Final post – Staffordshire UK

April ended badly, final weigh in 154lb. I was at 151lb until the last weekend.

Day 30 – USA – FD

Total loss for April 9 lbs. Truthfully its weight that I had regained while on vacation, but its 9 lbs. none the less. I’ll take it! Looking onwards and downwards for May!

@okeydokey, in case you are still looking at the April spreadsheet, I don’t know if it matters now or not, but the 18th and the 29th were not FDs for me.

Thank you @okeydokey for all the hard work 😓 you put in to this effort.

Hi @okeydokey

In reply to your “how did I do it”

Firstly I started 5:2 as a newbie on 27th of March so I had a few days over the month .

To be honest I don’t know how I did it but for what it’s worth I’ll say what I actually did as such…..ill keep it as brief as I can.

I’ve never fasted before as such so the whole concept was new to me but I (as we all do) know myself reasonably well, so , I knew that I could go without eating as such but that once I started eating….I was quite happy to continue. So bearing that in mind I decided the easiest way for me to do the two FD’s a week was B2B with the first day being a fluid day (if I don’t start eating I won’t keep eating) then eating one meal early to mid-evening on the second day…..ie my trigger of starting eating would be left as late as possible into the fast!!!

In the first week I was ever so good on NFD being moderate in what I ate,not particularly counting calories but being healthyish and not eating in the quantities I ate before 5:2 . 10lb loss,but was quite hard,too hard to sustain so relaxed my regime for rest of the month.

I ddnt stop treats or eating rubbish,I was just mindful that if I was going to have them that I made allowance earlier in the day to accommodate for the excesses .

The key for me is planning…..My two FD are done Monday & Tuesday every week….I then know the rest of the week are NFD,nice 😄…knowing that I will have to drink 5 or 6L on each FD means I WILL drink that, i don’t get hungry AT ALL, I know on my second FD I will be having my chicken stir fry and that that will definately fill me up until I break the fast lunchtime-ish on the third day, so that gets me through day two…..the rest of the week is what I make it.

I do pedal normally 5 days a week,to work,at lunchtime & home,totalling mayhap 40m a day,some days more some less so that helps to some extent. I did have a week off and still lost a pound so to what extent is debatable

I think the key to my success month one (could all change In month two) is keeping it simple and planning ahead. Don’t try to have fancy meals,variety etc etc on 500 or 800 cals, that’s hard,have something simple and filling whatever that is….we all have issues with food to one degree or another so why force it upon ourselves when the FD’s are about restricting calories….drink lots and lots, I’ve read most posts and see people saying they struggle drinking a couple of litres,sorry but you have to drink more. Don’t “deprive” yourself either….eg for me…I like my coffee with full fat milk so I have it full fat,if that helps me through a FD then fine, I’m not going to wreck a FD for the sake of drinking my coffee black and hating it!!

I’ve waffled and probably not answered your Q but mayhap given an insight to my month 😄

Hi all. I previously lost 10kg but gradually put it back on. After weighing myself post Easter binge at 79kg, committed to getting back to at least a more healthy 72kg. While FD are not a real problem for me (I do what Chubbybiker does and get these out of the way on Monday-Tuesday), it is the NFD where my will power disappears.
Hope support on this forum will keep me from straying – and provide inspiration for a thinner me!