Thanks kiwiflyer – I’m pretty keen 🙂

Hazy2 how did you go in the last two weeks? What did the doctor say ?

I haven’t been on here for ages, probably nearly 12 mths .

I did 5:2 for about six weeks before going overseas and lost a few kilos. I found it doable, but hubby was away. When he got back..it was too hard. He doesn’t want spag Bol or nuggets every night, like the kids were happy with when I was doing it!
My friends went to a clinic in Bulgaria , below is the website and this is a spiel from their fasting page on their website.

The great Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) said: “Be moderate in everything, breathe fresh air, clean your skin every day, do exercises… and better treat a small pain with fasting than with medicine.”
The milder fasting with fruit and herb teas ( fruit fasting ) is the main therapy in Dr Emilova Clinic. The fast includes 1-2 kilograms of fresh seasonal fruit and freshly squeezed juices, intermixed with herb teas with honey. This is all that is eaten in 15-20 days. This type of fast has the same effect as the full water fast but is much more universal and easy to do. The point of this temporary stop of various and complex food is to open the self healing and rejuvenation processes of the body. The program stimulates the function of all cleansing organs, which leads to powerful detoxification. The immune strength of the body is increased. and the nervous system is balanced.
http://en.emilova.eu. Is the website .

They did it for the 20 days then reintroduced a plant based diet mainly ( they have meat now maybe once every two weeks, and he keeps cattle!!?) for the next ten days. You do it for a month.

I did it for 15 days and lost 6 kilo. I know…nuts !!

I didn’t juice, just ate fresh, raw fruit 500 grams net weight, ( ie skin off )
Always felt full, don’t like herbal teas, so used fruit teas and honey. The honey is the important part as keeps blood sugars stable once the fruit sugars dip. Or use lemon and honey and hot water. The herb tea and lemon have enzymes to help digestion. I don’t know about the fruit teas, prob full of colour and flavour!! But I don’t like peppermint, it camenmile or how ever you spell it, but if you do…great, use them .

You don’t mix fruit, so 500 grams breakfast…banana, 500 grams oranges for lunch, 500 grams apples for dinner etc has anyone ever eaten 4 bananas at once, it’s hard!!

It is a detox. Not a diet. So it cleans your liver and so then you can lose weight.
No tea, coffee, alcohol etc, no food!! I found the first day you need to be near a loo and I was tired all day. After that it got much better.
You literally shrunk…

I’m thinking of starting a closed Facebook group or something for those wanting to try it. Is anyone keen?
I just did a ten day cruise around the pacific islands and put on 3 of the 6 kilo!? Who wouldn’t, but I am still less than I was when I hadn’t done the detox.

I didn’t slowly reintroduce food for the next ten days, so I suffered a bit! But if I had been at home I would have slowly introduced meat, and veg and stuff and maybe my sugar cravings wouldn’t have resurfaced as quick..but when you are on a cruise..hello!!
Anyway, I just did 4 days of it, just to re set my hormones And drop what I put on . ( you literally lose 1/2 kilo a day even though you eat 1.5 kilos of fruit ) And from now on will do two fruit fasts a week, esp after a heavy meal or a heavy day of binging, cos come on, who loves a good binge!??
Sometimes you just can’t stop.

But now I know there is a way to help my body recover, you kind of feel a whole packet of mint slice biscuits, is not really necessary anymore. I don’t know. …it’s weird!
So three biscuits are enough.
Maybe it’s knowing there is a way?

I don’t know, but now I can see my thighs cos my belly has dropped about 3 inches, it’s a nice feeling, I would still like to lose maybe ten more kilos. I am 5 ft 8 was 93 kilo now 87 would like to be in the seventies but who knows. A size 12 will be fine, I’m a size 14/16 ( was 16/18/20 at 94 kilo)
If anyone is keen , comment below. A kiwi group would be good. As we can share ideas, recipes for no sugar desserts , or using ground sunflower seeds instead of flour, cos we know what we are talking about .
I am determined to eat well now. To eat clean . Treats 5% eating clean will be 95% of the time I hope. But would be nice to have support.
I don’t count calories ..ever.

But try to cook from scratch and take out doesn’t happen much as we live 25 kms from a town.
I’m a SAHM with 5 kids, 2 are now in oz, as they are 25 and 19
Anyway, enough about me….what about you?

Hi, just introducing myself as this is my second week and I live in Dunedin. I have just over 30kgs that I want to lose, and lost 2.5kg in the first week, so going well!