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I am trying for a no food day today, I only had 350 calories yesterday and found I wasn’t hungry at all so maybe I can manage a food free day? We shall see.
jennyh how do you make your porridge? can you do it in the microwave? I use the Oats so Simple golden syrup flavour, yummy but lots of calories, I would like to try a lower calorie alternative.
I make my porridge inthe microwave. Put half mug of oats and 1 mug cold water in a bowl or jug and microwave on high for 4 mins. I empty it into my cerealbowl and sprinkle good quality cinnamon on top and add blueberries. I don’t add milk but you might like to.
My clothes are beginning to feel a bit looser and am well pleased. I’ll fast again tomorrow and plan to make a stirfry for dinner with cauliflour rice. I bought some tasty low cal snacks for myself for emergencies…..milk chocolate covered rice cakes @69 cals and 72% chocolate. 1 square with a nespresso is my treat.
Buy a big bag of porridge …500g and have it every day. One bbowlis 172cals and will keep me going all day.
That’s truly inspiring Bigmarie so Well Done! I can nearly into the trousers I bought ….plan to fit into them in 2 weeks for a family event. They’ll all be there and I’d love to show them!! It’s very frosty here still but was out planting more snowdrops+hellebores in my garden and looking forward to having more energy for it over the next few weeks. Hope everyone doing well and taking motivation from Bigmarie’s success
Bigmarie that is fantastic news, well done you! 🙂
I fasted Mon Wed and Fri this week and it was tough going, not sure I can repeat 3 fasts within 5 days again so soon, lost 3lbs this week though so that makes 8lbs in 3 weeks 🙂
Fasting Tues and Fri thus week, will see if I can also get into a couple of my skirts soon 🙂
Shaza
Hi guys, looking for some advice: I did really well with 3 fast days last week and going to do fast days Tues and Fri this week, do you think it is okay to eat 2000 cals today? Think I’m having a growth spurt, including dinner tonight I will have consumed 1671 but I really really would like a small chocy bar but on the other hand if I have it I’ll feel really guilty, don’t want to undo all my hard work!
Shazaslimby – If you really want that chocolate bar, have it! The whole point of this way of eating is that it supposed to be a lifestyle change, not a quick fix, couple of months of eating healthy then back to normal kind of diet!
You’re going to feel like having something ‘naughty’ once in a while, it’s inevitable. If you constantly deny yourself, you’re only going to want it more.
So long as the vast majority of your eating days are at or under you TDEE, you can have that extra chocolate bar, or glass of wine, or piece of salted caramel cheesecake (my personal vice).
I’ve only been doing the 5:2 plan for a month, but already my cravings for sweets and cakes has gone right down. But if I want something (cheesecake), I have it and I really enjoy it.
I just make sure that my other food choices balance it out.
And if I go over my calorie allowance once in a while, I write it off and be good the next day.
🙂
Hi Clickbeetle85, I did have the chocolate and to stop my guilt I changed my dinner to a less calorific meal! Like you I’m also losing the amount of cravings for sweet things, today I don’t feel in such control because I have picked up yet another cold, had one the whole of December so feeling fed up and sorry for myself that I have got it back again, the only cure for it is chocolate, it’s my weakness. I’ll be back on track tomorrow, fast day!
Bigmarie, you had my tastebuds in overdrive there with all the talk of cheeseburgers pizzas and chocolate 🙂
I’m beginning to enjoy my fast days and feel in control of my body instead of my tummy being in control of me!
That is the way to look at it bigmarie. When I have a couple of celebration chocolates watching tv, I think that’s nothing compared to what I used to get through.
I am thinking of another no food day this week, I have done that the past 2 weeks and found it easy enough. I really have to shift this fat, I worry about diabetes, it is in our family. Why I have left it till now I will never know. Better late than never I suppose.
We will show them!
I had a routine visit to the optician two weeks ago +was told thar ny slow growing cataracts had a sudden growth spurt and needed to be removed asap…..I had to have a general anaesthetic as have a morbid fear of hospitals, needles etc. All went well with Eye No 1 but my main worry was my weight and my BMI. They were really reassuring but I was mad with myself for leaving it until now to do something about my weight as well Applepie. Anyway, I rolled my fast day in on Friday and am going to keep with it as I don’t want to end up with something serious wrong with me like heart problems or diabetes. My fast days are Tuesday +Thursday this week.
Hi everyone. Don’t be hard on yourselves , obviously your attitudes to food have now changed as you are all thinking differently amount the amounts of food you are eating, that is what makes the difference, it’s okay having a off or a treat day because you know you won’t let things slide. I did fast days Tues and Fri this week and I’ve lost another 2lbs, it’s great because I don’t feel the need to attack the fridge the next day, and feel my body is now accepting the change to my eating.
Keep up the good work everyone.
Shaza 🙂
Weigh day for me, I can’t wait for yours bigmarie! another 2lbs down. 10lbs since I started. Result!
Fasting today.
Good point Shaza about how our attitudes to food have changed, dead right. I look back with horror at some of the rubbish, and the portion sizes, of food I ate. Never again.
Have a great day!
Applepie, I’m the same as you, I also lost 2lbs this week so in all I’ve lost 10lbs in 4 weeks! I’m loving the fact that my clothes feel so much looser!
Bigmarie, I also can’t wait to hear how your weigh in goes 🙂
Quick fast day question: today is a fast day but for some reason I’m finding it really really hard today, have just had a bowl of homemade lentil and carrot soup which I allowed 250 cals, but still starving so wondered if I’ve over allocated the cals, some of the tinned soups I have in the cupboard are about 160 cals so maybe that’s why I don’t feel full! For brunch I had a boiled egg with couple slices ham and in afternoon I had low cal yoghurt.
