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I am really hoping I can stick to this diet, and it really works. It seems like I am just purley frusterated wanting to loose weight, but only gaining more. I know once I get in the “zone” I can do it as I ahve done it before with juicing, etc…….I think I just need to stay focused, and see results. ……
please help.
Hi AH0200,
While you can eat anything you want with 5:2, some foods make it easy and some foods make it hard to achieve success. Try and avoid sugar at all costs. Avoid grain based carbs like bread, pasta, breakfast cereal, pizza. Avoid juice, its just sugar with all the fibre removed. Avoid potatoes.
Get your carbs from veggies, some whole fruits, beans, legumes. Fats like cheese, avocadoes, full fat low sugar yogurt. Some meats and fish. Nuts like brazil nuts, almonds, walnuts. Not cashews, sugar content too high.
Read the labels on cans of food. More than about 5% sugar, put it back on the shelf.
Good luck, it works if you give it a genuine go.
@fuvvie please add me to the January challenge. I expect the minimum participation is daily post to the thread. If there is anything else, please let me know, thank you!
– Stephanie
Hello Fuvvie and friends!
Please count me in!
Fuvvie- Thanks so much for hosting the challenge and keeping the spreadsheet.
I’m another one who fell off the wagon. Started in November 2013 and got very good results, but went back to my old habits and have been fasting on and off for the last 3 years. I seem to have lost apprx. 5 kilos more or less permanently, but I sill need to lose another 8 – 10 kilos and that’s where I’ve been stock for about 2 years because of inconsistently practicing IF
Early in this year I went LCHF and that has made everything easier and more enjoyable. With LCHF fast days are really easy for me, and I have a total fast (or water fast) day a week in which My fasting consists of only drink water. I go on vacation very frequently and I don’t fast during that time. I start eatign carelessly and I end on putting the back on.
Now HereI go again, but this time I feel part of a beautifully organized collective intention, and I am very excited about it!
Thanks very much to the cyber friends who organize this challenge!
I can’t wait to start!
Day minus1: Pacific NW USA, I will end a 48 hour, liquid only b2b fast Saturday morning then save most of my TDEE the rest of the day for some bubbly in the eve!
In reply to Pissupoosa’s query about exercise – we have had challenge months when our group added fast exercise and fast strength goals. By all means many of us find our moods and emotional outlook is improved by exercise. Dr. Mosley has written another excellent book of advise on that subject too, called coincidentally, “Fast Exercise”. A sort of motto though, is that fasting is for losing weight (and a lot of other health benefits) and exercise is for all the other health benefits it provides. Meaning, to keep in mind that it’s far easier to cut calories and lose weight by fasting than by exercising more.
See you all on this thread when mine ends and we tally the weight changes for December!!
Fantastic! New thread, and I am going to practice being positive.. it will be great to see everyone here tomorrow. Will weigh in tomorrow, as an end to December and a start to January.
Happy and peaceful new year, and may we all reach what we are aiming for, mentally and physically. Love and hugs to all!
Uk, Shropshire.
Day minus 1
Please advise:
I can happily go without food all day and just eat one meal in evening, say 9pm. But my problem is that I go to bed really late, say 1am or 2am (my 5 year old granddaughter has Angelman syndrome and wakes up every night for a few hours. My daughter and I take turns to care for her at night and I am her main carer during the day).
Consequently I have developed a need for carbs washed down by warm milky drinks in the wee hours of the morning, otherwise I can’t get to sleep. I tried, but cannot sleep unless I am fully sated.
Any suggestions how to manage my fasting days?
Morning all……
Welcome to all the new folks that have come aboard!
Just a couple quick thoughts…
Babu….. I too love going to bed with my belly full…. I’m not going to kid you at all, the first time, you hit the bed, your belly is going to do a lot of grumbling. She’s just mad and she’ll get over it, I promise. You just need to be stronger…. There is several things you can do to fall asleep, they use them for people with sleep disorders but the one I found that I use often is laying there, eyes closed and don’t move. You will fall asleep regardless of how loud, Mrs grumble gut yells!
We’ve been trained our whole lives, to go to bed feeling sated, but let’s think of what our bodies do while we sleep…… Now pair that with the benefits of IF…. man oh man…. You are going to wake up so energized and repaired!
Loving my life….. if you don’t mind me asking is LCHF, low calorie, high fat? I don’t know much about it but would love to research it more….
Fuvvie…… I kinda had a feeling your day was the 28th too. Sorry to hear about your friend. Sometime people are only meant to be in our lives for a short time because the lesson they are to teach us don’t require much time. So although their presence is no longer, their lesson stays with us a lifetime.
