The FastDay Forum

Ohhhh I have just looked at my progress tracker, and remembered my TDEE is around 2100 calories, and on my fitness pal have worked out I ate around 2200, so not even that much over! Crazy I love this! Feel so full and satisfied!

Another successful day of fasting happy to say! I didn't really feel too hungry at all today. Kept myself busy! Have felt slightly hungry tonight but think I have just been not so busy and a bit bored, thinking of food quite a lot. So today I didn't eat anything at all until around 6pm when I had a little portion of SW prawn curry (really low, only made with chopped tomatoes, prawns, fat free yogurt and spices) and salad, then some melon. I had approx 100 calories left so had a 60 cal hot chocolate and some mini marshmallows, felt like such a treat!

Looking forward to eating tomorrow! I think weetabix for breakfast, soup for lunch and chilli and bombay potatoes for tea! Happy lady hope everyone has had a great day!

Just popping by to say how lovely it is to read your enthusiasm @sweet21!

You are a great ambassador!

It sounds like you're doing really well!! There's a bit of a learning curve, I found for myself. My first few weeks, I definitely overate on non-fasting days. When my weight loss slowed, I started reining that in.

My goal with this WOE, is, other than losing weight, learning how to eat so that I never regain again. So I try to be really mindful on feed days/normal days. I don't always succeed, but I try to stop when I've had just enough, rather than eat the whole aero bar or chicken pie. The idea is normal size portions of mostly healthy food, with moderately sized treats.

@Hazelnut20 thanks so much, its really nice to hear comments like that

@Tracieknits thanks for the advice! I'm going to try and be mindful of it by planning what I eat the day before. Hopefully that will be enough - maybe I should plan in some chocolate or a 'treat' to look forward to, but also with that plan in the portion size? So tomorrow I might buy myself a small bar of chocolate to look forward to in the evening, rather than just going out on a whim and buying it right there right now because I fancy it? All food for thought I suppose

Thanks ladies!!

I keep a stash of mini bars of chocolate. They're usually about 60 calories each. I'm normally good about having only one

Forgot to post yesterday! Had an ok day - my non-fast day, but ended up overrating again. Found out I was starting my new job, so automatically picked myself a load of chocolate for a 'treat'. Need to think more about that, it's so mindless. But not too upset about it, probably due to the fast day I had today which went well. I had a banana, some prawn stir fry and salad and some angel delight. Came to about 600 calories but it issss my third one of the week so pretty pleased . And pleased that I managed to make it through my 12 hour shift on only a banana! Think being in work is going to be better for my fasting - as I know a lot of people say - because I'm kept busy and don't really have time to think about food. Really hoping the scales are kind to me in the morning!

Good Luck with the scales tomorrow @sweet21
Don't forget the tape measure that's sometimes a better indication of what's happening to your body.
Well done on the 4:3 don't worry at all about a few calories extra that's not going to ruin anything,
I'd call that a very good week indeed.

Thanks @Sue.Q.. however the scales were not nice to me! Was a real disappointment to be honest, I think I'm actually heavier now than I was last week? Really demotivated me, and I've had a bad two days of overeating. Really struggling to get my head round it! I keep secret eating and hiding the wrappers from people - I know, its a really bad habit. I need to leave my purse at home!!

HOWEVER, as ever I am drawing a line under it and trying to rectify my weekend by having a fast day tomorrow. Won't eat anything all day, will go to the gym at some point, and then will have a salad later. Hope I'm feeling more motivated tomorrow.. Think I'm just down because I have done 3 solid fasts last week, and am pretty sure the scales will show a gain on Tuesday. And I know it's because of my overeating on non-fast days.

EURGHHH. Anyone have any advice for not overeating? Maybe a 18:6 type day would help.. surely I won't be able to eat THAT much in 6 hours?

That's the best you can do draw a line and forget it otherwise it will eat away at you, make tomorrow a determined true 500 cal fastday eve meal only if you can wait, then as you said 18:6 on other days plus find something healthy to nibble + munch on in the evenings on your feed days.
I've had a really bad day today I've never stopped nibbling on rubbish just couldn't seem to stop, on these occasions we do have to learn to forgive ourselves ( not easy).
and move on

Note to self Must do better!!!