Up and down in week 7

So after Monday, usual fast day I weighed myself and to my horror I had gone from 12 stone 3 on Friday to 12 stone 5 3/4 on Tuesday!  I put this down to having a Friday night in the pub with the boys - bragging about how well the 5/2 was going!  So over the weekend I probably drank at least 10 pints of lager and cider and half a bottle of wine.  

This meant an alcohol free week was required to try to rectify the problem (well almost). My Thursday fast day went a bit wrong as I had to collect my new banger rally Golf Gti from London so it turned into - a bowl of bran for breakfast, sandwich for lunch and a celebratory pint of cider followed by another bowl of cereal for supper!  Not ideal as a diet but when I weighed myself this morning I was 12 stone 2 1/4!

So my new diet will be cider!!

Into week 7

So I'm on my fast day...feeling a bit hungry but not too bad as it's nearly dinner.  The news from last week is that on Tuesday I had gained 1/4 lb and was back up to 12 stone 5lbs but by Friday I was down again, this time to 12 stone and 3lbs which I was very pleased with.  I stuck with the banana...soup...and chicken and roasted veg option again last week and I'm really enjoying the onions, peppers and courgettes roasted.  I've just been to my allotment and noticed the first baby courgette has started to grow so in 2 weeks or so hopefully I will be eating that!

Nothing else to report really apart from the fact that I feel thinner and my beer belly has definitely reduced.  I'm really hoping to be in the 11 stones by this time next week!

Into Week 6!

Forgot to update last week, guess it's just becoming a way of life for me....anyway I was passing the market in Newbury and noticed a sign saying 6 Sea Bass fillets for £10! So I bought them thinking that would be 3 meals for me and the other half but when I got them home they were disappointingly small so for supper we had 2 each of the smallest ones and they were absolutely delicious!  The rest was pretty usual - I had :-

Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - Veggie Soup
Dinner - Barbecued Sea Bass and roasted Mediterranean Veg - mmmmmmmmm

....and in the morning I weighed 12 St 4 3/4 - I do enjoy that lb number being lower each week, and having, I think, been pushing 13 stone 5 weeks ago I'm now pushing 12 stone - happy days!

I'm sleeping much better although the dreams are still pretty strange.  Last night I dreamed that I was an airline pilot and my son was on an early flying program and flying passenger jets at 12 years old.  He crashed somewhere in the world, we rushed off to see if he was OK only to find out that he had released the ejector plane, flipped it over and become a hero!

Today was the 1st fast day of week 6 and being in sainsbury's I decided to check out their soups and came out with a budget Veggie - looks just like tesco's and a chicken noodle soup which actually had less calories!

So here's what I've eaten today

Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - Chicken Noodle Soup (124 calories)
Dinner - Chicken with roasted veg

Although today has been very slow at work I've not felt hungry at all which is a good bit of progress.

Week 5 Day 1 -

If anyone is reading this for recipes then I guess I'm pretty boring as once again I ate:

Breakfast - Banana
Lunch - Veggie soup
Dinner - Chicken and roasted Mediterranean Veg!

One thing I've noticed is that, because I'm not having to digest food when I go to bed, I'm dropping off to sleep as soon as I hit the pillow but I'm having some bizarre dreams that wake me up in a cold sweat and by 4 in the morning I'm wide awake! I'm not the only one - I've googled it!

Oh and since last Friday I'm down another 1lb to 12st 4lb - oh and I've found that I get even more irritable in the late afternoons on fast days too!

Week 4 Fast Day 2 - 1 Month on!

So I've done the fast diet for a month now and have no inclination to quit quite yet.  I wanted to weigh myself again this morning before posting and the good new is I am losing weight, slowly but surely.  Last week I was 12st 6 1/2 - Tuesday 12st 5 3/4 and this morning 12st 5lbs - so little by little it's coming off.  I also seem to have found a bit of "get up and go", this week in my taxi everyone seemed to be saying the weather was making them feel tired and lethargic.  Not me I'm exercising occasionally and feel kinda good!  Tonight I ate sticky ribs, spicy chicken wings and 2 pints of my home brew Pilsner which is delicious and yesterday I had:-

The usual - Banana for brekky, Veggie soup for lunch and roasted Mediterranean veg with a breast of chicken for dinner.

When I felt hungry I drank water.

So the most difficult part of the diet days is boredom - if I'm busy it's easy, if I'm bored it can be quite hard but hey tomorrow I can drink a home brew!

Week 4 Fast Day 1

Nothing much to report really - getting into a bit of a routine now, and basically eating the same things twice a week.  As the weather was much colder I reverted back to the chicken for the evening meal and lots of roasted peppers and courgettes and a little bit of onion and garlic thrown in.  My twelve year old son want's to try and get a bit fitter so over the weekend we lifted some weights and did a couple of bleep tests (I kicked his arse)!  Tomorrow we may give the "couch to 5K" another go!

Today was again easy on the fast day, I ate the usual

Breakfast - Banana

Lunch - Vegetable soup

Dinner - Breast of Chicken and roasted Veg

On the less encouraging for the diet front I bought 3 home brew Lager kits, a cider kit and a wine kit in the wilkinsons sale!

Week 3 Fast Day 2

Again quite an easy day today and a change in the evening meal!  I haven't really felt too hungry today, reasonably busy as work which always helps.

Today was the hottest of the year, so far, about 25 degrees and so I decided to go and buy some fish to barbecue for the evening, I went for a white fish because it's lower in calories than oily fish, like mackerel, but not as tasty.  I bought a 2 pack of filleted Pollock and some green beans.  The beans were from Kenya and tasted of grass, nothing like the ones I grow, and so those won't be being bought again.  The fist was pretty nice but nothing like a mackerel so I will probably check the calories on those and have a change if the weather stays fine next week.

