Hi Steve

I notice from you profile that you want to lose the weight before 50. Well I imagine that you can achieve this quite quickly. I read one post that lined food up ready for the next morning thinking they would wake up hungry and actually didn’t need to eat it and didn’t want it. It is funny the fancies you get on a fast day that completely go out of your mind the next day, when you can eat them.

I fast Monday and Wednesday this way if ever I fancy adding another day I can on Friday. I relax a bit over the weekend.

Milena and I both started in January and we often post late at night. You will find us a friendly bunch.

Ginette

Hi, just remembered, check your pulse. I presume it should reduce over the six weeks, due to the exercise.

Either count for a minute or for ten seconds and multiply by six. I checked mine online and Im above average, which is apparently good.

So at least if I keel over and die from this lark I will die quite healthy. Gives me hope.

Is it me or has everyone boundless energy – I used to be a dervish when I was younger, tonight I feel I could run a marathon – just a pity about the knees! But I stopped complaining about those weeks ago, and I can once again get up off the floor without crawling to the sofa.

Going now cos Im rambling. See you over at the beach diet thread in the morning.

Travel hopefully

Hi Jaye

The link

https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/fast-beach-diet/#post-86821

As far as I have unserstood that’s it.

It didn’t say no sweets, desserts, wine but it does say if you have to keep it to a minimum. Like I said to Milena a glass of wine at the end of the week will be fine. Much tighter and more exercise.

I am doing Boxing for the HIIT

Jaye

If you have an Apple phone or iPad you can get fast beach diet app. Not available in android though.

Ok night Jaye. It’s about time I went as well.

Woo! I’m so proud of myself! After listening to your very very useful tips on here, I was determine to do things properly. I made a vegetable soup this morning and weighed everything and did my calculations for number of portions.

Today, I have only eaten 3/4 of an apple (daughter stole a quarter-hey it’s less calories!) for lunch and a bowl of soup for an earlyish dinner which is a grand total of 300calories! I am gobsmacked how much easier it was this week. I genuinely wasn’t hungry at all today. It was effortless!

Plus this evening I had my Fitsteps class (great fun!) and the instructor REALLY cranked up the energy level this week. So take that fat!!! Be gone!!

Sorry, I know lots of you do this every week (and a huge well done for doing so for so long!) but today is the first time I’ve genuinely believed I can actually do this diet. I have a weekend away with my partner in 4 weeks (with a private hot tub!) so def want to lose at least 6lbs by then. Fingers crossed!

I’m looking forward to my bran flakes and raisins in the morning though

Welshy

Well done. A big achievement now reap the rewards. You will do it. Believe in yourself.

I can’t wait for the results. The first week a lot of us found difficult the second week is much easier. It changes your habits and as you can see becomes much easier.

Onwards and downwards……

Ginette

Beldyboop

I found that things taste really sweet as well. You will just have to go for a drier one.

Ginette

Hi Jaye

I decided not to weigh today as I want a nice surprise. Will weigh tomorrow as I am going to see health trainer. I like a an idea of home weight.

I really wanted to leave it until the end of the week.

It would be nice to be 16 stone still a long way for me to go to get to that.

You are about a stone lighter than me at the moment. I am hoping my extra is down to really heavy bones…..there’s a thought. I don’t know who I am kidding.

Have a nice meal.

Ginette

Hi all

Need help. Im taking out a friend who did me a good favour tomorrow night, and she has chosen to to go an Indian Restaurant.

Im a chicken pakora and lamb, usually korma or something creamy, with rice and the sweet nan.

No idea about healthy choices, except tikka without the masala.

Any good alternatives. At least no wind calories, off thst for weeks and driving anyway.

Hi all,

Was FD today, and much better 🙂 have tweaked it and had mainly protein, no porridge or bread, tough 🙁 but do-able and feel pretty good, all told..

Thanks for wine query tips, will probably try white now, and usually drink dry, a girl has to have some treats, now drinking 1/7 a massive change for me, which was a NY’s resolution and has stuck, luckily..

Welshy do you enjoy the Fitsteps? Is it similar to Zumba at all?

Am so happy to be part of this WOL, and this epic forum 🙂 thanks to all, I would have deffo failed at this point on a “normal” diet, am really chuffed

Good luck with next FD’s

Hi Jaye

Yes I was joking about the bones.

I have posted about the exercise on FBD thread. Only do what you can. Not worth a lot of pain. Start gently 10 seconds is fine at first. If it still hurts do the boxing.

Gooseylucy

The chicken tandoori sounds lovely. I am not a lover of Indian food but I quite fancy that. I do like onion Baha’is though, also Bombay potatoes.

