I am an American (now living abroad) who had tremendous success with fasting. PBS (Public Broadcast Station) aired Dr. Moseley’s documentary about 2 years ago. I was intrigued, hopeful but past weight loss failures have numbed me to the “next sure thing.” A week later I was still thinking about fasting and went online and watched the documentary again. After spending about a week wrapping my brain around not eating, I decided to try it.

Initially I planned to fast for 5 days, which was overambitious. I lasted 4 days and broke the fast with a huge plate of Mexican food. In hindsight, that was not my best idea but it tasted awesome at the time. I was terribly uncomfortable after my meal but remained hopeful about fasting since I was able to fast for a couple of days without being completely miserable. Eighteen months after incorporating fasting into my life, I have lost over forty pounds and have never felt better.

Fasting is ideal for me because I can do it on my own terms based on my schedule. No one has to know what I am doing, they just see the results. My “bad food” days no longer exist. Knowing I can eat what I want on my non-fasting days has been liberating. I still eat junk but I find it much easier to eat salads and fruit now because it is a choice instead of an obligation.

Hello, I am new to the 5/2 diet and even newer to forums so I will try for the 3rd time to see if this works. I am overweight have high BMI, high cholesterol/triglycerides/blood sugar.I have a physically active job and have added moderate exercise, gave up meat, fat, sugar, dietary cholesterol, and for a while all dairy (that was the hardest and in fact my cholesterol went up! who’d a thought it! )still nothing works, I can neither shift the numbers nor the weight and I do not want to go on pills.

I saw Michael Mosley’s program on PBS (in the US) last week and thought this is something I could do! I had already had my evening meal so I thought, I’ll start tonight… well I was a little unclear on the details…I thought it was 24hrs but I found this website and now I am on my 11th day of the program, have had 3 fast days (effortlessly!) lost 5lbs, my BMI has gone from 35.4 to 35.2 lost 1″ from waist and hips. I thought would come off the fast ravenous and attack food like a starved wolf but I was surprised to find just the opposite true and I find on my eating days I am satisfied with smaller quantities. I am hopeful that this will be the answer/alternative to pills, its a program I can easily live with and I look foreword to reading the book.

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Hi! I am so looking forward to the revised edition.

I am a work in progress. Please, let us know how long you will be accepting these stories. What is the cut-off date for emailing our story? Thanks!

Hi I am new here. Other family members are doing this, and now so am I. I have learned a lot and hope you can share the following with Dr. Mosley.

His original concept of just counting two days a week and eating normally the remaining five was awesome. That is what has drawn me to 5:2. But now I’m noticing that folks are fantatical about their TDEE on the remaining five days a week. In my mind, that just turns this into another diet and ignores the freeing concept of just eating normally on those five days.

PLEASE ask Dr. Mosley to address this issue in his next book. In my opinion more emphasis needs to be put on methods of eating normally without intentionally overeating on the remaining five days. Methods like eating slower, chewing food longer, waiting 20 minutes before running for seconds, etc. These are strategies I am employing and are helpful to me…NOT counting calories every day. If I’m going to do that, I may as well rejoin Weight Watchers.

PLEASE share this with Dr. Mosley. I eagerly anticipate the doctor’s new book!