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Ooo just over 800 on a FD 🤦🏻‍♀️ Will work to a lower cal day tomorrow to make up for it 🙈

Day 6 – Cumbria UK – NFD

Just checking in – very busy – will try to catch up tomorrow………..

Controlled day today – FD tomorrow – add me to the pocketeers list if one is up and running

Stay strong!

Day 6- Montreal- FD

I’ve finally got 5 mins to check in, the house guests have gone to see the Niagara Falls and will be back tomorrow night. It hasn’t been as bad as I thought (food wise), we’ve been so busy we have been going to bed pretty early so I haven’t been snacking in the evenings (my Achilles heel). I had a peep on the scales this morning and the damage is minimal. I’m looking forward to getting back to usual next week.

@fayefaye – burlesque dancing class… that is fantastic! What a wonderful way to learn to not take oneself not too seriously!!

Today is my second fast day of the week (first one was Monday) and all afternoon I kept hoping my husband would email and suggest that we go out to our favorite Mexican restaurant for dinner. It’s been a stressful week and I am feeling the need for a few margaritas. But he hasn’t suggested it, so I’m not going to suggest it. Today my only calories have been from two cups of coffee with cream. Other than that, all I’ve had is seltzer water and still water. It’s 5:30pm, I might as well stay strong and finish out the fast day, right??? We can save margaritas for Friday night.

Day 7 NFD NZ
Not doing too well so far. Ate too much of the wrong foods yesterday and felt sooo sick during the night. Got up and had a cup of herbal tea to settle my digestive system so feeling a little queesy today. When will I ever learn.

Day7/FD/Melbourne Australia

@fatrabbit brilliant summary. Hope you don’t mind I’ve copied it to show friends and my DH. It sums this WOE up beautifully. It really is about good nutrition. The absolute key to making this a sustainable way of life is embracing a version of Dr M’s M- Plan on NFDs to suit and gradually cutting down on refined carbs. Dr M doesn’t advocate eliminating them completely if it makes this WOE less sustainable. Rather he advocates making it harder to reach for them by not keeping them in the home. Willpower, he says is greatly over-rated, if he feels like the occasional dark chocolate he walks to purchase it.

Since starting 5:2 in 2014 I’ve been eating a Mediterranean style diet. I haven’t eliminated pasta, white rice (basmati or arborio), oats, potatoes or sourdough bread completely but have reduced their consumption to occasional. I’m a huge fan of eating soluble and resistant starches for gut health. Whilst they can be obtained from fresh foods and complex carbs, if I’m feeling sluggish my go to foods are reheated pasta and oats. They work every time. I did eliminate savoury biscuits and chips/crisps completely because I can’t eat just one, I have to eat the whole darn packet. Do I feel deprived? No, I no longer fancy them.

I followed 5:2 to improve my health. Weightloss wasn’t my priority. I lost 42 pounds in 10 months averaging 1 pound per week. Very sustainable. The 5:2 programme according to Dr Moseley, “is designed as a well-signposted path towards a longer, healthier life; weight loss is simply a happy adjunct to all of that.” I was in it for the health benefits. It didn’t occur tome to tweak it although I always saved my calories for an evening meal hence my fast day consisted of 23 hours before eating up to 500 calories followed by another 12 hours before breaking fast with a milky coffee. I watched portions, counting calories doesn’t suit. Importantly I am no longer pre diabetic, my blood pressure has normalised, bad cholesterol is way down, hips and knees no longer ache and, best of all I can keep up with my 5 preschool aged grandchildren! I’m 65 and take no medications and have suffered no muscle wasting and have improved my metabolism. I’m very, very grateful for this WOL and finding an eating plan that suits me. I wish you all success in finding a strategy that works for you.

Your welcome @okeydokey. I haven’t thanked you for shepherding us through another month. Very grateful, it’s an enormous commitment. I participated in one of Coda’s early challenges and rejoined in February this year. It’s wonderful reading the many supportive and inspirational posts. As an avid reader of nutrional information and participator in online courses on nutrition I really appreciate the many knowledgeable participants and links to new information. So once again a huge thanks to you and all who have kept these challenges alive.

