Day 5 (where do they go?)
Melbourne – FD

Day 4 – CARDIFF UK – NFD
Day 5 – CARDIFF UK – FD

Starting Weight : 160.8lbs

@okeydokey, starting weight for your spreadsheet is 160.8lb.

Day 5……Florida…… FD

Today, is going to be a challenging FD. After work today, the hubby and I are taking our youngest for one last fitting and pick up of his tux for prom. In a few short days, he’ll be 18, then a high school graduate and then heading off to the police academy.
They grow up to fast. Since we are going out right after work, it’s going to be dinner out. So, I’m going to try for a salad or order off the low calorie menu! Oh the challenges!

Thank you for the kind words about my kid. They will never understand, how much love I have for them. Many say I over love and protect them but growing up all though I knew I was loved, my sisters told me daily. I never received that love from my mom. In all actuality, I probably was never a priority for her. Knowing this, I vowed that my kids would never feel that hurt. So, when it comes to them, I am overly mushy!

Yesterday at work, I had a returning customer who commented on my weight loss and asked me what I did. Then another customer over heard me, so I was able to pass on my thoughts to them.
I’m mentioning this because I know we have some that our struggling. I explained that there are several variations of 5:2. In the beginning, that any participant should still only with fasting for the 2 days. Once they reach the calm as I call it. Which means understanding signals from your body, the ease of a fasting day. Once you become accustomed to this way of life, then you can adjust as needed. Add longer fasting windows or add another fasting day.
I honest believe the reason, many stumble on diets out there is because they are all or nothing type diets. You must do this or that, give up cold turkey this and this and this. If you haven’t done everything to the letter, you’ve screwed yourself.
Not with 5:2….. in 5:2, we take the diet out of the diet, so to speak. We take small steps to the achievable dream.
Sure, we could all jump in feet first into this WOL, but why would you when it’s set up to take the smallest steps to gain the biggest benefits. Remember the story about the tortoise and the hare. In the end, all though we all know the tortoise was the slowest, in the end he won!
Okay, my coffee cup is empty…. off to work I go!

Be classy, sassy and a bit bad assy today!

Day 5-USA-FD (Start weight 218/Today’s weight 215)

I am down to 215! How I lost 3 lbs. I don’t know, probably water weight. Yesterday I was 214.6 today 215.

Those two biscotti’s and some extra wafer chicken breast took me out of the 16:8 I had planned. So today will be the start of a B2B fast.

@belfastsink Where is this Guardian Recipes 5:2 readers swap? The Prawn pancake sounds tempting.

Keep up the good efforts everyone!

@okeydokey Thanks so much for all your hard work so far with this April challenge. I’ve my weight for you to add:
start weight 173lbs (12 stone 5 lbs)…April goal to lose 5lbs to 168lbs.

I bought my first set of digital scales last week aaarrrggghh!! I much prefer the kitchen scales…

Day 5 FD Sunny country west Australia
Well it WAS sunny but is now 8.30 pm.
Had a good fast day today, kept under 500 calories and feeling SOOOOO much better for it.
For those struggling, I griped and moaned about being on a plateau for 2 months or so.
This morning my weight had gone up 1 kg overnight, but I always expect a 1 – 2 kg difference daily since I am a daily weigher and weekly ( Saturday morning) noter of weight as in I write down only that weight.
Have enjoyed reading the some of the posts and plan to catch up when I can.
I really enjoy this forum. So many lovely people , so many different journeys and people so good at sharing.
‘ Love youse all’. ( an Aussie vernacular expression some people say !)

Thanks so much @debster251! It sounds like egg foo young but w/o the gravy. I think I may add some extra veggies too for my dinner meal.

Hi all UK (Co Down) day 5 FD (11.7)

Start March 11.9 – not where I wanted to be at all but it is what it is and at least feel I am making progress.

yesterdays fast day had a little blip – in that my son had not eaten a hot cross bun and said I have left it wrapped in the fridge for you – oh oh! it called and it called and I caved (why?), so total for the day was over fd but below a nfd lol – trying not to be too hard on myself. Feel like I am getting nearer the light of the dark tunnel I found myself in. I have started planning and have printed my April calendar – so that is a start. Have been busy and I haven’t read posts but will start catching up – planting some trees tonight and I really need to do a bit of maths every night – first exam is May, ekkk! – and why did I think this was a good idea at my age??

I found myself not looking back to see how far I have come and felt in despair of how little progress I seem to be making and getting disillusioned at how long it has taken to get here. It all seemed so overwhelming. I was forgetting these words – ‘Never compare your journey with someone else’s. Your journey is “your” journey and not a competition’ (thank you for the reminder AT). I also forgot I have completed every challenge since I started the first in May last year – that is some going and I should be very proud of that. I look forward to catching up with everyone’s posts by new and old friends but for now I will just keep on keeping on and logging in every day.

