I’d like to join in this challenge. I was going to start Sunday anyway. Tell me: am I silly to do two days back to back? With my schedule Sunday / Monday is a good combination. I notice most of you are doing two separate days.
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Hi newbies and welcome:
Here are some tips that might help: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/the-basics-for-newbies-your-questions-answered/
Good Luck!
I’ll join. Just started fasting a few weeks ago mainly for health benefits and a little fat loss. I’ve fasted till dinner 2-3 times a week. Lost about 3 cm on waist and 4 on hips but not really counting the loss unless it stays off for a month. Looking forward to seeing where I’ll be at the end of this challenge.
Coda, your challenge comes just at the right time. Totally fed up with my weight but more fed up with me doing nothing about it. I’m off on a family holiday on 20 May so 20 healthy days will be good followed by more until 14 June. I’m committed to reporting every day good, bad and ugly. Literally putting my pumps on now and going for a walk !
WOW! what a turnout Coda – well done for starting this new thread. Lots of new people in exactly the same place I was over a year ago.
Believe me if I can do it, anyone can. I don’t like exercise, I like food, I like cooking, I like looking good and hate being overweight, and I especially don’t like being sick and tired of being sick and tired!!! So you are all in the right place, and all seem raring to go. All I would urge you to do is stick at it – even if you feel like throwing in the towel, rest assured that even if the scales are not going down, something good is happening inside your body that you can’t see. All you have to do is eat 500 calories twice a week, and the rest of the time eat as healthily as you can.
A great tool is the app MYPITNESSPAL. Put in any food and it will give you a calorie readout. I found it helped to occasionally measure the food to get the correct calorie count. It’s so easy to eyeball a cup of something, only to discover it is actually 1.5 cups. So easy to load up without realising it. Also, be absolutely honest with yourself. If you had a cup of hot chocolate, or a cream cake, add it to your allowance. It may seem a drag to start with, but stick with it. I found filling in MFP at the start of the day with what I know I am eating breakfast/lunch/dinner, then I know what calories I have left to play with for maybe a piece of fruit, or a dish of nuts. (or a cream cake!!!)
Filling in your calendar is another great tool, as Coda suggests. It helps you to stick to the commitment.
Above all, DO NOT BEAT YOURSELF UP if you have a bad day. Just get back to it another day. Don’t forget, you are doing this for you, and no-one else. Don’t let other people try to sabotage your efforts. Family and friends may try to press that last piece of chocolate cake onto you, because that’s the way it’s always been. Just listen to the Little Voices sitting on your shoulder, and don’t take it. Just say, No thanks and walk away. They will soon see how determined you are.
Anyway, I have rattled on enough for now. I am literally brimming over with enthusiasm for you all, because I know that here are a great bunch of folks, who want to heal their lives, inside and out. Good luck to you all – here we go! TTL
I’m a 68 yr. old American woman – my birthday is Monday, May 2. I’ve been on 5:2 since the middle of March. Wow! What a diet! I’ve lost 9 lbs. so far and would love to lose 15 more. I will do my best to post every day! Years ago I had some success with South Beach, but never was really able to stick with it. This diet was suggest by an Aussie Words With Friends pal who had great success with it. My real name is Gwynne.
Getting ready for the challenge……just home from a long brisk walk of an hour and did shopping on the way back home. I find myself logging in often to read all the responses (just what I need right now!) and I’m getting ready for tomorrow. The calendar is printing as we speak :-)) got my food plan nearly ready for tomorrow and this evening I’ll take that picture……however much I know I’ll dread seeing it! But I know it’s going to be great when compared to the picture mid june. Right?! :-))
I always used a chart which I downloaded from MS Excel made easy.com It’s the weight_tracking_chartv2 Easy to use: fill in your current weight, goal weight, etc. When you enter your weight it will show you how much you have gained/lost and if you are on track with your goal weight and date. I like it – it works/worked for me.
At 163cm and 75kg (approx. 5’3″ and 160lbs) on april 30th I’m ready!
Thank you Coda and all of you for your support …. and good luck tomorrow. We CAN do this!!