Day 6 – FD – Canada
Have managed to stay below 500 cals this FD, feeling good. B2b days on Mon/Tues were both 800 cals. Am interested to see the scales tomorrow. Yesterday was a NFD and I had several stressful phone calls to make which drove me to drink red wine, eat too many tortilla chips and generally go to bed feeling lousy. It’s interesting how I feel better on FDs… I think this is partially due to health benefits and clean feeling we all know and partly due to the fact that I am essentially type A. Not something I am proud of.
There was a moment earlier this week in a yoga class when we were sat on our shins, thighs squashed together, leaning back and I looked at all the fat I have there and realized that I really, really want to whittle that lot down. I’ve always been insecure about it, it is my bête noire. I am motivated to do this!

Day 7 – South Korea – FD
Yesterday was a, let’s say, medium good day. This morning the scales showed exactly the same weight as yesterday and with a FD today I hope to see my weight drop tomorrow morning.
I hope I have a change later this day to catch up with reading all new posts.

And as @chubbybiker says, you learn from every fast/non fast day. I definitially agree!
Use that new knowledge for the next day!

Have a good day everyone!

Day 7 – California, USA – NFD

Started a new job today. Yikes!
🙂

DAY 7 – Sydney Australia – FD

Day 7 UK NFD

Day 7 Hampshire NFD

Day 7 – Staffordshire UK-nfd

Yesterday a successful 800cal FD and went for a run in the evening. Scales today at a new low, they will go back up over the weekend but will try to keep this to a minimum.

Day 6 UK FD
Day 7 UK FD

Good fast day yesterday. Scales not moved that much over the past week though. The official weigh in is this morning, so I’ll post later. Yesterday morning’s preview was only 0.2kg down from last week, which is pathetic give the effort I’m putting in. Muscle up though and fat down, so not too worried.

Swimmathon later! See me go…! Whoosh… sink… 🙂

Happy fasting fasters!

Day 6 UK NFD
DAy 7 UK FD

Day 7 – Switzerland – NFD

Yes, another FD postponed. I will get my head straight, put in some honest NFDs and plan my next FD for Monday.

Day 7 Newcastle UK NFD 😍
Morning everyone. Woke with a heavy head this morning can’t really call it a headache as its not pounding almost feels like a mild hangover without the pleasure of alcohol 😨
Really felt like I had enough fluids yesterday I’m guessing 4.5 litres on my fasting day. Not the first time with the headache on the fasting days. On course for a weight loss on the scales tomorrow if I stay sensible today.
Keep up the good work everybody.

Day 7 London, UK, NFD
Day 4 NFD
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Day 6 FD

Felt ill yesterday. I don’t know if it was anything to do with FD or I’m coming down with something. I went to Barre Concept class but had to leave part way through as I was feeling sick. Feeling very sick when got home – I wasn’t sure if this was hunger, so ate one grape – what a mistake, I was instantly ill. But at least I felt slightly better afterwards, so went to bed (approx. 9 pm – very early for me). I don’t feel as bad today, but I do feel delicate and have a headache. I still can’t work out if this is due to the fasting (I still have the 500 calories) or I’m still coming down with something.

Day 7 – FIN – NFD

Ended up eating about 465 kcals (10 g almonds and a banana for breakfast, a ready-made soup for lunch and a 250 g box of cherry plum tomatoes and two thin crispbreads with cheese and thin cold cuts of turkey for dinner) yesterday without any issues. Keeping busy kept me from feeling hungry. I broke my fast today with porridge (60 g rolled oats added to boiling water (350 ml), left to simmer after turning off the heat (10-15 min) and served with 1,5 tbs ground flax seed, 1,5 dl berries (blueberries and lingonberries today) and 100 g of cottage cheese, in case anyone’s interested), a few glasses of water and green tea + vitamins (D and Zinc+C since I’m still sick). Still feeling stuffy from the flu, so no news on that front, but lately my ears have not gotten locked and I’ve haven’t felt the need to blow my nose that often.

