Fast Day 2

I'm coming to the end of my second fast day so time for an update. I was planning on posting sooner but life has got in the way!

I made it through my first fast day relatively unscathed although did learn a valuable lesson in that deciding only to have some veg with my chicken breast was not a great idea. The chicken was about 160 calories leaving me over 200 calories. At this point I realised just how much veg would be needed to make up 200 calories, suffice it to say I don't want to see a cabbage again any time soon!

My usual fast days will be Monday and Thursday but as I had a wedding to go to yesterday I switched it to today. Breakfast this morning was a poached egg and a slice of toast, definitely need more practice at poaching eggs but apart from that a successful breakfast. Felt quite hungry today but made it to dinner time and cheated by having a low calorie chilli con carne ready meal that came in at just under 400 calories. I'm starting to feel hungry again now but, oh well, it will soon be tomorrow and I can eat normally again.

Won't be long now until my first proper weigh-in and waist measuring session and we'll see whether there are any early results. I must admit I did have a sneaky go on the scales mid-week and was a pound down on my starting weight so fingers crossed!

Time to chill now, bit different from a usual Friday night, no beer or munchies, glass of water and a film anyone?

A New Week, A New Me?

So, despite the name of my blog, which incidentally is my first attempt at a proper blog, the motivation for starting it is something specific... losing weight.

Today is my first day on The Fast Diet and in an attempt to track my progress and keep me motivated I thought I would blog about the experience.

I'm not massively overweight but could do with losing a few pounds and reducing my waistline and as the Fast Diet seemed to fit with my general approach to dieting, i.e. little planning or preparation needed, I thought I would give it a go.

So it is that on this wet and miserable bank holiday Monday I am now officially on the Fast Diet. For the record and for comparison my vital statistics as of the morning of 25th August:

Weight: 10 st 13.2 lbs / 153.2 pounds / 69.5 kg
Body Fat: 26.4%
BMI: 24.2
Waist: 35"
Neck: 15.5"

My plan for my fasting days is to have breakfast and dinner and roughly split it so that I have 200 calories for breakfast and the remaining 400 calories for dinner.

Breakfast this morning consisted of:

Aldi Harvet Morn Swiss Style Muesli (No Added Sugar) - 30 g / 110 calories
Milk (Semi-Skimmed) - 45 ml / 22.5 calories
Aldi Optifit Active Low Fat Yogurt Drink (Strawberry) - 100 g / 75 calories

So a total of 207.5 calories leaving me with 392.5 calories for my evening meal which will consist of a grilled chicken breast with accompaniments to be decided!

I also had a cup of black coffee, no sugar, with my breakfast which doesn't count for any calories and seeing as that is how I take my coffee anyway that is a bonus.

I'm not sure at this stage whether being at home on a fast day will be a blessing or a curse but time will tell on that one.

Anyway, that will do for now for my first of hopefully many more regular posts detailing my progress and maybe any other random stuff I feel like blogging about.