The FastDay Forum

[Debs]

Morning all! I''m in for my next ADF fast after doing my HIT this morning! Very swaety as I forgot to put the aircon on!! We're all confined to camp here as it is so wet, all the roads are closed, and another dumping expected Sun/Mon and possible cyclone. Ah well, I spend so much time on here recently I don't have time to wrk!!

Joining you guys for a fabulous fast Thursday also...my 6th one and I look forward to it.
Pushed my pram 30 miles last week and had still gained 1 lbs when I stood on the scales after my Monday fast day. Was very disappointed but then I realized that "Mary" was about to come to town (ie it was that time of the month) so I am hoping now that she's gone home, I will be back on track and maybe an lbs or two lighter on Friday morning.
Happy fast day peeps and chew them spinach leaves carefully!
Jen

I am in and doing it all again.

Have a great Fast day everybody
cheers Maggie

Count me in for Thursday! Suppose I had better get to bed now....to sleep off the rumbletums that have just started

Hope they've gone by the time I get up!!!!

Good luck everyone!

I'm in today and hoping for a better day than my last attempt at fasting on Sunday...

So no miso soup and no food at all til dinner time and nothing after salmon salad and some yoghurt and berries for dinner - well, that's the plan!!

Best wishes to all fasting today - and particularly for your next weigh-in @Singlemamma

After the Christmas break, I'm finding it nearly impossible to get back into this. Fasting, but it's half-hearted and if I do break the fast I wouldn't be surprised. Just can't get my head right this time.

[Debs]

That's no good Lady Muck! Have you got any targets, holidays to aim for ?

@Lady Muck

Look at my post from earlier today - 'Struggletown'... I felt EXACTLY the same this morning and have somehow, from somewhere... found my love for 5:2 again!! You should read it! Good luck!

Just had my modified bullet coffee should take me through fluid fasting to a fluid dinner, might be a mushroom spinach soup out if freezer if required.

Weirdly though I often like to cook on my fast day so have been busy and made a spinach pie for tomorrow nights dinner, the pastry is filo which I can remove off my portion becomes a frittata while DH gets his piece of pie as made. Dear me it is a long way til then and a few herbal teas until bedtime ... Unless I cave for a soup ... Come on bullet coffee kick in sigh

I"m in for tomorrow but am invited out for a retirement party. I'll try to find some veggie nibbles there but we'll see. I've had a good week of eating within reason - plus my fasts. So hopefully I'll see some changes by Friday. Best of luck to everyone.

Cheering you all on from the sidelines! My next fast (my 3rd)is on Saturday.

They were talking about the tennis players "getting into the zone". They went as far as to point out the rituals they do help them perform as top athletes. I'd say the "fasting zone" is similar, in that those little rituals helps us get through such that it becomes automatic.
I thought it was helping me to walk around like a zoombie on the fast day. But I'm going to try and be busier next time, and certainly schedule in a walk. I think also having something nice planned for the next morning, such as a cafe coffee might be good. I'm also going to meditate and keep a journal.

So I'm inspired by you all going through it today
@jools7 good stuff you're going to move today. I will too in solidarity. Thanks so much for the support from you and all.
- all the best

Jo

Just realised why I am hungrier today. Started the day with a trip to the gym and did my HIT bits,

[Debs]

Me too gillymary! Definitely peckish!

Another salty drink, teaspoon vegemite in hot water tastes great. As I was making that couldn't help myself and remembered I was planning sometime to whip up some ice blocks, soooooooo
blitzed a container of raspberries with come coconut water so now I have setting 5 ice blocks worth 5gm carbs each. Just something different to taste on a non fast day em thinks. Slow day need to stay away fro. Kitchen but O am studying and that always makes me peckish.

@Debs peckish together different sides of our continent, breezy here with cicadas with their volume turned down. Lovely day for it

[Debs]

Oh that does sound good, I could do that here. Very refreshing! I have marmite here (pommy, so of course it tastes SO much better than vegemite ) so I shall have some later.
Very humid and fly blown here. Between showers, yuck!