Hi everyone

Decided to post here in the intent of keeping me honest and feeling some community support. I have always been slim and never really needed to worry about my weight within more than 5 pounds. Then 5 years ago I got married and moved to the suburbs and live in a house with kids and all the treats that they like! In my previous single life I rarely had any indulgent foods in the house so wasn’t tempted to overeat at home.

I did 5:2 3 years ago and lost 12 lbs (I am a Brit in the US so converting back to stones is a challenge!). Got down to 160lbs which is my goal weight- im 5 foot 10. Then over the last 3 years have been allowing the fat to creep on a bit. I have been lifting weights now for 4 months and am seeing some great strength gains and of course a bit of the weight gain is muscle but I weighed in today at 180lbs. Hmmm. I have Hashimotos but take medication and cant say that that has any bearing on my weight- I’ve been on the med for many years. My weakness is late night snacks and scotches, snuggle up in bed with hubby and watch British tv shows and overindulge. I am pretty active but clearly – you cant out exercise a bad diet. Also am almost 52 so that doesn’t help- on low dose HRT patch for last 3 months- going to check with doc if that could affect weight gain.

So I did my first FD yesterday- all fine, I don’t mind it at all. Eating normally today and tracking- my TDEE is around 2300/2400 depending on what sport I am doing. Aiming to keep average daily calories around 1700- including FD and NFD which should give me 1lb to 1.5lb loss a week. And to track on NFD- I realized this weekend that what I thought was consuming on an average Saturday and what I was actually eating was quite a bit off, hence fat creeping on over the last few years.

Thanks for listening, hope to connect with some of you over the next few months,

Jules

Weighed in this morning. Only .6 of a pound down. But at least it wasn’t up!
1 week (well actually only 4 days) on 5:2. Weight 180. Goal 155-160

I’ll definitely try to limit the gain- they do at least have a sand volleyball court- I play- so if I play that everyday for a couple of hours that burns a ton of calories- which will help.

FD for me today- lots of fizzy water and a yogurt for lunch then a healthy but decent dinner.

Im realizing that when i get to maintenance I will have to do 6:1 forever. So much easy to have one tough day a week and then enjoy food the rest of the time then try to be disciplined most days. I am a MUCH better abstainer than I am a moderator!

Spottydog- lets stick with it together! Weighing in tomorrow- will post my results! I started at 12 st 8lbs- goal is 10.5 to 11 stone (im 5’10 and lift weights so that’s about as low as I want to go)