Day 22 – USA – NFD

I am impressed with everyone that does water only fasts. It seems so impossible to me. I want to try to eat only one meal in the evening. So far, I’ve always had a small lunch. It’s tough at work because I work 4 ten hour days a week. I used to eat snacks to break up the day; at 10, 12,and 3. Now I try to only have lunch. I guess I need to take non-food breaks. It’s really too hot to go for a walk. I’ll have to figure something out. Maybe I could bring a book or something.

Looking forward to a non-fast weekend! Have a great one everyone!

Ireland day 22 nfd…all good today amazing how much you can eat for 1200 calories….don’t know if I’m up or down as my scale weighs way heavier than my sisters where I started my journey….not deterred though really happy with my new way of life…hope all going well for everyone else💖

Gozo, Malta

My prayers and thoughts are with those who died and their relatives in an attack in Munich, Germany. May they rest in peace. It seems you can’t go abroad where people are gathered without there being blood shed. So sad and senseless!

Fast day went well for me. My husband had to have some plums for dessert. He had a virus two days ago and didn’t eat much so today he fasted with me but ate some juicy small local plums. Tomorrow is a nfd and I’m looking forward to go out for lunch with an old friend who came from Melbourne.

The coffee machine from Nescafé Dolce Gusto arrived today and I made an espresso and drunk with sweeteners. Tomorrow I’m looking forward to a coffee mocha (120 calories) or cappuccino lite (50 calories) together with my husband.

Good night everyone, take care.

Australia Day 23 NFD have a good weekend all and Jayney – sending you tons of support! You can do it!

Day 22: Pacific NW USA (traveling), liquid FD

Over ate at dinner yesterday on a FD so flexible 5:2 giving me another chance today. Gotta love that bone broth. I agree Rocy65 – if I don’t eat breakfast I can have a better fast day, also. Today I am inspired by those doing 36 hour liquid fasts. I did get a little psyched out reading the myfitnesspal dietician article warning against too few cals. I’m still a little confused about when a fast results in the body burning muscle protein as well as stored fat. Oh well, I know 5:2 is for weight loss and exercise is for health so I hope my HIT walk today and shooting hoops with kids helps balance all that.

Another myfitnesspal article did have some good words for when anyone experiences plateaus or slower progress. The first good words are about the average person constantly gaining weight so even if you go up and down or plateau you are better off than most people. The second good words are congratulations, you are not a beginner any more. It’s easier to drop weight in the beginning and when you are past that it’s normal to go slower or pause at times. Here’s the article http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/the-upside-of-a-weight-loss-plateau/

Que – I’m also extra challenged with vacation food events – example: my FD yesterday and the yummiest restaurant food when I should have had the strength to eat half portions! I will repeat your words “focus, focus” when we start a 3 day celebration for my daughter’s birthday tomorrow.

Jayney – hope you feel better soon!

Patti6 – hold tight to your get-up till it gets you going again. It will and you will!

Coda – I finally understand how Phase 2 bonus wil work. Thanks for explaining again. While I was putting dates in my calendar I noticed some amazing synchronicity and sign posts for me! Phase 2 ends at my 3 month 5:2 anniversary. The count down to the bonus round ends at a date I will attend a wedding where I will see a cast of characters I haven’t seen since skinny days (glad for the pounds I will have shed by then). Then the bonus for phase 2 ends iexactly when I return to work after this vacation. Then thanks to DebbieQ and JFitzy my 5:2 odyssey will be rounded out the end of October with my 6 month 5:2 anniversary. It won’t end there but I’m now feeling stronger and much more capable of setting some goals for each of these sign posts as I have no doubt 5:2 is working for me and is helping me re-balance my health! Thanks for everyone on our world-wise forum for keeping me motivated to get to this point!!!

Weigh and measure results of my first full vacation week tomorrow!

Australia – Day 23 – 7 days till end of this challenge?

Fuvvie – You can tell your in a different part of Oz. It is freezing today with bad winds and raining here, lol. It’s nice that your kids are getting on board with it. That’s what happened with my Mum. She started it on advice from her Dr, then my older brother got on it, he lost a lot of weight, but has put most of it back on. My other brother does one day a week just for health benefits and I tried it back then, went off it for a couple of years and now am back on it!

Back2thefuture – I listened to some of the intermittent fasting Dr’s on Youtube and I think they said that your body will only burn a certain amount of muscle and no more. It only starts eating a lot of muscle when you get down under 5% body fat and that is because it will try and keep you alive at all costs. That’s what I took from it anyway 🙂

Rocy65 – Well done on such a long bike ride!

A fasting day today.

US SE Day 22 FD. Third fast day finished for this week. Trying to make up for all the bad choices last weekend. Hoping the scale will show even a half lb drop tomorrow morning. But that’s okay… I enjoyed the weekend and if it means not losing this week so be it. I have been doing 5:2 since April 6th now and I have to say that I have never stuck to something as much as I have this. It’s very true that when you feel that you can’t make it through a FD.. you only have to think that tomorrow you can have what you want and it just makes it so much easier. Having said that, I’m off to bed now before I eat my hand 😊

Day 22 USA(Illinois)

NFD today but did a 16:8 and hopefully not over TDEE. I had more carbs than I usually do, but rest of the food seemed okay.

Just picked up daughter and 2 granddaughters who will be here the rest of the month. It is daughter’s 20 year HS reunion tomorrow, so I get to be Grandma and have fun with the girls. We have a backyard pool, and they are excited to play in it. We have some other excursions planned like to Chicago for the American Girl Doll store. Girls are 11 and 8 and love just about anything having to do with them.

Hopefully food won’t be a problem for me with company here!

Italy Day 22 – FD

May have messed things up towards the end of the day. Just couldn’t resist an ice cold beer in the garden having a chat with my OH.

