Hi Teeshabell

Well done you, you’ve basically lost over half a stone in a just over a month. That’s good going.

I’m happy to become one of your buddies. I too am on this diet with a wedding (mother of the groom) as one of the objectives. So, I’m much older than you (58) and I’ve got 70lbs to lose by November 2016.

I’m fasting on Mondays and Thursdays, but I will some Wednesdays coming up because of ‘events’ on Thursdays in the diary.

Have you set yourself mini-targets?

Got to go, my elder son is trying to talk to me on Skype.

Joan

Hi, Well done on your weight losses so far. Tomorrow is going to be my first day doing 5:2, I’m also planning on Mon/Wed as my fast days.
I’m looking to lose at least 75lbs. I have lost 13lb since starting at a gym in September so am committed to the exercising but need to commit to a good eating pattern now.

Hi teeshabell, Thanks yes I’m planning tomorrow to eat one meal around 5pm when the kids are having their tea. I thought I’d try just the one meal tomorrow and see how I get on, can always change that on Wed with a breakfast & evening meal. Tomorrow is going to be fish & veg I think. I’ve decided to go with mon/wed and those evenings the kids have a club so I am out of the house with them from 6-8:15pm, that way on the other evenings I can have my dinner with hubby as usual at 7:30ish.
How did you find your first week? I’m feeling excited but nervous!

Hi All, I am on my Fast Day too.

I am a male, aged 69 and on week 4. I want to lose 133lbs. Just a smidgen!!!!
Although called a diet, I am thinking it more of a lifestyle. Well I need to. I tried the Fast Diet last year but made a bit of a mess of it.

I am still deciding about what I can eat on Fast Days. I last ate at 6pm yesterday and I intend to go to 6pm today before I eat a small cal counted meal. Brown Turkey Meat, 100g of Tomato and 100g of raw Mushrooms and a little dressing.

I do find it easier to sleep if I don’t eat anything after 6pm, any night.

This is the first time I have read of folks wanting to lose a decent amount of weight and so I will be following you with interest.

Morning all

First day and so far so good (a long way to go though!)

I’ve drunk quite a bit of peppermint tea and I’ve been to the gym this morning.
Now back at home making sure I keep myself busy until the kids come home from school.
Tramcaur, I too need to think of it as a lifestyle rather then diet, diets DON’T work but this will 🙂
Joan, I’m a stay at home mum but kids are both in school so I too have the time to look after myself. I think the fact that I am planning on having my one meal at the same time as them may help. As often I’d pick at what I was giving them anyway!
Teeshabell, two months and a stone, fab plan 🙂

Thanks Lizzie. Thought it was but I just wondered if I should be more determined.

Hi all! 4 weeks in and I’m plateuing a little, have noticed this since I started my rota of nights so think it’s due to only doing a 24 hour fast instead of the natural 36 ish hours I’d get if I do it on a day shift. I find it much easier to do my fasting days when I’m at work so I don’t get tempted on my days off going out for coffee or lunch with friends. I have started doing more regular exercise too which im hoping will help!! Only managed to lose 4lb so far and want to lose around 35lb altogether… All advice greatly received!

Hi. I would love to join you, first fast day today. My plan is to fast on Monday & Thursday. I do not have a lot to lose (5#) but those extra lbs have me up 2 sizes. Am not new to fasting, have done Fast 5 off and on. It works, however, I play golf 3-4X/week, and sometimes feel I need food during game. On days I do not play golf I try to get in 14K steps by using elliptical, treadmill, or long outdoor walk. And many golf days I still go for a short walk.
Will go all day, may have low sodium chicken broth for lunch. Good luck everybody! We can do this!

No exercise for me!
Well not until I lose my first hundredweight at least. <GGG>.

I have tried other diets before and become fixated by scales, so no weighing myself this time round. I know my starting weight and I get weighed every 6 months at the Diabetic Clinic, so these are the weights I will go by.

As for “targets”, well I have loads of newish clothes in the wardrobe that I would dearly love to wear, but haven’t been able to get into for years.
Getting them to fit comfortably will be fantastic targets.
At the moment, the only way I could get into my Kilt, would be to put it on up-side-down!

Seriously though, this eating regime means so much more to me than just losing weight. It is changing my feelings about myself as well as my attitude towards food, portion sizes and taste.

Yes Georgie and how about a Punch Bag as well?
I have an exercise bike in the garage that I might dig out one of these days, but at the moment all my exercise is split between dog walks and the garden.
I have spent my Fast Day stringing wires for next year’s Raspberry crop and doing a general tidy up. Fortunately it is sunny up here for a change.

Water wise I bought a crate of 2 litre sparkling water and each day I divide it up into 4 X 500ml bottles that are scattered through the house.

I’m lucky that we have our own spring up here in the hills of Northumberland. When we had the water tested it was so pure that they tested it again to make sure.
Have just realised that writing here has distracted me from thinking about whether I’m hungry or not so thank you everyone.

Hello Tramcaur

I had a look through your posts on other threads and I think we’ve got a lot in common. We’re both Scots although I was living in Lincolnshire between 1977 and 2014. I’m living on the Moray coast now. I want to get the weight off and then be able to maintain it as a way of life.

