How has your day been so far? I hope it has gone well.
I had to get my car serviced today so I went to the gym for an hour and a bit while it was getting done and went for a beach walk this Argo. Have burnt off a little over 800 calls so I’m hoping it will counter-act the dinner tonight!
I’ll do my measurements tonight (great thinking)!

Well done that’s awesome! I read a post where someone said that they actually had better weight loss on 600-650 cals. Did you experience a headache at all?

Hello Sunshiney,

I am in SA too. Great to know someone from Adelaide.

Keep up with the good work.

I can’t start yet due to my major surgery 🙁

Hi Em.T and Foong!
Em.T I had huge fatigue on my first day but it got a little better on the second. Hopefully it will improve with time however, I have adrenal problems so I’m always tired anyway but I certainly felt MORE tired.
Foong I hope you recover quickly.
Sunshiney I think you are right, and extra 100 cals can make a big difference to mindset and getting through the day I think!

Fasted today and all going well. No headache which is great. So far I’m at 480 cals. I’m toying with the idea to have a hot chocolate (47 cals) as I went for a nice long beach walk but I’ll see how I go. Glad to get the first fast of the week out of the way before returning to work after holidays tomorrow. Hot chips are my absolute favorite!

Hello everyone. Before I start a divergent thread looking for Aus buddies, would you mind if I joined in here? I see there are some Aussie threads but most seem quite well established. I am from Melbourne and am returning to 5:2 (only a brief stint previously). I have a BIG journey ahead of me with a lot of weight to lose but am looking at all the benefits IF brings. I will be blogging my journey too at http://myfiveandtwo.blogspot.com.au/ but no progress pics as I don’t want to scare anyone away!! Starting with a bang on a fast day today.

Hi sunshiney! Thank you for your welcome. Chaos broke out yesterday and had to do the grocery shopping too so in the end I opted to switch my fast day until today instead. How did you go yesterday? Do you find fast days generally easy?

I was doing really well until 2pm but had only had a few hours sleep the night before and this always makes me hungry so I figured I would switch my fast to today after the grocery shopping last night. I have my fast meals ready to go so am confident and motivated for today (and better rested!)

Yesterday, I only ate between 2pm and 8pm. I’m going to try to keep to an eight hour eating window and my TDEE on non fast days as this worked well for me last time. How are things going for you today?

Good morning everyone! Hope you’re all enjoying the beginning of the weekend.

First fast day down yesterday and I made it. Bit headachey towards the end of the day but I suspect that it’s dehydration. I really underestimated how much fluid we get through our foods. I noticed this too last time I was doing 5:2 that the dehydration symptoms were quite apparent so am making an extra effort to drink more than I think I need. Installed a water drinking tracker app on my phone to help and realised that at my size, I should be drinking about 2.5 litres a day – I probably average a third of that on a regular day so no wonder I get the headaches and gummy feeling in my throat.

Thanks EmT. I feel bad enough hijacking this thread. I should probably join in on the other threads too, now that I’ve started gatecrashing ;). Congratulations on your great results! As I am a blocky shape I don’t really know where my true waist is so I measure at the navel instead.

I’m also temporarily out of the paid workforce helping care for my mum and with a 3 year old. Usually I work in University Admin. I’m from Melbourne.

Have a great week everyone!

Hi Ladies 🙂

Sunshiney – yes around my belly button is larger than my waist too, and I think this is the measurement you need to check if your “waist” is less than 1/2 your height. I’m not worrying about arms but am keen to see my “saddlebags” get a bit smaller so checking my upper thigh. I like the tracker, but it would be nice to be able to add the other measurements I am interested in as well as the standard ones.

Mauve – Wooo Hooo for your first fast day!!!! Keep in mind that the headaches can also be caused by the chemicals produced when your body uses ketones for energy rather than glucose. Apparently your body will adjust to this as it gets used to fasting. A good sign that you’re probably metabolising fat though! I had a really bad headache the day after my first fast but ok since.

Hayley – hope all is going well for you, I am sure you are a very busy lady!!!

🙂

Hi Sunshiney. I will be fasting tomorrow as I’ve had a later dinner than expected today. My headache was manageable and subsided once I’d upped my water intake. After two short days I am finding that my cravings for chocolate and sweet fizzy drinks are virtually nil. I love how fasting seems to reset my palate!

Thanks EmT. I hadn’t considered that it might be the ketones. I should have remembered this from my brief dalliance with the Atkins diet. All I remember from that were expensive, unhealthy protein bars and ketostix (fun times).

I’m half way through the first week now and weigh day will be Thursday.Hope everyone has a good day tomorrow, especially if weighing in 🙂

Hi all, hope your week is going well.

Sunshiney – how is your fasting going today?

Mauve – hope you go well for your weigh-in tomorrow. I may or may not get on tomorrow, but I am recording my measurements on Fridays, so we can compare notes then!!!

Had a small blowout over the w’end so skipped lunch on Monday (normal b’fast & dinner but nothing in between) and then fasted yesterday. I found that having fewer calories the day before made the fasting a bit more challenging yesterday. Will see how my second fast for the week goes tomorrow!

It was quite amusing the other night: the kids were having fish & chips & salad, but as it was a FD I had a small piece of baked fish (with 100g cherry toms wrapped in foil, yum!) and a small mountain of steamed greens (brocollini & asparagus, yum!) … the kids were quite bemused by how different my meal looked even though I was having fish too. Up until then it had been less obvious that I was eating differently from them on FDs (stir-fry without rice, tortilla pizza with modified topping, bolognaise without pasta). In fact this has been the most challenging part in some ways – finding things I can cook, that doesn’t mean doing 2 completely different meals. Obviously the fish dinner was completely different, but simple enough prep & both meals done in the oven made it work.

Enjoy the second half of your week!