catering has to be bought. I'll pass on that thank you and buy a big bottle of water to keep me hydrated. I get really dried out on the plane.
Diving daughter will be at home when we get in, so I'll have something to eat then.
Or I'll see lots of lovely goodies at the airport and eat them. And enjoy them!
We'll see.
Good luck to the Sunday fasters and welcome to Andrea.

Well hi, this feels strange joining you Sunday fasters (and so few of you). Like you, John, this will be the first weekend fast I've done. My plan is to fast today AND tomorrow! That way I don't have to fast during the Christmas period at all which just makes life easier!

I'm now all geared up with the Christmas Radio Times and am looking forward to a feast of great films (not to mention food!)

And then, just when you think all the fun is over...on New Year's Day "Sherlock" is back and I just can't WAIT to find out how he faked his own death...it's EXCITING!

Er hum sorry about that...got a bit carried away

Bean

Going to give it a go today. Usually fast on a Sunday anyway, but today, we leave the beautiful Budapest and travel back to the sandpit. So coffee first, pack , then off to the airport. It's a cheapy flight, so catering has to be bought. I'll pass on that thank you and buy a big bottle of water to keep me hydrated. I get really dried out on the plane.
Diving daughter will be at home when we get in, so I'll have something to eat then.
Or I'll see lots of lovely goodies at the airport and eat them. And enjoy them!
We'll see.
Good luck to the Sunday fasters and welcome to Andrea.

@janeg. Hope you had a lovely time in Budapest. Such a beautiful city. Airport days are great days to fast as you can't taste anything anyway at 37000 feet. travel well and have a great fast day.

I'm fasting too today. I did a straight 5:2 last week, but overeaten massively on the other days, so today really needs to happen.

Count me in too! I like to fast Sundays because Saturday always seems to revolves around food in my family, and this way I cleanse a bit on Sunday.

I am in today for my usual Sunday fast, likely the last one before Christmas. Out last night to a dinner party with too much food and wine AGAIN!! I guess it's the time of the year. I have always had Sun. as my official weigh-in day but it is so depressing after over-indulging on Sat. so I'm moving it to Mon.
Short term goal now is not to gain over the next 2 weeks. Moogie's blog with the tips for holiday fasters is great and I am going to try to follow some of her strategies.

Sunday was my regular fasting day so it feels strange to read this and not write "I'm fasting too", but I'm doing a 5 day juice fast starting tomorrow so I decided to skip my regular 2 day fast

Good luck everyone, hoping your fast and renew works wonderfully for you today

Jen

I'm fasting as usual today although I am on maintenance so eating a bit more than you would for weight loss.

I will need to fast on Tuesday this week too as I don't think Wednesday will be a very good day to fast this week .

Have a good day and a great Christmas.

@RachelT7 ... your progress chart is truly inspirational!! well done!!

I'm done. Just ate a huge plate of broccoli stems. Nothing else. Feels good to be hungry today.

Watched OH eat salmon, potatoes and veg with a couple of glasses of white

[janeg]

Woops
It was the marzipan your honour!
Beloved decided we would onto the hotel patisserie for brekkie. And it's a marzipan specialist. And they had marzipan, and more marzipan.
Then the darling surprised me on the plane with more marzipan.

It was damned good