Hi lisafromhome and Welcome to the fast diet forum

I am not in a position to answer your question but I would suggest you take care; I’ve only just fininshed posting to another person who is concerned about IF affecting her supplements/medication.

You said above; ‘after advice from my doctor…’ Did you discuss this very specific way of losing weight with them?

Hey lisafromhome

That seems to be okay then Lisa; if one of the doctors knows your full medical history and he suggested it.

I’m just trying to help here lisa; I don’t want to pour cold water over anything you are doing/considering doing; quite the opposite.
I just want you to be careful and I too, hope someone who can tell you about their direct experiences responds to you.

Hello, I am in the US and am going to try the 5-2 this week. I take lithium and have for 33 years. I have lost weight in the past but my thyroid was working better then. My last teh was 3.56 but has been as high as 4.9 in the past few years. Also Quit smoking and put on weight. I am curious to know how other posters are doing thanks

Me too, they all cause weight gain. I am starting with 6.1 and hope to build to 5.2 I find sugar really affects my moods. I did 8 weeks last year off all sugar, so no fruit, alcohol, refined carbs, No packet foods as they all have sugar as a preservative. Eggs, meat, fish, veg, nuts, coconut oil, basically. It was to try to get rid of rosacea and it cleared it but I also found my moods were super stable. As soon as I binged after, Oh heavens was I depressed. So I really monitor my sugar. I don’t have refined carbs in the house, just normal potato and sweet potato and limit my sugar to one hit a day if I have to have it. Its amazing when I have friends staying and we drink daily and eat cake how quickly I feel terrible and it takes a few days to reset again. But there is some thinking that suggests that sugar causes an inflammatory response in the body so any illness which has an element of that will improve if it is gone, so not only my rosacea but my depression was clearly improved. Its made me realise that 50 years of sugar addiction may not have been the best plan.

Just finished another fast day. Weight continues slow steady fall. At first I struggled with a kind of hangover the morning after that I thought might be related to meds since I take mine at night. Wanted to share strategies. Eating cucumbers as part of evening meal works–perhaps because cucumbers are water heavy? Anyway it really does work. When I was getting hangovers fresh citrus (not bottled juice) had a good effect. Best to all who benefit from meds but struggle with weight side effects.

i am so on your sides!!!

i have been on every drug known to mankind… it doesn’t matter why, but migraine drugs are often the off label of anti psychotics/ mood stabilizers /SSRIs. i gained 8 stone. i doubled my weight. so fast. eating the same. exercising the same.

i have a migraine so bad right now i been chucking up and crying with pain all day. this is day 5. they last about 10 days. when your life is taken away, you’ll try anything to get out of pain. people dont understand. but we do.

anyhow, i lost 5, and now have 3 stone to lose. i am doing the 5,2 with or without doctor’s blessing. it was his drugs that made me fat. notice they don’t offer anything to take that weight off again… and those meds are supposed to stop us feeling so ghastly! but they make us fat… adding to the problem! what getting fatter has done to me as a person… i don’t go out, i am too shy. they look at me like ‘what happened to her’ . people just assume i sit and stuff myself with chips.

i support you all xx