This could be the start of something awesome!

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Karate Kid

7:12 am
6 Sep 15
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Hi everyone,

Was everyone nervous, yet strangely excited when they started on this journey?

I train in karate 3 times per week and although I’m fairly fit, am just not shifting the weight. Every year I am about a kilo heavier than the year before.

I am overweight – not massively – I am 80kg and 168cm, but obesity runs in my family – there are several obese people (my Dad, brother and 2 Aunts). My Dad has diabetes. All not good and I feel if I wasn’t doing so much karate I might be as big as them!

After watching the BBC programme about choosing the right diet I found out I am a Constant Craver and that brought me to look at this book.

I have a friend who has been doing 5:2 for quite some time now and she looks amazing. I didn’t think I could do it, but now after watching the programme, and reading the book think it might be perfect for me. I like that 5 days a week I can forget the whole thing!

I like knowing the science background to things, it makes a difference and I think will help me stay on track. I also very much like the whole “I can eat that tomorrow” way of thinking when I want something.

I want to start tomorrow, but since I have a grading assessment on Tuesday have decided such a big change might be a bit silly the day before it. SO – this week will be organise my ideas and fasting day plans etc, and once I am past Tuesday and fully recovered from it I will be full steam ahead.

Monday 14 September is my start date. I’ll check in here on that day to mark the first day. Hoping to get ideas and support here, and to be able to reciprocate!

Cinque

7:50 am
6 Sep 15
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Hi Karate Kid!
Welcome here. I understand that excited nervousness!
I had been thinking about doing this 5:2 after my friends, wife and husband, found it really good. Then I saw the “What’s the right diet for you series” and that made me really decide to give it a go. I’m two months in and I am finding it really excellent. It really is a sustainable way of life. And I am ready fitting into clothes I didn’t used to.
Bring on September 14th!

Amazon

12:40 pm
6 Sep 15
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Hi KK and welcome,

Great to see someone new on these boards who has actually looked at the book before embarking on this WOE. Just one thing, you can’t forget the whole thing for five days of the week because if you are gaining weight then you are likely to be over eating on a daily basis, so you have to readjust your perception of what eating normally is. You should click on the how it works link and calculate your TDEE which is the absolute maximum you can have on non fasting days. When calculating it is useful to under estimate the amount of exercise you do and/or use your goal weight rather than what you weigh now. That means that once you’ve lost weight, and your TDEE decreases as you do so, you won’t have to make any more adjustments, and once you’ve got the hang of things you will be able to forget about it on non fast days.

Many people are attracted to 5:2 because it is not daily deprivation and calorie counting, but it does work better if you check how much you eat daily at the start. Maybe you can count calories of everything you eat and drink over the next week just to give yourself an idea of what you need to do when you start on 14th.

Good luck 🙂

Karate Kid

11:09 pm
6 Sep 15
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Thanks so much for the welcome and tips, Cinque and Amazon.

Great idea to track calories this week. I have myfitnesspal on my phone so am using that.

Ceedub

3:23 pm
7 Sep 15
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Welcome kirate kid.

Karate Kid

1:45 am
13 Sep 15
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RIGHT – it’s Monday 14th tomorrow and my first day. I have read the Fast Exercise book as well now, and have my HIT workouts ready to go.

Tomorrow morning I will do the measurements and get started. It’s been good to take a week to get my mind and plan organised.

No idea how I am going to go. I’ve been eating heaps all week – for some reason the thought of fasting made me hungry. I decided not to worry too much, and tracked calories on the days I wasn’t being ridiculous, so I know a normal day for me is actually within what I should have on a non fasting day. So I think I can pretty much not count calories or worry on the non fast days.

I’m just about to write up a list of what I can eat on fasting days and make sure I am organised. And then it’s all on!

Thanks for your support and interest! I like having this as a place to come and use as a kind of diary.

I’ll pay it forward by finding some newbies in here and helping them out once I have a few fasts under my belt.

🙂

Cinque

2:27 am
13 Sep 15
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Hi KK! Best wishes for tomorrow! It may well be that anxiety makes you eat more! That happens for me. Hopefully you will find the first Fast Day easy, knowing it is just one day. The fact that 5:2 can easily become a normal way of life, just part of sensible eating, means it stops being a big stressful thing you might fail at.
Make it easy and sensible for yourself!
Let us know how you go!

Karate Kid

11:53 pm
13 Sep 15
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Thanks heaps Cinque,

I think today will go slowly, but once I am in my stride it will be fine. I really appreciate your comments.

I had some oats and lite milk this morning, and have karate today after work. I decided to put a banana in my bag, just in case I find I get too dizzy or don’t feel well.

Then when I get home after training I can look forward to my egg and tuna! Woohoo!

Anyway – I’ve made it to (almost) lunch time (might have to not call it “lunch” time on fasting days :-))