The FastDay Forum

Good morning/evening fasters. Today is Thursday and it's my fasting day. I'm at work already after yoga and I'm about to go over to the staff room with my coffee plunger to treat myself to a black coffee. It's my day with the Prep-1s and I think we'll do painting and do calligraphy, the numbers. Should be exciting. Lovely sunny day and for the first time I noticed birds when I got up and the sun shone into the yoga room: it's getting lighter earlier.

Yes I'm in again too, seem to be sleep deprived and disorganised tho! No soup again today, even tho it's made and in freezer, ah well that can be dinner maybe. 1 milk coffee under my belt, half a flask of black and an Apple with me. Short day today, then massage with myotherapist and then chiropractor, hopefully the body won't be too battered by these boys can't believe it's almost the weekend already. Still Dark here at 6am, but getting lighter will be great. Good fasting all. Mines working, 2.4kg down in 4 weeks, yay. Not far to go now to goal.

Thanks @Sallyo I hope you are well and thank you for leading the thread today, great to hear the birds are singing at dawn. @GMH I'm also seeing my chiropractor tomorrow, part of my combined fast wellbeing experience! Hope your fasts have gone well today. Sleep tight.

Off to bed, I'm fasting tomorrow and look forward to joining you all then.

I've started my fast once again after tonight's dinner. Wishing you all an easy fast!

I have a big project to work on tomorrow, so that should keep my mind off food.

Edit, 2:30a.m. I am no longer in for today. I'll have to make it Friday. Just sat here & ate total cr@% & blew a fast for Thursday. I'm stressing over many things & let it get to me in a way I haven't in months. Surprised myself, but I identified it before I did too much damage. Good luck to all who are almost done - great job!
Have a great fasting Thursday, wherever you are.

Good Morning , I'll join you all today. Just got back from a big grocery shop. Bought some beautiful Queensland strawberries a perfect dessert on a fast day.
Now it's off for a walk to the post office- 40 min round trip - it's an absolutely perfect day here today.
Happy and successful fasting all my fasting friends

Having an early dinner, because I couldn't hang out any longer. I've had a very good fast-day so far and have no intentions of stuffing it up. It feels so good to do right by my body.

GO fasters GO!

My first official fast day since starting work (which started on tuesday... heh)!

I thought people might be funny with me if they realised I was 'skipping' lunch, but hey, no one seems to even sit together let alone keep an eye on each others' food. I'm perfectly happy to explain 5:2 to them, but I'd be happier just getting on with it without the usual 'oh, I couldn't starve myself!' and 'It's just a crash diet' talk. I'll take a banana with me to keep me going, and just live off tea and water all day (I'm bringing 3l with me). Then, Pizza Express for dinner! Thank god for Leggera pizzas

Good luck everyone! Happy fasting.

Yes I'm in again today back2back with yesterday's which was a good one so I'm hoping today's will be just as successful.
Good luck to all fasting today and well done to those who've already finished their fastdays.
@MLCDz sorry the day didn't go well for you, we all get days like that and admitting the fact to all of us is a very good and brave move to make, so now forgive yourself because stress moves us to a totally different day than we plan, and at least you didn't go overboard that's brilliant and probably ended up a low cal day.
as we always say there's always tomorrow.

I'm in today.

@BethP I've never told anyone at work that I'm fasting, it's just too complicated, I just "go out" for a lunch on those days and have a walk - no-one seems to have noticed so far (nearly two years in)!

I'm sticking to my normal routine of coffee with skimmed milk, sparkling water and possibly a high 5 zero during the day, then soup with whatever veg and salad are at home during the evening.

Good luck to all

At my work there are 2 others who are doing 5:2. They're the ones who got me into it. So I like sitting with them on Fast days in the staff room at lunch time. I've just had dinner -grilled fillet steak and a roast vegetable and rocket salad. Possibly I'll have an orange for pudding. See how I go. Hang in there people in the west. Sorry you had a break out @MLCDz, sounds distressing. As Sue Q says, just put it in the past and forgive. Are there other ways, more productive, of dealing with the basic issue? Can you come up with an alternative plan for next time?

[Debs]

I have been fasting today, successfully thank goodness! A cuppa soup at 11.30am and nothing else which I am pretty pleased about. I have a dry sore throat from a hacking cough so I haven't felt like much tbh. I have some sugar free jelly which will be nice on the throat though.
Contemplating weighing tomorrow for the first time in a while depending on how brave I am!
Good luck all!

I'm in today for the second of my "Back to Basics" fasts this week.

Glad to hear the day has gone well for many of you so far.

Sending big hugs to @MLCDz - I can so relate to what you told us. A huge "well done" for spotting what was happening though - knowledge is power! We are all on such a journey of self-discovery....and let's not forget that it is a very long journey, coz hopefully it will continue for the rest of our lives! With that in mind, falling down from time to time because we are human, matters not a jot - so long as it is accompanied by a lesson learned about what makes us tick. I over ate my TDEE yesterday - late at night with sweet treats & prawn crackers....so I am very much a work-in-progress! Would not dream of doing the same during a fast day though....isn't that weird?

Good luck everyone for the rest of the day! Xx

Oops - pressed the submit button twice - sorry!!!!

Mods - how do I delete the duplicate please?? It doesn't seem like I can in edit mode.....

Thanks!

I'm in today for 2nd and last this week. Already feeling hungry, just having my 2nd coffee with milk already, then will get on with cleaning this house, oh and more packing, how did we get so much stuff? . Wishing us all an easy fastday