US Phoenix, AZ May 7, 2016 10:15pm End of Day 7–Great week! Both fast days went well and lost 2.6 pounds this week! I’ll take it, especially after a 3-1/2 week plateau. Must run. Heading out for Mother’s Day road trip early in the morning. Monday will be my next FD. Hope to catch up reading posts next week. You all spark great motivation for me. Keep on keepin’ on, everyone!

UK day 8. Start of a FD, also just weighed in. Pointless! Didn’t lose a thing! Feel slimmer, but haven’t lost any inches, either. Going to be interesting trying to stick to a FD with just 1 hour of sleep. All-nighter went well – found it easy to resist the biscuit tin, and only ate 2 apples. maybe there’ll be some benefit when I do my second FD later in the week?

Australia Day 8 Mothers Day here and my first without either of my children, one interstate and the other in London. Had phone calls and finally opened the present that arrived on Thursday. Feeling pretty good. Lost 1 kg so far. I haven’t checked in for a few days and have enjoyed the huge range of posts and the obviously different approaches people are taking. I’m with Troyca, as I want this to be sustainable and punishing myself is not going to help, as history has shown me. My goals are a long term shift in my eating habits and feeling healthier. Definitely feel less bloated and the FDs haven’t been as tough as I expected. If my more casual approach doesn’t achieve results I will reassess at day 43 🙂

UK Day 8, busy weekend of chores and shopping. Weighed myself this morning and very pleased with a loss of 0.6kg or 1.3 lb, and 3cm from my waist. This is my third NFD in a row and I’m looking forward to getting back to fasting tomorrow. Im feeling a bit bloated and sluggish. This is probably how I felt all the time before I started this WOE I just wasnt aware of it. Having a drink of kefir for breakfast, which I find really helps my digestion.Planning 3 FDs this week, Monday Wednesday and Friday. Gardening today, planting out sweet peas. Happy Sunday everyone.

Day 8. Wisconsin, USA. Happy Mother’s Day! For Mother’s Day weekend, I am watching my son’s compete at a state wrestling tournament. Yesterday, my eldest son dislocated his elbow. I had to run him to the emergency room. It took 5 doctors and nurses in one small room to determine how to put the elbow right. They told me that because our son is such a strong, young man, his body was fighting their efforts to put the elbow right (probably what they tell every mom :)).

Eventually, they sedated him, and did put the elbow back in place. Meanwhile, I became ill, which I didn’t see coming, causing a bit of distraction, which I regret. So to Meli, and all the other Moms out there, congratulations on being a mom. It is the best and worst job of our lives. Mostly, the best. And, all the hard parts do make us so much stronger.

As for my eating, yesterday was GREAT. I stayed within my TDEE, and I made a breakthrough. I realized that, for me, saving my calories for the afternoon and evening works. I can eat little or nothing during the day, but struggle to eat just a bit in the evenings. I would rather sit down to a generous helping at dinner, and go to bed full.

I will try this again today. Sorry for typos. In a hurry, as we are off to watch our other son finish the wrestling tournament.

USA (MN) Day 8 – checking in …NFD today. Stayed below TDEE yesterday (YAY!) will save most of my TDEE (or less) for Mothers Day dinner tonight (and a glass of wine!) off to my power/strength class and then to plan for tomorrow (and the rest of the week). Have a great day all – stay strong!

Day 8 California USA. Good morning and Happy Mother’s Day! I may have gone over myTDEE yesterday, didn’t count calories, but did some snacking. I have plans to see my mom for an early lunch and will try to eat very light if at all. Then back into town for early dinner with my son and husband. I just agreed to go into work at 3 am, so I will be a 12 hour shift on a fasting day. Also I will have to get to bed early which will shorten my eating time today. That may be a good thing. I need to get back on track. I am Feeling much better since starting the 5:2 diet. I gave stopped taking Prilosec for my GERD. A 10 lb wt loss has improved my symptoms significantly. PPI meds are not good for you on a long term basis.

Edzeko: I work in the ED. They were telling you the truth about your son. Fortunately there are great sedating drugs available. Hope he heals well.

Wishing everyone a successful day!!

Yes Coda, was meant to post day 7! Now day 8 from Scotland. Must be all that sunshine we are now getting here, not used to it!
Very busy day at work, back home exhausted. Had dinner of chicken and mushrooms in a cream sauce with brown rice pasta. First time trying this pasta and can’t tell the difference from wheat pasta.
Just 1/2 lb up from my weigh in on Friday, pleased with that. Fast day tomorrow, so hopefully can reduce a bit more.
Off for a long soak in the bath. Hope you ladies have all had a good Mother’s Day . Don’t worry, your fast days will recover things that went awry. TTL

Day 8, Québec

Nfd for me. Fd tomorrow. I will be back at my appartment so am optimist to succed like I did last week. I din’t get on the scale since friday morning … A bit worried !

Thank you Coda for your posts I really appreciate what you do for us. This international group is very suportive.

Happy mothers’ day to all the moms xxx

opps that’s day 8 UK coda!!

