Yesterday was my first fast and must say I didn’t feel as hungry as I thought I would.

Vron, you have my sympathy as I’m the same age (am a male of the species) with the same rate of weight loss (I’ve been on 3:4 for 8 weeks). Throughout my life I’ve never lost more than kilo per month no matter what the dieting strategy adopted (including regular exercise), severe or moderate. But I accept that rate of weight loss now — it’s clearly down to my metabolism and ‘already-corrected’ healthy-ish diet; and yes, I suppose it’s slower than with other people but it is tangible progress when all is said and done. I need to lose a stone so it’ll take me 7–8 months at the least.
You mention your fasting days are ‘water-only’. Why not have salad instead? I’ve just had my lettuce/tomato/pickled onion special. Hardly any cals there. Mostly water!

Hi
My goal is to lose just over 6 stone – so a fair amount! using this 5:2 scheme I have lost just over 2 stone in 5 months and i am gaining confidence all the time!

I came back to this after 18 month absence – have lost 10.5kg although not all shown on the tracker (did not find the site until recently). I am setting my goals as small ones to start with. Currently weigh 73.2kg, my next goal is to get to 65. I am only 1.5metres tall! This is an amazing way to live – when young this was the way I lived I never used to eat on Fridays or Saturdays and I was fit and very light. It was not until I saw that program that I realised that it was a perfectly sensible way to live. Both my partner and I are on this regime, much easier if both are doing the same thing at mealtimes. I am 63 years old my partner is 74. We are very active in that we both work full-time still. 5:2 great for energy.

She dropped to 87kg, not lost 87kg* 🙂

Bayleafoz. I beat you by one year, I’m 69. What a fantastic weight loss, you must be so proud of yourself. I have 6 stone to lose (84 lbs) and I know it’s going to be a long hard slog as I don’t lose weight very easily and believe me, I have tried over the years. Having arthritis in my knees doesn’t help my cause any but I will persevere and hopefully I can catch up with you. Once again, well done.

The 5:2 worked wonderfully for me for over 18 months. Then I switched from smoking to vaping, since when my weight has gone up. I still do the 5:2 for the health benefits, but it is no longer effective as far as my weight is concerned.

On a side note – where does one find Dr Moseley’s email address?

Hey, just read your post, fasting every other day may be too much, everything i have read has said no more than 3 days.

NancyDrew, my husband and I feel the same way you do! We too started in January, but have only lost about one stone (or, about 12 pounds for my husband, and 15 pounds for me)…but, then, we didn’t have much more than that to lose. Thus, it’s taken me this entire year to lose that much, but I feel fabulous, and am officially no longer overweight (as of 7 pounds ago, actually). We’re still staying on 5:2, because I’d like to get a little lower…at some point, I’ll know when I’m done. At 57 years old, I don’t feel the NEED to be skinny, but if it happens, and I feel good, I will be happy with it. I started gaining weight in 2003 with our move to another state and a new life adventure, and ever since have had to “diet” in order to stop gaining weight–but I never actually lost weight! With 5:2, I finally can eat what is normal for me on five days a week, do what feels remarkably healthy and refreshing and cleansing on two days a week, and lose weight in the process. It’s a miracle, and I recommend it to everyone I know, but they all look at me like I’m even nuttier than they thought, LOL!

It says they dropped TO 87KG making it 16.7 KGs lost. Must admit I also had to read it twice. 🙂

I have just re-read your diet book and it has moved me to try again. I will use the tracker and see how I measure up against all the other successful users.
Today is day 1 so here goes.

Já estou com mais de 24 horas de jejum, sem fome, o que ajuda muito é ser lowcarb, a fome é inexistente.

I have been on th 5:2 for a month. I have lost 10 lbs. I am finding it much easier than expected. I actually look forward to fast days because that is when I see results. One weekend I ate like pre diet ( everything in sight) and gained 2 lbs back. Monday was my fast day and lost it right back.

Hi all I am starting today and have to lose 10 pounds! but more important I have in fact must improve must health! Just learned about the fast an keen to begin.

Eddie, she did not lose 87 kilos, she dropped to 87 kilos 😉

Hi, First of all thank you for doing this. It would help to have a place to enter my Fat % according to my scale. I’ve been on the program for 6 weeks. I have not lost any weight but my body fat % went from 28.1% down to 26.4%.

Thank you,
Denise

Hi Canadiankim, I have been on 5:2 now for a good 2 years and am at a constant weight. It is indeed extremely useful (imperative)to track what you eat! There are many apps out there, but I use FatSecret (on my iPhone but also for Android). The beauty of the app is that it gives you also recipes to follow or try out. It also has a food tracker and exercise tracker too. One thing I find extremely useful is the saved meal possibility especially for a Fasting day!(Also for your PC and one can Sync the two).
I am so pleased with this AWOL (not a diet but A Way Of Life), that it is really good to do and to monitor all your information on this site.
All my health signs; Blood Pressure are normal with a normal and healthy Glucose index too. (I measure these also every day and take the results to my Dr on visits; I’m then take seriously)!
Do keep going everyone as it is really excellent at maintaining and cherishing your own health! I’m now at 35 with 40 years of experience (75 ha, ha.!!) So that can’t be bad eh?!!

