Experiments with Fasting

So I did this BBC quiz thing, and apparently they are well behind the idea that regular fasting is good for the body.  So I have decided to do the 5:2 diet for a while to see what happens.  To see if I can manage it.  To see if I lose a little weight and feel better.

I am feeling pretty good at the moment (got up before 6am today no trouble!) and have been eating pretty well, but Hub is planning to do some crazy Lipotrim thing to lose weight. He is so not into cooking so food diets are really hard for him.  He has diabetes type 2 and has been told to lose weight - so far this hasn't happened despite not eating sugar any more.  He did this off his own back and its prescribed from the pharmacy and involves surviving on 2 meal replacement drinks a day.  So my fasting 5:2 effort is kind of in support of that too.

Its 10.43am and I have to admit I am obsessed with the time.  I have been drinking copious amounds of ginger tea and I have just had a black coffee.

Its not easy.  I don't feel bad though.  And the tea does seem to stave off the hunger pretty well.  Lets see how it goes.   I may well be posting obsessively about it too!

Yes.  Here I am at 11.47.   I got bored more than anything.  I wanted to eat my lunch, I got up early, that's OK I justified it all to myself.  So.  I ate 257 calories.  2 poached eggs and some broccoli and courgette.  With a little smoked salmon and garlic, chilli flakes and apple cider vinegar.  I must say I don't feel very full.

This could be hard!  On the other hand, I am also fine.  And so "hard" is perhaps relative.  Maybe its all habit! I think if i were extremely busy then it might help.  Right then.  Cracking on!

1433.  I feel absolutely fine.  

At 1730 I was really really hungry.  But the food I ate filled me up.  I have drunk an inordinate amount of tea today.  And Im now off to bed  - bit early - don't want to be trying to sleep hungry.  It wasn't fun and I missed lots of yummy things.  Can't imagine how folk do this 2 times a week every week.  Felt like a marathon of concentration and tea drinking.

But I did it! and really its OK.  Just different.