FastDay Friends Weekly: food for thought and thoughts for food!

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Hi, fellow faster

Welcome to the FastDay Friends Weekly newsletter, bringing you some great FastDay content direct to your inbox.

Thanks to everyone who emailed wanting to share their fasting success stories, we can't wait to feature them on the site! The more the better so if you want to share yours too, do email us.

If you're new to fasting, have a friend who wants to start or are an experienced faster who'd like to help others, do read to the bottom as there's an exciting opportunity for you!

Incredible! Chris lost over 60lbs!

"Fasting has given me the control of food and my weight, which I never had before."

Find out how she did it!

Could your fasting story inspire your fellow fasters?
Get in touch, we'd love to share it!

It's here! The FastDay mobile forum

Normally this spot in the newsletter is reserved for sending congratulations or encouragement to members of our community...

Today I'd like to use it to say a big thank you to our lovely dev team and tech guys who have worked hard in recent months to bring you the new mobile version of the forum which went live this week. We hope you like it!

Om nom nom!

Pepper Steak with Pan-fried Onions, Tomatoes and Spinach
300 calories

What's the buzz?

8 low calorie sweet treats
For those challenging fast days when you need a treat.

Did you know...?

The basics of nutrition and healthy eating
Fastday explains some nutritional principles so you can eat mindfully.

The votes have been counted...

Last week we asked how you discovered intermittent fasting and it comes as no surprise that a great many of you (45%) were inspired by the original BBC Horizon documentary, Eat, Fast & Live Longer. Indeed, that's the way I found fasting as well!

What's really great to see though is just how many of you (23%) found this way of eating through word of mouth. It just goes to show that each one of us has the potential to change someone's life for the better by telling them that there really is a sustainable & successful alternative to the traditional diet industry.

Newspapers and magazines also account for a fair number of you (11%) being here and it's good to know that the press can be a positive influence like this.

However you discovered intermittent fasting, I hope you're finding it easy to stick with and working towards the health & weight loss results you're aiming for.

This week's poll is about how many of your friends fast too, voting only takes a second so click here to stand up and be counted!

An invitation...

We often get enquiries about whether we can help new fasters to plan their meals or guide them through the early days of fasting. While this is something forum members can do together, we're excited to announce that we've been working on an online course to help get new fasters started.

We're looking for volunteers to help us trial this course before it is offered on the website. Whether you're a new faster or an old hand your involvement and feedback would be great! Perhaps you have a friend who wants to try fasting and could benefit from this? The course lasts for 6 weeks, can be done online and has two weekly chat sessions of around an hour plus a dedicated forum group.

If you're an experienced faster who would like to help others, you might want to consider volunteering for the trial to see whether you might like to be a course leader in future.

If you'd like to be involved, please drop us a line on info@fastday.com for more details.

See you at the forum!

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