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Just back from another long walk with OH and having a bowl of my 60 cal fast day veg soup. I must make up another batch cos that was my last one.

Keep strong fasters

[Tracieknits]

Welcome to the forums, @Ahanksa!

Good luck to you and to @Gail1963 and @Flamanette

I'm in today as well. I usually do Mondays, but my son had a basketball game last night and evening activities that mess with dinner time just make fast days hard.

So hubs and I are fasting today, and I'm making my favorite chili for supper tonight - 257 calories per serving. http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chili-w ... 001687650/ (I never add the sugar, because I use 85% or 90% chocolate instead of 100% baking chocolate). I also always forget the sour cream

So two espressos already down the hatch. On to cooking this morning as the smell of cooking meat this early always puts me off food for a while. Then tonight all I have to do is a quick reheat of dinner. I like doing this because cooking food from scratch on the afternoon of a fast day is always difficult and can tend to make me a bit grumpy

I'm in today! It should have been yesterday but I was chatting to son and husband and found myself eating my non-fast day breakfast of muesli, mixed seeds, full-fat natural yoghurt, prunes and milk! Talk about mindless eating! Anyway, I then decided that I will fast today and Thursday - or maybe Friday!

Welcome to all our newbies! Remember to keep hydrated but it doesn't have to be water! I'm a black tea drinker all the time, so that's my drink of choice. I don't much like water but find that it is better when dressed up with ice and lemon or, as others have said, a stock cube makes a good hot drink.

It's also important to remember that hunger pangs and tummy rumbles are not something to be scared of - no one ever died from missing a couple of meals and, if you are feeling hungry, think of it as your body showing you that it's burning fat - embrace the pangs!

The third important thing is to keep busy! It really helps to have a number of distractions available. I'm retired, so am at home when fasting. It's great because on fast days the house gets cleaned, the shopping gets done, the dog gets walked, my HIT exercise is done early and this forum soaks up the rest of the time!

Better go and do some more chores! Have a good day everyone! Onwards and downwards!

So far I am hanging in there! I am just starting to feel some tummy rumblings, at 11 am, so I am sipping on some vanilla chai tea! Yumm. I have other liquids with me at work as well - broth and other tea flavors. I am really excited about this. I know I can do this! Now I just have to last till dinnertime. If I absolutely must have something before I leave from work, I do have some veggies in the freezer here at work.


time for freedom from this fat body!

I am in too today.....chicken soup on the go for dinner....it's a bit hard today for some reason and I crave SUGAR!!. When that happens I go and try on a few clothes which I kept that are too big for me now and that keeps me on the straight and narrow! Well mostly!

One hour till dinner, I always find this the most difficult part of a Fast day, especially as my Quorn and Lentil curry is defrosted and ready to go.

[carieoates]

One hour till dinner, I always find this the most difficult part of a Fast day, especially as my Quorn and Lentil curry is defrosted and ready to go.

Recipe please Sian, do you use the fake chicken bits. I can't get hold of the quorn bolognaise in my sainsburys anymore so am missing my fave fast day aubergine and quorn Bol moussaka type dish.

Hi Debs
Hope your day has gone well so far. I'm new to this so I am trying to find the best way for me. I have spent quite a few hours pouring over cookery books and planning my meals for today, my first fasting day, it has gone ok so far!
A Hairy Dieters cheese, leek and onion pastie at 231 cal each was a good choice for brunch and I decided on veggie soup, 60 cal, followed by a frittata at196 cal for dinner. Cup of proper tea is a must at breakfast though. Back to the herbal tea now though!
Good luck x

Well fast day no 1 for this week almost over! wohoo!
I was supposed to fast yesterday but I was so hungry come lunchtime that I decided to skip it and give it a proper go today...and its been a great day!
Had shrimp, red union and green bean stir fry for dinner (I don't eat breakkie or lunch during fast days) and gallons of green tea and I am not hungry.
Took my daughter for a 5 mile hike today and but skipped the aerobics this evening and stayed home playing with my munchkin instead.
It will be interesting to see if the scales have moved down anything in the last week.
I had my brothers and their families over for pizza on Saturday and had a couple of glasses of wine. I didn't have any alcohol in January and after how I felt on Sunday I think I will continue with no booze for the rest of this month also. Its amazing how much more energy you have after a few weeks with no wine (I lived just next to wine country in Northern California up until recently so no wine is a BIG biggie to me!)
Hope you all had a super fast day today and if you gave up halfway through, don't despair - tomorrow is a new day and it is never too late to start again:-))

OhmygodimSTARVING! I have eaten around 570 calories. Please tell me I haven't messed it all up!

You haven't messed it up@littlemissyoyo I don't think those extra few cals will do any difference! Yayy to you for getting through today so well!!:)
I'm taking my now growling stomach to bed, hoping to be dreaming of a nice cold margarita!

I'm so chuffed with myself today - I'm coming to the end of the second day of a back to back fast

I usually have breakfast but I wasn't hungry when I woke this morning so figured I'd wait to eat - fast forward to 4:30pm, by which time I figured I could turn this into a fast ... my calorie intake is 618, more than the usual 500/550 I keep to but I'm so chuffed

And you know what, even if the scales show no difference when I weigh myself later this week, I already feel better in my body, less bloated and full of the joys of spring.

[Tracieknits]

I kind of blew it today - went over on calories, but did manage a 22 hour zero calorie fast, so that's a bonus. All in all, I didn't go over *that* much, nothing I can't compensate for later in the week if necessary. I think I'll still make my 3500 calorie deficit this week.

Tomorrow is a snow day - getting 9 to 12 inches of snow! School's already been cancelled. And the offspring has requested pancakes when He awakes.

Tomorrow is a snow day - getting 9 to 12 inches of snow! School's already been cancelled.

Oh my life. That's a lot of snow! We usually get a fair bit (but nowhere near as much of that) in central Scotland but we seem to have escaped this year and have had practically nothing worth mentioning.

Well my fast day went to plan I'm pleased to say. I had nothing all day then around 500 cals as a main meal. Which I made from scratch. (If you all knew me you'd realise that's an achievement as I hate cooking and am much more of a 'heat up in the oven' kinda gal, lol).

I had cubed sweet potato roasted with a little extra virgin oil mixed with chillis and a little cumin. It was then added to chickpeas, spring onion, wilted spinach and some very thin strips of plain cooked chicken. Doesn't sound all that exciting but it was actually quite nice and more importantly, it filled me up. It was a recipe for 4 so it was difficult to be exact with the calorie count but I had a much smaller portion than everyone else so it would definitely have come in around 500 cals or less.

I weighed myself this morning and I'd lost 4lbs just with my first fast day. I know that wont happen every time but it was a good encouragement tbh.

I think I'm a convert.

@Tracieknits - this WOE/WOL is really flexible so don't be disheartened and forgive yourself. I don't really know that you "blew it", life just happened and it pushed you off course ... and as they say tomorrow is another day even if it is a snow day

We have a snow day here in Boston - I haven't dared look out of the window yet to see the damage, the snow was due to start in the early hours! what fun

Stay warm and may be skip the pancakes?