@jennferb Regarding your question about fasting when feeling unwell – this is what’s written in the FAQ: “Best not to. Fasting will stress your body, that seems to be one of the ways that it helps (stress provokes repair), but you shouldn’t over stress.” I’m showing a bad example by fasting anyway, but I decided to do it only after my symptoms lessened. I have not noticed any negative outcomes so far.

@dykask I agree, 5 g is a lot, and still people here tend to exceed that number (women 6-7 g/day, men 8-9 g/day). My dad is probably one of the people amping up those numbers – he adds salt to more or less anything he eats (which is mostly meat and fat). Occasionally I’ve even seen him straight up eat finger salt, but despite this his blood pressure is pretty low. It’s a shame to hear that your dad doesn’t seem to be taken care of properly. I hope he’s leading a healthy life. And yes, reading about the study group being able to tweak the MRI sounds very impressive, a task for clever minds.
I hope you feel better soon (regarding the sugar). Reading about your reaction has me a little worried about what will happen in my body when I reintroduce sugar to my diet after lent. I’ve noticed before that eating too much sweets upsets my stomach, but I tended to believe it was due to what I ate not being lactose free. I suppose I’ll have to tread carefully and not overindulge.

@couscous Interesting, I had never heard about the project before, but having read a little about it from their website I can see it also having an effect on me (tobacco laws etc.). I must say that the results are indeed impressive and prove once again just how big and effect nutrition and our habits have on our lives.
Overall, weight is an issue in Finland – according to studies from 2012 the average BMI for working age women is 26.0 and men 27.1. 46% of women are overweight, 19% obese, and for men those numbers are 66% and 20%. Adults being overweight is more common in Finland than in other Nordic countries. Comparing these numbers on an European scale puts us slightly above average but below South European countries and Great Britain. (Source THL (in Finnish once again))
Some years ago there were news about how the Nordic diet is a good alternative for the Mediterranean one, but the problem is that most people here tend to stick to the Western diet with its processed foods etc. instead.

@coda should that not be star date 7.417 😁😜

Day 7, Cumbria UK , nfd
Just a quick check in, I’m going to try another Saturday fast day tomorrow xx

Day 7…….Florida….. FD

So, my FD yesterday went out the window, everyone at work decided to order pizza and I joined in. So, it’s back to a FD today!
I could really beat myself up for doing what I did yesterday but decided that beating myself up just turns this WOL into just another diet, and I am NOT on another diet. I’m on an eating plan for life.

Taraga…… Welcome! I’m glad you could join us! Many religions and many great people back in the day used fasting to further their focus on achieving a greater power, well, so to speak considering I don’t know the technical term for it. I think it’s great you’ve found 5:2 to incorporate it into your daily rountine.

Stevetoontaxi…… loved your synopsis of diet clubs. Thinking back to when I did WW and many of those statement while funny as all get out, they are so very true!

Dykask……. in the last couple weeks, we’ve had tons of birthday cakes, I began to realize after my intake of a piece, I threw my body into one heck of a tissy. So, as an experiment, I decreased the amount of sugar I used in the receipe. It called for 1 2/3 sugar, so I used 1/2 cup white and 1/2 cup brown sugar not packed. Well, what I found was the cake tasted the same but my body did not take a beating. So, although, I have reduced my intake of those sort of things, through this experiment, I decide if I do need a treat, instead of buying something, I’m going to make it. So, I know just how much sugar goes in. Now, if only Icoukd follow your lead in the salt department.

Nabaht……. best wishes for your first day! You’ve got this! Just remember you’ve got the magic touch that it why the chose you!

Okay well….. enough is enough!

Be classy, sassy and a bit bad assy in your travels today for you are stronger than you even realize!