The FastDay Forum

My second maintenance fast this year. My husband helped me to remember not to have any breakfast this morning. So have not eaten anything as yet today, it is nearly 13:00. As luck has it, this happens to be the coldest day this winter, and I am not eating . We are in the warmest place of Finland so we only have - 15 degrees Celsius. Other places have it yet a lot colder.... Had a shorter morning walk today than normally. Waiting for Dinner at 18:00. I know it is important to keep up this maintenance fasting, so that my body does not forget how to fast.

[Tracieknits]

Well great job! Have you tried a cup of warm broth? A cup of chicken broth/stock/bouillon really helps me on a cold winter's fast

Your winters sound just a wee bit colder than ours. When we have it especially cold, it might not go above -15c for a week or two at a time, but usually our high temps for the day are closer to -6c. We can easily go the entire month of January without going above 0C. So I am very impressed you made it out for a walk. I know how much the wind can burn your skin at that temp! In those temperatures, I drive to a shopping mall to get some walking in.

Side note - are you in Helsinki then? My husband's engineering firm has an office in Tampere and we are considering a temporary assignment there for six months to a year after our son graduates from high school. but that wouldn't be until 2019

[Tracieknits]

Well at about 1:30 I realized it's thursday/fast day/light day. Good thing I hadn't eaten yet and was just sitting down to a whole grapefruit! LOL

So for "brunch" I had a grapefruit, 3 slices of deli turkey (1 point on ww) and I rolled a bit of roasted butternut squash in the turkey slices. That was surprisingly delicious! I'm calling the squash 1 point because of the oil I roasted it with.

I had another espresso this afternoon, not even decaf. I have had a total of about 2 tbsp of half and half cream today. Tonight is zero-point fresh vegetable soup and one small slice of pizza. I'm terrible.

I fasted yesterday, too. I hope you both had good fast days!