Lets try again - 13/03/18

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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