hi Hyud – so are you doing the 5:2 diet?
If so- how is it going so far?

Hi I’m new too, first fast day tomorrow. Onwards and weigh downwards

Hi, I just started the diet on Monday too. I fasted Monday and Tuesday and was so how it wasn’t that hard! I didn’t think I’d be able to do it but I felt pretty good both days and it really made me appreciate how mindlessly I had been eating before. I am not very overweight – I’ve always been quite careful of what I eat and rather slim but after having a baby 8 months ago I have about 3 or 4 kilograms that are hanging around and mean my old clothes are too tight and I don’t feel very attractive. I was finding that when my baby is down for her naps I was rewarding myself with a cup of tea and a few biscuits and grazing all day between meals which I often ate really quickly without noticing because I felt in a rush to get back to playing with her or had a million chores to do. So on the fast days it was really good to sit down and savour my meals and notice and enjoy each bite. Yesterday on a regular day I also found myself not wanting to go back to my bad habits of snacking all day and tried having a herbal tea first and making sure I was eating out of genuine hunger not for some other reason and I found I ate much less than I had been even though I realise that you’re not supposed to limit your calories or your body might go into starvation mode. I had 3 squares of dark chocolate after my healthy dinner and really enjoyed those – much more than usual!

On my fast days I had a skim/trim latte as my breakfast and 2 hard boiled egg whites (which is really convenient as my daughter eats the yolks only as at 8 months old the maternity nurse advised whites are too hard to digest) and then had a huge bowl of delicious home made vegetable soup for my lunch. I used a lot of courgettes and mushrooms which are particularly low calorie and I love vegetables so this isn’t hard for me) and then I had a large salad and a roast chicken breast on Monday and on Tuesday some pan fried white fish. I had a few sun dried tomatoes as a wee snack at about 4pm and a few cups of tea or coffee with skim milk, oh and I had a chuppa chup for dessert while I was watching a movie after dinner.

Anyway, I really rate this way of eating so far. My tip is to more or less skip breakfast though – I have always found that eating breakfast makes me more hungry for the rest of the day no matter what I eat for breakfast – low GI, protein etc – I am still more hungry. My husband doesn’t do the diet but he never eats breakfast and finds the same thing.

Good luck to anyone else starting out and if you’re browsing the site wondering if you’d be able to do this, give it a try as you might be as surprised as I was!

Hi one my first day of the diet. Fasting today. What I would like to know is,if I exercise on fasting days can I add on the calories I have burned. Eg if I am allowed 500 calories on a fasting day but I then burn 400 calories can I use them up on the same day? Might sound silly but I don’t want to use burned calories if I’m not supposed to. Thanks

Reading your post worries me. Are you not supposed to be having 500 calories on you fasting days instead of starving yourself? I thought the whole point was a quarter of your recommended daily intake? This is my first day on the diet Nd I just want to make sure I’m doing it right. Thanks

I understand the less you eat the more you lose but surely if you have an allowance of 500 calories, which you eat and you burn 400 then your intake is only 100? Does this not mean that you can have an extra 400 and still not go over the recommended 500? Thanks

Just finished my second fast with a bowl of alpen..yum! I am overjoyed as i weighed this morning and have lost 4.5 lbs!! So pleased, I definitely enjoy fasting, it definitely is easier to say no even tho there are challenging moments, I am really tempted to do one more this week, tomorrow as I feel so good. Have a great day everyone 🙂