The FastDay Forum

I am currently doing my second fast day (because I am a newbie). Just finished my walk and sipping coffee. I am going to have baked sweet potatoes filled with Greek yogurt and cranberries for dinner.

Prayers to you and your friend's family, Juliana.

Sounds delish Beachkitty.

Fasting but struggling a bit (as I often do on Thursdays). Heat induced headache which isn't shifting with pain killers. Ordinarily I'd eat bread or chocolate or something but can't so bleugh. Be fine after dinner and a sleep though.

I'm here as well. Back to my M/Th fast after a long weekend away. I fear I may have done too much damage over the weekend to get a loss this week, but feels good to be back on track.

On any fast day, I'm noticing that there will inevitably be someone chowing down on a big breakfast seated directly across from me on the subway. It's not the dining car! Annoys me mildly on non-fast days (smells), but really gets me on fast days.

Afternoon all, I'm in as well, now into my established routine of getting through the day with coffee - skinny caps are my treats for the day and seem to get me through.

I'll just stick to raw veg again tonight, and perhaps try to miss breakfast tomorrow.

I tend not to exercise on fast days, but did have a run last night which went well; it was a strange up day yesterday, ate lots of pastries and sandwiches left over from a work meeting

Feeling good so far, good luck to everyone.

My sympathies to you and the family, Julianna.

It's 11:24 in the midwest and I'm at home with my 3 kids today making several snacks and meals for them all day long. It's really getting to me! This is my second fast day and there's no way to avoid food like at work (stay away from the lunch room, etc). I've decided to take them to the zoo this afternoon to take my mind off the hunger but then had to prepare and pack snacks. Wow. Quite the test for my tummy today.

Hello i am also fasting today! My 2nd day fasting! It went better than the first one. I am almost in the end of the day, i'll have dinner in 1 hour and go to bed early...

Hi all

I had just typed a reply here and then went to open a new tab to search for a website to link in, and got rid of the whole page!! Doh!

So anyway I was feeling very please with myself for managing to fast today - I called it off yesterday as was feeling very odd and hadn't slept well. Today was much better and I've just put a roast chicken in (got an organic chicken for £1.99 in my supermarket's reduced section today!) - it's only me here but I'll try and restrain myself and not eat it all (or all the skin!) and have some with roast veggies. Should do me & the hubby nicely cold with salads over the weekend. Got piles of small picota cherries (only £1 at the mo), strawberries and some nectarines that are like bullets so they'll be staying on the windowsill to ripen. I don't eat lots of fruit usually but love this feeling of bounty at the moment - UK fruit & veg goes through a tough time in Spring! I know only the strawbs are UK grown out of what I said, but I just can't resist those cherries and peaches - oh and another wedge of watermelon!

Anyway, the link I was going to put up was for the iced coffee - glad Manderley's enjoying it and spreading the word!

http://ohsheglows.com/2013/06/24/diy-co ... ed-coffee/

I adore this website (although clearly eating roast chicken I'm not vegan but like to eat lots of plants too - see the 'green monster' tab at the top!) and the almond milk works well in cold coffee (I find it coagulates in hot coffee) - alpro unsweetened is 26 cals for 200ml.

Right will post this before I delete again!

I'm in today as well! Going well, nothing but black iced coffee so far! I'm a bit nervous, as I'm going away Friday for a week and haven't come up with a plan. We're staying with friends and I'm not comfortable telling them I'm fasting, so maybe I'll skip and get back to losing when I return home!
Good luck all!

I'm in today! Fasting with no food till dinner this time for the first time. I'm excited to try it, as on Monday I made it until 4:30... so now I just have to make it until 6 or so. Wish me luck - the same to you!

Thanks Nelsonsmum for the compliment! It is going well for me, too. Drinking lots of water and working around the house.

Thanks for the recipe Greenmonster, I'll certainly give it a try as I love iced drinks in this current hot weather. It sounds like a nice recipe.
Another cold drink that's good (and feels like a treat) is to blitz some ice cubes in a liquidizer or processor and add a small slosh of fruit juice ( you could use sugar free squash)
Put in a tall glass and garnish with mint.... Lovely!!

Have been at a conference all week. I fasted Sunday as I knew Monday would be a challenge and figured I would have to fast Saturday to make up for Thursday. Breakfast buffets, lunch buffets, 4 course dinners...I woke up this morning and just knew I needed a break. Had tea at breakfast, avoided the lunch buffet (added 3,000 steps to my Fitbit), made a cup of broth and feel down right proud of myself. I still have the dinner to contend with but truly am not concerned one bit.

I use to be all about "making them sorry they had a buffet". Now I just want a healthy quality meal. Good luck everyone for the rest of your day!

"I use to be all about "making them sorry they had a buffet".

- think that's still me!

Nearly at the end of the day. I am strangely finding it harder to fast in the hot weather, trying not to think about ice cold white wine until tomorrow -but I can hardly have that for breakfast!