New to 5:2 – TDEE and FCalories Intake Question

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  • Howdy, first post here so look forward to this journey!

    I’m a 41yo male and have just started 5:2 a couple of weeks ago (and lost a couple of kilo’s already)!

    I have read articles where fast day calories for men is around 600, but based on my TDEE of 1935, my fast day calorie intake is sub 500. Is this right, or too low?

    There is nothing magical about the number 600. It is just a value that Michael Mosley thought most people could cope with. Lots of people do zero cal on there fast days (including me). If you can do less great, if not you just lose at a slightly slower rate. With such a low TDEE it sounds like you don’t have much to lose?

    Thanks for that… I’m only 166cm and started off at 80kg…. want to get down to 70-72kg

    I started at 92kg and got down to 70kg and stopped. Im 178cm tall. Took me just over 12 months. Slow and steady and you’ll get there. Good luck.

    Belele, the ‘magic number’ is the 600 calories on a Fast Day. How many calories you consume on a Slow Day will either maintain your weight loss or wipe it out. The number of calories for a Fast Day is not based on your TDEE. Rather, the calories you ingest on a Slow Day should be based on what it does to the numbers shown on the bathroom scale.

    Bottom line: if you faithfully eat no more than 600 quality calories on a Fast Day and you lose weight and keep it off during the week, then you don’t need to think about your TDEE on Slow Days. But if you are faithful on Fast Days but continue to gain the other days, then you need to look at what you eat on Slow Days and investigate your calorie intake.

    I too started this with not much weight to lose, but lost it and then lost some more as I discovered my optimum TDEE. Am now at a weight I never thought possible and maintaining it.
    Good luck.

    Awesome, thanks for the replies, very helpful

    @fasting_me I love how you refer to non fast days as Slow Days! May well adopt this term x

    Feel free, AbFab.

    How’s it going Belele? AbFab?

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