Day 3, USA, FD
Stayed busy all day and out of the kitchen, so wasn’t too bad today. Drank lots of water, seltzer and ACV with lemon. Pray I sleep tonight, because that’s still an issue on FDs. (Moppet, I feel your pain and have now moved on to a “sound machine,” that makes this soothing lulling sound. I slept like a baby last night, but granted, it was a NFD, so will keep you posted. Limiting my coffee/caffeine on FDs to only one cup in the morning made with 1/2 decaf has certainly helped me fall asleep)

Day 1 Chicago, Illinois USA – FD
Day 2 – NFD
Day 3 – FD

Starting weight is 143.
Goal is to lose at least 4 pounds and be in the 130s

Posted this on the March site, didn’t know April had a new link, oops.

I am a newbie and would like to join this challenge group. This is my first time trying this and I hope to be successful. I have read a few things, but am not sure how long a fast day is. I understand that To eat no more than 500 calories on my fast days, but am unsure when I start back eating again. Can someone explain with an example to me. Also , what is the best foods or meal plan to eat on fast days. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Third and final post for day 3 FD. Logged 571 Kcal for the day. More than planned but I will chalk it up as a win. Now for a mug of vanilla Sleepytime tea and a good book. 🌝🌟⭐️🌟⭐️💫💫💫

Day 4 – Tokyo, Japan – NFD 77.2kg

My FD was a little harder than most but I make it.

Pocketeers you are almost to the finish line!

@hhq
@umka6
@at
@snowflake56 b2b Mon/Tuesday
@blueninjamum b2b Mon/Tuesday
@sirisan b2b Mon/Tuesday
@annemarilyn b2b Mon/Tuesday
@dykask
@annnursekirk
@suse13
@erika45
@okeydokey
@redrockgirl302
@exdolly
@5-2-fast-diet-bermuda
@debster251
@skinnylove (2nd of B2B)
@onahealthyhigh
@happyslim
@songbirdme (800 kcalorie day)
@scs
@krisnia
@mila69
@jamba61
@lynzm b2b Mon/Tuesday
@fatrabbit (800 kcal)
@mrsgettingthere
@sarah57
@lany36
@brightonbelle
@chumi
@mia139 (2nd of B2B)
@flourbaby
@obesa
@and-exhale
@hfxhrt
@bert1802

@lilymartin – Most FDs I find I have less hunger than the NFDs! Once I start eating it is hard to get into the right spot of being full enough to not be hungry but also not stuffing myself. It also seems like the perfect spot moves around on me. On FDs it is more like my body moves on its own to that perfect spot. Sometimes the journey is easy and sometimes it isn’t but it always seems to happen.

Day 3 Florida USA NFD
I topped out at 840 calories today, not bad for a NFD. Also swam laps for 30 minutes. Main reason my calorie count is low is because friends and I tried a new restaurant and I hated it, ate nothing but about a cup of vegetables for lunch. I don’t lose on 800 calories so tomorrow will be a regular 500 calorie FD. You all have my support and encouragement today and everyday. 😘

second post. Currently 71.6 kgs. Goal for April to get under 70 kgs.
@dykask, yes I also find it is often easier on FDs as the hunger pangs don’t get started. But once I start to eat anything it can really get the digestive juices going! especially on NFDs.
I sometimes use visualisation and think about what I will have to do to account for the food I plan to consume. If I have to do the equivalent of a 100 km walk to make up for the pie and chips, well then it certainly doesn’t seem worth it!
I also sometimes think – a minute in the mouth, an hour in the stomach and a lifetime on the hips.
This scares me enough not to eat some foods in the first place.
Having said all that, I don’t think we should be so consumed ( pun intended!) by food that we demonise it.
As I have said before, food is food is food.
But the nice thing about 5:2 WOL is that it HAS made me more aware of what and when I eat.
It will be interesting to see how I go going into the colder months in the Southern Hemisphere. It hasn’t been too bad with summer/autumn as with the hot weather I find it easy with salads and smaller meals. But in cold weather I tend to get the munchies and look for ‘comfort food’.
Hats off to all you northern hemispherites who have managed doing this when it is so cold. Some of the posted temperatures since November have made me feel cold just reading them. And we don’t even get snow here! 😎

Day 3 and Day 4, Oceanside CA, NFD

Had a totally perfect FD today and relaxed with some wine tonight. Just a bit over 700 calories. So an FD plus. Last week of our winter sojourn in California. Back to Mountaintop, PA April 10.

Enjoyed another day in the sun walking along the beach. One day at a time.

Day 4 – Croatia – NFD
Weight: 79.5 Kg

Day 4 UK FD 🌈

Keep going everyone, day four already!!!! 🌷

Day 4- USA- NFD 18:6

I was happy with my fast day. I had a bunch of crunchy veggies, red cabbage, sweet yellow peppers, red onion and snap peas along with tuna fish packed in water that I mixed with some Just Mayo. I also had a green smoothie and a little popcorn.

