The FastDay Forum

Yesterday was my first Fast day and it was fairly easy, didn't eat until 6PM and only had 366 calories. Thought I would be famished this morning, but found I had no appetite at all.
Ended up skipping breakfast, doing some shopping, skipping lunch, and was not hungry until mid afternoon at which time I ate a cheeseburger. I'm still full from that and probably won't need a full dinner, maybe just a snack later on.
Who would've thought that not eating would lead to loss of appetite! Now looking forward to my next fast day on Monday.

[Tracieknits]

Okay, I may be hypersensitive to this, but your posts makes me a little uncomfortable. My mom had anorexia when I was a child. Frankly, I think you need to eat a bit more than that on a feed day. It's not good to celebrate such a huge loss in appetite. Sure, skipping an occasional meal won't hurt anyone, but you're practically fasting for a second day.

If you need guidance, you can calculate your Total Daily Energy Expenditure and figure out what you are supposed to be eating in a day. Just google "Calculate TDEE". On fast days, you should eat 25% of that figure. On feed days, you should at 100 to 110% of that figure.

Please know that I'm saying this out of concern for your well being and not to be nasty. I waited a day to see if anyone else was going to comment, and I suspect your post has made others as uncomfortable as it made me.

Hi Tracieknits: Thanks for your concern and apologize to anyone I made uncomfortable. I was just so overjoyed not to be hungry since I'm normally hungry all the time! And I was thinking about if I should just go ahead and do my 2 days consecutively since I was that far anyway. I guess I need to read some more on that...am now reading Brad Pilon's "Eat, Stop, Eat."

Anyway, I ended up having a hot dog for dinner last night and today my appetite is back full force. So I will enjoy my weekend foodwise and see how my fast day on Monday goes.

Still cold up North? Is another snowstorm in the forecast?

[Tracieknits]

So glad you took it as concern and not me just being mean! I know I can be a bit sensitive to these things

Glad to hear it's evened out. I know I am impressed when I don't feel like eating enough for three

Yes, it's a bit colder, but there's no snow on the ground and I think the storm will go South of us. It's definitely looking like Spring up here. My tulips are sprouting and my new pink ballet flats arrived in the mail