Week 1 Review - Alternate Day Fasting

Here's a run down of how week 1 went.

Monday - Day 1: UP DAY as this was our daughter's birthday. We had a huge dinner at the teppan place plus ice cream so feeling quite stuffed.

Tuesday - Day 2: DOWN DAY I did a hike with the girls in the morning. We burned over 900 calories.  But by lunch I was getting really hungry.  I had a Shakeology and held out until dinner time for my salad with chicken.  By around that time, I had a pretty bad headache.  I was drinking a bunch of water but asking around in an IF Facebook group, they mentioned I may want to add pink Himalayan salt to my water to help with headaches.  Hubby worked had a 350 calorie lunch (Salad with chicken) and Shakeology for dinner (approx 150 calories)

Wednesday - Day 3: UP DAY It was nice to eat what we wanted but I could already tell my appetite had decreased.  At dinner I ate half of what I normally do and felt full.

Thursday - Day 4: DOWN DAY This day was much easier for me.  Hubby followed the same basic plan as Tuesday, but I didn't even feel hungry until around 8pm and had a Shakeology with power greens and extra fiber. No headaches but some bloating due to that time of the month (which oddly came 1 week early when it's normally like clockwork). I should mention that we were not active on this day (raining outside) so that could be a factor. According to my Fitbit I burned about 500 less than my normal day.

Friday - Day 5: UP DAY Similar to Wednesday I enjoyed whatever I wanted but wasn't as hungry overall.
**hubby weighed in and was down 8 lbs, I was down 4 lbs. We've decided not to weight in again until Tuesday after our next DOWN DAY.

Saturday/Sunday - since we only got two Down Days this week, we decided to do modified days over the weekend. We skipped breakfast, had a light lunch and a "free" dinner.

Starting this week we will be trying a more stable schedule of M/W/F as our DD's and Tues, Thurs and the weekends as UDs.

So far I'm impressed that it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

Things to improve this week -
More low to moderate activity daily (LISS cardio at least 3 times a week)
Be more mindful of my carb/sugar intake on UDs as I feel like this could hinder my progress