Just started. NFD hardest part!?

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Hello. I am new to 5:2. I find two fast days ok I deal with. But the NFD I am really carving chocolates sweets cakes biscuits (my normal diet unfortunately). And tips? It's my first week.

My tip is to get your fast days sorted before you start worrying about NFDs. Cakes sweets and biscuits are not forbidden. I find that once you think they are forbidden you crave them, but once I am allowed them I eat some then stop.

The other thing that really helped me with my sweet tooth was giving up sugar in coffee. I decided that I didn't want to waste my fast day calories on sugar, but I drink quite a lot of coffee. So I cut out sugar and milk - strangely I could cope with black coffee with no sugar but not white. it took a couple of weeks to get used to it, but now I find that the sweet things I used to love actually taste too sweet.

I add four sweetex to coffee and tea. I am gonna make that change. I keep saying it and never do. I think it really does keep me buzzing for more sugar.

Eating a filling, protein heavy breakfast helps to reduce my cravings for the day. If I eat a carby breakfast the day after a fast I'm ravenous an hour later.

It also settles down once your body gets used to regular fasts.