I also realised that the cost of feeding myself was about £2 for the day.  http://agirlcalledjack.com  may even be a little proud of that.

Breakfast - Banana

Lunch - Chicken soup

Dinner - Pollock and green beans

About 2 litres of water and a couple of cups of Earl Grey.

Week 3 Fast Day 1

So last Friday was the worst day of fasting so far.  I was hungry pretty much all day, I even woke up at 4.30 on Saturday morning because I was so hungry.  Now I know I probably don't know what real hunger is, I've never had a problem with getting food and being able to afford to eat so I do feel a bit wimpy really but hey there you go.

Anyway I decided to weigh myself on Saturday morning (on our crappy scales that I'm sure don't work properly and the outcome was 12st 6oz.  None of my friends believe I'm over 12 stone but according to the crappy scales I am.  

Now back in March I was running every other day until the weather went back to being from the ice age and being the lazy bugger that I am I gave up.  What I did do though was take a weight measurement on my phone right at the end and my weight was guess what? 12st 6oz!  Interesting.

Anyway no great surprises of what I ate today.

Breakfast - Banana

Lunch - Vegetable Soup (even though it was really warm weather today), I prefer it to the chicken

Dinner - Chicken breast, roasted peppers. courgettes and red onions.

Drinks - 1500 ml of water and 3 cups of Earl Grey.

Back to a normal routine with work and I feel fine - again back to being quite easy.

Week 2, Fast Day 2

The Hunger Games

Well today has been the first time I've felt hungry.....and I still feed hungry!

Same breakfast - Banana - same lunch - can of soup (chicken this time) same dinner - chicken with roasted veg!

So why have I felt so hungry? I can only put it down to boredom, work was very quiet so I took the afternoon off, listed some stuff on ebay and played Call of Duty!

Still kids will be back to school next week so my routine should be back to normal.  It's Friday, I really fancy a beer, cider or wine but am refraining and sticking to the water!  Roll on breakfast!

Week 2 Fast Day 1

Some interesting conclusions from my first week.....I find the actual fast days to be pretty easy.....but the following day, despite breakfast (cereal and whatever fruit is laying around) I am quite ready to eat my own arm off by 11 o'clock!  I think I will buy a breakfast bar or something for when that kicks in.  It's almost like comedown from the elation of completing my fast days.

Also, to my surprise, I bought a pack of Mediterranean Veg for Waitrose to eat with my chicken breast - peppers, onions and courgettes.  Very nice but quite expensive, so compared the same pack in sainsbury's.  Same weight, same ingredients but double the calories!  How does that work?  Peppers, courgettes and onions promptly bought and tastes better than the packs.

One other thing, as I said last week low calorie ready meals are crap, and the low calorie soup I had last week has more calories than tesco's everyday soup, costs more than twice as much and tastes no where as good!

Everyday Soup 24p and 10 less calories than the 50p light choices soup!

Anyway - I moved my Monday, Thursday routine to Tuesday, Friday due to the bank holiday.  Again Banana and Earl Grey for breakfast, Tesco Everyday Value Vegetable soup for lunch which was surprisingly yummy and for dinner my wife made me this. 

Big plate of roasted Veg and a lovely chicken breast.

Fast Day 2!

So I forgot to mention my evening meal from day 1....probably because I was so unimpressed!  A Tesco Noodle, chinesey easy meal....was a bit nothing and looked like it on the plate.  So I decided to have a look at how many calories were in things more closely.  Chicken breast about a calorie a gram, excellent, fish about the same and as for veggies well they contain virtually no calories at all!

So day 2 started - the normal banana for breakfast with a cup of earl grey (about 100 calories)

Lot's of bottle water all through the morning and then for lunch a tin of soup, chicken and sweetcorn, which tasted surprisingly much better than the tin I had on Monday.  I put this down to the fact that I boiled it in a pan and didn't microwave it which seemed to make it thicker (170 calories for the soup)

Again  lot's of bottle water through the afternoon and then for dinner it was a 150 gram chicken breast and a plate full of roasted peppers, onions and courgettes which came in at well under 100 calories - under 250 calories for the dinner.

So day 2 was well under 600 calories and I have not felt hungry at all.  I put this down to the water which I didn't do on day 1 and also have quickly learned that low calorie diet meals are crap!  Soup was OK though although I plan to make my own over the weekend with the beans I have in the freezer.  I was going to have green beans and swede with my chicken but the beans in Tesco's were from Kenya and cost £2 for a small amount.  I grow thousands of the things over the summer so will tuck into whatever green veg I have growing on the allotment over the summer.  I'm quite keen to stick with the chicken and will alternate that with fish when I can barbecue the fish outside.

I also plan to buy some decent scales over the weekend so I know if I'm losing weight!

One final thing I want to say is that on Monday (day 1) I did find myself thinking about food and how everywhere you go you see food!  I couldn't help thinking I was becoming like the lion chasing the zebra in the film Madagascar but today was completely different.

The Fast Diet Day 1!

OK so I'm a taxi driver who is lazy and fattish....I've got a belly to get rid of put it that way.  .tried the sofa to 5k running thing and knackered my knee so now I'm trying the 5:2 diet and this is my first fasting day!

I started with a cup of Earl Grey as a replacement for the normal cup of tea this morning followed by a banana for breakfast.....not too bad and work was incredibly busy and having started just before 8 this morning didn't get home until 1.30 for lunch which was a tin of weight watchers soup from tesco's.  I'm guessing that the banana was 100 calories and the soup (which I thought was 85 calories for the whole can but that was for half a can) actually turned out to be 170 calories as I had the whole can!  It's now 5 o'clock and I'm feeling pretty hungry but am resisting eating anything until my tesco's weight watchers noodles later.