Scotland Day 23 NFD finally seen a pound off this week. I would have seen it yesterday had I not pigged out the day before! Down to 9 stone but I have to be vigilant if I’m to get down to 8st 12 Ibs which is my goal on the 31st. Trying extra hard this week. Thoughts with the people of Munich. The world is becoming a dark place no matter where we live. Stay safe everyone.

Day 23.. UK…. Yorkshire

NFD

Hey Nstaford, your numbers are looking great.
ETJ: we have had the hottest day on record for this time of year. Supposed to be winter and was just like a hot day in summer. My daughter is in T-shirt and shorts and is sunburnt. She was helping her husband put cladding on their walls of their new home they are building.

Northern Spain here again.
I meant to say day 23 not day 22.
Sorry for the confusion

Austin in Ohio – Day 23

Not sure what day it is? But yesterday was off the hook…icecream, and im allergic to dairy. Today is packing and driving. Hoping to keep it lower key.

Day 23 Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK: Non-fast day. Started with porridge for breakfast, hoping to keep eating in a sensible way today.
Coldpizza…thanks for the support, I DID it! Yesterday, my first 36 hour water-only fast…It will help to make up for my slacking over the last couple of weeks or so. I feel so proud of myself. No weight loss though….which would have been the icing on the cake. Maybe, to look at it another way, it did save me from a weight GAIN. I am still as low as I’ve been for about 25 years.

Day 23 USA (Illinois)

Quick check in as the day is shaping up to be a busy one.

FD today – just won’t eat when I am feeding daughter and granddaughters!

US, Day 23…nfd… Not a good fast day yesterday. Oh well. Just walked a mile in 92 degree NYC to get a haircut. That ought to be three pounds off right there. Grilled swirdfush, blistered Shishito peppers and salad for dinner

Thank you all!!

Plan: your lifestyle is your diet.
NFD: Wake up, walking a dog for an hour
Eating: 5 dry dates and banana,going to work
drinking espresso, water and sometimes one jagermeister per week
Lunch: apple and whatever my wife make,
i have two small kids, so i eat what they eat, most of the times fried chicken(200g) and mashed potateos(500g)
Dinner: it is calories in vs calories out, i check the numbers, sometimes pancakes, cottege cheese, chocolate, cookies.

Fd: morning nothing, lunch whatever my wife make – up to 600 calories

Listen bodybuilding diet, counting macros with leangains or 5:2 or eat stop eat will lead you to success. I can’t do it, american staford, two small kids, wife working every afternoon and me babysitting every afternoon.

If you wanna lose weight do it on my way. If you wanna lose weight and fat, better counting macros or at least protein intake and start exercise.

Sorry for my english.

http://www.muscleforlife.com/clean-eating-and-weight-loss/

Day 23 Cornwall UK. A good fast day so far with fish and veg planned for later. OH suggested a walk or bike ride before the rain arrived, I have a very painful heel so walking is out! So another 10 miles with HIT up the hills. I do believe I’m getting fitter! The rain didn’t arrive til late afternoon so a spot of gardening.
I got the Fast Exercise book out of the library and although I’m fine with the strength exercises; can anyone doing static exercise bike HIT suggest how I should start a regime. I’m 68 and 150lbs, I think I’m fairly fit but dont want to overdo things!
Ciren2 well done on 36hr fast!!
Jayneyb pleased to hear you are back on it, you’ve done well so 5.2 is working for you. I’ve not lost any weight during this 2nd challenge – life gets in the way. But we can/will reach our targets, stay strong and keep posting!
Micky42 – don’t overdo it,hope your knee improves soon.
Getting hungry now so a glass of sparkling water.
Good luck all.

Quebecoise – thankyou!! I’ll start on Monday, is it ok to do HIT on fast days?

Day 23 Sussex, U.K.
NFD.
Thanks for all the kind words. Have noticed that although the pounds off are not showing on the scale, I do seem to be more energetic. On the go all day today from 7.30 until 8.30 tonight. I take that as a big plus.
Good luck to everyone for tomorrow. One day at a time. X

Day 23: Pacific NW USA (traveling), NFD

Successful liquid FD yesterday extended to a total 40 hours this morning because of a late breakfast out at a restaurant. Felt a little light headed as I was weighing – but good news, 2 lbs down, waist down half inch, hips down 1 inch, and bust down half inch. The weight was with my wonderful little mini travel scale and while it is calibrated 1 pound lighter than my home scale I can now track any loss (hopefully) off of it.

I can reveal to you all (no one else in the whole world knows this fact, except maybe OH has an idea from going to doctor visits with me) that my goal over this next and last week of this challenge is to go below 200 pounds. Yes, I was very much over board when Coda’s original 5:2 challenge began but I have hope because right now I’m lower in weight than I was in Sept 2014 during the time of multiple surgeries. My 5’9″ frame and previous weight training and marathon running had fooled me into thinking it would all fall off as soon as I was healthy – it just kept adding on and on until the almost miracle of 5:2 this April!

Fuvvie – sorry you went haywire a while back but what is butter chicken? Sounds delicious! Congrats on your FD and weigh-in today! Your son lost almost 10 lbs in a 4 day fast, Wowser!

ETJ – thanks for update on muscle loss, that reassures me (until I get down to 5 % body fat, Ha).

BrightonBelle – we’re rooting for you!

Anna6 – maybe just try to limit the rice at the restaurant.

K-lo – love the swirdfush you had (Ha)!

Neostaford – your English is great, no worry! I’ve read your links and they have great info, thanks and congrats!

Que – your bike HIT explanation was exactly what the fastexercise app instructs. In addition I try to time how long at takes my heart rate to reduce by 20 beats after the highest heart rate on the high intensity burst. My goal is to reduce by 20 beats in one minute.