Wednesday, 20 April 2016

dealing with fasting - the ongoing story

My Hub just told me, he didn't like me doing this 5:2 thing because he needs my focus to be on him and his diet.  His diet is to just not eat carbs.  And I am pretty much servicing this diet with delicious nutritious food every day.  I make him breakfast even sometimes.  He does appreciate it.  But not to the extent that it deserves.  Am working on not being resentful.

As for me, am now on day 3 of doing it on 500 calories.  Its an interesting process.  I have discovered I can do it, obviously, and yet there is  - eveyr time  -the whole. OH MAN! I've done this challenge, what? do you mean I have to carry on doing it....  seriously? 

So yes I am not relishing it, each day that I start I am dreading it.  And this morning when I worked out that I put 63 calories (or some such) into my tea in the form of milk!!! WHA!??? I tried to drink black tea first thing and that was NOT a good idea.  I am going to have to accommodate the use of calories in my tea... I like my morning tea - A LOT.  And black tea made me nearly barf.

So I ate some breakfast and this was like an egg, some paltry amount of broccoli and half a tomato.  Its not very much 500 calories when you divide it up into meals.

Having said that.  I do now actually feel absolutely fine.  Full even.  My breakfast was sufficient and I am going dancing shortly and honestly I feel no different to when I normally eat breakfast.  Am all high hopes again and this is a breeze.


2 comments:

SwirlyGirl said...

I'm impressed you have got to day 3 on only 500 calories! - not sure I could manage that. I remember doing a 12 day food cleanse a couple of years ago, once I had finished it, I couldn't go back to drinking milk in my usual tea, I had to change to black de-caff tea with a slice of lemon, the lemon made all the difference and makes it a more refreshing cuppa.x

HowtoBEaCOOLoldLady said...

Oh god no! am doing the 5:2 so each day of fasting is separate from the last. I have days of normal eating in between!!! good tip about the lemon tho. black tea makes me barf!