First week of 5:2

My second fast day is drawing to a close and I'm feeling quite optimistic about this one.

The first fast day I didn't plan. I just found myself at work, not having had breakfast, looking at diet yoghurt and thought "why not?". So the first day was surprisingly easy. I even went to pilates. I did feel hungry and a bit headachy but nothing major.

Today had a bit more planning. I worked out my dinner and then filled in the rest of the calories. I actually went slightly over but I'm not going to stress about that.

I haven't had that moment that the 5:2 people talk about whereby you don't feel like eating loads on the other 5 days. I still want junk, but it has only been a week.

Here are my first few food diaries:

Thursday 6th November

• Squares bar - 119
• Aldi greek yoghurt - 70
• 50g Tilda lemon rice - 70
• 300g large mushrooms - 48
• large egg - 100
• salad tomato - 13
• WW caramel wafer bar - 78

Total calories = 498

Sunday 9th November

• Half tin chopped tomatoes - 37
• 170g courgette - 30
• 85g onion - 20
• 5g easy garlic - 5
• 5g easy ginger - 10
• 100g king prawns - 55
• 8g chillie pepper - 2
• chicken stock cube - 16
• 50g Tilda lemon rice - 70
• 20g almonds - 58
• salad tomato - 13
• 40g soda bread - 82
• 20g light Philadelphia - 31
• Aldi greek yogurt - 70

Total calories - 499 

Plus add an extra few for diet coke and 1cal cooking spray but I'm not going to go crazy about those.

Back once again...

Well, September and October happened and while I didn't post that's not to say nothing changed.

For a start, I've decided to stop Slimming World, at least for now. I know it works and it has been brilliant for me in the past, but I was finding it too hard to keep motivated on it and my failure to stick to the plan was just making me feel lower and lower. The negativity was not something I coped very well with and may possibly have contributed to this particular meltdown.

I have also joined a gym again, having got the go ahead from the various doctors and such. I rather impressed myself with my ability to jog a little (as opposed to not at all which was what I was expecting), embarressed myself by feeling sick and having to leave a return to fitness class full of old people, I'm still struggling with weight training - turns out I still find it massively boring and there is always someone who seems to be glued to the machine I want to use. But the best thing about this gym is that it has a pool. I quite like a swim but maybe only half an hour once or twice a week, which makes it expensive to go to the local baths, but included in a gym package I can just have a quick swim and not worry that it's costing me the best part of a fiver.

I've probably put on weight. Actually no probably about it. But I've decided to stop stressing about it and I''m not going to weigh myself until after Christmas. I don't want to know and to be honest, I care more about which clothes I fit into anyway.

I've decided to try the 5:2 diet and today is my first fast day. I know people who have done really well with this plan and it acutally kind of sounds like the way I eat when I loose weight anyway, so hopefully I'll take to it. It feels a bit fiddly but I''m sure I'll get used to us.

Onward!