Day Twenty-one: thank-you...

...to everyone who took time to leave me a note after my rather wallowing self-pity party yesterday, both here and on Facebook - Sarah, April, Eric, Vel, sis - and of course my darling Dream and my lovely bf who gave me lots of cuddles and didn't judge me for being a miserable old bag. It's really great to get support from other people who are doing this, especially if they have been at it for a lot longer than me!

The irony is that I have always intended this to be a long term effort. One of the things I like about the approach is that it is so sustainable, I'm sure I could keep going with it indefinitely. But, but, but... 

I will be back on my bike tomorrow so hopefully that will make a difference, both to my results and my overall energy levels. I would love to do more exercise but my joints protest if I try too much, even walking.

I really, really, really don't want to count calories on non-fast days. It completely defeats the object for me. The whole point of this strategy was not to have to watch every mouthful every day. As it is, I rarely eat pudding/cake/chocolate and have much smaller portions than I used to. As I write that, I'm remembering the stolen Cadbury's Heroes from the tin at work last week... dammit!

So. Onwards and downwards. Today is going to be a very long day. I'm getting overwhelming urges to eat mountains of toast. But I'm not bloody going to. Instead I'm giving a big wave to the three people who I know started fasting last week (you know who you are) - brilliant effort all round and I look forward to having you along on this journey.