Hi, I’ve started today, L plates on. C

Hi I haven’t worked out a routine yet. I don’t work standard weeks so I think I’m going to be all over the place to start with. Have had really bad headache today. Food things been okay but may be the headache just distracted me.

Know the late night nibbled problem. I have to hide things at the back of cupboards and in boxes of interesting things.

I’m really struggling with combining this with travelling for my job. Spent 12hours today at various airports. So decided today definitely wasn’t going to be a fast day. Trying to decide if tomorrow is. I’ve bought my breakfast with me so I only need to try to calculate for a second meal. And I’ve started asking for sauces to be served in bowls on the side. So then I can see how much there is. But does make me feel like a freaky eater. Definitely going to try the app you mentioned. Maz

Hi All,
What a lovely idea. I stumbled across this forum sight when i started my 5:2 almost 3 weeks ago (tomorrow!) gosh time flies!
I find reading other peoples success and tips takes my mind off of food as well as motivates me to keep going. Definitely try it.
I actually don’t have scales and have no idea what my starting weight was – however i’ve been told my face looks thinner already and i can feel that my rib area has shrunk… unfortunately i want the lower half to shrink!!! I’ll be judging by the old clothes i have in my cupboard that no longer fit me!
Don’t give up… this way of life is so sustainable and you can feel the health benefits almost the day after your 1st fast day. Willpower is a massive deal – however, unlike other ‘Diets’ this WOL is not forbidding you to eat certain foods it’s mearly a case of ‘tomorrow’ (non fast day).

Hi 19Aly,

Thanks for the encouragement, it really does help. My next fasting day is tomorrow so I will see how I go. 🙂 Keep it up everyone. we can do this!!

Good luck Paperhat. I need lots of buddies to get through this! 🙂

Hi 19Aly my first fast today. keep up the good work 🙂

Hi eat14t….my first day too! Good luck 🙂

Not sure what the ‘Permalink” is. I’ve just been clicking on reply and ended up with too many posts??

I’m an Aussie suejen.(61) Well done on your 2 fast days. I did my first one yesterday and felt pretty good.Did an hour’s swim and then had late breakfast which I think helped. Lots of water and a few cups of tea before dinner of ham (159 cal?) and lots of salad – 499 calories for day (I think, a bit hard to work out exactly). Will make my next fast next Thursday. What days do you do? Wondering if drinking water would keep headaches at bay? Cheers

Hi Oboejr4, wow you have a lot of buddies already! I’ve been doing 5:2 since Sep, and just love it! I’m about half way to my goal weight
Started at 69kg. Friday weight 62.9. Goal is around 56-58 .
I’m a person of small stature (short arse!) 5′ nothing.
I’m 56 yrs young, and from oz .
Fast day tomorrow (mon) for me. But I find even on non fast days, I’m not as hungry as I used to be. Especially breakfast time.
Well good luck all, and hello to you 19 Ally 🙂

Forgot to say am 52 years old and based in Australia.

Hi buddies, I am on week 3 and down 5 1/2 lbs. I am a young 52 years of age, post menopause and loving that my cloths are all looser. I was able to fit comfortably into my favorite pants this week so very happy with that. Been doing 4:3 and took a break since Wednesday as I have had a visitor staying so starting now again on Monday and going to do 5:2 . Delighted to have so many buddies to help me stay motivated 🙂

Hi everyone gee we have quite a lot of buddies here! I assume that we just keep this thread going so that everyone can see our posts, rather than starting new ones each time? Necie there’s a few aussies on this thread too. As to my headaches I’ve read on another 5:2 site that it’s salt that helps so drinking hot water with Vegemite helps – how’s that for an Oz tip! Or salty drinks I guess. I always used to love a hot water drink with Vegemite as a kid so going to do that again.
TerriLav we’re about the same age and I also have quite a lot to lose, about 15kg.
I haven’t managed a very good weekend though as I went to my daughter’s place for the weekend to babysit the grandies and have eaten all kinds of stuff I shouldn’t. As they didn’t have scales I will have to weigh-in a day late tomorrow & it won’t be as good as I’d hoped. Never mind…it’s another chance this week to do it better!! I think I need to change my weigh-in day too as a Sunday or a Monday is not good timing.
Have a great week all and enjoy your fast days. I’m starting to look forward to mine and I also know that I’m eating better on my non-fast days too. Isn’t that a great part of the lifestyle change….it just seems to happen naturally (well, unless I’m away from home…..I’m great when I’m on my home turf)!

