I am regretting some of my food choices from yesterday. I woke up feeling very hungry with a slightly grumpy gut. That's not a good combination.
I was a good girl yesterday, muesli for breakfast, it was quite late so I skipped lunch, and pasta chicken & pesto for dinner. I even weighed my ingredients for accurate calorie counting.
After I got back from my Greek lesson is a different matter, I had nearly 600kcal left for the day and we had nothing healthy in the house for me to snack on.
I messaged my husband on Skype and asked him to bring me a chocolate bar home. I didn't think it would make that much difference, the guidelines for 5:2 are very clear that you can eat as you wish on non-fast days. Oh but I think the re-education of my body has already started, only a week into the plan.
The chocolate (especially quite late at night) made my gut gripe and the corresponding blood sugar spike has me craving food today. The only thing keeping me straight today is the promise of my weigh-in tomorrow. I really need there to be a good result on the scales to keep my morale up.
Everyone on the forum says that the fasting days get easier the longer it goes on (I really hope so) so I'm working on the principle that the weight loss is my impetus while the fasting is still quite hard. I'm trying to avoid measuring myself until the beginning of February because i want to see an actual difference rather than one measured in millimetres (which could be accounted for by the tape being in a very slightly different place).
I know that this plan isn't a fast weight loss plan and I'm okay with the "tortoise" method of 'slow and steady'. For years I've been on quick-fix diets, the ones that say "you can lose 10lbs in a week". and every time I've lost less than that but gained the 10lbs back.
When I spoke to my mom the other day I tried to get her to try this plan, she asked me how much you were expected to lose I answered "1-2lbs per week". It seems that even with two decades longer of struggling with weight hasn't made her any wiser than I. she is still searching for the "fast and permanent" solution that doesn't exist. She's trying to lose weight for a location wedding she's attending in Kefalonia in May. My arguement is (okay split the difference 1-2lbs per week = 1.5lbs a week) that it is still18 weeks away and at 1.5lbs a week she could still lose 2 stone (and probably manage to keep it off while she is there). That sounds much better than losing more but gaining a lot back and not fitting into the new clothes she bought.
I'm off my soap-box now. I admit that talking to my mom is very stressful for me, especially when she's in "I know best" mode.
Today is going ti be a struggle but I will prevail!
I was a good girl yesterday, muesli for breakfast, it was quite late so I skipped lunch, and pasta chicken & pesto for dinner. I even weighed my ingredients for accurate calorie counting.
After I got back from my Greek lesson is a different matter, I had nearly 600kcal left for the day and we had nothing healthy in the house for me to snack on.
I messaged my husband on Skype and asked him to bring me a chocolate bar home. I didn't think it would make that much difference, the guidelines for 5:2 are very clear that you can eat as you wish on non-fast days. Oh but I think the re-education of my body has already started, only a week into the plan.
The chocolate (especially quite late at night) made my gut gripe and the corresponding blood sugar spike has me craving food today. The only thing keeping me straight today is the promise of my weigh-in tomorrow. I really need there to be a good result on the scales to keep my morale up.
Everyone on the forum says that the fasting days get easier the longer it goes on (I really hope so) so I'm working on the principle that the weight loss is my impetus while the fasting is still quite hard. I'm trying to avoid measuring myself until the beginning of February because i want to see an actual difference rather than one measured in millimetres (which could be accounted for by the tape being in a very slightly different place).
I know that this plan isn't a fast weight loss plan and I'm okay with the "tortoise" method of 'slow and steady'. For years I've been on quick-fix diets, the ones that say "you can lose 10lbs in a week". and every time I've lost less than that but gained the 10lbs back.
When I spoke to my mom the other day I tried to get her to try this plan, she asked me how much you were expected to lose I answered "1-2lbs per week". It seems that even with two decades longer of struggling with weight hasn't made her any wiser than I. she is still searching for the "fast and permanent" solution that doesn't exist. She's trying to lose weight for a location wedding she's attending in Kefalonia in May. My arguement is (okay split the difference 1-2lbs per week = 1.5lbs a week) that it is still18 weeks away and at 1.5lbs a week she could still lose 2 stone (and probably manage to keep it off while she is there). That sounds much better than losing more but gaining a lot back and not fitting into the new clothes she bought.
I'm off my soap-box now. I admit that talking to my mom is very stressful for me, especially when she's in "I know best" mode.
Today is going ti be a struggle but I will prevail!
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