UK..Yorkshire,

Coda, Merry and B2F thanks for the welcome. Interesting on the link on excerising and fasting..don’t feel so guilty when my feet don’t let me walk.

A good day for me I have been going up and down stairs as coda suggested more than normal…lol..lol

In my mind I do try and walk 30 mins three times a week but normally don’t ..I intend to do it over the challenge month.

I am away for a weeks holiday on the 8th but intend to continue as usual. Wifi permiting will log in as I can daily, maybe at coffee shops.

Over the month are we looking at 4lbs off or will we get more? Anybodies thoughts..

I have had two really bad food days, this Friday and Saturday first in 6 months…as if food is going out of fashion….why do we do it!

All positive again today.

Have a good day

X

Hi Coda,

I think if I get 4 lb off it would be good anything else a bonus. See if doing any excerise improves any weight loss it’s interesting.

My FDs will be Monday and Thursday, with weigh in Friday morning.

Cheers
X

South Australia, count me in! I’ve only signed up for 5:2 today so guess I have a bit of reading work to do!

Hi,

I’d like to join your challenge! I’ve been a silent reader on the forums for around a year. I’m a 41 year old mother of 2 from Maidenhead (UK) and I did the 5:2 last year & lost 1st (14lbs). I maintained for a few months but during a recent holiday I realised that my weight had slowly been creeping up and that I was feeling really uncomfortable.

So decided to restart and have lost 7lbs in 4 weeks, I want to lose another 17lbs to reach my final goal. I usually fast on a Tuesday and Thursday, my weekends are usually very busy and usually involving lots of food and drink. So I try really hard to exercise during the week and to walk at least 15000 steps a day.

Thanks and good luck to everyone!

Day 16 of 19: Cotswolds UK, Fast Day. Just got home from work. No food since 4pm yesterday….so just under two hours to go.

I’d like to join you! I live in The Netherlands and started doing 5:2 on May 9th. I lost about 4 kilo sofar but last week I was having a hard time to stick to the diet and do the fast days properly. I started fresh this day. Today is a fast day and it’s going very well!

For exercise I try to walk 10.000 steps a day and sometimes I do HIT on my rowing machine.

Coda. Thank you for your kind words😊
I do strength training as well as body weight exercises:) yoga too:) I am just enjoying the “more cardio and less of the others” phase right now. HIT is an integral part of the cardio I do.
But the exercise is a bonus. The nutrition counts for 70-80% and I’m so totally looking forward to sorting that out here. Almost done with my fast today. Will have another tea to close the day at under 500. It’s been a happy day thanks to all of you.🙏🏼😊

Pacific NW USA: 16th day between Phase 1 & 2, FD with dinner out with son tonight

Fast strength exercises this morning completed. OH and I walked to dinner yesterday with out of town guests, 6 miles round trip – slow walking the second half! Not sure where we will go to dinner tonight but I will choose wisely to stay under 500.

I’m reading Mimi Spencer’s book The Fast Beach Diet. Not because I need more than what 5:2 has to offer right now but just to see if there’s any fine tuning I want to do. Also, to keep me motivated with any new ideas and maybe get some new recipes.

Looking forward to my weigh-in and measures this week to get baseline for Phase 2 and set next goal!

K-Lo, I bet it’s mostly extra water weight!

It’s so great to see so many new names pop into this forum. We’ll have a fun month ahead!

Hi simba7, no difference ! either FD or NF day!

Well my FD started at 5.30am when I had to help OH and tow no 2 car to the garage for repair ! It’s been a looong day, did really wel until the kit-kat bar jumped out of the fridge and I ate it!! Soooo annoying.
I really must sort my head out and get back on track!!

I would like to join in but I go away camping on 27th July so would miss the last few days, so I may just follow you all from the sidelines 🙂

Hi, would love to join this challenge. Have been following low carb and lost about 10 pounds this year but have plateaued and want to get rid of that last stubborn roll of chub 😀. I fly back from a business trip on June 30th and have no planned trips for July so perfect timing for me.

Quebecoise

Hi everyone. I want to get back on board with this great group but I’m not sure I will be able to exercice.

On my last camping trip the temperature was extremely hot and windy. So windy for 2 days and 2 nights that we couldn’t go sea kayaking ( witch was our objective). One night we had a huge thunder storm with wind and the temperature went down extremely quickly. All these factors made me develop a bronchitis and I cought a lot. Although I have medicine, I don’t want to take the risk of starting coughing because when it starts it goes on and on and on and that takes a lot of my energy.

So I am committing myself to do fast days, generaly 2 a week and sometimes 3 ( Monday, Wednesday and sometimes Friday) I will do my best to exercice but not High energy. If I stick to those objectives I will be proud of myself and consider that I succeeded. I will report here every day.

Looking forward to start this with all of you.

Have a nice evening.