Day 5- USA – FD

New to the forum. Believe in fasting but struggle (mightily) with the first 24 hours. Today is my first day of an intermittent fast. Hope to post successful news tomorrow.

Day 5 – Germany – NFD

Day 5 – NFD – Canada
B2b nearly over! A .5 lb loss, I’ll take it. Will break my fast at noon. How did you do with your fist @sirisan?
Great posts out there, @fatrabbit thank you for giving us glimpses of your world, it is such a pleasure to hear people’s backstories when you’ve been reading their thoughts on this WOL for a while. I’m sure many of us will identify with your frustrations with your mum.

Day 5 – USA – NFD

Yesterday’s nfd didn’t go as well as planned. I was so very hungry that I over ate. I ate very low carb until 2pm when I got home from work. I was getting a migraine. I was tired from getting up at 4:30 with the puppy. AND I was hungry. So I ate a whole heap of pretzels with hummus and a blueberry chobani yogurt. Then my husband ordered a pizza for dinner!!!! Ah well, today is a fresh start!

Love the support of this group! ❤️️💜❤️️💜 Wish I had time to comment individually on the wonderful posts. 😘😘😘. Best wishes to all.

Day 5 NSW Aust – NFD
Not a good food Day today.

Day 5 – USA (Utah – visiting) – NFD

Surprisingly good travel day yesterday not over eating. Today we ski at Park City, UT ⛷⛷⛷ with daughter and 2 granddaughters. We have a nice condo near the slopes for some vacation time with pool and hot tub! I will have to eat some carbs today for energy, but exercise will be good.

Not much time to read or write – must bet our breakfast. Onward and downward!

Day 5 – Croatia – FD

Weight:79.3 Kg

Day 6 – South Korea – NFD
Had a good NFD day today!
Succes to all the fasters today!

Day 5 Maine NFD

Good morning all – successful NFD yesterday – small bowl oatmeal, yummy chicken chili for dinner – few crackers, but total stayed around 1200 calories. Need more veggies today. Missed my therapy walk – pouring rain. Today, cloudy drizzly, but suiting up to walk – then home to vacuum!

@lindasue – very motivating post – great visual – looking forward to trying on my uniform clothes for work (yikes – never thought I’d say that!)….won’t be pulling, tugging or making sure sweater covers my ass! Very freeing!

Make it a super day everybody!

Day 5 – SW WA USA – FD

LynzM – with you, my B2B FDs didn’t move the needle much on the scale. For me, I think it might be I wasn’t very mindful about how many sugar free chocolates I was popping into my mouth. So I decided to make today a “proper” FD.
It’s a travel day today as I head up to British Columbia to check up on Mom & Dad so will only plan to eat a small meal with them when I get there.

Sarah57 – horray for the wardrobe downsizing!
Zowie – what a great start!
Coda – so glad to see your post. I’m glad you’re hanging in there with us. I appeciate your realness.
Nabaht – Yay – glad you’ll hang around. It’s nice to do the journey with others instead of muddling through on our own.
LindaSue – love your Easter skirt visual. Enjoy!

Okay, I better pack my Mazda6 and head north!

Day 5 UK FD.
Decided on another FD today as out and about all day with hardly any chance to eat so thought that would be ideal! Plus have to have a few FD in the bank before visiting Australia next week! Good luck to all the fasters today.

@sarah57 @onahealthyhigh @annemarilyn thanks for all the encouragement!

I hope I am not missing anyone.. this thread is huge! And awesome. 😀

Day 5, Rocky Mountains, US, FD 800 cals

Day 5 NFD St. Louis USA
Weight today 143.8
since I got put on the pocket list for back to back fast days Monday and Tuesday, I decided to go for it. I did 500 cal on Monday and 800 Tuesday. It went pretty well. Only very small weight loss today but usually weigh myself on Friday morning after Thursday 500 cal fast. Still, I feel much lighter, and my belly is pretty flat.

@lindasue 12 pounds makes a big difference on me and how I look in my clothes. I’ve already noticed a difference in my yoga pants.

@okeydokey. Thank you so much for hosting this April fast. I found the march one very helpful and was hoping there would be another.

Oh my best to you fasters and the rest of us.

Day 5 – East Coast Canada – FD
A day running errands and tracking down a lost mobile phone on the other side of the harbour, resulting in no breakfast or lunch so I will turn this into an unplanned FD. I only had time for one coffee this morning and it seems to have made a difference with the little bit of nausea that sometimes hits me in the afternoons. Good luck everyone, the day is quickly closing!

Third post.
One to look out for
I was listening to the radio today at lunchtime and Dr M was on talking about fish oils. Nothing new, but he said that there is something coming on about sleep in the next couple of weeks so will be watching out for that one!