My forth week | The 5:2 Fast Diet

Wow. I cannot believe it I am already 4 week in. Usually by now on other diets I am secretly thinking to myself – “is this worth it?” – But not this time. I am in love with this new way of life, even though the past 2 weeks the scales have not shown good numbers.

The fasting is getting easier, but some days are easier than others.

Last week was a gain of 500g – and I know your all asking yourself if I have had a decent bowel movement – lol TMI? — Well since you asked “I did a little thank you” and the weekly results are in:

My 5:2 weight graph (4 weeks)

I have gained again, only 100g. But I still feel good with this WOL.

Here is a pic of my daily weigh chart for the past 4 weeks, up to today (Tuesday). I weigh daily, but just because I love to watch the graph. But I only compare Monday to Monday.

Today being Tuesday, and a day after my fast day, my weight has gone down. But the numbers on the scales can vary so much I do not let it bother me. It is what it is! I am more looking forward to seeing my blood test results after 6months on this.

See the big drop last week, that was after my b2b, and then it climbed back up again. But the overall results are in a downward pattern so that is great.

Fast Day 5 (attempt):
Monday 26th Jan 15

Breakfast – I had black coffee.

Lunch - Another black coffee and lots of water.

Dinner - I caved, and gave this fast day a miss.

It was Australia Day and I wanted to have a few drinks with hubby and also we were child free for the night as your daughter had gone to stay at a friends house. So we decided to have takeaway and a few aussie day beverages.

In the morning I did decide that I was going to give the day and go, but never committed totally as I knew that it was Aussie Day. So didn’t feel so bad for not following through.

Fast Day 5 (success):
Tuesday 27th Jan 15

Breakfast – I had black coffee.

Lunch - Just a bit of a chew on a carrot and another coffee. Finding that half a carrot really helps a lot to push down the hunger.

Dinner - Revamped my Oyakodon recipe and instead of serving on rice, I served it on cauliflower rice. It was so filling at 384cals

: Oyakodon on cauliflower rice

: Oyakodon on cauliflower rice

Went to sleep thinking of doing a back to back (b2b) due to the following reasons

Thursday my husband goes into hospital, and will be with him most of the day and then in the evening I have a staff meeting at work and the boss is putting on dinner for us.

Friday, my husband comes home from hospital and he will want something yummy, and I have chosen to not fast Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays (as I love weekends)

Fast Day 6 (first B2B):
Wednesday 28th Jan 15

Breakfast – Bring on the coffee. 1 calorie.

Lunch - Coffee and more coffee – and water. And then a my bunny food snack.

Dinner - Pulled out some pulled pork serve from the freezer and made a pulled pork shepards pie (but used cauliflower instead of mashed spud).

: Pulled Pork Shepards Pie

: Pulled Pork Shepards Pie with Veggies

I thought to myself, OMG I am on the home stretch just need to go to sleep and then I will have succeed my second attempt at a b2b. I failed last time.

I did however struggle to get to sleep, and I spent some time pacing the kitchen at midnight scanning barcodes as I still had around 180cal left. I was not totally shaking starving like on my first 2 fast days, but I was hungry and I think a lot of it was in my mind as I could not sleep. Open the fridge have look, close the fridge, open the pantry have a look, close the pantry. Nothing took my fancy… did that a few times until I finally fell asleep around 2:30am.

Post fast day:

I got up and normally do not have breakfast on the post fast day, but I had the most delightful piece of toast with vegemite and cheese. I savoured every single bite.

I told my husband how I could not sleep and was up half the night scanning stuff, and he replied with, “is that why there was all those different packets of food sitting out on all the benches in the kitchen this morning” — LOL