The FastDay Forum

Hi Julie, glad the 5:2 is helping opposed to the 4:3. I will try the 4:3 to give me a boost if the weight loss stalls but 5:2 is working well so far. Good news about the relaxed attitude around food. Must be a phase we must go through! One of the great things about this WOL is how it changes our relationship with food and that a lot of it is actually psychological.
Know exactly what you mean about food snob! If I am eating less, I want to really appreciate it!

Congratulations on your chip 'revelation'! I had a similar experience when I too had a burger with fries and left some chips on my plate! This has never been known in my lifetime!

So, keep up the good work and, with the support we are finding here, long may it continue!

I figure, if I'm going to eat food i 'like' then this does not extend to 'crap' food!! just for the sake of it.... !!
Anyone else become a 'food snob' ?? lol

Yes, definitely! Although I was a foodie before this, I'm tasting food even more consciously now, as well as eating slower and really savouring the flavours and the textures. Crap food it just not worth it.

Interesting side effects, aren't they?

Well....... quick update.

I got on the scales on Thurs 7th - 5 weeks since starting this WOL.... AND, actually pleased to say I've lost 6lbs so an average of 1.2lbs a week!!

Ok, ok,... I seem to have lost the 6 lbs in my first week and then nothing since... but I stopped getting on the scales at week 2 as I had a small gain and it messed with my head! who knows then if its actually gone up AND down in this time!!

I'm trying to remain positive about being 6lbs LESS than I was 5 weeks ago as I have always said - If I can CONSISTENTLY lose just 1lb following this WOL a week, then I will be THRILLED!!
Also, I've had a bit of news that has set back my move to Jeddah and made me throughly fed up, so its helped me seeing this statistic that will encourage me to continue this WOL....

It will be interesting to see if my weight can continue to go down now,... this is supposed to be a WOL to LOSE weight - not to maintain!!

Before I updated my stats I was feeling P'd off again - I am still washing and wearing my ONE pair of emergency purchased size 16 pair of jeans, willing my weight to drop so I can wear my size 14's again. I had recently bought 2 new pairs (those 'lift&shape' from NEXT, have you tried them, they are amazing and so comfortable!!) and since I washed them, I can't flipping get into them and fasten them up!!GGrr..... yes I like this way of eating/living but I also want to lose fat and slim into my old clothes faster then I am doing at the moment!!

Anyhow - back to the positive - I am 6lbs lighter than I was 5 weeks ago

**I will NOT turn to food to comfort me while I am sad and frustrated about my visa application**

Hope everyone's good??

JB x

Thanks for the update - good attitude, concentrate on the positive.

I have just been trying on some size 14 trousers in my wardrobe and one pair is just right, another just a bit too tight, another will be ok when it is too warm to wear them and a pair of jeans will hardly get up my thighs!!

6lbs in 5 weeks is brilliant! Well done! Yes do stay positive, its a great achievement and its just the beginning!
Pity about the visa. Im sure it will be sorted soon and you will have lost even MORE weight before your husband sees you again.
Yes I have a pair of those jeans from NEXT! They are fab! You will be wearing your new ones before you know it! Xx

Thanks for the support ladies

Well,... even after my statement about not letting my emotions get the better of me - I folded - was supposted to be fasting too. However, I gave in and ate 12 mini macarons I had in the freezer - 465 calories according to the box!! It was strange though, as even though I was P'd off and really wanted to 'eat everything and anything' to make me 'feel better' I also couldn't be arsed to make/eat anything!! I have become so deflated......I couln't even be arsed to make my 'usual comfort food'.... so, I ate those, not too bad given my 500 calorie allowance on a fast day.... then in the evening I had some cold roast beef from the meal on mothers day and I roast some veggies in the oven to have with it - again, not too bad. then for supper I had the last ramekin of homemade cheescake and went to bed with a creme egg :O

So,.......... yesterday was NOT a fast day, but today IS!! so far so good and am also planning to fast tomorrow too - not done a back to back fast but will try my best.

I'm off for another black coffee!!

Laterzzzzzzzzzzzz JB x x x

Hi there, wondering what had been going on with you pleased to see you write the truth without guilt, and well done for the 6lbs loss

Thanks Bee - guilty eating or feeling guilty after eating certainly hasn't helped me in the past and this is why I like this WOL, no guilt associated with any of my food choices, I need to be honest with myself for me to succeed.

I was also going to add, that at the moment, I haven't been doing ANY exercise either which I know for me defo helps when it comes to weightloss - I just don't have the time or inclination when I'm feeling so despondent about my moving abroad and the headache of the paperwork for us and the cats!!
I'll be doing nothing BUT exercising in the free gym and swimming pools when I'm out there!!! so things will move quicker with respect to my weightloss then (allbeingwell!!)

JB x

So,........ Monday is my usual first fast of the week but I collapsed and ate, so Tuesday was a fast day and it was fine, fluids all day as usual until about 6pm when I had, oh gosh, I can't remember!! but I know it was 500 calorie compliant!! (omg, how bad that I can't remember what I ate only 3 days ago!!)

Woke up Weds feeling great as usual and so began my second fast day - was great, really surprised as to how not hungry I was - fluid again all day until 6pm when I had lamb leg steak and green beans.

Yesterday was a food day - skipped breakfast, but had a cheese scone with butter and a 'skinny' lemon & poppy seed muffin in Sainsburys cafe when out with my sister. Then I had some mushroom soup (tesco finest, half a pot) and a raspberry & white choc cookie (delish!!). Then, I made 'red nose day' cupcakes and biscuits with my girls, and so I didn't really have any 'proper tea' but I had 2 cakes and about 4 (small) biscuits.

