That’s so great perthblue! I do think eating a light and healthy way is important. I lost weight by learning how to cook at home instead of eating out. Fasting is great tool, but doing it a couple times a week may slow down your metabolism. I think making light and prepped meals when you’re hungry would be great. I recently started using the mobile app, SideChef to inspire with new healthy recipes and teaches me how to prepare them. It definitely helped me lose weight by just eating small light portions. What do you think?

17 days and I lost 3.2 kgs

Hi perthblue,

Yes, this is the first time. Infact on non-fast days also, I’m maintaining a calorie deficit (because of my religious fasting which is for 19 days). In the past 13 years, I’ve never seen myself weighing in 70’s, but now, its awesome to see my weight 79.2kgs. I was initially weighing 97kgs.

Hi everyone,
Its great to hear such a positive bunch of 5-2ers. I only have to lose around 8 kg – I want to drop from 65 back down to my ideal 58 and couldn’t shift the weight which I was blaming on aging/menopause. But no, it was bad food habits and since reading the Fast Diet book, I lost 3kg first week, and am enjoying feeling hungry on the fast days. As a bonus, I don’t feel the need to eat huge amounts on the non fast days, but I know that I can eat whatever I want and it will still be good for my health, if not the scales. Remember, that on the weeks when you don’t lose weight, you are still doing good for your blood pressure, glucose tolerance, cholesterol etc. I am feeling great after 2 weeks and when I feel hungry on a fast day, I think to myself, oh good, my body is probably repairing itself. Win/win situation.

Hi Nancydrew your weight loss achievement is fab – am in the second week of the 5-2 and am pleased with my weight loss – it is one of the few times of taking part in a new eating plan that I can actually feel and see the results so quickly – I have loads of weight to lose so guess that losing 17lbs is how it starts but am very enthused by the numbers going downwards on the scales – will attempt to keep all motivation levels at full pelt! Will not reward myself with too much ‘nice’ food on the non fd days and also keep the lid on the wine bottle!!

Well done you lot! Keep it up.!!

I’m 11 weeks on and 14 pounds / 2 inches lost. 2 gluttonous business trips and Easter break meant I actually gained a bit of weight in the middle, but the overall downward trend is most satisfying. At this rate I’ll hit my June target of 10 stone nearly a month early; I’m wondering how far I should then pursue it? If I lost another 7 pounds I’d be at a weight I’d not seen since I was a teenager, and I’m 57 now!

Like many I choose to save my fast day calories till the evening so I can eat something normal with my wife. Couple of poached eggs or baked beans on toast with a mug of tea sees me through to breakfast the following day. (I’ve completely ignored all the meal suggestions in the book; trying to eke out 600 calories into 2 meals and a snack seems to result in some odd and often tiny suggestions)

The most remarkable result has been that my blood test came back showing normal levels of cholesterol and triglycerides for the first time ever, and the doc’s no longer nagging me about statins / fibrates.

nancydrew,youve done fab …

Congrats everyone, would try anything to keep focused. Lost 9 kg since January, Its slow coming off me but at least its happening now when it really wasn’t before this diet. Have had the odd binge in there which hasn’t helped but cutting them out almost completely now. Alcohol has been a killer in slowing my progress..looking forward to being in my best nick since my teens come July.

Hi all – first week and 1.5 kg lost!

I am 2 weeks in and have lost 3.9 kg and 3 cm off my waist.
I have never been on a diet in my life but now I really need to lose a third of my body weight to get back to the healthy weight I was 20 years ago – before having children – the past two weeks have been really easy for me to do and I am really enthused by the results and feeling so much better about myself and my future.
My goal at the moment is to stick to it for the next twelve months to allow for the formation of new habits and then see how I’m going.I have no doubt I will continue and this will become my lifestyle not just a diet.

Started in Jan, now lost 19.8 kg!

perthblue your story is awesome! such a positive read 🙂
I have just started this week and today is my 2nd fasting day, wow it is so much easier that the first!
I am getting married in 5 months so I am hoping this will let me lose the last 5-10kgs I need to be in the best shape. I have been working out for a while but every week there would be NO loss. Just goes to show that it’s all about what you eat and not about the hours at the gym.
After not even 1 week I have lost 1.5kgs which is quite a bit for me – 2% of my body weight. I can see this as a lifestyle change and am excited to start this journey, am 25 yrs old so want to be in the best shape ever 🙂

Thanks everyone for their inspiration!

Perthblue what an amazing weight loss, I really needed to read this thread as it has inspired me no end.
Well done and keep it up.

Congrats to all of you. An inspiration. I am just on day 2. Had one fast day and one eat day. I was almost afraid to eat today but have to get out of that mindset and trust all your stories and my body and the process.

Thank you for all your posts and providing an inspirational road map for the rest of us.

JenB. So sorry to hear about everything you have gone through. It’s not surprising that you have struggled with weight. Appreciate your honesty in sharing your story and struggle. Glad you are here and hope people’s stories help support and inspire you. All the best. You can do this and are amongst many who are doing it and succeeding.

I started the two day fasting diet after seeing the Horizon programme. I am very skeptical of diets but the evidence seemed compelling. Since starting it 9 weeks ago I have lost 7kg in 9 weeks and my weight has now stabilised. My BMI is now 23, about right for my build. I hill walk and at 64 was finding the steep slopes a struggle but my fitness and stamina have improved enormously and now find little problem getting up a mountain. I should say that I have combined the diet with a fitness programme of my own design.

Another unexpected benefit of the diet is that it appears to have cured my IBS problem. I had IBS for 15 years and it was so bad that I gave up my job as an engineering consultant as travelling was becoming a problem. It seems that giving the digestive system a couple of days off was all that was required. I would provide photos of my newly acquired 6 pack if this site would accept them.

Perthblue you’re so inspiring to me.
Just finished my first week.
Really curious to know how you are a year later.