Good morning buddies 🙂 Welcome to you JPD, never too late to join a group 🙂 Goodness another Aussie, too!
Fast day for me today, too (mon) Planning on a salad with a bit of fish for late lunch. Don’t usually have breaky on fast days. Dinner will be vegies and fish again ( needed to use up the fish today!)
I noticed in Aldi today, they had a couple of frozen chicken meals around 350 cals. Never noticed them before. I don’t usually have them, but might be a good standby for a day when you just don’t know what to have.
Drinking up the herbal tea, and off soon to make my salad.
Necie, I love king prawns, and my hubby is a bit allergic to them too! He finds though, if he drinks beer with them, he’s fine!
I don’t do much in the way of exercise. I clean classrooms at the local Tafe, every morning, and that’s enough movement for me! And gardening, when it’s not too hot.
Happy fast day,
bye now 🙂

Your breakfast sounded yummy suejen. Think I need to eat in morning Lindanaf! But maybe ate too early today as had to have small apple snack for lunch – feeling hungry. Hope your toe improves soon suejen. Am about to have a swim before I get stuck into those prawns. Hope all went well today for everyone fasting 🙂

Hello all 🙂
Im on my second week now of 5:2 diet! First week i lost 3.5lb 🙂 i have around a stone to loose in total would like to get to 9st 8, start weight 10st 8. My first week fast days was wednesday and thursday which worked great i wasn’t overly hungry and after watching the Horizon programe i was extremly motivated to carry on. I tend to look at reviews and recipes when im hungry to take my mind off it!
Now into week two im having a fast day today (mon) and thursday this week!
On my fast day today im having fat free natural yoghurt with fruit for breakfast. Tuna salad for lunch, and prawns, veg and bare naked noodles for tea. I find bare naked noodles from holland and barrets (UK) are great on a fast day as they are very filling and only 8calories per 100g! I 100%reccomend them!
My weigh in day is fridays! Would love to here other peoples sucess and keep motivated with the rest of you:)

Vickie

Just discovered a Facebook closed group – 5.2 Diet Australia – for anyone interested.

Hello Pobster and Vickie. Enjoying 5:2 immensely. I fast Mon and Thursday, weigh on Friday. Drink lots of water on fast days, it helps with hunger pangs. A lot of people on here use the My Fitness Pal app. I tried it for a while, but got in a muddle! So I’m back using my old Calorie Counter book. I like black and white in front of me, a bit old fashioned, I suppose!

HI Everyone. Well I lost 1.4kg or just over 3lbs in my first week so I’m happy with that, especially seeing my weekend was not so good! In fact that’s about a record for me as with all my years of dieting I have rarely lost that much so woohoo! Others would weigh-in or tell me they’d lost 2kg and I might be a measly .2kg.
Anyway shall continue with a Monday & Thursday as it works well for me with a bit of space in between. And the Vegemite worked with my headache too. The headache actually lingered this morning but I had a coffee and it moved on, and coffee was the other thing suggested that would help with fasting headaches. So should be right from herein. Thanks Necie shall look up the Facebook group. And Lindanaf I agree that 5:2 is VERY doable. And I too really like the tracker on this site – very helpful to see that little line heading on down!!! The more the merrier I say. Going to update my tracker now as have been out all day….and watch that magic little line. Hehe

Hi Necie:

“Have read that we need to keep up food quantity on those non fast days, to achieve the weight loss.”

Don’t believe everything you read. The basic rule is the less you eat, the more you lose. If you want to lose as fast as possible, don’t eat anything at all (not recommended).

Here is some information for those just starting 5:2: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/the-basics-for-newbies-your-questions-answered/

Good Luck!

HI Necie and everyone, I have wondered about delaying breakfast as a lot of people seem to do it that way but I’ve found that breakfast works for me. Maybe I could try to stretch breakfast until a bit later as I’ve always liked it first thing in the morning? As to other days I’m afraid that I don’t calorie count or work to a TDEE (which I didn’t even know existed until others talked about it in forums. IS it in his latest book, because it’s not in the book I read? I am certainly not keen to go down that way as I’ve spent years doing diets and counting calories and restricting foods only to pile the weight back on when I stop. That’s why I like the freedom of the non-fast days. But having said that the practices of fast days are rubbing off into other days & so I’m eating better eg I drink way more which I never did; I wait until I actually feel hungry (not sure I knew what that felt like before!); I don’t bother having a morning/afternoon snack sometimes as I’m not hungry; I’m making much healthier choices re foods almost all of the time.
So for me I’m going to enjoy my non-fast days as it works for me. I also have osteoporosis which means that I need to be careful of my food intake especially re calcium. I think the difference is that eating far less calories on the non-fast days is treating 5:2 as a diet, whereas I’m looking on this as a lifestyle change & think I’ll need to do it for the rest of my life – so it has to be doable in the long term. But if I go restricting calories all the time I know that I’ll cave in!

What’s your thoughts everyone? Today is a fast day for me (my 4th) and looking forward to it….and the weight loss that follows! Hope you all have a great day – fasting or not. Simcoeluv I’ll look up that link you shared….after brekky!!