Ha ha great thread title!

Not there yet, but I hope to be a sexy 70 in a few years.

Keep going, I figure it night take me a year or more to lose this weight, but it doesn’t matter. I’m in no race, made this a lifestyle. I quit 5:2 also, but came back to do the updated 800 calorie fasts. Very doable. Let’s do this. I figure I’ll be doing 5:2 until I kick the bucket. There are worse things in life!

That’s great diverdog. I have about 45 more pounds to go to get the sexy old body back! I figure I lose slowly, and it might take a year. We’ll see. But like you, I feel fasting for the health benefits alone is worth it.

We can all do this!

LA, slow and steady is the way to go. It sounds like you are making nice progress and permanent positive lifestyle changes.

I know what it’s like to be way overweight. Although I was lean and fit as a teenager I weighed 235-240 from 25- 50. I lost down to 170 after a heart attack scare and kept most of it off for 16 years. After a cruise in January I was up to 192 and got back to my normal healthy routine.

I lost all of the fat without doing any cardio in the classic sense. I find it to be time consuming and not effective. I do 1 intense HIIT on a bike, 1 lower body, 1 upper body weight workout a week. My workouts are short but very, very tough! I’m also active walking the dog and dancing.

I’m looking forward to hearing about your progress

I turned 68 in March, so hope that’s close enough! I started the 5:2 plan on May 10th and have lost about 11 pounds so far. I hope to get down to 130 pounds and I’m at 144 now.

@lachubster, it’s great when your body starts adjusting to this way of life and you can get through most of the day without thinking about eating. I think with the regular fasting, or severely calorie restricted diet, you realize that you aren’t going to starve to death if you don’t eat for 1 or 2 days, and in fact you aren’t going to even feel particularly bad, so putting off eating isn’t something to be feared or avoided. I can pretty much put it out of my mind because I know I’ll be eating whatever I want the following day.

@cinque, @diverdog, @songbirdme and @pollypenny, great to hear that you’ve reached your goals and are in maintenance mode now. Any tips for those of us who are still working on weight loss? What do you do to maintain?

@five-two-gal, I agree that we shouldn’t be impatient. This isn’t a race. I think it’s important that we have a plan here that is doable even after we’ve reached our goal, a WOL (way of life).

Congrats LA Chubster. What a great day!
Hi Cali!

Re maintenance, I have found that it is pretty much the same as losing weight (without the fun of finding new clothes in smaller sizes). The bonus is that I can give myself a little wriggle room. 5:2 was pretty close to my highest priority when I was losing weight. Now I can let a day go now and again.
But basically I lost weight quickly when I started and then gradually lost weight more slowly, and now regular 5:2 maintains me at the lower end of my healthy weight range. I still love the ‘stop and reset’ a fast day gives me, and the pleasure of normal eating the next day. I think if I wasn’t doing it, my weight would go up and my general health would go down, so I am a 5:2 lifer.