Good news this week! Week 4 of my diet completed, and my weekly weigh-in shows a loss of 5lb! So that’s a total of 13lb lost in 4 weeks. I think my disappointing loss of only a quarter of a pound last week must have been caused by something - fluid retention? who knows? - masking a much larger underlying loss, because there’s no way I could have really lost 5lb in a week.
So, I’ve lost a stone in a month, which I’m very happy indeed about. Yesterday, though, which was one of my two fasting days this week, for the first time I suffered pretty bad hunger pangs - I think the cumulative effects of starving myself for a month are maybe starting to catch up with me. I think I’ll try increasing my food intake somewhat on my non-fasting days, because at the moment I’m eating way less than I need to maintain body weight every day; I think the most I’ve eaten on any day this week has been about 1200 calories. Averaging over 3lb a week weight loss probably is too much.
This next week and a half is going to be challenging, because I’m going away on holiday. I’m going to try to continue to eat sensibly, but I’m not going to have any official fasting days, and I may even have one or two beers
. A case of trying to minimise the weight gain rather than continue the weight loss, I suspect. Back to the grindstone when I get home again.
Anyway, a good week!