One week on

Wow... one week and a day. Almost 4 fasts later (today is my fourth, but it technically doesn't end until tomorrow morning's breakfast) and I'm thinking this is do-able. Manageable even.

Last week, to kick start the diet, I fasted Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This week the plan is to fast today and Thursday. By Saturday morning I had lost 4kg but I expected that some of it would return. And it did. I weighed myself last night and I was still down from a week ago but obviously not as low as on Saturday morning. By last night I was down 2.5kg from last week, which is still impressive. I was working on the assumption that dieting this way would drop about a kilo a week. In fairness, I did run and do weights on Monday and Wednesday and I have to say, it's not that bad exercising on an empty stomach, not easy but not insurmountable.

Plan for this week..... Well as I mentioned, today and Thursday are the fast days, and I plan on running 5km on Thursday along with a spin class on Friday. There may also be a run on Saturday depending on the weather. Will update the exercise regime later in the week. In the meantime, here's today's menu plan was as follows:

April 23, 2013
Foods	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Cholest	Sodium	Sugars	Fiber
Breakfast
Ryvita - Crackerbread, 1 Cracker	19	4g	0g	1g	0mg	60mg	0g	1g
Kraft Philadelphia - Light Cream Cheese Mini Tub, 40 g	52	3g	2g	4g	0mg	109mg	0g	0g
Boiled Egg, 2 egg	160	1g	11g	13g	424mg	124mg	1g	0g
Fish - Smoked Salmon Slices, 65 g	120	3g	6g	13g	468mg	468mg	0g	0g
Dinner
Organic Chicken Breast - Chicken Breast Skinless Boneless , 3.5 oz	105	0g	1g	14g	41mg	0mg	0g	0g
Onions - Raw, 1 medium (2-1/2" dia)	46	11g	0g	1g	0mg	3mg	5g	2g
Cauliflower - Cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, 100 g	23	4g	0g	2g	0mg	15mg	1g	3g
Fresh - Broccoli, Fresh, 100 g	38	2g	1g	3g	0mg	33mg	2g	3g
Oxo - Chicken Stock Cube, 0.5 Cube (5.9g)	10	2g	0g	1g	0mg	390mg	0g	0g
Clover - Butter, 7.5 g	48	0g	5g	0g	0mg	53mg	0g	0g
TOTAL:	621	30g	26g	52g	933mg	1,255mg	9g	9g
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Sodium	Sugar
Totals	621	30	26	52	1,255	9
Your Daily Goal	1,870	257	62	70	2,500	37
Remaining	1,249	227	36	18	1,245	28