Checking in with weight etc: today is FD the second of the week. Weight 68.4 Kg .. was 70.6 on 13 March when I started. Will be trying to reach 67Kg by end of April. I know that’s a small goal but what with the holiday I feel it’s doable! My target is to get to 63Kg, that is under 10 stone for the first time since I was in my twenties! With this new WOL I believe it’s possible! Onwards and downwards…

Hi @okeydokey! Thank you so much for taking on the April challenge and please count me in… x

Yay! Thank you! Excited to be here and good luck to everyone. 🙂

I’d like to take part, doing first fast day tomorrow, doing mondays and Thursday, same days as husband. Am in Edinburgh uk.

I would like to take part, FD tomorrow I plan to do Tuesday’s and Thursday’s unless events alter this. Looking forward to the added motivation from being in a group. All the best for us all.

Please add me

Please could I join in your 30 day challenge? I watched the documentary today and have browsed this forum and feel this is the life change I need. I am desperately unhappy with my health and weight being at my heaviest. I am 46 yrs old, 5’3 in height and weigh 16 stone 6lbs. I feel utterly discussed with myself and need to take control of my health. I have been suffering from a lot of stress lately and comfort eat. It stops from today. I am looking forward to measuring myself so that I can record the changes in my body. Hope that’s not too much information for my first post! Thank you!

Thank you for hosting Okeydokey! Count me in – goal is to lose 2kg per month. If all goes well i should finish april’s challenge around the 64.5kg mark.

First, welcome all our newbies.

I’m trying to catch up with all the new April post while attempting to rein in March. Ah, but that a whole other story.

Okaydokey…… I don’t know how I missed it but my baby boy, the first born, his birthday is also the 4th of April. Not much of a baby anymore, turning 21, at least a foot taller than me and full beard to boot. I’m one lucky momma, let me tell you what!

Nabht….. welcome a board! Starting a new WOL can be hard and freighting all at the same time. My advice to you is start very small and take one day at a time. Pick two days, your busiest days are best out the week. Eat only 500 calories, the other days eat normally.
Many of us, old timers, have tweaked our WOL, to fit our current lifestyles but please let me stress. We all started very small like you will this month. As time goes on and you become comfortable with this WOL then you can start tweeking yourself. Don’t tweek to fast or to soon, as you could risk falling!
Most importantly and I can not stress enough, keep up with this thread, these friends will keep you going in times of need, and you’ll learn so much not only about this WOL but about yourself as well…..

Fordperfect……. I’m off to buy me a towel and Adams book Hitchhiking across the galaxy. Sounds like a fantastic read!

Oh and I found my ending…..

Be classy, sassy and a bit bad assy!

@bert1802 oh hi! I just ready your advice. Start small. If I get through 2 fast days per week while eating sensibly and under TDEE the rest of the week, I’ll call that a win. 🙂 however if I go over 2 days and get a bit more fasting in, I’ll be super happy too! Thanks for letting me participate and thanks for the warm welcome!

Please count on me! I’m back! 6 months without 5:2 lifestyle. 4 kg weight gain.

Day 1 nearly done.
Been a bit difficult today as the hubby had started breakfast by the time I got up at 0645 for work.
It was 1/2 plain grapefruit for me (he cannot have it), 1 med. portobello mushroom, poached egg with 2 well grilled slices of bacon.
Written down & all accounted for in the daily total of 800. How did he cook the mushroom & bacon? In the frying pan. OK no fat & well drained so not sure how much it added.
Never mind we did have 190 (him), 100 (me) to spare.

No problems at work keeping busy with plenty of water, black tea when I could & just crudities for lunch.
Tea was home made curry coming in at 90 cals with cauliflower rice at 45 with 1 low cal small nan 145. However, the cauliflower was awful so we had to replace with rice which increased the it from 45 to 160. So perhaps not that accurate today but we are doing it again tomorrow with positivity.

All I need to do is find a tea with salmon that we like.
Then more water/black tea & an early night!

Really looking forward to the April 30 day challenge. I’m in week two of The Fast Diet and it’s going ‘ok’ so far. It’s definitely a challenge to get used to – but I’ve not caved yet – which is rare for me!
I’m going through a traumatic relationship breakdown, with an adult child. It’s been utterly shocking and devastating. And yet – I’m determined to not take it out on my body like I usually do with difficult matters. No gaining weight, eating my feelings and ending up worse off than the situation itself would have left me because I’ve managed to make a bad thing even worse by gaining stress weight.
Nope. Won’t do it.

I’m in!

Starting weight 58.3kg April 1 and 2 will be NFD
Goal – continue with 5:2 regime and walk for half an hour on Tuesday and Thursday (may as well start small…)

Very best of wishes to all for a Losing Kindof April!

