I have been losing weight but so slowly. Last Fast, Monday, I decided to use the My Fitness Pal app which has been talked about on the forum to check that my fast day was below 500calories. To my great disappointment I found that it was over 700. The biggest problem was breakfast. I was using a recipe for yogurt and meusli in the 5:2 Fast Diet recipe book. Page 42. It said this meal was 223 calories per serve. I had measured out the serve exactly but substituted a persimmon from our tree instead of cherries and strawberries. Also I didn't put in the ground almonds and coconut flakes in the meusli. Well, apparently persimmons are very high in calories. The whole breakfast was over 400 calories. So I don't know who to trust.
Today I have decided to give breakfast a miss, which I feel very nervous about. I am taking an orange to work and sachets of miso soup. I am drinking coffee now. This going without breakfast is whole new territory and scary!
Tonight's tea is ocean trout with broccolini, tofu and a sauce made from oyster sauce, hoisin, soy, black Chinese vinegar and chilli. IT's from the June issue of Delicious Magazine, Jill Duplex's Fab 4. She says it's 453 calories, but can I believe her?
Here goes!