All righty then…. I’ve put of house cleaning for a good week now, so I must be on my way to do that. Just picking up the clutter isn’t cutting it anymore. This is going to be an all day project, I feel. Good thing, is it will help me cuz it’s a FD for me!
Cheers!
Thanks @bert1802 for the heads up. I’ll report back on progress once we start.
D0 – Singapore
Less than an hour to midnight, waking up early for work tomorrow – tomorrow is a NFD but I will take my stats in the morning and start on a fresh slate. I’ve made my New Years resolutions on a sheet just now and it feels so good to head to bed with a plan and goal in mind.
My goal for tomorrow is to not overdo it just because it is a NFD (the food will always be there!!!) and enjoy a good healthy brunch with my fiancé after work and eat sensible whole foods for the rest of the day. Gotta keep within my TDEE! (Otherwise fast days will become an exercise in futility…)
Good luck everyone, and happy new year!!!
Hello Bert! Yes, LCHF stands for low carb high fat. It has worked very well for me. I feel very energized, I sleep better and It helps me eat in moderation. However, I just came back from a 4-day trip to the beach in LOs Cabos, Mexico, where I stayed at one of those all inclusive resorts. Needless to say I ate all kinds of high carb foods (and a lot of them too!).
There’s a very educational Sweedish website on LCHF: http://www.dietdoctor.com It is constantly growing and absolutely worth checking out.
Happy New Year and Hapy Fasting to all!
Hi Babu – Sorry you have problems sleeping…I too (for different reasons than yours) have trouble sleeping…(I am a worrier). I have a little portable disc player that I put under my pillow at night – I find a good story cd at our library and I listen to it (thru’ earphones) it works wonders! If the story is really interesting it fills your mind – I seldom hear the end of the cd! if it’s boring – the same trick!! Well worth a try to keep the tummy rumbles and gremlins at bay.
Off to have a New Year supper now – my fd starts at midnight!!
Good luck to all of us and a Happy Healthy 2017
Animalhouse0200..I plan on starting my FD on Monday also. Will like hearing how you are doing. About the salt, I counted some tortilla chips in my meal calories and carbs last night and the salt in them did raise my BP more than I wanted so going to find some no salt ones. For weight reasons, I would watch salt intake so it didn’t hold water, but since I haven’t done the 5:2 before don’t really know the affects of salt on that. Look forward to seeing your posts! Best wishes to you…And may 2017 be a happy wonderful year to you!
London | minus 6h | NFD
In reply to the acronym question from Believeit:
TDEE – total daily energy expenditure
Check out this page: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/how-many-calories-on-a-non-fast-day/
It gives some good tips on how to calculate it and use it to your advantage to lose weight.
Wasn’t sure if you knew these, but thought I’ll add them in anyway (sorry if it’s obvious!):
FD – fast day (NFD – non-FD)
b2b – back-to-back fasting – instead of alternate day/intermittent, you fast on 2 consecutive days.
BMR – basal metabolic rate. The link above also has info about this.
LCHF – low-carb-high/healthy fat. Check post by @lovingmylife. The diet doctor link is quite good.
Did I miss any other acronyms?
@ Animalhouse – about your concern with salt. 650mg doesn’t sound like a lot to me. The general recommended level is a teaspoon/day – which about 5-6g. Also don’t forget your overall salt consumption will be lower on fast days because you’re eating less.
Unless there are concerns about blood pressure or kidney function, I don’t think this is an issue. Hope that answers your question.
Happy New Year all!
Good luck to the Day 1 fasters!
Believeit – along with Pissupoosa’s info you can get advise here:
https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/the-basics-for-newbies-your-questions-answered/
Also if you go to the top right side of this page you will see “Your Tracker” where you can calculate your TDEE and BMI and chart your journey. It has been very important to help keep me on the informed side of this WOL (Way of Life). You can also click on “Your Profile” and if you want add a bit of bio info about yourself and then we can click your heading and go to your profile to help us know a little more about you (we cannot see your tracker, that’s info just for you).
Hi Friends!
It’s almost new year, new challenge!
To help some of the newer Fasters coming on board that have questions about the acronyms, here’s a few I thought to jot down.
IF = Intermittent Fasting
5:2 = 5 normal days of eating (carefully) with 2 days each week of fasting (most will do these non-consecutively. For example, Fasting on Monday & Thursday.)
4:3 = 4 careful eating days, with 3 fasting. (for example: fasting on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.)
ADF = Alternate Day Fasting (ala Krysta Varaday)
TDEE = total daily energy expenditure. The total number of calories you burn on a typical day of your life. On your regular (careful) eating days, you want to stay at or below that calorie mark.
