The FastDay Forum

Hey all.. this is a first... me introducing a fasting today thread.
Im taking the challenge today.... no idea whats for dinner and i dont have to worry about brekky or lunch as i dont eat it on such days. May have a tiny portion of Aldi cottage cheese around 2pm. Have had an expresso with a dash of milk and dont tell anyone.. 1/8th teaspoon of sugar.. yes i know im not supposed to.

Morning ! I am in today, looking forward to a fast after an indulgent 4 day weekend. Alright for some, eh?
Good luck all x

I'm in today. Very busy day at work so its making the time fly.
Didn't have any progress in October, so going to be a bit stricter on my Feed days this month, as well as adding an extra fast, so switching from Mon, Thurs to M,W,F. Good luck all.

Good luck to you all - got thru my first fast day yesterday (598Cal) so pretty pleased………….early days but fingers crossed!!

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Yep....I'm ready. Shouldn't have made chocolate and Nutella brownies and cookies last night.
Anyway I have a wee salad to take to work for lunch and have aubergine bake with a chicken breast later.
Laters

I'm in today and I really need to do a good fast today as I'm feeling very blobby.
Probably nothing till dinner time , which could be any time I want as OH is away. Waitrose had some fresh Tuna reduced to £8.45 a kilo yesterday so I'll be having some of that either with a salad or a sort of ratatouille later.

I'm in too, restarting fasting since way too long ago

One of my usual 4:3 and I could do with today to sort out my sodium bloat - let's just say that yesterday involved an obscene number of salted pistachio nuts and leave it at that.

Well done on yesterday's successful FD, @Wilson

@Juliana.Rivers- I'm not over-keen on it but I have some Italian friends who take the edge off the bitterness of an espresso by adding a smidgeon of salt and/or a twist of fresh lemon peel.

Hello I am fasting today too.
This morning I got up and felt just a little hungry, which made me doubt if can could pull off a fast today. However I ran late for work and didn't have time for breakfast and then meetings all morning at work. It is now 13hrs and I am no more hungry than this morning and want to wait until hunger becomes uncomfortable. I have just had a boullion to warm me up.
I can never quite understand how hunger is regulated. If this was an eating day I would be starving by now but somehow on fasting days it is not an issue until I get home in the evening. When I get home in the evening, there is this ritual of having a meal to end the day and then relax. If I come home and don't eat it is as if there is no closure to the day. Straaaaange.
Will report back later on how it went.

Hello all, I'll be fasting today as well. It is only 8:30 a.m. here so I have the whole day to get through but I will be busy until 3:30 ish so I should be able to get through the day until then before eating some vegetable stew, maybe with a bit of rice. Looking forward to it but not a bit hungry now. Last night I really pigged out, again. Ate a big dinner and then just kept on eating even though I was so full I felt I would burst. Craziness all over again. I'm hoping today will be easier than Monday's fast when I was so hungry all day.
Must do some dishes, they are on every counter in the kitchen from last night's cooking. Then I'm off to a doctor's appointment. Good luck everyone. ttfn

I'm in today too @stephd you are not alone, I ate and ate last night, dinner was fine, but then I went mad on snacks and junk after my zumba class.

Today hasn't been too bad, I'm hungry but that's no big thing. Need to start cooking soon, bangers and mash for hubby and the kids. Weight watchers sausages with carrot and Swede mash for me

When I get home in the evening, there is this ritual of having a meal to end the day and then relax. If I come home and don't eat it is as if there is no closure to the day. Straaaaange.

@Ieramul, I think it's Josie Spinardi who refers to particular periods of the day as transition times when people tend to eat to mark the switch from one mode to another. So, some people want to eat when they reach home after school/work as it does mark the switch from one to the other. Or, they eat when they bring in shopping bags and before putting food away. Etc. Etc.

She suggests that if people note they have difficulties with transition times, then they need to see if they can establish new 'switching' rituals that satisfy them during that time. One example on another forum was someone who used to eat after reaching home, while preparing the evening meal. Her new ritual was to enter her front door, drop her bags, clip a leash on her dog, and exit again to take the dog for a short walk. That became her new transition and she had no desire to eat before her evening meal (and stopped picking while preparing the meal).

iirc, Spinardi similarly suggested a variant on this to mark the a definitive end to a meal and to discourage grazing or snacking through an evening. It approximated to saving a particular activity for the end of a meal. E.g., watching a DVD or reading an article becomes something you do *after* you've finished your meal.

Just had a good, filling, low cal meal and still want to eat. story of my life . Instead I will have a cup of tea. I understand having transition times/foods. Every time I go to my friend's the visit doesn't feel complete until I have a piece of her cake or some homemade waffles. I come home feeling a bit "empty" and not just my stomach lol. Is that the kind of thing you are explaining? and it doesn't feel like I am moving into a relaxing evening unless I have a cup of tea. Speaking of which, mine is brewed!

Just had a good, filling, low cal meal and still want to eat. story of my life . Instead I will have a cup of tea. I understand having transition times/foods. Every time I go to my friend's the visit doesn't feel complete until I have a piece of her cake or some homemade waffles. I come home feeling a bit "empty" and not just my stomach lol. Is that the kind of thing you are explaining? and it doesn't feel like I am moving into a relaxing evening unless I have a cup of tea. Speaking of which, mine is brewed!