Hello all.
Came back from Poland a week ago but not had time to post.
Looks like we’re struggling a bit. I did a fast last Wednesday as I couldn’t face it the day after retuning from our fabulous break. I fasted yesterday I only had a bowl of homemade Chinese chicken and sweet corn soup which was delicious. I shall be fasting tomorrow too. Going to that there London on Thursday (and Harry Potter studios ) for a few nights but will be back on it Monday. Not weighed for 2 weeks and when I did I stayed the same. I’m not losing like I did the first time I did 5:2 but I really think it’s because I’m not exercising like I did.
Lovely to hear from you Goosey and good to know that maintaining is easy ( can’t say I’m optimistic of ever getting to that stage lol)
ELC do those last 3lbs really matter. I can’t see they’ll make a duffence to how your clothes fit. I reckon you must be lovely and svelte.
Lazy sorry to hear you’ve another cold. Maybe try echanasia??
My tummy rumbling this morning but I’m not giving in until lunch time.
I’m going to try to eat well on non fast days and see if I can kick start some weight loss ( I said try 😉
Good luck all x

Hi I have been doing this for three weeks,and lost 6 pounds, I have a slight underactive thyroid and no other diet has worked even though I am on medication and should be able to loose weight like anyone. I am convinced this diet tricks my system so my body doesn’t have time to reset my basal rate.. I do Monday and Thursday… I like Thursday as I know its weekend the following night, keeps me focused.

I eat nothing until lunchtime (midday), then a small ham salad, with tiny bit salad cream,fizzy water or Fanta zero in afternoon to keep pangs away a bit.. Dinner will be at 6pm , small amount of meat or fish with salad or veg. Evening I drink fizzy water and about 8.30pm, I have a chopped up orange, which I have chilled in the fridge in wedges and suck at those, otherwise I am too hungry to sleep. I prepare my food day before and then my attitude is “that’s what I have got to eat today, get on with it, some people in the world haven’t even had that today “… The feast days I eat sensibly but I make sure I feel full. Good luck everyone

Same here, will try for Wed and Thur as in Edinburgh and not home until after 7.00.
Think that I need to stay away from cheese on a fast day as once I start I don’t stop.

Elc, please keep trying as you are sooo close. Really hope that tomorrow is successful for both of us. Think that we need a good fast to get us back in the zone.

Hello everyone. Well done on all the weight losses and achievements.

Thank you for keeping me occupied reading all the great posts while my stomach rumbles! This is my second fast this week and I do not having the usual distraction of being at work.

I tried 5:2 sometime ago on and off, but only losing a few pounds, when ideally I would like to lose about 10 pounds. I am just over 10 stones (10 stone being the brick wall I still cannot breakthrough), which I feel is too heavy for my height (5′ 4″). There are other medical conditions in the family, so gaining some health benefits would be great.

I also have a Fitbit and aim for 10,000 steps a day, so about to drag my gang out for a walk.

Wishing you all a great day. 🙂

Hello, back again after sprained ankle, etc.

I restarted about 3 weeks ago; took a week off for my period and I am STILL down 7 pounds. I haven’t been under 175 in a few years. 173 today!

I vary my fasting days from M-W to T-TH every once in a while. It lets me feel good that I can use that flexibility and get results. To be honest, it isn’t like I am eating grains and gorp, but I am watching calories pretty closely (getting good at estimating those too) and I have so much more energy! I do save up my fasting calories for dinner, but if I’m having a hard time at work, I will eat a small bag of baby carrots (35) or a chunk of beef jerky (80 for an ounce).

Hi to everyone, keep it up! Ignore the naysayers-people just don’t want to believe it works!
Tracy

I read an excellent study that talks about how the modern diet masks our body’s ability to be hungry for what it NEED vs what it wants.

I do know that feeling HUNGRY is actually a unique feeling, and I haven’t really BEEN hungry for a long time. I actually have decided to enjoy hunger pangs–they are letting me know that things are working correctly! And I won’t claim to eat super-healthy every day– but I don’t want my hunger to have been for nothing–I want something out of it. So, I do make different choices, and then it’s rewarding in itself.

I did drink half a bottle of wine with my husband the other night–but I knew that I hadn’t eaten crap all day before, and sat down to our tapas feeling hungry and stopped when I was full. That’s a new old thing too-recognizing when I am done BEFORE I am gasping for air. I do have days when I know it’s my emotions that are hungry, so I try to give them just a little.

My next hurdle is exercise. Gotta get the hubby who loves craft beer off the sofa. 😀 Now my ankle is healed, that should be a bit easier!

Don’t be too hard on yourselves! Keep it up and find something to fill time. I just re-read all the Harry Potter!

Hi all,

I haven’t fasted this week, because I wanted a bit of a slow recovery after my vacation, but I’ve tried to eat clean, which for me is out with dairy and wheat products, and also to limit my intake of meat. I had a bit of an accident the other day (involving pancakes), so nowhere close to perfect but at least it’s doing something. Lost 1.2 kg since Monday, which I am happy about. Need to drop another 1.3 kg to be at the same weight as before I left for vacation. Weekend is coming up, so need to be very careful- but hoping to get to my ‘starting point’, i.e. dropping the 1.3 kg as soon as possible.

