Day Twenty-six: results!

I did the 26th fast on Thursday. Having spent the earlier part of the week on holiday, then driving 200 miles on Wednesday, having 7 meetings booked in at the office was always going to be fun! I made a bit of an error in eating too much at lunchtime (Nero soup and salad, 300kCal) I then found the afternoon to be a real struggle. I came as close to ditching a fast day as I ever had, but managed to push through with an extra apple and some sugar free sweets. I probably went over the 500kCal target but not by much. and I felt fine, if exhausted, by bedtime.

It's been 3 weeks since I last weighed and measured, and the plan was to weigh every 4 weeks. However Dream and I decided to bring it forward by a week this time, for various reasons, one of which for me is that today is exactly 3 months since I started. Given the disappointment of the last weigh-in I was at little apprehensive, but needed to go for it anyway.

And.

Very, very happy me!

The  readout on the scales this morning was 101.4kg. This makes a total 3 month loss of 8kg = 17lbs, or 1 stone and 3lbs. I now weigh less than 16 stone - yay me! I haven't done my measurements yet but will update those over the weekend.

Next week I will be travelling overseas for work so am only planning one fast day, but I feel confident that no damage will be done. Next mini-target is to get below 100kg which should be easy before next weigh-in in 4 weeks time.

At this point I'd like to say a public thank-you to my GP for suggesting try 5:2, at a time when a lot of medical folk are dismissing this approach as a fad. I'll probably have a bit of a rant about that another time! And thank-you to everyone who is supporting me, especially the wonderful community of hunger pandas on Facebook.