Hi all how goes it? I’m still going – 12 pounds down. Aiming for 22 by Xmas which is unrealistic prob…. Keep going all. We CAN!!
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Hi Manchester, I would like to join you all too! I started on Monday this week too at 89k and 5 ft 2, I’ve been struggling with a knee problem over the last year and the Dr suggested 5:2 so here I am! I’ve had two fast days which went better that I thought it would although did suffer the cold and had cramp one night – not sure if cramp was related or not. I am going to weigh on Monday – but jeans feel a little looser so fingers crossed. Mel
HI AMI please can I join your group? I started yesterday and weighed this morning and I have lost 1lb!!! Yipeee,finding today hard because all I can think about is ‘its not a fast day,so you can eat’!!!!! Ergg, it’s so hard and frustrating!!! Let me know how you get on and hopefully we can support each other?
Greetings to all, I would like to join as well 🙂 I am having my first fasting day today (but have done a little bit of fasting months ago) and need to loose 30 kilos (over 4 stones). I am 1,68 cm in height and weigh 100 kilos 🙁 (that’s about 15 stone 74 pounds). I really hope I can keep motivated and would love to team up with others for mutual support.
Great going! I am doing fast days on wednesdays and fridays: I actually start next wednesday. Meanwhile I am using My Fitness Pall App to keep a track of my calories on the othr days… that is a bit of a challenge too! I will let you know how I go today! is anyone doing those days? I am in Australia.
katser12 I have to get my weight down for serious health reasons and that so far has motivated me
there is a great facebook group that is very helpful I think it is called alternate day fasting
things that help me are
black coffee with a teaspoon of coconut oil
cider vinegar with (the mother) it sounds weird but it this makes it active I am convinced it has helped me
I walk for an hour a day
lots of low calorie soup, I boil up the bones from the sunday joint and make stock
I find once I have done one fast day, I am on a roll and would rather plough on, I found 5 2 harder as each fast was harder to get in to iyswim but everyone is different and it is a case of finding what works for you. Likewise I found fasting every other day harder because it was too on and off.
I am averaging around 1.5 pounds a week so I am pleased. I generally eat freely over the weekend and fast during the week with one break day usually a Wednesday or Thursday
I feel very well and fine on this and I am determined to lose the remaining two thirds of the weight that I have to lose. I am a serial dieter but I don’t feel that I am on a diet it is more a way of eating, I imagine, that when I get to goal I will fast one or two days a week to maintain
Good luck to everyone, this is the only way of eating that has worked for me
also the app ‘Monitor Your Weight’ really helpful as it shows a graph and I can see the progress, I find this is better that my fitness pal for seeing progress
sorry this is garbled it has been a hard day, my children 8 and 10 have left me feeling like I have two children under 3!
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