Milena enjoy your meal.

Well done Beldyboop on sorting your fast day out. Much easier to stick with protein and vegetables. Salad doesn’t fill me up. I do like it though.

Ginette

Beldyboop: yeah I really enjoy fitsteps. I’ve never done Zumba so can’t really compare. For each song you do a certain style of dancing (samba, cha cha, waltz etc) don’t be fooled though-ballroom dances are hard work too, good for toning. I really try to do the moves properly in order to get the full effect. (The jive is a killer on the calves!) The warm up and cool down are dances too. I was dripping in sweat after half an hour on monday (it’s 45mins lesson) as it was so intense. I have a lovely group in my village and we have a giggle and enjoy some great tunes (uptown funk, happy, footloose etc)

I’m going to have a FD today. I know I’ll be ok today as I have everything planned but I was a bit naughty yesterday. I struggle with the NFD so far. I think I feel “free” and while I don’t go crazy I don’t count the calories. I should start doing that properly. The problem is I genuinely enjoy good tasting food and miss it on FD. So then I eat all the foods I enjoy eating on my NFDs (not necessarily all really bad foods but some are). Well I’ll get through today first then worry about the NFDS on Thursday.

Happy fasting everyone!

xXx

Beldyboop: sorry, didn’t realise you were an Zumba instructor-you obviously know about the effect of the dances! I personally love Fitsteps. I imagine I would enjoy zumba too-I suspect they are quite similar. But I personally love the ballroom dances so would prob miss those if I didn’t do it.

I have to confess that I was SO close to saying “blow it, I’ll have a fast day on Friday instead” this morning. My daughter was out of sorts, I was really tired and I really wanted my breakfast. But thankfully, after a shower (I can’t function till I have my shower!) I found my motivation and went for a walk. Also helped that I’d lost 1lb in just two days.

But it got me thinking: what keeps you girls motivated? I struggle sometimes to keep my drive and enthusiasm going-I just love the taste of food do much. One thing I’ve found is I’ve got some old pics of me from my uni days where I think I look great. And knowing that’s what I can look like really helps me. I keep them in my make up box do I can see them every morning. Ironically I used to feel really fat and overweight at uni but looking back now, I looked great! Hindsight is a wonderful thing!

So what tricks and tips do you have for the mornings you really want a croissant?

Welshylarue xXx

Hi All

thanks for the advice, but my meal got postponed at the last minute – hairdresser advised tandoori prawn, never realised that salivating wasn’t something just dogs did – I’ve been feeling hungry all afternoon, now I’m not going, just having good ole prawn salad and I don’t feell particularly hungry any more – and I only had muesli for lunch.

Looking forward to next Tuesday now!

Hi All

I am a bit late today as I gave had a busy day.

Hi Beldyboop

I always have at least a pint of water, today it was to plus today 4 big mugs of tea (about one a half times that of a normal mug). I haven’t suffered from headaches on fast days.

Hi Welshy

Glad your day improved. Well done for the weight loss. I think we get through it in different ways. The forum keeps us on track. I am trying to do a small household sorting out type job on days I don’t exercise. I am hoping that at the end of this journey I will have all my cupboards sorted and a cleaner home. I am thinking of jobs to do tomorrow maybe start tidying kitchen cupboards and shredding mail.

It’s not strenuous but time consuming. I have a friend coming in the afternoon so I have to get a job done by then. Plus lunch of course.

I love my food as well. I am still loving it although different foods now than before. After doing this for about 3 weeks my need of carbs changed. I still have some but only about 1/4 of what I had before. This was not something I decided, my body decided it for me….that is the strange thing about this WOL the must haves become less and change. Sometimes I think I must have a piece of fruit and I have a need to eat citrus fruit.

I still enjoy bread and I always had healthier bread. I don’t like white sliced although I can be tempted by a french stick occasionally, although not since I started in January.

Hi Priyac

Welcome back to 5:2 at least you know the ropes and you will soon settle in.

Well done Milena. Keep up the good work.

Ginette

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!!
Im doing a test drive fast today, just to ease me in and see how I get along with fasting and insanity!
I don’t actually go to insanity classes, I have the videos at home so work out when I get back from work in my flat (im on the 2nd floor, so I really feel sorry for the people below me!)
Insanity Max is extremely hard, but I have completed T25 and the original insanity already, and the improvements in my body have been immense strength wise! I couldn’t run for more than 5 minutes before, and last Saturday I ran 5K in my best time yet (26 minutes 51 seconds) without stopping!