Hello everyone!

I’m putting the link of my image is the progress made in two years of effort in the battle of weight loss.

What is encouraging all to not lose heart.

I think that these photos before and after, are inspiring because it was the same picture to the one that encouraged me to invest in my health and in consequence lost weight.

I started pulling out all sugar and gluten-, over time also picked out the grains and traded vegetable oils for lard, butter and olive oil and coconut oil, but the important but nothing industrialized.

I’m 56 years old and do not need any more medicine, was hypertensive, had serious circulation problems and more a series of conditions, today only use two supplements: melatonin and magnesium.

Part of the weight lost with diet and then with fasting, joined this forum in April and were 7 kg in total are gone close to 25kg.

Still weight 104 kg, but I feel pretty! I am quite high, have a long way to go in losing weight, the forum has helped me a lot, you guys are wonderful people, difficult does not write in English, I have to use google translator.

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I finally decided to take it in hand and lose the weight I’d gradually built up over the twenty years since I gave up smoking. I should have had a scales in the bathroom all along, and a full-length mirror in the bedroom, but only got the scales a couple of years ago and still can’t face the idea of the mirror! I’m not exactly sure of my starting weight because I’d been reading the scales in stones and watching it go up to over 17 stone. I’m a 63-year-old female, 5’6″ and office-job sedentary. Size UK 20 had gotten uncomfortably tight, so I was buying size 22 – out of a catalogue of course.

The only time I ever lost a lot of weight was when I went on a calorie restricted diet at the age of 14, and I haven’t been a slave to yo-yo dieting since. Last year I lost over a stone by cutting out sweetness and savoury snacks over a couple of months, but it was going back on.

I decided to give in and go on an actual ‘diet’. I started 5:2 in early July at about 105kg, and I downloaded a calorie counter to my phone that set my ideal ‘dieting’ intake at 1700 per day. I enter EVERYTHING I eat, which is easy to do because I always have my phone handy. If I think I’ve eaten more that a ‘cup’ of something I enter it twice. I pretty much have whatever I want, as long as it doesn’t push me over 1700 calories a day. Very occasionally (twice since starting) I skip lunch and have a regular bag of chip shop chips and a quarter pounder with cheese. You can do that because you get to know the high calorie items to restrict. On Mondays and Thursdays I do my two fast days and limit intake to 500 calories.

I think we just have to stop being so fixated on food, and get into the habit of eating fewer calories. On fast days I put off eating anything at all until I’m really hungry, which doesn’t actually happen until lunchtime. I don’t eat anything after dinner anymore, and you just get used to it after a while.

5:2 plus generally restricting calorie intake is certainly working for me! In five weeks I’ve lost 6.5kg, surprising myself with a 1.5kg loss this week. I weigh-in weekly on the morning after a fast day. My size 20 clothes are ultra-comfortable, and I’ve bought a couple of size 18 outfits for holidays in October. Some of them fit me now, albeit snugly 🙂

I have every intention of keeping it up until I reach a comfortable size 16, and then I’ll switch to normal intake of about 2,000 calories a day with one 500 calorie fast day (6:1). I’m looking forward to buying my clothes in a shop along with everyone else!

-My goal was to lose 30 lbs and I did it in 12 weeks. I now maintain on a prn ( as needed) 1 day fast, which is working out to be weekly. i.e. 6:1 diet. I feel great. I like to hike and hills I used to have to rest 2 or 3 times going up I have no problem with now and do not get winded at all.

I’m beginning the 5-2 plan today. I will eat Mediterranean style without grain and 25 gms of protein per meal, 5 days a week and fast with bone broth, green tea, miso soup, lemon and water – 2 days per week. My goals are to improve my metabolism, prevent inflammatory disease, improve my BG levels and age better. My goal weight is 140 lbs and I aim to build cardio & muscle health by increasing core, weight bearing and cardio exercises. Friends and family suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and obesity are interested in my results.
Happy to be here!

dropped TO 87 kg. NOT dropped 87 KG.

I really need help ive been on a 600 calorie per day diet for a week and still not losing weight please help me

Hi this is my first time on the 5.2 diet what are the best foods to fill you up on fasting days

Hi everyone. I started 5:2 Dec 28/16 and in 8 days, lost 4 lbs. Very encouraged. I’m 67 and have always been a slow loser. I’m determined to stick with this and have a slim summer to look forward to. I’m using the tracker. I also use My fitness pal to get the calorie count. I also have Lean Cuisine for my lunch. They average 230 to 290 cals and taste good. I cut up veggies to munch for snacking. I also make a green salad and use seasoned rice vinegar for dressing. It’s not really suffering too much and I can wrap my head around only 2 days a week. I’m heading to Hawaii at the end of the month so may switch to 4:3 till then for faster results. I was a die hard Weightwatcher, but I felt like I was paying out a lot of money for long running weightloss. This you can enjoy food without worry for 5 days a week, not overdoing it though. I try to stay at about 1500 cals although allowed 2000 daily. There was that guy on one of Dr. Moseley’s docu that had been eating 1600 cals for 20 years but looked like he was in his 30’s but in his 50’s. It’s all about the calories for sure. Happy fasting everyone!!