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So pleased that your fast day went well. Welcome back! Onwards and downwards!

Thanks!

Yesterday's non-fasting day went well, I did not go crazy or even feel the need to. I had a lovely dinner salad with a nice piece of steak cut up on top, sprinkled with blue cheese and a small bit of ice cream for dessert.

Expect to have another good non-fasting day today as well.

Had a decent fast day today, feels pretty good going into the weekend. I have things I want to do that I think are fun, so I have something to look forward to and think about besides food.

I tend to have a cup of iced coffee every morning, with cream and coconut milk. So on my fast days this eats up 120 calories of my 535. For my next fast day (Tuesday) I plan to switch to Yerba Mate, which I can easily drink without cream or coconut milk, and that way I can have my full set of calories for dinner and it extends the amount of time I actually go without any calories, which I think increases the health benefits.

well I ended the week where I started weight wise. To be fair yesterday's fast was not the best, so I plan to go with the idea I had above. I am also thinking of doing my fast days as real fast days, virtually no calories, just the teas and see how that goes. I have a problem with stopping. I can put off starting to eat reasonably well, but once I have started, well I tend to nibble.

So essentially the fast will go from dinner on Monday until coffee/breakfast on Wednesday. We will see how that goes. Hope to do this 2 days a week, Tuesday and Friday.

ok, So I am doing a version of the Fast Beach Diet, basically a 6 week strict following. Here is the plan...

Fast days on Tuesday and Friday
The rest of the days will be under 2,000 calories
NEAT will be 10,000 steps a day and 10 flights of stairs
I plan to time myself doing a plank every Monday morning
3x's a week to "run" up the driveway and walk back down as my HIT

Today's weight is 256.2.

Good luck, looking forward to reading how it all went,

Ballerina x

Thank you for the support.

well, the "exercise" is what always gets me. I didn't time the plank yesterday, and our weather has not allowed our evening walks, so my steps are falling short. Not going to beat myself up over it, I will get there.

On a positive note, I use a standing desk at work, and brought home a podium that I will rig so that I can stand when I use the computer at home. This way I will only sit for a short time at the end of the day. Even if I don't get more steps this way it is healthier to stand than to sit, it works more muscles.

Food yesterday went very well! I had 1,264 calories of nutritious food, no anxiety about not eating, and no willpower necessary. It was very comfortable.

Today is going very well also. I skipped my morning coffee since I can't drink without cream and coconut milk, and instead drank teas, to save the calories for dinner. I am having a large salad for dinner, and drinking a lot of tea and water. I love a nice salad so this is something I am looking forward to.

weight 255.6 this morning, down .6 since yesterday. Moving in the right direction!

weight 254.8 so down .8 after a successful fast day. Today is a non-fast day and a work day, so I will have my morning coffee with cream and coconut milk, then just tea and water at work, and then dinner. Tonight is baked Mahi-Mahi, and sautéed kale, with a nice glass of wine

255 up .2 after a non- fasting day. I ended up making artichoke quiche and a salad.

things are going well.

255, that is 1.2 down for the week so far. Monday will be a week, and that weigh in will be after 2 non-fasting days, it will be interesting to see. Hoping it is still lower, obviously. That will be the first week of my 6 week strict version.

I was going over my medical records. I noted that the lowest I have weighed since I have been seeing this doctor is 239, a few years ago. I have to see her again in December. Normally, I don't set date/weight goals but I am going to make an exception here. I want to be in the 30's by the time of that appointment, which is actually December 8th. That is 26 weeks away, if I calculated correctly, and I have, lets call it 20 pounds to get there. Now that is a reasonable goal, I think. So here I go....

That's a good goal you have set yourself and now we all know about it the game is on, no slacking or we will all jump on you. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Ballerina x

Well done Chris and good luck with your goal- I'm signing up to the post Solstice challenge, the challenges have been key short term goals that I could focus on achieving and I did! I also pop into the walking tent for a chat and challenge to see what peeps are up to walking around the world. A walk on fast days definitely produces results. See you soon! I can jump too

Thanks so much for the support, all! I will have to check out the Solstice challenge. Challenges tend to not be something I do, but it may be helpful here.

254.6 down .4 after a non-fasting day. If that holds till tomorrow morning then that will be a 2 pound loss for my first week back.

A general review of this week, the food went well for the most part. The first fast went very well, the second fast a little more difficult. The non-fast days went very well also, and I find I do best if I don't actually eat breakfast. I am not usually hungry early in the day and well it uses up calories that I would rather have later in the day.

As to movement, I did finally time a "plank" though I could only manage a knee to elbow as opposed to a toe to elbow, and made it to a count of 20 (one one thousand, 2 one thousand, 3 one thousand, etc). My daily steps this week averaged over 7,000 steps a day which is a 2,000 step increase over what I had been doing. And most days I did 10 flights of stairs.

The goals for this coming week are to stick to the stricter 5:2 (fast days under 500, non-fast days under 1,800), keep daily steps over 7,000 and daily flights of stairs over 10, and time my plank again.

Summer solstice is 21st June! You might like to wait for the next challenge.