I wasn't happy with the foods I ate yesterday to be honest - since trying this WOL, I have been eating FAR TOO MANY carbs like biscuits, cakes, bread, sweets that I have in the last 3 or 4 years!!! I know my body feels better and I have more energy by avoiding these foods on a regular basis, but since 5:2 - its hard to still say 'no' to these foods when no food stuff is supposed to be off limits. I mean, I even bought a multipack of sunbites crisps (you know, the baked multigrain crisps) just because I 'can eat crisps' - I haven't bought crips for yeeaaaars - so why bother now??.....I'm considering giving them to my sister as I know she eats them. I'm really not fussed, so why buy and start eating them????..........

As I want to rid myself of the carb craving/adiction again, I have chosen to fast today too. So that will be 3 fast days this week.

I am also going to have a word with myself and try to go back to eating the way I like (high protein, low carb- bit like Dukan) that makes me feel good and no bloating!! BUT, with the comfort of not feeling GUILTY if the occasion does arise to enjoy chips, cake or something like that. I'm sick of being hung up about food and what I can or can't eat!!

So,...... when I'm in control of the food I eat it will be high protein, low carb. When I'm not in control (friends cooking, eating out etc.) then I will just enjoy what's offered. I will also continue with 2 fast days, or if I feel like it, perhaps 3 fast days.

I forgot to get on the scales this Thurs morning!!, really need to take my waist measurement again too...............

Have a great weekend everyone!

JB x

So,...... when I'm in control of the food I eat it will be high protein, low carb. When I'm not in control (friends cooking, eating out etc.) then I will just enjoy what's offered. I will also continue with 2 fast days, or if I feel like it, perhaps 3 fast days.

I sense a fresh resolve in that statement. It sounds as if you have come to understand the way forward for you. Well done!

I find it makes my life easier if I don't have my 'trigger' foods in the house (in my case it's double cream!, although I bought some recently because we had thirty people here for a party and I managed to eat a moderate amount, instead of finishing it off, as I once would have done. There is hope for us all!

Thanks for your comments and encouragement Stowgateresident!! You are doing amazingly well, just took a sneaky peek at your progress chart

Well..... what a learning weekend I've been on!!

Saturday was a food day following my 3rd fast of the week on Friday. Skipped breakfast but stopped on the M1 at a services for the loo for my kids only to be nagged into having McDonalds for lunch rather than waiting till we arrived at my Mum's further into the journey I had a Big Mac, reg fries & diet coke. On the way out of the services, a box of 12 Krispy Kreme were flashing at me - but, I thought 'ok, I can get them, enjoy one as there were going to be 7 of us at my Mum's, one each and then others can have the rest on Sunday - great.... bought them. Had one 'for pudding' when got to my Mum's. Then I had an Indian take away with my Dad. Nothing major, shared a rice, had most of a naan bread and a lamb curry..... the thing is.......... I felt disgustingly stuffed at the end of this meal, its been quite a while since I ate as much, or such fatty/rich food I went to bed feeling awful, and all the time, talking to myself in my head about 'never wanting to feel like this again, what I pig I had been etc....'

I got my comeuppance, as at 3am, I literally sat up straight (like they do in the films lol!) in bed and thought - I'm going to be sick - I ran to the loo and braced myself!!!........... nothing came, but I went to the loo, and I guess the standing up helped what ever was threatening to come back up, go back down!! (sorry if this is TMI) I had cold sweats.... I made it back to bed and did go back to sleep but in the morning OMG!!! I felt dreadful, SO so sososo bloated, nauseous and kept burping every 5 mins!! I had to just carry on and get ready as it was my cousins daughters christening. What a shame. All day, I kept burping curry. I fell sick all day. I didn't eat ANY of the buffet or cake that I had been looking forward to. I only had diet coke (thought the bubbles would help to eventually settle my stomach) or cups of tea all day. On the plus side, I thought it was good, I got another fast day in without having to tell my family I was fasting!!........ but, I really did feel so dreadful and uncomfortable that it has really, really taught me another valuable lesson. Even today, I waited till 3pm before eating anything. Up till then it had just been water/juice & cups of tea, I actually was dreading eating. Monday's are usually my fast day of choice. I had some filled pasta parcels from out of the freezer as I am trying to empty it in anticipation of my move with a little grated cheese on the top. (yeah yeah, I know I said I was going to try to avoid carbs routinely!) It was ok, felt full really quickly, and I managed to keep it down!!........ I haven't had anything since as I don't want to push it. The thought of feeling like I did on Sunday is enough to make me 'feel' sick..!! I was planning to eat today/fast tomorrow (before all this happened) as I'm going out for a meal for my Dad's birthday on Wednesday (another usual fast day) so I think I might just do one or two 'light' meals tomorrow instead.

I will try to remember to get on the scales on Thursday morning, as after this week - it will be interesting to see the effect - if ANY!! LOL

Phew,.... I feel refreshed after typing all that drivel!! lol

night all, JB x

Bless you, I had that once after a roast, felt so uncomfortable all day!

Glad your back on track now.
My fast over for the day and I'm out for afternoon tea tomorrow. Hurrah!

Yay to 5.2.

Well at least you have learnt something after all the rich food and that is the beauty of this WOL, it retrains our way of thinking about food.
I am curious as to what your weightloss will be this week as I am quietly hoping you will have a decent loss as I experienced something similar and yet had a bump in weightloss. Fingers crossed the same happens here!x

Hi...what a roller coaster and so much going on in your life!
Why not have an empty the freezer party if you still have loads to go? Spread the load!
Look after yourself...thanks for your candid honesty...I think most have us been there in front of the fridge at times!