The FastDay Forum

Just started putting together my veg shepherds pie, had a small piece of raw carrot and very hungry! Looking forward to my dinner after which I can say.....yay! Another fast done. Stick with it those who are behind in time, nearly there!

Just stuffed dinner.... Good fast today, no hunger pangs not even when the chocolate cake was in the oven! Or when I slathered it with choc buttercream and decorated it with chocolates!
@Candicemarie health check went well, apart from the fact that I am overweight! Yah don't say. But the nurse was impressed that I have lost what I've lost, and that I'm ADFing! Apparently her colleague had good success 5:2ing. So she is pro fasting I have to wait a week for the bloods to come back, but BP, pulse rate, wee sample etc everything came back A OK
This is a new full on health check my DRs are doing for those people btwn 40-75 whom they refer to as 'walking well' ( basically means we are registered but they never see us) so fingers crossed for good blood results.

Dinner scoffed, off to the pool for Mins training session, then home an Insanity workout and bed! Then birthday celebrations for a 12 year old!
Hope everyone's fast was/is/going good x

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I started off fasting, but have had a small piece of cheese and potato pie, carrots, broccoli, small piece of cake and some mini cheddars. I didn't start eating until 6pm and have just got fizzy pop to see me through til bedtime.

@karenm that food could poss only be 500 or thereabouts..so you HAVE fasted or at very least a low cal day...tho i think the fizzy pop will put paid to that? Could you have a cuppa or two,some water or a lowcal choccy drink instead? X

I ended up HAVING to eat today. I cut the grass for the first time since my illness...and I was pre-tt-y pooped afterwards I can tell you. At least I'm returning to normal now...and I STILL haven't had breakfast lately...so all is well me thinks!

Love to walk listening to music. I remember Stephen Fry saying in an interview he walks around London listening to audio books.
Not been too bad today.

Yes, I remember when Stephen Fry lost a whole load of weight and he said he was due to the amount of walking he'd bean doing. I think he's lost weight again hasn't he. He's like me, up and down, UP and down UPPP and down....and down...and down? Hope so

@candicemarie there are only 5 cals per 250ml. My sweet tooth is going crazy, so this was my back up plan x

@karenm if its so low cal and your back up plan...go for it! We all need to make our strategic plans and planning leads to success! X

@Brand-ie @Nursebean Yeh, spent my life speed walking the streets of London, love it and wonder why. Plan to check out M&S counting to help see if it stirs up the life in me

So no din, dins for me as that fab soup at lunch scared me big time.

Mowing the lawn and fab poppies this weekend, it will drain me too, nursebeanie

Back to work. Good luck to todays fasters who are still with the fast.

I've been fasting today but haven't had time to get on here before now. Steamed salmon, low-fat leek and cauliflower cheese and runner beans from the garden have been eaten, followed some while later by an apple. Now enjoying a low-cal hot drinking chocolate before thinking about an early night. I don't know why but I am feeling a little weary today. Scratchy throat and sniffly nose may mean the start of a cold, so perhaps that's it. Good luck to all still fasting - you know it makes sense!

Hope everyone has done okay with the Thursday fast, and that those who were unwell are feeling a bit better.

I didn't quite keep the cals down to 500 due to serving sizes for the egg and bacon and tuna salad being larger than they should have and the salad having more ingradients than I intended (as my mother also had the salad and I wanted to make it more interesting for her). I didn't have the berries and yoghurt as a consequence, but did end up with a late night apple when the hunger pangs just didn't disappear. And that little bit of choccie to help me sleep.

If anyone is still reading this thread who knows - what are the low cal choccie drinks people mention and that are available in Oz?

Cheers!

I've wondered that, too, @Sassy1 eight calories for a hot chocolate drink sounds amazing - although I can't imagine what it has in it to make it that low. My low-cal hot chocolate comes in at 40 calories for a mug and that's about average for all the brands that I know of in Britain! It would be good to find out!

I am in, second and last fast for the week.
Julianna, we bought our French home as a holiday home. We down sized in England and were able to pay cash for this. After two years of coming over for a weekend every month hubby was made redundant. So we moved here. Five years later we are still here!
Also have developed a sore throat and runny nose. It is about this time of year I have my annual dose of bronchitis! Hope it is not so this time!
Just having my black coffee before heading out to market. Will light the Esse later and do a comforting 'light' shepherds pie ( veggie version for me). It is cold here!

Wow @Bobshouse, your story is interesting. What a big life change. Were you born in England? I assumed you had a French accent but maybe English? Your place sounds idyllic. I hope you feel better and don't get bronchitis.
Xxx julianna