Four weeks of Alternate Daily Fasting

Today marks four weeks since I began the 1-Day Diet; if you're not aware of what that entails, it's quite simply eating one day and the next drinking seven to nine protein waters instead of taking in food.

I'm not due to weigh in until tomorrow morning, and today is a protein water (PW) day, so I will break down the losses I've recorded then. Unfortunately I didn't weigh myself before I started, but my estimate would be that I was around the twenty stone mark again.

While the author of the book, Jennifer Jolan, reckons that a typical loss over the first month for many with a lot of weight to lose is 20-35 pounds, I am not going to see anything like that rate of loss. I'm fairly certain of that; I'm expecting to find tomorrow morning that I am averaging around 2.5-3 lbs a week off. Of course, it depends on whether I am weighing in the morning after a PW day or a food day; after a PW day there appears to be at least a 3 lbs loss. After a food day, a little over a pound. I've really not been doing this for long enough to say with any certainty, though.

To be honest, even if it does settle down to giving me a one to two pound average loss each week, I will probably still continue on with it. It's easy, I'm not hungry on the PW days and I am finding that my appetite is less, I get fuller quicker and I am more likely to choose healthier options on food days than I was previously.

I suppose I've answered the question of whether or not I intend to continue on with the ADF long-term with my previous paragraph! Overall I'm very happy with it. I seem to be reasonably healthy, the change in shape is noticeable to others as well as to me, my clothes fit better and I have lost almost a dress size in just a month. I'd hope to lose at least a couple more stones between now and the end of August; if the average does settle to around two pounds a week that should be achievable. I have sixteen weeks left, so at two pounds a week that would be 32 pounds, or two stone four pounds. I was 19 stone 3 last Tuesday morning, so I think depending on what tomorrow's result is I could reasonably expect to hit 17 stone by the time we leave for Florida.

That will be the lightest I've weighed in almost eighteen months. Still a stone and a half over my lowest weight in years, but not an unfamiliar weight for me. I could well be back to my lowest weight by Christmas, if I can keep this going, you never know! That would be pretty amazing, though I am not really expecting it. All I can do is my best.