3 Day Apple Fast

__TMac__ wrote: »

I'm seriously considering an apple pie cleanse.

Even more seriously, we need to come up with a good suggestion for well-intentioned people like our friend here who want to "jumpstart." Like "5 Steps in 5 Days with MFP!"

People want to Do Something so badly, and just logging that first meal isn't momentous enough. It's unfortunate because probably the most sustainable approach is a low-key one. Just do one small thing. Then do it again. Then when that's a habit, add on another thing.

5 Days to SUCCESS:

Day 1: Log your breakfast, log your lunch, make a MFP blog recipe for dinner. Save some for your lunch tomorrow.
Day 2: Log your breakfast, eat your leftover dinner and log it, have an afternoon snack, enter one of your favorite recipes into the builder and have it for dinner.
Day 3: Log your breakfast. Log your lunch. Log your dinner. Get some activity today.
Day 4: Log your breakfast. Think about the past 3 days. Which meals did you enjoy the most? Which left you feeling the most satisfied? Have you been hungry? Did you like the day with the snack or would you rather have bigger meals? Based on your thoughts, plan your meals for tomorrow and pre-log. Get some activity again. Log your lunch. Log your dinner.
Day 5: Prepare and eat your logged meals. Did you like having it planned ahead or did you feel restricted? How hungry have you been? If you're uncomfortably hungry or feeling deprived, set your diary to public and post in the forums for feedback. Get some activity again. Make a grocery list of the foods that left you feeling the most satisfied and maybe some based upon suggestions from the community. Go shop for days 6-10.

Wiggymommy wrote: »

Apples make me hungrier. I'd eat apples for three days then everything in the kitchen the 4th.

It would take an hour for me.