I want to be able to get up more hills more easily. I want to reduce the pressure on hips and knees. Aside from my list of mini targets I’ve got a list of why I’m doing this and apart from things like, I don’t want to get type 2 diabetes and I want to look OK in lots of clothes I’ve got in the wardrobe, I like the feeling of not being bloated. Also like you, I find it best not to eat too late in the evening, certainly before 7pm.

Today we had a beautiful early morning, then some drizzle and it’s lovely again now, if cold. I managed to hang some washing out when I came in from Bridge.

My drinks are Black Coffee, Tap Water, Fizzy Water, Green Tea. On non fast days I do drink wine, but I count it all.

What has really come home to me this time round is the disaster that is the hidden sugars added in processing. A packet of mini cheddars is 128 calories. An ounce of cheddar cheese is 120 calories. I know which I prefer.

I think I’d find it hard not being able to weigh myself, as you are doing, but it really is about dimensions rather than weight per se.

Hi again Georgie

No, I haven’t got round to Fast Exercise yet. I think I need to watch the documentary and read the book before I get into HIT.

I think you’re right about involvement in these threads certainly keeps us busy and engaged!

Hey all,

I’ve just had my first food of the day, quite surprised that I managed to get to 5pm but it definitely helped that I’ve been busy.
I’ve drunk peppermint tea all day (seem to have spent half the day on the loo though!)
I’ve just had gammon, a boiled egg, sprouts, cauli, broccoli, carrot, 8 cherry tomatoes and a little bit of mashed potato came in at 498 cals on MFP.

Time now to get the kids ready for karate, I’ll stay and watch them and hope that hubby eats whilst I’m out, its all out on the counter ready for him.
When I get back as soon as hubby reaches for the shortbread biscuit that I know he didn’t finish yesterday then I’ll head up for a bath, then hopefully get through the rest of the night!

Hows your Mondays going?

Hi Dragonfly

I’m with you on this, it’s got to be about changing lifestyle. I wish I’d known this stuff about fasting thirty years ago. Anyway, better late than never!

Well done all, sounds like a good Monday all round.
I started feeling hungry watching kids at karate but I didn’t take any water with me, so next time… must remember the water!

It sounds like everyone is doing an amazing job 🙂 I did my fast day successfully yesterday so feeling rather proud today. Next one is Thursday, and to be honest I’m looking forward to it. I do feel calmer on a fast day.

Have a great day everyone, we can do this!!!

Had successful Monday. 2 c. Broth at lunch (30 cal). Dinner was small salad & 1 T. Dressing, fish & Veg Bake. The flounder was 90 calories, I could have had 2 but found 1 was enough. Drank almond milk which is only 30 cal.
Kicker is I so want to weigh tomorrow and may just for encouragement. Honestly feel I may be scared to eat on nonfast days and “undo” the achievement. Going to take awhile to trust the process.
Loving it, however. Kind of like playing a game.
Hope you all had a successful start to the week!

Hi Liza
Today, I’m going to eat somewhere between my BMR of 1486 and my TDEE of 1784. I reckon that the lower limit will help me shed a little faster. I’m no expert though!

Hi all,
Interested to read everyone’s comments. I’m fast approaching 40 and have 2 stone to lose which has crept on over the last few years despite going to slimming world for the last 10 years. Have pretty much kept losing and putting back on the same 10 pounds so decided to stop going and try something new. I fasted for the first time yesterday. I split my calories into 2 meals and had porridge at lunchtime and then chicken with asparagus and carrot and red cabbage coleslaw. I was hungry on and off all day but wasn’t as bad as I thought. Expected to be climbing the walls but kept busy, went swimming and it was fine. I’m a bit confused about how best to manage non-fast days. Have been tracking my calories for the last 4 days and aiming for around 1500. Will probably have more like 2000 at weekends and see how that goes. Seems to me it’s all a bit of trial and error to see what works for you. Also trying not to snack in between meals as that’s when I eat most processed rubbish! However have had breakfast today and now starving. More so than yesterday when I was fasting. Don’t want to undo yesterday’s hard work. Good luck everyone. Looking forward to hearing how everyone gets on this week.

Hi MillieLiza, I think if you read the 5:2 Fast Diet book and then come on here, you will be puzzled by the calorie counting of non fast days as the book is quite specific about not counting calories on these days.

If, like me, you have struggled with calorie counting on other diets, the 5:2 book is a revelation and it promotes a totally new approach to weight loss and it promotes many other advantages.
Then you come onto this forum and find just another bloomin’ calorie counting experience and here we are, back to square one. So disappointing.

So, for myself, although I have done the TDEE that is on the Mayo Clinic website and I am mindful of what it is telling me, I am not counting calories at the moment and I consider the Fast Days far more important than any calorie counting that has failed me so much in the past.
That does not mean to say that I may in the future take up counting or even, gawd forbid, exercise, but for now I intend to “Keep it Simple” and do it by the book.

tramcaur, your reply is exactly how I feel also.
Joan, Enjoy your celebration!
RachH, I felt hungrier today after eating too!