Day 4 UK NFD

I had a Fast Day yesterday which I got through not too badly however, I did not sleep well during the night and kept waking up with hunger pangs. I have noticed before that I sometimes don’t sleep as well on fast days. Is this normal after fasting?

Day 4, Switzerland, FD

@scs you may as well have been talking about me in your 2nd post. Have been down and up and down and up again that very same route throughout all my adult years 😩😩 I am SOOOOO glad to have found what I believe more and more to be my new WOL 🌈

@andexhale Brilliant article … thanks for sharing. Fasting is indeed as old as life itself and a truth that has finally found its voice!!

Good luck to all FDers and NFDers

Day 4 Hampshire FD

Day 4, Newcastle UK, FD 800 cals

Once again a bitter and twisted individual has decimated the lives of innocent people. My thoughts and prayers are with all affected in St. Petersburg.

Logging into our wonderful global family every day is a constant reminder that the vast majority of people in the world are loving and supportive of each other. Thank you for helping keep my spirits up.

@songbirdme – enjoy your visit with daughter and grandchildren – you deserve some relaxation after all your concert preparations.
@ciren2 – Did you try upping calories to 800 on fast days. I have to say that since starting this (following Dr. Mosely’s updated guidelines) I am practically feeling the weight fall off daily. Two meals a day within a 16:8 (more like 19:5 most of the time) means I do not experience hunger at all.
@fatrabbit – congratulations!!!!! Onwards and downwards!!!!!
@chubbybiker – 10lbs is 10lbs – do not underestimate your achievement. Great start!
@endellion – This WOL really works. Stick at it and you’ll achieve your June goal (and then some is my guess).
@skinnylove – time heals – but it takes time, so take care of yourself.
@orpheusx – sounds like you have a really interesting job/life. I visited Sweden once a very long time ago and loved it. On my wish list to go back soon.
@annnursekirk – hello to another fellow Geordie! As I mentioned to @Stevetoontaxidriver – The Newcastle Can campaign would appreciate you signing up and adding your weight loss journey to their goal (if you haven’t done so already of course). I think they are struggling to get enough people to sign up. I’d hate the end result to be – Well Newcastle Didn’t!!!

Have a great day folks – Together we are Stronger.

Day 4 UK
NFD.
Back to back FD went well, kept to 500 calories or less both days and felt fine.
Weight 67.1kg.
Now enjoying a slice of my favourite brown seeded bread with lurpak butter and strawberry jam! How the little things now please me!! Going for dinner with my son tonight but taking the car to avoid the wine calories!
Loving the support this group offers and the great motivation!

DAY 4 – UK – FD

@jamba61 – Since I started fd on 1 Jan I also had trouble sleeping, never stopped moaning about it but suddenly things have improved and I am sleeping well. I was advised here to drink lots more water, which I have done. Another suggestion was to eat later – which I don’t do, but I do make sure I eat a slab of protein (steak or chop, fish) for my fd meal…. I am sure it makes a difference. I also have a 1/2 cup of v. hot skimmed milk before I settle down. It works for me. I find generally a high protein low carb diet keeps one fuller for longer and makes sleeping much easier.

Day 4 UK NFD very happy with yesterday’s successful fast, spent FAR too long this morning deciding whether to have breakfast or not ,in the end I enjoyed a slice of sourdough toast with jam, as I’m getting back In the saddle think ease up a bit on the NFD until I’ve nailed a few fasts then gradually try to gain more control.

Thanks for whoever put me on the pocket list for some strange reason I find it very challenging to copy & paste on this site – weird ? Aiming to fast again tomorrow and if that goes well may aim for a third this week to kick start April

Day 4 Belfast NFD
A very successful FD yesterday. Today is my wedding anniversary. 37 years! Where did my life go? Then I was a very skinny 25 year old and kept my minute waist even after have two children with 15 months in between. I did three triathlons before becoming pregnant with No 1 so was super fit! I even wore my skinny jeans 👖 out of hospital after having no 2! What happened? I never weighed myself, the exercise slowed down and bit by bit the weight crept on. I remember standing on the scales and realising I was 11 stone. Sadly It didn’t stop there…. That was the beginning of my relationship with diets, counting calories, WW, you know the tune. Well, now I’m 2 lb from seeing the 10 stone anything. Fantastic I hear you say, but I’ve been there on and off for the last month. This time I’ll do it!
@lilymartin Your ‘minute in the mouth’ is very remiscent of the WW ‘A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips! So true. I’m EIEIO ing as I write. An ear worm lol!
@ciren2 stay with us. Xo
A glorious day here and my first Pilates class for a while. Have changed from yoga to try and see more results. Slowly but surely Fellow Fasters. And yes, @bert, I do feel
classy, sassy and a bit bad assy!

