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Fasting day #10 + starting keto/strict LCHF

I had a somehow half-assed fasting day yesterday.

However I’m happy to see today that even after a popcorn and sushi-filled weekend, I weigh in at 71,1.

I’m going all in on weight loss for the next four weeks. I’ve been eating a liberal form of LCHF for a few years, but now I’m trying to do ketogenic LCHF in order to boost weight loss. 

I might blog about it, might just stick to reporting about fasting days.

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Fasting day#8 and #9

This Saturday I ate some apple slices throughout the day, and dinner consisting of chicken, cauliflower and parmesan.

Today I fasted throughout the whole day, and then finished off the day with spiralized squash and tomato sauce with sausage, eggplant and spring onions.

The scale has stopped to go down a bit, but I’m trying not to get frustrated and just go with it.

If it continues for another week I’m thinking that I’ll start to count calories on eating days - given that the chatter on the web claims that this might be due to me not getting enough calories on eating days.

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Fasting day #7

Lunch: Green asparagus + one soft boiled egg.

Dinner: Pointed cabbage with minced beef and thyme. Yum!

I saw 71,3 on the scale when I woke up this morning. I’m really hoping that I’ll break into the 70′s sometime soon.

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Fasting day #6

I was at a meeting this morning where breakfast was served. I ate one quarter of a ciabatta with cheese on top. For dinner I had chicken, strawberry salad and asparagus. Did NOT drink enough water today!! I'm planning on posting new stats when I pass fasting day #7 :) it will probably be Thursday. I was super good this weekend and ate in moderation. But hey I passed on cake! And dessert! Twice! I didn't even feel like eating it. Tomorrow I'm taking a flow yoga class. I'm really looking forward to that!

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Fasting day #4 and #5

I’ve spent the last four days finishing a paper with my study group, which incidentally involved loooong days with zero appetite.

That means I actually accidentally fasted Monday and Thursday this week. 

Yesterday we stayed up ‘til 5am to do the final revision of the paper which was intense. Now there’s only one exam to go, which isn’t until June 22th. That calls for a few days off!

I want to use that opportunity to get back into working out. For me that means practicing yoga regularly. I also decided to get my running shoes out for some sprints at a nearby stadium. I’m kind of excited about that!

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Fasting day #3

Today I've had a massive hangover and no wish to eat. I fasted until dinner, where I ate a grilled cutlet, potatoes and beetroot salad with greek yoghurt and pomegranate. My head hurts so dang much and I just want this day to be over!

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Fasting day #2

In order to make fasting as easy on myself as possible, I decided to try and keep fasting to two kinds of days:

- Days where I know I’ll be inactive physically, but busy mentally. E.g. a day like today. I’ve been sitting on my ass at the university all day, as I’m writing a draft for some text to be used in a group paper which is to be handed in on June 10th. I’ve been super productive - in just two days I’ve written 7,6 pages of text, and it’s not even complete rubbish. But yeah, that’s kept me busy, and stopped me from thinking about food. 

- Days that lie after big parties, dinners out, late dinners etc. E.g. days where I probably feel full when I wake up, and hence have a natural urge to not eat, because I’m simply not hungy until way past noon.

Right now its 4:42 pm, and I still haven’t hit a wall with regards to hunger. I feel an emptiness in my stomach, but I’m accepting it rather than feeling annoyed by it. 

To keep my stomach full and my energy levels up, I drank  4 cups of coffee sweetened with 100ml of almond milk (and lots of water obviously!), so my total calorie intake so far today is 43 calories, which leave lots of room for today’s dinner.  Dinner will consist of chicken meatballs with cheese, bacon, onion and spinach, as well as some sort of salad - probably either beetroot salad with pomegranate, or some sort of pointed cabbage salad - I also have some leftover waldorf salad which I probably should be eating today. So many choices!  The past two (non-restricted) eating days, I’ve been eating sensibly and making sure to get my 10,000 steps in (I use a FitBit to track my activity level). When I stepped on the scale this morning, it read 72,9 kg, which is actually already a weight loss of 1,1 kg since starting 5:2. It’s probably mostly water weight, as I was seriously bloated on the day where I noted down my starting stats, but who cares right? It all counts ;)

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STATS - May 28 2016

Height: 161 cm Weight: 74,0 kg

Waist: 77,5 cm Butt (at the widest to the back): 107 cm Right thigh, where the outer thigh is biggest: 68,5 cm Chest: 95 cm Right arm: 34 cm

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5:2 - first day of fasting!

I’ve decided to try out the 5:2 fast, combining it with my usual lchf diet.

I’m giving it 10 weeks - until August 8th, where we’ll be going on a holiday to somewhere warm and lovely, and where I don’t want to think about weight loss. After that, I’ll decide whether to stick with 5:2 for the rest of my weight loss.

I’ve done intermittent fasting before, as in 16:8, but I’ve never tried going for 500kcal a day purposely before.

...Until today!

I woke up late and took some measurements, weighed in, prepared some dinner around lunch time to bring to work.

Then I went to work at noon, and didn’t eat until around two, where I ate an apple. Around 18:30, I ate dinner consisting of:

One cutlet A small avocado in squares and eight cherry tomatoes stirred with around 70g cottage cheese.

When I got home from work around ten I didn’t really feel hungry, but my stomach was yelling at me, and I had some calories left, so I drank half a cup of chicken stock.

I’m quite amazed how well I’m functioning, as I had an idea that I would be ragingly hungry - but nope, I’m not the slightest bit bothered! I drank so much water today though, I’m pretty sure I peed like fifteen times.

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Yesterday I participated in The Color Run - which was awesome! We walked most of the way like a lot of the other color runners, but we had so much fun!

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I’m letting this attitude back into my life.