Welshy – I keep motivated in a number of ways..I have a little sticky pad on my desk at work with the amount of lbs left I want to lose, and as it goes down I peel a sticky off, so I have a constant reminder of how much I have to lose. I also have a pinterest board with loads of pins of body’s that I would love to look like. Whilst I know I may never look like that, it gives me something to work towards. And finally these kind of forums keep me super motivated!!! Just talking to people who are going through the same things as me helps!

Im definitely what you call an exercise freak. When I used to do 5:2 before, I would do full 24 hour fasts, and before I went home to eat i’d go to the gym for an hour and half! I think for me now im so used to it, if I didn’t work out on a daily basis, i’d feel awful!

Ive gone down from 14st 12lbs to 10st 4lbs.. so just over 4 stone. Ideally I would like to go down to 9stone, or maybe just under.. but to be honest, my ultimate goal is just to get a flat stomach.. i still have one of them rolly pooches that refuses to budge! If I can get a flat stomach and I weigh more than my goal, I’ll be happy!!

What about everyone else on here?

Hi Priac

Still about 7 to lose. Looks such a lot I take it in half a stone targets. I have lost 2 stone 3 lb so far since I have been trying to lose weight.1 stone 3lb since the start of 5:2 on 10th January. I don’t weigh till the end of the week. At least I do weigh more often but will now will leave it to the end of the week as I am doing FBD. So I want the surprise.

My first long term target was to get within a normal weight range and this will still be overweight. I am in the morbidly obese category now and I hope to be in the next obese category down within a few weeks.

Bmi has gone from 47 to 41.8. 40 and under is in the next category.

Welsh you

Those pancakes sound lovely. I must see if I can find recipe. I must admit to not eating bananas. I love them but they make me gain weight, maybe I will just go and buy one to do this.

Off to see if I can find recipe……

Ginette

Hi Welshy

I start about you weight, 14st 5,dont do much exercise, a little walking just stepping up now and I got under 13 in about three months.

So it can be done. Doing FBD at the moment and have size 14 knickers, a 16 top, and a medium size cardi hanging up for motivation. Were some size 16 knickers there but Im now wearing them. The size 14 jeans I bought the other week are there too, wearing 18, OH threw out 20s, and moaning that I look like a bag lady in 18s, so moght be time to dig out 16.

Seeing yhem hanging there is great motivation wearing them is even more!!

well, I’m quite lucky cos I’ve never thrown out smaller clothes, my little voice said “The time will come ……..”

but altogether we are a much bigger voice! And it seems to work – perhaps cos it’s non-judgmental, generous and kind!

Im a few months in and it’s scary imagining I will make it, but more scary that I wont. Apple pie has got me on another full fast day – second this week, just by letting me know she does them – leading by example, and now we’re doing the frankly impossible – she also extols the benefits of red wine (though price rather than benefits!), so with help from the likes of our wee spanish rose, it can be done!

Appliepie, blushing uses loads of calories, just doing my bit to help!!!!!

Brave? Nah bloody minded more like.

Oh has made his standby dinner of bacon sarnie – followed tonight by a toasted teacake. I keep wavering with the smells!!!! Just 13 or 14 hours to go, and I’ll be asleep for most of it.

Though if I’m charged with murder and need a character witness..

Hi everybody,

Just did my 6th FD, so feeling pleased, but was officially “ratty” today :0 work in a school, and usually am Ok, but reached a hunger “low” around 6pm, and was pretty impatient, lol just all a bit too much, I was guzzling enough water all day, so put it down to one of those days, nearly over now!.

Started 5:2 on April 7, and have lost, but TBC as don’t trust the scales, until have done the measurements, 6-7 Ibs, started at 11, want to get to roughly 9. Also a bit of an exercise freak Priyac, aside from Zumba, run and yoga, and have recently started “planking”, (elbow and side elbow) hell on earth to begin with, could only hold for 1 min, now 2 mins, but want to scream and cry. It shouldn’t be painful in the lower back, only intense muscle burn in stomach, legs, shoulders, so I found best to start with a short burst, totally works on every muscle 🙂 now addicted, here’s a link, (impossibly achievable model figure, but do we care? good technique)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpbe9nRySc

Main goal is to feel great in clothes, over the summer I tend to “hide” in clothes, but would like to wear stuff that shows shoulders, and leggings. Love the idea of pinterest page..I also have some “thinspiration” pics on my cupboard walls. Will have 4 NFD’s in a row now, FD Tue/Thurs so I hope I can keep strong. Have an afternoon tea with Champagne, at the end of May (see Groupon offer) as an incentive 🙂

Are the FBD instructions on the forum? congrats to those who are following it!

xxx