I would like to join in.
I’m new on 5:2 diet, but want to try straight away.
Today is my fist FD – AUS
I’m from Asia, now living in Sydney, weight today 69.8, April goal to loose 2kg, target 55kg. I’ve been struggling with my weight so many years. I’m expecting this diet can help me to be normal, not over weight.
I will fast on Monday and Friday, and have lunch only, as it’s easy for me to skip breakfast, but not lunch. Dinner will be hard, and I will see how I go tonight.

My goal for April will be to keep my average weight below 79.6kg. I really don’t know if I can achieve that.

I’ll weigh myself first thing each morning and compute the average as I go. We’ll see if it works for me.

@okeydokey, thanks for taking up the baton!!! I’m in for April.

I’ll weigh-in tomorrow am for my FINAL March weight/ FIRST April weight. Looking forward to continuing our March successes!!!

Hi there – please add me to the April challenge! (I have just lost 3.5lbs on the March one, and couldn’t have done it without the discipline of being part of a bigger group)

Please count me in for April

@zowie we do try to make a daily post like this:

Day of the month – Where we are – NFD/FD (Non-Fast Day / Fast Day)

After that we write anything we want. Feel free to ask questions. Right now it is a bit slow because it isn’t April yet. It will start picking up over the next 24 hours.

Welcome aboard!

Howdy folks….

I just wanted to stop by and give my intentions and goals for the April challenge.
I’ve been thinking long and had about what i want to achieve this month. I’m still not a 100% clear on my goal, I really want 10lbs this month but the experts but the fine folks over in the March challenge have me thinking 5 is more realistic. I have to hand it to them, many of them realize that small goals eventually lead to big numbers. And one must not shoot to high for the chance of missing the target is to high but if move the target closer then shoot, we have a greater chance of hitting it and being able to move to the next target.
So, 5lbs it is…….
I normally fast on M, W and F.
I 16:8 daily with very little expectation I stop eating at 7pm and resume eating between 12 and 12:30p the next day.
I intend this month to not lose the reins and go all Willy Nilly, so 500 calories on Fd’s and 1200 calories on NFD’s except Sunday which I’m going to leave it a free day. I gave up Soda aka fuzzy drinks and sweets for lent and will continue on with it after the lentin season is over only allowing my self those treats on Sunday. So thus the free day on Sundays!
I think that is it for what I’d like to achieve in April.
I will give my official weigh in numbers on April 1 then we can let the games begin…….

Be classy, sassy and a bit bad assy!

Day 1/NFD/ Melbourne Australia

My 5:2 journey:

September 2014 – 74.3kg (starting weight, BMI over 29 – goal to reboot health.) Dress size: Australian 12-14
April 2015 – 59kg (goal)
July 2015 – 54.5kg ( lowest weight, not quite sustainable)
March 2016 – 56kg (happy weight)
January 2017 – 58.7kg (whoops)
Feb 2017 – 57.2kg (reboot – onwards and downwards). Joined the February challenge.
March 2017 – 56.6 kg

Today’s weight 55.6 kg. Dress size: Australian 6-8.

I’m a big fan of Dr M’s basic 5:2 plan. I’m a bit of a foodie so I take great pleasure in planning my fast day meals much to my OH’s delight. My diet is mainly a LCHF Mediterranean style of eating. I love vegetables and eat a wide variety. I do enjoy carbohydrates and include whole grains or pasta or bread a couple of times per week for their prebiotic qualities. If I eliminated them from my diet I’d definitely feel deprived and it would make this WOL less sustainable. I rarely count calories but am very careful with portion sizes. I don’t have a sweet tooth and avoid processed and refined foods. I weigh daily and keep a food diary for accountability. Alcohol is my downfall and accounts for the recent blip in my weight. I’d allowed myself a glass of wine a night but it crept up to 1/2-1 bottle per night. During March I successfully cut out the nightly bottle. I still enjoy a drink but not every night.

I love the simplicity and flexibility of this WOL. If I need to take a break I can and do. It fits easily into my lifestyle. I began this WOE (way of eating) for the health benefits. The steady loss of a pound a week was a happy bonus. I was convinced I couldn’t lose weight and keep it off. My 5:2 journey shows this WOL can work.

My goal for April is to stay below 56kg. I’d love to shake off another kg but if I don’t that’s ok. I need to up my exercise. I love gardening and walking but if I had to describe myself I’d have to say I’m a couch potato.

Have a happy and mindful weekend. Onwards and downwards

Hi there – I’d love to join you all for the April challenge!

Thanks for hosting 🙂