Day 4 NZ NFD
Can’t remember if I’ve already posted but I’ve had an average to sort of ok NFD.
Probably over TDEE by a little but I’m not surprised. After yesterday’s FD I had a terrible nights sleep…or lack of sleep as was actually the case.
I woke up at 3am with a desperate urge to pee (excuse the oversharing) this often happens to me on a FD night due to the high water intake on a FD. But, I had gotten to the point where I was sleeping pretty well on a FD other than that.
In the early months I had lots of wakeful nights when fasting but that had improved to the point that I could get up to the bathroom and get straight back to sleep. Last night, as I said, I woke at 3am…and as the saying goes, that was all she wrote.
I lay there wide awake with a busy mind going over nothing of any importance, feeling tired but alert if that makes any sense. Sooooo frustrating!!!
3am right through until 6.30am when I finally gave up and logged on to the challenge page to read through the overnight posts.
So, very long story short, I’m not surprised I was peckish today, 4 hours sleep for the night was bound to have some sort of effect!
I’m still happy with the good FD I had yesterday, and I’ll aim for a very careful NFD tomorrow, I just hope I sleep tonight. I was going to say sleep better, but it doesn’t really feel like I slept at all.
I sound like quite the little grouch, I don’t think I’m grouchy…just over tired! Reminds me of my daughter when she was little, she would never admit to being tired and grouchy. Whenever she yawned she would always quickly point out that she wasn’t tired, she “just forgot to do her morning yawn” so was doing it tonight.

Day 4, London, UK, NFD

Looking forward to todays’ NFD, I didn’t really over indulge this weekend, except Friday (which has been erased because it was March!!!)

I’ve logged this weeks’ menu into MFP which should keep me controlled on NFDs but not deprived, FDs are fairly standard – soup/ broth/ tea/ water or tea/ broth/ salad/ water or tea/ broth/ zero-noodles or courgette stir-fry/ water……………………..you get the gist!!!!!!

I hope today goes well for us all and enjoy the freedom this WOL gives us whether…………….FD?…..NFD?……CD?…….BSD?……..b2b?………b2b2b2b2b??!!!!!(You brave warriors know who you are – @okeydokey, @dykask, @johnnyr (glad you’re back) !!!)

Keep the faith people, we’ve got this!!!!

3rd post
Okeydokey-I had a sneaky peak this morning on the scales and I weighed in at 148lbs 2oz. Really happy to see the numbers moving down again!!!!!! I might try to jump on the scales after every 2nd fast day from now on,I tend to do 3 fasts a week xxx

Day 1 London NFD – Weight 50.5kg – Goal – to maintain around 50.5-51.5kg
Day 2 NFD
Day 3 FD
Day 4 NFD

Sorry @okeydokey getting this to you earlier , I’ve been sick with a filthy cold the past 3 days.

I indulged a little bit over the weekend, but even so, my weight this morning was back on track after yesterday’s FD and feeling good and light this morning.

@fatrabbit, congrats on getting your BMI down, that’s fantastic news. – My brother was diagnosed with Aspergers about 20 years ago and he is also a whizz at learning languages. He is currently obsessed with learning the Banjo. I am always amazed at the things he can teach himself by focusing hard.

Still loving this way of eating!

Day 4 – South Korea – FD

So yesterday was supposed to be a fast day and I did great until I met friends for dinner. I only had a cappuchino with cinnamon (I can certainly recommend this combination!) in the late afternoon. Since the portions are not that big here in South Korea I thought I would do fine but it turned out we were going to an ‘all you can eat buffet’. Eventhough I managed to take only a little bit of everything, there were still multiple rounds and a quite large bowl of icecream to finish it up. Afterwards we went out for drinks. I don’t know how many calories I consumed in total but definitially more than 800.
At my suprise, I was down 0,3kg on the scale this morning, compared to yesterday. So I decided to make this my fast day.

Spreadsheet update:
My startingweight: 93,3 kg
Waistmeasurement: 83 cm
hipsmeasurement: 108 cm

Goals for this month:
Seeing the 80something in the scale again (so 4kg) , losing 3cm around my waist and around my hips.

Day 1 NFD
Day 2 NFD
Day 3 NFD
Day 4 FD

@Okeydoky, thanks for hosting this challenge!
I really enjoy reading everyone’s experiences and all the encouraging words!
Keep on going, don’t give up!!

Day 4 – USA (Il to Utah) – NFD

Yesterday’s 800 calorie day went very well, and maintenance at 160# continues. Up early to travel to O’Hare for flight to Salt Lake City. Will do my best to check in the next couple days, but we are getting a condo at Park City for a few days of fun there.

@debster251 – happy anniversary to you! May you celebrate all your years with joy!

Congratulations to all who are experiencing success on this WOL and support to those of you who are struggling. Stick with it – it works! I got a kick out of the report that the fact not much research is being done on our successful WOL is no one is getting rich selling stuff to do it! Follow the money they always say.

Onward and downward!