Hot flushes stopped!

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Madgey

8:20 am
12 Jan 14
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Hi

I have been on the 5:2 plan since a couple of week before Christmas.
I have lost about 6lbs so far (want to get down to 9st) and have noticed that my hot flushes appear to have stopped. I was getting them a few times a day (I’m 46) and just wondered whether this is a coincidence or positive side effect from the diet?

Has anyone else experienced the same?

skinny57

10:56 am
14 Jan 14
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I have recently started the 5:2 and have found that the flushes – which had been causing me some SERIOUS torment – have improved. While my sleep is still somewhat broken, the pattern of waking every 1.5 hours has changed, with my waking spells far fewer. I am also feeling just sooooooooo much better generally!

symba7

7:55 pm
14 Jan 14
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You are both lucky, after 10 years without flushes, my night time ones are back (I am 64 years old) . The fat cells keep them at bay now I have lost 2 stone my body has to balance out again!

Still it’s better to be slimmer again.

jeny

7:37 am
25 Jul 14
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I’m 64 and have been bedevilled with hot flushes for 14 years. I started the fast diet 6 months ago and lost a couple of stone and my hot flushes! I just realised I can’t remember when I had the last one.
I hope it’s for real, fingers crossed.

davidrob

10:54 am
25 Jul 14
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ok I am not of the same sex; but in a book i read there is also the andropause- and i reckon my hot flushes-sweats- are related to food-especially complex carbohydrates- under 5:2 when i fast the toxins all go out of my body -but i wish it was easy for me to lose 2 stone!
absence always means you forget it was happening to you!

Laure

4:23 pm
18 Nov 14
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Do hot flushes go through periods of being on/being off anyway? My hot flushes started up earlier in the year, went on for a couple of months and then stopped again. I am 50 and as far as I know, perimenopausal although for the past 2 year I had a progesterone IUS fitted,which makes it harder to tell whether I’m fully menopausal yet as my periods have largely stopped due to that. I noticed the flushes stopped a while before I began 5:2, so in my case they have nothing to do with fasting, and I can’t think of any dietary or other change I did that would have caused this. Prior to this I had assumed that once they started, they continued for years. I’m guessing they will come back again but I have no idea when.