Liz
Hello,please can I join this challenge too? I have been following this WOE for three weeks and have lost 9lb so far. I have found this forum to be a great source of support, but I have only lurked and read so far, this is my first post. I’m in this for the long haul as I have a lot to lose, so playing a more active part will hopefully keep me on track!
Feeling quite pleased with my eating today. Breakfast – Blueberry and blackberry compote with CoYo coconut yogurt, and tea. Lunch was a bowl of Mushroom soup – no bread. Dinner – baked cod with home made ratatouille. No potatoes, no rice etc. Followed by more compote and yogurt. Had a home made healthy chocolate and coconut slice mid afternoon, and a glass of white wine with dinner. Total cals according to MFP 950 approx.
May have a piece of fruit later, but feeling full just now.
I filled in the MFP profile which allows me 1200 calories per day (actually this is less than the fast diet allowance of 1378, but I have been sticking to this ) so I am well below my allowance. This is my way of eating now. My stomach has shrunk so I definitely don’t need so much food now. Took me a long time to cook much less than I used to. I can’t bare food waste, so used to eat far too much.
Hope you have all had a good day and ready to start seriously tomorrow.
Third time lucky, I too noticed the difference between the 5:2 calorie TDEE and MFP calorie allowance. But doesn’t 5:2 take fast days into account? MFP assumes you’re going to follow their more restrictive count every day (how depressing!!).
Took my measurements…ready for tomorrow. Can I tell you all my true goal is to go from a DD to D…at 5′ 1″.
Hi everyone!
I am 51 years old. I have tried the Fast 2 diet before and I think it’s brilliant. However I just can’t seem to manage the non diet days.I binge eat and what is worse, I allow myself a few beers too. Those empty calories are destroying all the relative good achieved.I know this diet can work if properly followed.
So this is my plan: I want to non binge eat on the off days and give up beer completely. The fact that it’s only until June 11th or 42 days makes it seem doable.
I’m in,if that’s alright,and if anyone wants to join me, I would be delighted and grateful for the support.
Good luck everyone
I have pencilled in Monday as my 1st fast day and more importantly, Tuesday as my first non diet day!!
Hi K-Lo:
The TDEE calculator at the top of the page does not take diet days into account. It gives a standard estimate based on the formula it uses. That is why you want to eat to your TDEE or less on non diet days – so you lose some weight because of the calorie restriction caused by your diet days!
I will start on the 2nd of May, do my fasting from Monday every day of the week, from Monday to Friday, only with a meal in the dining around 1000 calories, I adapted better as well as created a routine and think more easy direct stay than go back and forth, on Saturday and Sunday I’m free, always without carbohydrates, no sugar and no refined carbs, the weekend consumption a little sweet potato and derived from cassava, if I have any celebration open a free day window, in this last month I lost 3 kilos.
I am very optimistic that with my progress group will accelerate, make two years removed with great sacrifice of my food carbohydrates, could decrease the balance 20 kg, but still have a lot ahead.
Coda … I wish you would make a place for people to post pictures and get to know better, Facebook type, Skype or any other social network, it would be for those who wanted.
Sorry Google translate, I am Brazilian.
I love you all.
Hi! I’m a little late to the party, I’ve only just signed up on here but I’d love to join if the challenge is still open.
Got a lot of weight to lose, and anything that might help me feel better in a wetsuit for outdoor swimming has got to be a good thing right?
Planned fast days are Mondays and Thursdays, at least for the moment, with swimming and running thrown in through the week.
Profile update is in the works when it’s not 1am
Good luck all!
I’m in, too! New to this, but have done many other “plans” before like Whole30, Paleo, etc. but definitely realize that restricting whole food groups sets me up for wanting them even more and going overboard when I deem the plan over. I really want to find balance somehow and end the binge/deprivation cycle that I know all too well. Life is too short to be obsessed about food.
Looking forward to the support of everyone here! I plan on fasting Mondays and Thursdays. Good luck!!
(Anyone else worried they’re going to eat like it’s their “last day” tomorrow before Monday’s fast day??)
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