Cherry I love my wine too !! I’ve found that using my fitness pal calorie tracker has been a real eye opener for me and is helping keep me in check. I’ve lost 6.8 llbs in three weeks, so thrilled. Bigbooty is right about the carbs. I’ve drastically cut back , but wine is my vice. There’s no doubt about that bread holds a siren call over me, especially the day after a fast. I’m trying to have a little bit of really good quality bread occasionally. Learning to say no to bread cravings most of the time.

Cherry, when you start you will have something to do to manage fast days, so don’t think about feast days at all. This is not a diet, no low carb diet or anything. Eat your pizza, eat your chocolate, drink you wine. Quantity is more important here, if you want to have this caloric food. If you want to eat more, you need to cut somewhere from high caloric food. Your TDEE will tell you when to stop.

I never stopped to eat anything, I like sweet, so I eat. Not on fasting day though obviously, but I do fasting every other day. This is the best way for me, because basically I eat 300 to 500 Kcal for dinner on fasting day and it’s just lean meat with vegetable. During the day a lot of water. Point of this is, you have an option to eat whatever you want on non fast day. In the beginning you may binge, but don’t worry about it, later you will get used on fasting and you’ll see that you will enjoy it and stop to binge spontaneously. I personally think 5:2 is not enough, I’d add one more day, but it’s up to you. But don’t cut carbs, it’s road to hell. You will manage it for a while and then you fail. Follow calories in and out. Exercise during fasting days, it’s much more effective.

I’ve lost 13 kgs = 28 pounds since January and still eat my chocolate and pizza sometimes. I have plateaus sometimes, but still slowly kgs go down. I don’t like fat food, so this I don’t eat, but I really don’t limit myself too much during feast days. I am running too few times a week. And have to say I am not the person who loses very easily. Do what you need, but focus on fasting first whether you can manage. Don’t limit yourself in other days, later you will switch to healthier regime anyway, this is what fasting will learn you, you will have appetite just on that kind of food your really need, healthy body will recognize it, but it takes a time. Fasting learns you what real hunger is and prevents you from compulsive eating.