I'll admit I'm weak now and get it out of the way.
I did not fast yesterday.
I had very good intentions, but
they are often blasted to tiny little pieces in the face of toddler
determination.
I was doing well, 11:00 came
around and I was still just on fluids (for reference the small boy had been up
since 05:30), and it was snack-before-nap-time. He chose an apple. He took one
bite out of it and handed me the other one from the fruit bowl. He then refused
to eat his apple if I wasn't eating mine. And he's a smart one, he knows the
difference between fake eating and real eating, he would inspect my apple after
every bite before taking a bite of his own.
Failure one doesn't seem so
bad. In the grand and cosmic scheme of dieting I could have snacked on
something much less healthy and more calorie-laden.
Unfortunately, that is just where it started to go downhill like
an avalanche.
The reason I tend toward fluid only fasts is because I like
eating. Once I start, I then find it very hard to stop.
The corner of a sandwich, the small bite-ette of a cookie (a gift
from his aunt which he wanted to share with me) they all add up to a bad case
of “not fasting at all”.
By dinner time I was starving and unhappy. However, I did not cave
to carb cravings. I made a fabulously delicious salad with an omelette.
Salads are made divine by experimentation
with herbs spices and juices, no oil required. NomNomNom
And the definitive banning
of iceberg lettuce.
I am not going to make a knee-jerk reaction and decide that today
I will fast too. Because even though (probably) I didn’t stay under my 500cal
restriction*, I was nowhere near a proper “eat” day calorie intake.
I will just be careful. and try to fast again on another day when I am better prepared, the boy is in nursery, and I'm not preparing his meals while trying not to eat.
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