Shaza
Hi I am hoping to join this thread 🙂 The results are very inspiring!
I have been on 5:2 since the beginning of Jan 2015 and my starting weight was 12 st 6 lbs
I have so far lost 6 lbs which I am very happy with but I would really like to stay more motivated throughout the month as there were a couple of failed fasts along the way so have been reading and joining threads on the forum.
I am new and have been looking at doing 5:2 for some time now. I have chosen this forum because I am inspired by everybody and also totally agree with the title ‘I will show them’. I plan on starting next week and have purchased the ‘fast kitchen’ meals which are looking good. Hope they taste just as good! I am 30 years old and have had weight issues since a teenager. Looking back I was a perfect slim but curvy size and I would love to get back to that. Since having my daughter nearly three years ago I have tried everything going and to be honest my husband and my family/friends are getting sick of what I’m trying next!! So I am determined to get this right. Will post starting weight and first fast experience next week. Cannot wait!
Is anyone else doing this under the radar so to speak. I’ve chosen fast days when I’m home alone in the evening so I don’t get that knowing look when I tell them I’m embarking on yet another diet (WOL).
I have told some people at work and bless them they are being so good. One of them bought me a biscuit to go with my tea today because he said he knew it was a non fast day.
So first fast day completed yesterday and I am so pleased. I weighed in at 12 st 10lbs and would love to get back to the 10st – 11st region. I held it out until lunchtime and had grilled tomatoes and flat mushrooms with an egg. Then mid afternoon I had my first ‘fast kitchen’ meal which was minestrone soup. I was very impressed with that! Finished with a ‘fast kitchen’ chicken curry at 6pm which was full of flavour. I drank 2 litres of water and had one coffee with a dash of milk. Came in at 484 calories all together. Roll on tomorrow when I will be fasting again!
Dead right bigmarie!
How are you doing Shaza? No weigh in for me this week, broken scales. We will have new scales by next Monday.
We are just going shopping. It’s amazing how much my shopping list has changed in a month. We used to get through 2 loaves of bread a week, a giant bag of crisps most weeks etc. Now it’s spinach, carrots, olives, greek yougurt and bananas (for pancakes)
Any other results from previous, or new, posters?
Intended a full fast yesterday, but spent the whole day searching the loft for misding paperwork, I felt realy light headed, not much in to eat, my m&s meals were frozen, so hubby made me mince pie and chips – but he measured the portions, including 100 grams of chips, all in with a cup of sweetened tea, 404 calories, and boy did it taste good.
Into my seventh week, a stone lighter than when I started.
Counting calories works for me, but I hope for the short term only. We’ll see how it goes.
Fingers and toes crossed that son passes driving test, he is taking it in 20 minutes – a bottle of champage has just been put in the fridge, so frankly hoping to ignore my TDEE today!!!!!
Hi guys, sorry been quiet, still going strong, watching what I’m eating on non fast days, weighing all my food, really interesting to see where all the cals come from! Weighed in last Saturday morning as usual and surprisingly lost another 2lbs so well chuffed, that’s me down 12lbs in 5 weeks, yay!
Bigmarie, well done on your weight loss, we are all heading in the right direction.
Into week 6 now and have even had a couple of glasses of wine.
Hope everyone else is doing well and welcome to the newbys 🙂
Shaza 🙂
Weighed in today on our new scales and 2 more pounds are history! That’s 12lbs in total since 5/1/15.
I am finding that I need to do 4:3 to achieve any loss, with one of my fast days being liquid only. It’s easy though, so doable.
Fasting today, tomorrow and probably Thursday, bring it on!
How is everyone else doing?
Hi all, finding all your posts the inspiration I need to get started! After having my gallbladder out 18 months ago my weight has crept up from 10st to 11′ 4!! So now nothing fits! So my first fast day is going to be tomorrow and looking forward to getting started. Am determined to get back down asap so also purchased a treadmill at the weekend as although I walk most days (I have a pedometer and try to get as close to the 10,000 steps each day as poss) I feel I need to step this up and include a bit more cardio 🙂 Will keep you posted……
It’s my 3rd week and 6 fasts done with determined resolve. Then all of a sudden today went downhill. Was away with work so staying in hotel with inevitable lunch provided and then felt I needed crisps and chocolate on the long drive home. How does that happen when we’ve been so disciplined.
Anyway was just going to write today off but thought I’d check the calories and surprisingly I’m within TDEE of 1700 – just. I have been keeping my non fast days at about 1200 so even though I’ve eaten extra today I probably had some calories in reserve and according to MFP by daily average over the last week is 969.
So all is not lost. Glad I resisted the cooked breakfast – I just had fruit and low fat yoghurt so not completely bad food choices.
Hi guys, finding the 5:2 a bit hard going just now, I fast okay but non fast days are taking over my mind, I weigh everything and want to keep to 1500 cals so not undoing the good on fast days. I used to think I was feeling empowered but the honeymoon period seems to be over. Hasn’t helped that my new scales have me about 2lbs heavier although the overall weight loss amount should still be the same. 🙁
That is another 3 fasts completed. 2 x 350 cals and 1 x liquids only. I have been promising hubby that we will have kebab and chips and I think it will be tomorrow, bring it on!!
I love that in this WOL we don’t have to deny ourselves anything, just not as much or as often as previously.
Hey Shaza, what about adding another fast day and let non fast days take care of themselves? Lots of yummy homemade soups, that works for us.
I am really looking forward to breakfast, full fat Greek yogurt with chopped banana and prunes hmmmm!
Good luck everyone x
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