Aussie day nine woke up early as oth wants to go fishing early only 4.55 AM here and it’s raining and I want my time to sit and catch up with you lovely people going to miss this when it’s finished.Glad today is a FD after all the cake and choc i consumed for Mothers Day watched a show last night that talked about Aussies getting fatter with 3 different diets one was Dr Moseley’s Blood Sugar Diet interesting, threw away the rest of choc’s Ha Ha I do have a love affair with choc. It’s hard to stay off that roundabout Coda thats how we got like this in the first place I know i have to make a decision about being overweight and getting diabetes or sticking to this and becoming healthy I have to make this a life long commitment not just 42 days tried a year ago lost 10 kilos pre diabetes disappeared blood pressure dropped then i lost my mojo for it and put it back on and along came you and this challenge I so thank you as I am sure we all do for that.

Aus Day 9, NFD. Troyca, you’re right. Normally I would have dropped out by now because of the size, but I’m enjoying the enthusiasm and determination expressed in this thread. Quite motivating. Today’s plan is to eat sparingly and healthily and to remain active – no couch surfing! Yesterday, was a bit of a disaster. I ate way too much and enjoyed my half bottle of wine. Not too worried though because I’m already mentally back on track and will fast two days this week.

Day 8– Colorado USA

Troyca, this is a fast-moving active forum group for sure! But I enjoy feeding off the energy. Everyone’s enthusiasm is contagious!

Fishing Gran, that’s interesting about the program saying people are gaining weight on Dr. Mosely’s Blood Sugar Diet. It’s basically 800 calories/ day eating Mediterranean style food. Many people are having success with it… sadly, I did not!

I was making progress on 6:1 (combined with 16:8 and Low Carb) when I switched to BSD. It was a terrible struggle trying to hit just 800 calories every single day (especially difficult on the weekends for me.) Works well for others, but I decided to come back to 5:2.

Today was NFD for me. Still 830 calories under TDEE, so plenty left for dinner.
Thinking enough to spare for a glass of red wine too!

South Australia Day 9 Good morning to you all
We are having very strange weather today in SA, it is trying to rain. Lots of grey clouds and wind this morning and even a few drops of water now and again.
We had our Mother’s Day lunch yesterday and my daughter posted a series of photos of me on Facebook which was very sweet and also interesting because I could check the difference now I have lost 15 kilos on the 5:2.I couldn’t actually see much change but I have lost 4 inches off my waist so I know there has been a significant improvement.
Anyway I enjoyed our family lunch and ate and drank what I felt like and now today is a fast day.
I must admit there was a moment yesterday when I thought ‘I am getting tired of this’ but then I thought of the challenge and we have 5 weeks to go and I have a personal goal to lose of 1.5 kilos and that helped revitalize me.I do like a deadline to work towards.
All the best to everyone and have a successful 5:2 day

Australia Day 9 – I am so angry at myself. I ate like a pig all weekend. I knew I’d overdo it on Mother’s Day as the meals are all planned by the family and there would be champagne and cocktails etc, but I had sort of planned for that in storing up extra calories during the previous week. But I overate on Friday night and on Saturday so really blew it. The weekend are always really hard but I thought I had myself firmly entrenched in 5:2 and would stick to my TDEEs. But no … FD today to try and right some of the wrongs.

US Day 8 (end of). I also over indulged this past weekend but not by a terrible amount (I think). FD tomorrow and Thursday. If I slowed my progress down this week I think I will try an extra FD next week. I’ll weigh Tuesday after FD. I probably should weigh tomorrow, but I don’t think I want to know. 😉 Had a lovely Mother’s Day. I hope everyone else did, too. Good luck to all with the new week! Dawn

sorry Happymargo that was meant to read three people are trying out three different diets to lose weight one of them is on Dr Moseley’s blood sugar diet we await the outcome. thats what happens when I get up to early sorry for the confusion. I was thinking of giving it a go but i don’t think i could stick to 800 cals either.

Australia Day 9 – 33 days to go of challenge. Rainy and cold today and water fasting. A great combination for feeling very hungry, lol. We can do it!!

Fasts: 5 Non fasts: 4

NL day 9
Totally forgot to post yesterday! It seems I am developing the habit of nibbling on pretzels after dinner. If I stop doing that…..!! Today NFD

Thanks Coda. Don’t worry – I am definitely not giving up. Am doing a total fast day today and even drank water at lunch while everyone else tucked into stirfries. I’m just cross at myself but won’t let it derail me! This forum really helps too.

UK day 8 so my second week ,having a mini reflect on my first week of this challenge And on the whole pretty happy how it went so my aim this week to copy all the good things I did and try to eliminate the bad but taking on board all your comments and I’m aware it’s important to be be positive but realistic and forgiving. FD today so aiming to keep busy and save the bulk of my allowance for a nice meal this evening nice Thai beef salad I think

Must be working- underwear getting loose.

Question for my fellow 5:2’ers:

Last night, I finished far under my TDEE. Only ate 2/3 of what was on my dinner plate… which is amazing because I was raised as an official member of “the clean plate club!” If food was served & sitting in front of me, then it was totally eaten!

However now, I am finding that I seem to “fill up” faster & on smaller meals than before.
For instance, restaurant meals look gigantic to me now. My husband & I can each start with a leafy salad and then share/ split one entree dinner together. And surprisingly, that’s now enough. Never thought I’d see that day!

Does this happen to others too?