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For lunch I threw a few things in a pan - garlic, onions, ginger, tenderstem broccoli, mushrooms with a few prawns, couple of eggs, cooked with Fry Light and a dessert spoon of teriyaki sauce.

Dinner will be roast mackerel with veg. Husband and girls will have chips with it!

Running is hard work, running with a poo sack is very unpleasant

Oooh noooo! Can you not bag it and pop it to one side on the pavement and collect it on your way back? Or do you not run back the same way you came?

When I ran with my dog before I had to do this, especially as I found running a lot gave him 'joggers belly' shall we say

Been finding it relatively easy with no food so far today - it's been good to remind myself of how good it can feel to go without food for longish periods of time

....really really happy with the loss but better still my knees have stopped aching.....

Very happy for you and your knees, hope they get better and better!


I am doing my second fast today, have had a coffee and so far that is it. Treating myself to a hair cut this morning to pass some of the time Plan on Making Chirizo, Swiss Chard and White bean Soup along with small salad for my 500
Feeling headachey but not too bad, drinking lots of water
Hope everyone has a great day!
Kathleen

Thursday fast for me - have chopped and changed a few times as orignally we were going to Legoland for the day so it was to be a Friday fast....then the weather put paid to our plans so I'm back on a Thursday fast.

First day of only having one meal too - finding it a little bit harder.....

Good luck to everyone!

Oh I have to say I am very encouraged by reading all of your posts. I am on day 2 this week of my 1st week. Finding it ok. Had to cave about 11.30 and some rice cakes and a little triangle of cheese but have my eyes on some lovely grilled chicken and veg tonight. So happy to say day 2 is going ok. I will try and do a sneaky day on Saturday...

Well done to you all. Very inspirational lot for sure.

Usually a Monday/Thursday faster but feasted Monday due to my daughter being home for the holiday weekend. Finding Thursday a bit tougher after just having had a Tuesday fast.

Coffee with skim milk to wake up and now at work having ice tea w/lemon and feeling headachey but I think too much caffeine. I am going to put the tea aside for now and get a big glass of water. So great to be able to read eveyone's story and be encouraged to stick it out. I know I definitely feasted over the Easter weekend so I am also going to add a half fast on Saturday.

This is my 4th week and 8th fast so I know can make it through to the dinner that is cooking in my crockpot right now! Thanks to everyone for sharing your journey on this site. In the U.S. the program just aired on PBS last night so hopefully there will be more joining in from this side of the pond.

Fast #9 for me today. Usually I bring some sweet peppers with to work to eat in the afternoon, but decided not to today. I get off work early so I can go home and eat a nice meal. Good luck today everyone!

Running is hard work, running with a poo sack is very unpleasant /quote]

Oooh noooo! Can you not bag it and pop it to one side on the pavement and collect it on your way back? Or do you not run back the same way you came?

When I ran with my dog before I had to do this, especially as I found running a lot gave him 'joggers belly' shall we say

It's a circular run. You should of seen me you would have died laughing. She kept dragging me into hedges to sniff out various things!

Am really struggling this afternoon waiting for dinner. Gonna snooze for a bit. Nearly there, nearly there!

This is my one fast day this week as I was in Spain on holiday for a long weekend. It was so warm and sunny on Tuesday in Barcelona but today I walked home from work in a blizzard Wish I had planned chilli for dinner, but we're having baked gammon and salad. I'm going to make coleslaw with 0% fat yoghurt dressing. Jacket potatoes for the non-fasters.

On holiday hubby was moaning about his protruding belly so I am trying to persuade him to join me on 5:2. He can go for several hours without eating when he is busy with something, but he does like to snack at frequent intervals especially when watching TV. We did Dukan together three years ago for a couple of months; I lost 10lbs and he lost 2st but I felt really unwell and became anaemic while doing it so we stopped and the weight crept back on.

Today's fast seems easier than usual - perhaps it's because I've been eating lots for the previous 6 days and my body is glad of the rest!

Fourth "fast" on my Tue/Thu routine - midday not too bad - the afternoon is the hardest though!
Weight is coming off - but nowhere near as fast as it usually does for me (before bounding straight back up again.) The question will be whether this method is more sustainable than others

Fast 4 today! I work at a desk and tend to nibble all day long so find Thursday fast days harder than Mondays when I don't work. I've been trying not to nibble as much on non fast days so today is much better than last Thursday. Holding out until lunch is better because I am up so early and a small 100 calorie meal doesn't take me very far so found I was hungry anyway so think waiting and enjoying a more satisfying lunch works better for me.

Today I have homemade turkey vegetable soup and some fresh cut veggies for lunch and for dinner I’m trying large shrimp and veggie stir fry over sharitaki noodles ....I sure hope I'm not disappointed because I was so excited when I found these noodles at the market!

Happy Fasting

I'm hungry!

Looking forward to my king prawn stir fry.

What a supportive forum this is- thanks everyone! Great to read about everyone's highs and lows; the highs really help to motivate me and the lows make me realise that I'm not alone.
Keep going UK gang, nearly there! I expect the aussies all made it to the end. And good luck to the USA gang today.

Why do I always feel soooooo tired when I fast? Why can't I have some prep like other guys get? [puppydog eyes]

This is my only fast day this week and I had an extremely bad moment on the scales this morning, so it's not going to be a great contribution for the weigh-in even if the fast day takes off about 1kg (as it should, mostly water unfortunately).

Why do I always feel soooooo tired when I fast?

It goes back to that other topic I started, but I still haven't found an answer why some get a lift and others find it a downer, and most of us are pretty much in the middle. I can't recall how long you have been fasting Pip, it might get better with practice? Like...