21 Struggles Anyone On The 5:2 Diet Will Recognise

    Tomorrow. Tomorrow we eat.

    1. You're screwed as soon as you open your eyes.

    Why am I so hungry as soon as I wake up ? #fastday

    2. Hey, what's for breakfast? BLACK COFFEE AND POSITIVE THOUGHTS.

    3. You've gone without eating for long periods before, so you think you've pretty much got this.

    4. But, when your colleagues bring in industrial loads of cake, you genuinely wonder if they're plotting against you.

    5. Especially when they leave it by your desk, which means you spend half your day wiping your own saliva off your keyboard.

    6. Fancy a treat? No problem. Your daily limit is 500 calories, though, so here's a 20th of an orange. Enjoy!

    7. Make sure you chew it 500 times to make the most of it!

    8. You become an expert in filling up on herbal teas and flavoured water to stop your stomach feeling so empty.

    9. Your colleagues suggest burritos for lunch and your face goes numb and tingly.

    10. Instead, you eat a salad roughly the size of your thumbnail, and privately examine your colleagues' various flaws.

    11. By mid-afternoon you have a splitting headache.

    juice fast day one: 5 hours in-I feel like shit and want to die #health

    12. You've also given serious thought to body-slamming the cake table.

    The banana bread keeps winking at me #fastday

    13. You go for a walk to clear your head, but all the food smells in the restaurant district make you lightheaded.

    14. So you eat another ninth of an orange and try not to cry.

    15. At the end of the day, your colleagues suggest going for drinks and you tell them to go fuck themselves.

    16. "DRINKS HAVE CALORIES IN THEM, YOU HEARTLESS BASTARDS."

    17. Immediately you're mortified. You apologise for your behaviour and promise to be more pleasant tomorrow, when you're not so hangry.

    18. Later, you eat the world's tiniest dinner, wondering how long it'll be before you can forgo food all day and have a 500-calorie meal at night.

    19. The only things on TV are pornographic cooking shows which cause you to involuntarily make high, keening noises in the back of your throat.

    20. So you go to bed at 7 p.m. The sooner you sleep, the sooner tomorrow will come.

    21. Because tomorrow is another day!

    And it might have BURGERS in it.