Hope you all have a lovely and healthy weekend!

Hi all and welcome Opal Shine, it is lovely to have you join us.

Patricia and Serenity, congratulations on your weight loss.

Tracy, I am with you, I really need to get back to exercising and hopefully that will be the kick up the backside to get me into fasting again.

No weight loss again so need to do the 5:2 as I know it works and hopefully exercise will put in the healthy frame of mind.

Having an odd week this week, so having my fast days on Tuesday and Thursday instead. Good luck everyone!

Today I went over by 17! 517.

Not upset. Looking forward to a buttery crumpet tomorrow though!

Hi Patricia, I am much the same boat with regards to the wanting to eat and struggling to do a proper fast day. I have decided (as I have previously) that I can not have bread, cheese, crisps, chocolates or biscuits in the house as I munch until there are gone or I am full to bursting. I am going to try and only have these thing at the weekend, but we will see as best laid plans and all that. The fact is that over the past couple of weeks I have actually put weight on so something needs to change. I am considering a reward system along the idea that if I lose weight then I can have pizza or something really nice to eat. Anyway I can only see how it goes.

Hope you do ok today and get back on track.

Hi all,

Elc, I have been that soldier when the thought of alcohol has me running to the toilet. My God though, a week of boozing I am very impressed! I struggle with 1 night although as you know I am very greedy when it come to the lovely lovely gin. No gain is great. Well I blew it yesterday and went further over with my cals when I found caramel rice cakes in the cupboard. I looked like a child at Christmas when I found them and then had 3 resulting in another 120 cals. Anyway still way better than I have done recently. Not optimistic this week.

Katie, enjoy the rose as I think you deserve it.

This forum is getting to be an alcohol appreciation forum. Not that I am complaining as I think that I am in very good company.

Enjoy the weekend when it comes and have a large vino/gin to celebrate it!

I went over my 500 cals, 530!

It was all the coffee. I have been so lethargic recently.

Hi. I’m glad I found the pizza and alcohol thread! Friday night is pizza night in our household. I also seem to be drinking more coffee.

Have a good weekend and back to fasting on Monday. 🙂

Ended up with 450 cals yesterday + 5 Km run + strength training = finally a proper fast day.

It’s bee a while I’ve had a proper fast day and after the weekend I just had, I really need to step it up. Going to try to keep it at 700 cals today + workout.

Lazy, I think you should go for that run this weekend, it doesn’t matter if it becomes a walk, as long as you are on the move. For me it seems as my body just slows down so much when i don’t exercise, because I sit in an office all day, and then take the car home, and then I place myself on the sofa :), so I really need the exercise. I know a lot of people say working out is of no value for weight loss, and alone it’s not, but i think it helps a lot together with a healthy diet or fasting.

I didn’t manage my 700 cals yesterday- ended up around 1000, but did go for another 5 km run and strength training. Today is a proper fast day and a tough spinning class is planned for this afternoon.

Have a good fast day everyone!!

Much better today. I reached 475.

I was determined to be on track today.

Going to try a different salad next week, getting bored of eating the same salad.

I know I have lost more weight as a pair of jeans I couldn’t get past my thighs are now on my hips! Now need to get them done up! Lol

Hi all,

Lovely to hear from you Goosey, but what is a spiralizer?

Particia, I could win a medal for big fails recently. Can’t remember when my last successful fast was. I was probably just over 1000 cals both days this week. I kkep thinking that my shame of posting yet another unsuccessful fast would push me to get on track but alas no, instead it pushes me towards the fridge, cupboard and towards munching. Hope that the run over the weekend will at least give me something postive to write about.

Katie, well done!

Paricia, I am exactly the same, am great all day with just fluids then in the evening am like the cookie monster who eats everything. Cheese is my biggest weakness and once I start then there no stopping me. Pizza tonight so not being good.

Yeah plan a run on Sunday morning and hopefully the feel good factor will get me back on track. Enjoy the weekend

Hi wanttolose weight and welcome.

Am glad that your first fast went well, 77 cals over is nothing. Please don’t think of it as a fail. Keep doing what your doing. Lovely to have you join us.

Elc, I didn’t even weigh myself as there was no point. I am studying and with every word that I type I am eating crap. I f I don’t get back on track then I will be the size of a house.

I need all the luck I can get. Thank you Serenity

Hi everyone,

Hope you are doing good. Today I have no will power- I don’t know what it is, but I have a feeling I won’t make 500 cals. I have consumed 237 cals so far, and I don’t have access to much food before dinner, and plans to workout after work. Dinner is planned for 250 cals- but we will see..tired and cranky right now.

I have a really hard time with will power and motivation nowadays – could be that I haven’t seen any results for a long time, it’s frustrating. Oh well, let’s see where I end up today.

Good luck everyone!

Reached 490 today. Found it pretty easy. 🙂

I am going to be measuring myself this Thursday, fingers crossed I have lost something