There’s a calculator right here on the site to help you learn your TDEE & BMI.
16:8 = You’ll see this referred to often. Basically it reflects hours. 16 hours of fasting, with an 8 hour window to allow food. For example: finish dinner Sunday night at 7 PM. Fast for 16 hours until Monday 11 AM, have a lunch. Then be finished with dinner by 7 PM. You eat your TDEE (or less) in just that 8 hour window.
LCHF = Low Carb, High Fat. Many on here have had great success cutting our all sugars, and lowering carb intake. Losing weight (& tending to good health) is easier by cutting out the “white stuff” Processed, refined flours, cookies, biscuits, cake, pasta, white rice, etc.
Do NOT cut carbs by skimping on nutrient-dense, colorful vegetables!
Fantastic source of info found here: https://www.dietdoctor.com
DH = Dear Husband or Darling Husband
OH = Other Half
Welcome aboard all!! Healthy & happiness in this upcoming New Year.
Pissupoosa– Haha! You beat me to it on the acronyms! Even thought of some I missed. Thanks.
Animalhouse– you got good advice from Pissuupoosa re: the salt in onion soup. As long as you have no health concerns normally with high BP or salt intake it should be fine.
In fact, many Fasters will use Miso Soup packets or sachets. They are tasty & feel more filling, like “a meal” sometimes than just “another cup of plain black coffee.”
The salt in them helps ward off headaches. Just be sure you drink plenty of fluids all day long too!
Jarbia and Fuvvie thank you both for your feedback. I see I need to relax and not panic when night hunger hits.
Fuvvie – yes, kitty (my granddaughter with AS) is a joy but such hard work! There are also 4 generations, my 81yrs mother has joined our household.
Off now to bring in 2017
Happy new year to you all!!
Day 1 – Brisbane, Australia | NFD
Happy new year everyone – I hope 2017 is going to be an awesome one for you all!
…ok, so here goes.
I usually weigh in on a Monday, so will leave that for tomorrow. I started 5:2 just 5 weeks ago (weighing 121.2kg) and depending on how kind the scales are tomorrow, I will have lost about 3kg in that time – which considering that time included Christmas (where my weight went back up that week) is a great result – one that I am keen to maintain. My goal at the moment is to lose 3kg every 5 weeks, so by the end of Jan I want to be somewhere around 115-116kg, anywhere in that range would be fantastic.
Now… I am expecting some challenges with my fast day tomorrow (I usually do Mon / Thur). We had a rather large tree come down in our yard a few weeks ago in a storm, and we’ve just had it cleaned up and mulched and now have a massive pile sitting in the yard ready to go on the gardens (which were in a pretty poor, neglected state). I spent 4 hours in the yard yesterday trimming everything, spraying weeds and putting down the first bit of mulch (we live on one Acre, so there are lots of neglected gardens!), have already done 1.5 hours carting wheelbarrow loads of mulch around this morning and will do some more this evening (crazy hot here at the moment, creeping up towards 36c as I type this at midday)… have at least another 3-4 days of that in store… it’s pretty strenuous stuff, I’m not sure how I’m going to go with that tomorrow when I’m fasting – I guess I’ll find out!
Anyway, thanks for reading – hope you all had a great festive season and are ready to make great inroads towards reaching your goals for 2017 and beyond.
Hi Everyone, Happy new year. Fasting today. So far so good. Have just finished work. I cook at our local community hospital. Started at 5.30 this morning so am feeling a bit tired. Have friends arriving tomorrow so thought I’d better get a fasting day in first.Weight this morning 84kg. Would like to be around 81kg by the end of Jan.Wow Vaderz you sure are busy. Good luck.Everyone, you are all awesome and an inspiration.
Day 1 FD Gippsland (but in Tassie)
Hi all. Trying to do the fasting thing but going to be a challenge. I am holiday img with the family for 4 days in Hobart, a very short stroll from the Taste of Tasmania festival!!
Had a few bevvies last night ( who can resist McHenry,s gin???)
Planning a big walk up Mt Wellington tomorrow so that will make Se up a bit of chub.
Good luck all!!
🤗
Day 1 NFD sunny country West Australia
Happy New Year.
Had a NYE dinner last night , unexpected , and mine host kept filling my glass with champagne. Not normally a big drinker I feel I may have had 4 glasses. Feel quite tired and now off to another friend’s for lunch.
Will be mindful of food consumption and sticking to soda water.
Will weigh tomorrow ( cowardly I know but after last night’s effort …)
Goal this month is to lose 4 kgs, 1 kg/ week.
Thanks Fuvvie in advance.😎
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