Intermittent Fasting: Day 2

1/2/2018

I have to admit…I have been a little nervous about fasting today. It's one thing when you're at work and too busy to even have time to eat. We are still at home on Christmas break, and I am making the kids' meals and snacks. I just knew it was going to be a challenge.

Here's the recap from Day 2:

I had a glass of water first thing, even before coffee. :) I had some ideas about what I could eat for breakfast, because I know I do better with a plan. I was not hungry, so I decided to save my precious calories.

I had a 9:00 appointment, and the temperature was in the teens this morning. I made some coffee to go with some Silk vanilla almond creamer…it was SO worth the 25 calories! The suggestions say you can have water, black coffee and unsweet tea to help with hunger. I don't do black coffee.

My sweet husband has not fared so well.

Breakfast: He had oatmeal…we like the Better Oats brand with steel cut oats and flaxseed…maple and brown sugar-100 calories. He does like his coffee black, if it's good coffee. Yes, we are coffee snobs.

He is a high school boys' basketball coach, and they had practice this morning. He also tends to be hypoglycemic. (We should have researched this more in advance.) So, when he got dizzy and felt like he was going to pass out, he ate a Milky Way. Poor guy.

Lunch: When he got home, he had some leftover chicken and butternut squash and an apple. I'm so thankful he's willing to try this with me, but we know that our needs are different and our bodies will respond differently, so we are ready to flexible and make adjustments.
I was still doing ok, so around 2:00, I made a salad: spinach, a hard boiled egg, avocado and balsamic vinegar dressing. I'm trying to learn servings and ounces and measurements, so right now I'm using the awesome food scale mom gave me a while back and my new measuring spoons my sis-in-law gave me for Christmas! Had my sweet, adorable, mooching children not wanted bites of my egg and avocado, it would have totaled 186 calories. It's a good thing they're cute.

The reading I've done says not to work out on fasting days but to do some yoga or something like that. We decided to take the boys to a trampoline park/ropes course/rock wall/laser tag place. :) We survived.

Dinner: We had an amazing 300 calorie dinner. The amazing part, other than the taste, is that Brandon was so hungry that he tried it and LOVED it. I have discovered Indian Vegetable Tikka Masala at Costco and paired it with Basmati Rice (both by Tasty Bites and prepared in the microwave). It was incredible. I accidentally let Brandon know, after he ate it and loved it, that it had green peas in it. He hates them but said he couldn't taste them. I did not tell him I read, after the fact, that it also had cashews in it. He's allergic to tree nuts. It won't kill him, but he might get sick :-0  Hopefully not.

I ended the day with 512 consumed calories and feeling fine. My Fitbit tells me I burned over 2,000 calories today. Brandon was a little h-angry but mostly a good sport. He did have a little beef jerky to tide him over.