I have just finished my first week too 8lbs off I have 5 stone to lose altogether. I find it much easier to keep all my calories for the evening on a fast day. Well done we can do this. I am going to be careful over the weekend but not easy if you are away. I am fasting on Mondays and Thursdays too so looking forward to next week.

Awesome job Greenfairy and Double Trouble, might be a weird question but are you male or female? 7-8 pounds in the first week is such an accomplishment!! I am a female and I just started on Monday myself, fast days are on Monday and Thursday’s as well. I found the first fast day was great, ate exactly 500 calories but I went over on my 2nd fast day, ate 646 calories. However, I’ve been doing Zumba everyday this week which burns about 691 calories an hour. So I am hoping I didn’t mess myself up. I would be so happy to lose 7-8 pounds in the first week, I am not going to weigh myself until next Tuesday, after my 3rd time fasting but I am hoping for a weight loss like you, awesome job!

I love the idea of a forum, it gives me something to read in the evening instead of looking in the refrigerator every 5 minutes for something to eat. LOL! And so may positive stories, I really think I will finally accomplish my weight goal by summer with this new change of life plan!

So nice to meet you, Lady!

I’m 46 1/2 and pre-menapausal so my metabolim is awful and I am having a very difficult time trying to keep the weight off.

I found Zumba in December of 2014 and lost like 17 pounds in 35 days. But that was going faithfully, everyday, like 8 times a week. I kind of burned myself out. Additonally, my husband (by the way, he is doing this diet as well with me) and I are boaters, so once June hit, we were back to eatting burgers, wings, cheese and drinking every weekend and I slacked in the working out department. By this past December I gained all my weight back, even a little more. I weighed myself at 173 on Jan 4, 2015, I am 5’5, so to get to a BMI of 24.9 (normal) I need to get down to a weight of 149. So my goals is 24 pounds by May!!

I wish you and all the 5:2 peeps so much luck and I really encourage us all checking in on our progress and rooting each other on!!

At my age, I need all the support I can get because its so easy to veer off track rather than stay on!!

WE CAN DO THIS!

Wow well done that’s a fabulous start greenfairy! I started Monday too and have lost just under five pounds. I know that’s mostly water and I don’t expect that sort of weight loss again but its a great boost to keep me on the straight and narrow.

@janpartly, question, did you weigh yourself in on Monday? How quickly did you lose the 5 pounds. That is awesome!! I weighed myself Sunday in at 173, the most I have ever weighed in my life, I started Monday as well. I am fasting back to back Sunday and Monday, and weighing in on Tuesday, I know its going to be mostly water, but I want to get under the 170 mark!! 5 pounds would be a great start!! Keep up the great work!

Hi GreenFairy.

I am done with my first week and I lost 5 pounds. I am really excited. Although, its been tough on my fast days. I’ve done 3 fast days thus far and I only stuck to 500 calories to one of those fast days, the other 2 I went over, one day by 146 calories, the other like 300 calories. But I did do a Zumba Class on those days and burned about 691 calories. So it makes me feel I actually burned off those extra calories…in the end, I still lost 5 pounds after my first week.

I plan on doing my 4th fast day tomorrow as we are leaving on Thursday to head up north (I am from Michigan) to go snowmobiling. I hope I don’t gain my weight back because I know cocktailing will be involved this weekend.

Cheers to week two.

Keep up the great work everyone!!

Hi, I’ve just finished my first week too but I’ve put on a pound. This is my second attempt at the diet. I tried it early last year and gave up after 2 weeks because I put on weight but after reading all these comments I can see that I just need to be more patient.
I’m a veteran dieter (now 65) and have tried most of the diets that have become popular over the last 50 years. I actually began dieting, a strict 1000 cal diet, when I was 15, which looking back on it was very sad as I wasn’t overweight but wanted to look like Twiggy.
Anyway, last year I was on Cambridge for 8 months. I lost 3 stone over the first 5 months and then the weight loss slowed down, I couldn’t stay focused, I came off it in Dec with 4 stone still to lose because I was broke and because I knew I couldn’t lose any more with it. I put on 6 pounds over Dec and Xmas and I was trying to decide which diet to follow before I regained any more of the weight when I saw the article in the paper recently with the stories of women who had lost good amounts of weight with the 5:2 diet, so thought I’d give it another shot.
Because my body is used to surviving on 600 cals a day (on Cambridge diet) I think it will take longer for my weight loss to kick in. I’ve decided to do 4:3 and to carefully count my calories using the TDEE calculation on my non-fast days. I know the guidelines say that all I need to do is eat normally on my non-fast days but quiet honestly, I don’t know how to eat normally.