Week 9 Day 1 About "Pausing" the diet

As we are fast approaching the Holidays Season, I am finding it harder and harder to block two days a week for the Fast Diet. I am surrounded every day with cakes, donuts, chocolates brought in by merry patients and staff, so my will power is definitely put to the test... So for all of you who are thinking about this diet but want to postpone it for 2014, here is my own previous experience about pressing "pause" on the fast diet.

So last summer (I was at month 4 on the Fast Diet), I went back home for some vacation. Invariably, my parents would then be on a mission to cook and bake every single one of my favorite dishes. Add to that a moral obligation to go out and grab brunch or coffee with all my childhood friends one after another, and you have a near food catrastrophy. For my 2 weeks of vacations, I decided to pause the diet and see what happens.

The result: before the vacation, my weight was going down at a very slow pace of about 0.1kg (1/4 lb) per week. Coming back from vacation, my weight had gone up by 2lbs. I was a bit sad, but overall gaining 1lb per week of vacation eating everything you love isn't so bad... But I went right back on the Fast Diet after the vacation, and lost those 2lbs in 1 week! Better yet, my weight went further down by an extra 1/2 lb. I repeated the experience when I had to go for a one week work conference in the Fall, and the same thing happened. So this definitely set my mind that this was THE perfect diet for my lifestyle. So now, I am resolutely continuing on the Fast Diet, and I will pause it just for the 2 weeks of Christmas and New Year, and then get right back to it after the Holidays! No more guilt to enjoy these happy moments, just return to the Fast diet when the parties are over :)

Week 9 Day 1 Menu:

Lunch: 310 calories
- Lean Cuisine Meat Lasagna

Dinner: approximately 214 calories
- 6 oz of lettuce
- 5 cherry tomatoes
- 10g of cucumber
- 3 oz tuna sashimi
- 1tbsp ginger salad dressing

Total: 524 calories