ABC,

I am feeling a bit dizzy just a bit, my blood pressure is also falling low on FD’s..and a 61 heart beat ( normally 65/66)

My nurse at the doctors thinks it could be with fasting, she told me to up water intake as I could be dehydrated. I have to log it and if it keeps low to go back.

I am 7 months into fasting and it’s just started.

Just a thought for you…I am really naughty I don’t drink anywhere near enough.
X

Quebecoise– that sounds like one tough camping trip. I used to love camping but my OH is not a fan. If he read your story, he’d swear off it for good! Hopefully, you’ll have a much better experience on your next outing!

ABC1– I’ve read that sometimes the dizziness on Fasting Day could be helped by 2 things: staying better hydrated & also taking in some electrolytes like sodium/ salt. Some Fasters use packets of Miso Soup to get salt & fluids. (If I can find a source on this info before I have to leave for work, I’ll post it for you.)

Pacific NW USA: just 3 days till Phase 2! 36 hour liquid FD today

I’m thawing my bone broth for the day and making my white tea. Son said last night that he thought I was “looking great”. I think he was being judicious in not asking if I had lost weight – or your kids just think you always look the same!

HappyMargo – it was a successful day except for not quite enough sleep last night, rather, this morning.

I did my not unusual trick of waking up earlier than I had to and then starting to review the day rather than fall back asleep. This has been going on over the years about exactly as long as I’ve seen the weight creep so I assume they are related somehow?? In the past I unsuccessfully tried to out-run the weight increases with increased running distances, I also hoped that extra exercise would help the sleep. Over the years neither plan worked out. At least with 5:2 my mental state is improved and I don’t feel so much in the dark about the weight issue. I don’t miss high gi foods and adding exercise in moderation will be easier in the long run (pun intended)!

Quebequoise – yowser! You really do want to focus on taking it easy and getting your health back right now, please take care!

ABC1 – I hope your joints keep behaving! Dizziness can be caused by so many things. For me, along with extra hydration I will try a product they sell here in the states called “Emergen-C”. I don’t know if they sell it in France but I use it to replace electrolytes when I’ve had a hot day working in the garden or after a long walk when I’ve been drinking lots of water. It really can revive me. It’s an easy, small packet of powder that you add to a glass of water. It’s used here by runners, athletes and people who use steam therapies especially when you’ve been sweating and/or drinking lots of water you’ve diluted your body’s electrolytes. I get the “lite” version that only has 1 gram of sugar and 5 calories. It’s sold in grocery stores and some people take it as a cold remedy but it works really well for me when I’m feeling woozy and a little head-achy.

Time for my HIT bike ride!

Day 17 of 19 in-between days, UK, Gloucestershire: Non-fast day. I sense some slippage in my resolve. I am eating more and stopping later on non-fast days and yesterday, a fast day, seemed particularly hard because of that. My weight has plateaued again. That’s the result. Also my evening walk today had gone by the board as its raining. So, tomorrow, a new fast-day and renewed commitment please. Soon we will start phase two.

I have a non fast day today. I ate about 1350 calories and walked 106616 steps. Tomorrow I have a fast day. What I love about 5:2, apart from the weight loss, is all the energy I have! When I started fasting I quit eating sugar and now I also don’t have cravings and binges anymore.

A simulator to calculate the time for you to lose weight, incredible for me worked very well!

https://insightmaker.com/insight/9320/Test-model-5-2-fast-PJK

It’s my first day of 5:2 today. I followed 5:2 a couple of years ago and lost 6kg but sadly, I got into bad habits and have regained it.

This time, I’m going to keep going until I get to a weight I’m happy with and then try to keep it off.

I’m doing this for health and to be able to wear all my clothes that don’t fit.

I live in France.

Anaide, can this calculator be converted to lbs?

I agree with Fishing Gran. Great bunch of people carrying on from the 1st challenge. Welcome to our our new friends. Good luck to you all and much thanks to Coda for her leadership!

Namaste All from India:)

Fast day today. Week 4: Day 2
At 1302 calories, yesterday was the first decent NFD. I didn’t go crazy stuffing my face with cake and chips 😋 So Yay!
Fastdutchgirl: almost 107,000 steps sounds massive!! How neat! Sounds like a perfect day.
Inspired.

All the best to everyone. Have a lovely day!

Myaramya, I made a mistake with my steps! I meant 10.616 steps (just over 10.000). 106.616 would be massive!

I’m having a fast day today. For me that means no breakfast, no lunch, some almonds at 4 o’clock and a nice dinner of 500 calories with lots of vegetables, tofu and a little bit of brown rice. There will be cake at the office this morning. I’m going to pick it up at the bakery’s, but I won’t eat it. My colleagues don’t mind my new eating habits (no sugar, no pizza after a meeting, no crisps, no kroketten at Friday lunch (kroketten is a special Dutch snack) because they can eat my portion 🙂