The Jogger
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Fasted again today, that was three last week Sun, Tues and Sat then today again, I might do another two this week, as I'm out for a belated xmas lunch on Friday.
Fasting
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Dirtlover2005
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Fair play Jogger! Both the wife and I are on it today but she has turned masochistic by watching the Comic Relief Bake Off!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
OMFG - tonight she conjured up home-made date sponge soused in sticky toffee sauce***!
*** It was deliciously sweet, despite her using less than 40% of the sugar in the original recipe. It makes me think that some people must have a ridiculous sugar addiction! Next time, she is going to try using even less sugar and butter, and use single instead of double cream in the sauce.
The Jogger
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Satan knocks on the door. 
Crème fresh, even
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Er, perhaps? (I can't really cook, so I wouldn't know! I exist on what other people cook, or something from the list of 6 or 7 simple meals that I can manage.)Crème fresh, even
Dirtlover2005
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Second day done - first time I have done them back to back. Wasn't too bad really and now that leaves me free for 5 a side tomorrow, circuits Thursday and maybe a bike ride to work on Friday if some of the ice has cleared up. :-)
OMFG - tonight she conjured up home-made date sponge soused in sticky toffee sauce***!
*** It was deliciously sweet, despite her using less than 40% of the sugar in the original recipe. It makes me think that some people must have a ridiculous sugar addiction! Next time, she is going to try using even less sugar and butter, and use single instead of double cream in the sauce.
Good luck. Sounds like you're up against it!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm taking the 'eat normally (with a few treats) 5 days a week, eat little 2 days a week' message literally!
As a matter of interest, I've calculated my calorie count for today. Once I've eaten the rest of the chocolate bar that I have lined up, I will have got through about 2,300 calories which is not bad for a non-fasting day including chocolate and a big glass of OJ/water.
Hitchington
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For anyone interested in knowing more about 5:2 fasting I would recommend reading this book:
http://www.waterstones.com/watersto...spencer/michael+mosley/the+fast+diet/9538173/
http://www.waterstones.com/watersto...spencer/michael+mosley/the+fast+diet/9538173/
I'm taking the 'eat normally (with a few treats) 5 days a week, eat little 2 days a week' message literally!
As a matter of interest, I've calculated my calorie count for today. Once I've eaten the rest of the chocolate bar that I have lined up, I will have got through about 2,300 calories which is not bad for a non-fasting day including chocolate and a big glass of OJ/water.
From press reports, even if folks doing the fasting diet go crazy on non-diet days, it is difficult to make up the 1500-2000 calories forgone on the diet days. My own observation is that even allowing myself chocolate treats I am eating less on non-diet days than previously as I have broken the "peckish = time for a snack" habit and the "I always cook with wine, sometimes I put it in the food" habit also. That jar of nuts in the cupboard has not been open for weeks!
I have changed my mantra about diets: All successful diets work in the same way.:" Eat less, move more". I have now added "Think more"
The Jogger
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Today is not a fasting day for me but I have not grazed or snacked at all.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
So, another fasting day ...
4 tablespoons of low fat natural yoghurt and a small banana for brekkie. A quick cafe stop this afternoon where I allowed myself some sugar in my coffee and shared a buttered toasted currant teacake. A healthy salad with two hard-boiled eggs this evening. No OJ tonight, just a couple of mugs of tea.
This is such a simple approach that if it works long-term, it will almost feel like 'cheating'!
I'm making a chart of how many calories there are in some of the things I normally 'guesstimate' such as porridge oats, pasta, rice, cous cous, potatoes, sweet potatoes etc. I'll use my new digital kitchen scales to weigh out 'xyz' calories worth each time.
Most salad ingredients and other low-cal veg will be effectively unlimited. TBH, I don't think it is worth working out how many calories there are in things like cabbage, celery, lettuce and cucumber because I'm never going to eat enough in one sitting to be a problem.
4 tablespoons of low fat natural yoghurt and a small banana for brekkie. A quick cafe stop this afternoon where I allowed myself some sugar in my coffee and shared a buttered toasted currant teacake. A healthy salad with two hard-boiled eggs this evening. No OJ tonight, just a couple of mugs of tea.
This is such a simple approach that if it works long-term, it will almost feel like 'cheating'!
I'm making a chart of how many calories there are in some of the things I normally 'guesstimate' such as porridge oats, pasta, rice, cous cous, potatoes, sweet potatoes etc. I'll use my new digital kitchen scales to weigh out 'xyz' calories worth each time.
Most salad ingredients and other low-cal veg will be effectively unlimited. TBH, I don't think it is worth working out how many calories there are in things like cabbage, celery, lettuce and cucumber because I'm never going to eat enough in one sitting to be a problem.
I find a protein rich breakfast keeps me full till lunch.:
2 dry fry eggs plus 2 fat free medallions of back bacon = 200 caloiries
banana and apple for lunch = 200 calories
tonight was a tomato and lentil soup = 200 calories
