decided to get on with this – today I skipped lunch and then mid-afternoon I suddenly thought, if I skip dinner too then that will be a 22 hour fast. With G being ill he’s not going to tempt me with open bottles of wine as would so often happen, so it’s a good opportunity.
The ebook I read on the subject said ideally one should do 24 hour fasts once or twice a week but as this is the first one I think 22 hours is reasonable. I did have a couple of liquorice sweets mid-afternoon before I decided to do it, so have cheated I suppose but never mind. They were very small!
The main thing stopping me from doing this before was the fear of feeling hungry. And I did feel a bit hungry this afternoon but it went away again. I’ve been drinking water with lime juice in which helps, and am currently feeling quite zingy and alert. Also doing it from breakfast to breakfast means I get to have the all-essential coffee in the morning (black coffee is allowed anyway, but I like milk in mine). So far so good!
