Hi,
I started 4:3 almost 6 weeks ago and have lost 20 lbs. Which is great! But I was wondering who else is doing 4:3 and what their experiences are on the long run. I can’t imagine I’ll keep on losing 3.3 lbs each week.
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Hi Evie, Those on 4:3 tend to come and go on this forum. I’m not sure whether this is because they reach their target goal so depart the forum or because they end up dropping 4:3 because they find it unsustainable over the long term. You’ll find most in this forum practice 5:2 and many have given 4:3 a ‘go’. If you click around the threads or do a search, you will find a few others who may be currently practicing 4:3.
Hi! I’ve been on the 4:3 method for three weeks now. I noticed that I’m starting to find it harder as time goes by. How do you make sure you get enough nutritients on the non-fasting days, I feel like i’m not getting enough because I start to feel woozy sometimes even on non-fasting days. This may also be because I restrict my calories on non-fasting days too.
Your weightloss is very motivating though! I hope I’ll have lost about that amount in three weeks!
Hi all, I did 4:3 for two months. I lost 15lbs, went from 202 to 187, but now I am stuck at this 187 mark, wavering between 185-187. Part of this is because I changed to 5:2 two weeks ago, and that seems to basically keep me at maintenance levels. I think I need to buckle down and go back to 4:3, but there is always some event at work or with friends that make the 3 down days harder to stick to.
i’m doing basically 4:3 but i simply eat one day and the other not… I started only in a couple of weeks but i’ll definitely stick to this. In the past i had done a couple of 4\5 days fasts. I really see the benefits of eating this way… I’m not really loosing much weight until now, but i have to say that i really don’t feel the hunger anymore. I’ll stick to this and come here to tell you again how’s going! Still i now tend to not eat rather than making transgressions to eat more while fasting… I’m not taking integrators of sort, but i’ll def focus more on making some better quality meals in the next days (as for vegetable or fruit based meals). I’m also trying to reduce carbs on eat days, while not caring at all on the quantities NOR quality of everything else i eat. I’m afraid this plan could led me to some anorexic pattern, since for example yesterday it was a fast day and i ended up skipping dinner too, so my last 24h fast became a 36h one. I did breakfast with one pastry and coffee without sugar, and then i ate a lot (half a chicken and a couple of potatoes in the oven) at lunch…. Now i don’t feel any hunger, so i’ll probably skip this dinner too… I don’t know if this will be good for loosing weight, and so i’ll be very careful to eat something anyway even if not hungry… As i said i’ll stick to this and see what happens!
Here’s the link to another active thread of those doing 4:3:
https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/anyone-doing-a-43/#post-171255
It has been about a month since anyone posted here so I hope you guys are still fighting the good fight with the 4 3 as I am about to start it myself.
After a four month weight loss of 30 pounds and countless inches on the five two and incorporating a lot of exercise I have reached a plateau. Ideally I would like to lose another 20 lbs. I am currently 166. I am starting my third fast day today, and I will continue workouts five to six times a week. However, I am not sure what to do about my TDEE on feed days. Should I leave it the same? It is about 2300 calories….
In any event I will post my experience and results here and maybe it can help people are are considering trying an extra fast day.
Hi all and thank you so much for all of your awesome comments. I am going to start the 4:3 diet next week. I used to be on this thread regularly doing the 5:2. It’s been years and I am up 20 pounds through the Covid fatigue from last year so I need to lose that and I’m starting Monday which is May 10 and I hope by mid July my first camping trip to be moving towards my goal. Thx for everybody’s inspirational on this blog!
Hello from France!
I’m also on 4:3, doing everything by the book with 0 cheats.
Because of weight fluctuation I weight my self every 6 weeks (it’s more stable, on May 6 I’m ending my third week).
I’ll update here (to share info) how much I dropped during those 6 weeks of 4:3 (ill update my weight loss on May 28).
Good luck to us, and please who ever on 4:3 update your weight loss.
Hello I’m doing 4/3. I fasted 5 years ago and lost 5 stone in 11mths. Sadly I ended up having a few ops on my back and a new hip and totally lost it. Did SW and lost 2 stone until the pandemic hit and I went back up to 19st 1lb!
I’ve always tweaked my fasting as needed for social events, weekends away, holidays etc. If I can’t do 3 then I do 2. There’s no hard and fast rules. If you make it to rigid you’ll get fed up. It’s a way of life, you have to make it fit you to make it work. I also reduced my NFD to 1200 cals back then. I’m doing 13/1470 now. Reducing cals by 500 from your TDEE really helps but because you’re fasting this happens naturally for you. For me fasting broke my sugar and carb addiction. This meant I ate healthier as I was eating just from hunger not from cravings. This is just my experience but I know that happens to a great deal of fastens. For the first time in my entire life when I was losing that 5 stone I was IN CONTROL of what I ate and why I ate. I want to get back to that. For me it has to ‘click’ in my brain or I just can’t do it for more than a few weeks. This is my first week back to fasting with a real enthusiasm to eat better, lose weight, feel better, move easier. I’d hit that 19 stone wall and if I didn’t start now I’d just keep growing!!
I’m doing this with a friend who only wants to lose 7lbs but we eat a lot together and go out a lot together and it’s been really helpful for us both.
I’ve lost 7½lbs in my first week and 2 inches of my hips! She has lost 2lbs and has stopped treating herself daily to biscuits because she’s eaten well, thus undoing her good work. This will spur me on. Remember that when the scales don’t show it your clothes and tape measure will. Remember to keep feeling good about all the benefits of this WOL not just what the scales say. Good luck with your journey. X
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