clover, do you have sugar in your tea too?

Clover are you thinking of doing the alternate days or the 5/2?

Jovi- Girl ( Bon Jovi fan by any chance? If so excellent taste in music! ) no, I don't take sugar but i DO take sweeteners... I take 3
oh, the shame

Cath, I am going to do the alternate days!
It WAS going to be today but a catalogue of unfortunate and REALLY flippin' annoying events has led me to console myself with grub

My fast day WILL be tomorrow!
and then alternate days from then on

How's it going for you? some good ideas on your recipe link!

some really good down day food tips cath, will try cup o soups and the pot noodles. thought i might of binged today knowing i cant eat much tomorrow but so far so good day 2 of down day in the morning!

clover... my kids totally disagree with you about the good taste in music but what do they know lol

Well that's me done my first day fasting! This is what I had; didn't get up to late as I didn't sleep very well last night, so at 12 lunchtime I had 2 crackerbread with 1 slice of ASDA pork loin and a teaspoonful of Branson pickle on each and a cup of tea with a splash of skimmed milk this came to 120 calories which I thought was really good considering 1 slice of toast would have been 100 before I put anything on it! Then at 4pm I went out and my husband is addicted to coffee so we went to costas and I had a small skinny latte which was 50 calories I know this as I used to do Scottish slimmers and it's in their eating out book, I was thinking of having WW soup and bread for my dinner but felt I really needed to have something to eat if you know wht I mean ! So had a look at all the lighter meals but I don't know about anyone else but I tend to think they are only lighter because they are so small ! Lol! Anyway I found a WW meal in the freezers that only had 208 calories which sounded quite tasty it was the chicken chop suey sorry if it's not spelt right ! Anyway it came in a bag if anyone wants to try it, I didn't have it until 7pm and I had a really bad headache by this time , but apart from the fact that there was only 3 small bits of chicken in it it was a good plateful and was very tasty and after eating it my headache disappeared! I thought I was going to be hungry again by nine'sh but I was fine, so first fasting day over and don't feel too bad and didn't even use 400 calories!
Paulin x

Well done Mexico7 and everyone else!

on fast days are u meant u have low carbs?
just asking as marks and spencer have got baked potatos with cheese ,yes they tiny but only 135 cals

I am going to try the 5/2. Think Saturday and Sunday are the best days for fasting. Do you think it is supposed to be 2 days in a row or 2 separate days?
Think I will make some smoothies with berries and juice which will be high in nutrition and low in calories. It is a bit hot for soup at the moment but I think I will make some veg soup for the fasting days which will also be low in calories. Maybe make some chicken soup by boiling the bones from chicken for the stock and then adding a bag of casserole veg. I also noticed on the programme that he was eating omlettes. They would probably not be too bad with a pile of onions, toms and mushrooms. I am sure you could have quite a big portion for 500-600 calories.
I will have to get organised and make sure I have the right things in my shopping basket.