Fat Busting Brits!!

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  • Morning. Just weighed in and I’ve lost 2lbs this week. Really pleased as I had a bad day on Wednesday. 2 more pounds and I’ll have reached my first stone and it should be just in time for a hen do next week. My stir fry last night didn’t happen in the end, as my partner got home to say he’d been nibbling all day and so wasn’t hungry. The result was beans on toast for me! Not great but u see 500cal and I wasn’t going to cook much else for one at 8pm. Never mind, we’ll have the stir fry tonight instead.

    Ginette: the article wasn’t about tricking people that chocolate makes you lose weight, it was making a point about how poorly “scientific” fact is published and reported. If you look hard enough you can find a link between any data you want, even if they are completely independent of each other. People are reporting health benefits/dangers of every food out there. Meanwhile, ordinary people are reading, believing it and getting confused over it all. It just shows how misleading the media is. We’ve all seen dieting stories that are “too good to be true” and they are, but this article shows how the stories get created and published. The media don’t check any facts, they just copy and paste the headlines. I just showed it to you guys to show that these stories are rubbish, but I know none of you would be stupid enough to believe them in the first place! I was personally shocked how easily they could get something published without any peer review (I did a science degree so did a lot of work from papers and it makes me wonder how reliable they all were!).

    Hope everyone has a good day

    Welshy xXx

    Ginette: an interesting article about sugar in snacks. It shows that they just tell us what we want to hear a lot of the time and not the truth. It should not be this hard to find out what we’re eating!!

    I’ve never liked those types of snacks to be honest. Anything advertised at children is never going to be healthy. Ordinary fruit does the job and more. My daughter does have raisins sometimes as a snack but she also has oranges, apples, bananas and, the current favourite, strawberries. We’re currently growing some strawberries in the garden but I fear she’ll eat then as soon as they grow and ripen and I won’t get any!!

    xXx

    Hi Audrey

    Yes well done, have a nice time away and I hope the weather is good.

    Ginette

    Hi Welshy

    I knew you posted but couldn’t find it, that was because it went over the page. Well done 2lb a brilliant loss. You see as I said we sometimes take bad days in our stride, it is only when we link lots of bad days together that there is a problem.

    Ok I must read more carefully. I agree with the sugar, it is difficult to avoid it is even in bacon….now there is a new one on me, it won’t stop my bacon sandwich tomorrow though!!

    Ginette

    Hi ginette,

    I am not going to post onto thread when I am away but may have a quick catch up when shopping with their free Wi fi!

    Just waiting for a man to deliver a wheelchair for mum then off about lunch time for much needed break at the van before going to mums. Her legs are getting much worse, she can hardly walk any distance at all now.

    Will be in touch again soon, keep up the good work enjoy yourself when FBD ends but not too much.

    Audrey

    A science degree I’m impressed. I would have loved to have had science at school. I have always been interested in it. I went to a private school but they didn’t do science, what a letdown 🙁

    Ginette

    I hope you OH likes to spend a bit of time in the shops then 🙂

    Welshy, what a good mother you are, your daughter is a very lucky girl.

    Hi Welshy

    well done!!!! The first stone is such a boost.

    Welshy,

    Hope you get your first stone before I come back. Fingers crossed for you.

    Signing off now till week on Sunday

    Good luck everyone

    Audrey

    Hi everyone!

    Fasting today, have not enjoyed it very much, next week will stick to my regular Tue/Thurs slots, as by Friday have little energy left. Got caught in a torrential rainstorm on way home, only had flimsy umbrella, and woke up with a very stiff neck and shoulders this morning, so am sitting at home with a hot water bottle on said neck, marking, oh joy!
    Tomorrow I’m off for a champagne tea, am sure I’ve bored you with this detail so many times 😉 (courtesy of Groupon) should be fun. Proper weigh in on Mon..

    Hope everyone has a good weekend.
    audrey have a nice time
    Welshy go girl! that’s an impressive loss, a stone would be fab
    Ginette enjoy sandwich tomorrow

    Hi Applepie and Milena

    Hi Beldyboop

    I had to change fast days this week because of bank holiday. So it was Tuesday, Weds and Thurs. next week I shall probably stick to three as I think I may go overboard on treats……May not as well, time will tell. The following week I shall be back to two days. Monday and Wednesday. I shall just go back to meandering and not galloping like the last 6 weeks.

    This is interesting. It shows three women who are not really overweight although one of them her BMI was out of the healthy range. They see what toning up in the gym can do. Pictures are impressive. They should have chosen some of us…..maybe even more impressive.

    Can you really get a perfect bikini body in just EIGHT weeks? Three normal women hit the gym to find out… and here’s how they got on
    http://dailym.ai/1FHkjH9

    Ginette

    Hi Ginette

    Three days next week? Thought we were having a rest?

    Bessie is now coming Sunday instead of Monday, I’ll told her no booze and no ice cream! Last fast day of the FBD!

    Which means I’ll be Johnny no mates on Monday, but hey, I can eat two magnums.

    Back to the grind Tuesday!!

    Doing well today, had mackrel for lunch, in a packet, it was truly dreadful, though have only had craster skippers before. So I’ll hit 800 cals with ease, must remember to buy horrible food more often.

    Hi Milena

    I am really just not trying to go to crazy…this way I can go a bit crazy….maybe crazier, but I won’t do too much damage. I really don’t want to put on, it is just a sensible measure for me. The following week I am dropping back to 5:2 as I used to. My old way way would be 2 x 5:2 and then a lowish day. The rest of the time was normal with treats if I fancied them.

    I’m so sorry you haven’t got her to have a drink with. I’m sure you will have one anyway. Aren’t you worried about going too mad?

    Be assured that the other days I shall have treats whenever I want them apart from these days….I won’t let the side down.

    Ginette

    For anyone interested, good for people new to the diet or not.

    A 5:2 book with a quick run through if the diet. Really so much more than a recipe book. All links can be accessed from the first page. It is completely free and all online.

    http://75.127.114.162/~degustin/52diet/The_5_2_Diet_Recipe_Book.pdf

    Ginette

    Evening girls

    Lock myself away in the bedroom away from temptations got the urge to feast
    Best place for me.

    Thanks Ginette for the link.

    Lynda

    Hi Lynda

    You are welcome. You will soon overcome these urges. Have you read the thread I started about my 10 week weight loss. There is also information about how I coped and the urges I had or got over.

    Click on my name and you will find the link to the thread there. If you have trouble just shout and I’ll post it here.

    Read the book it will help at this stage, also I used sugar free jelly to satisfy the sugar craving. I had this with half a pot of muller light. Even on fast days.

    Ginette

    Ginette: you didn’t study science? You talk about dieting in a very scientific way so well done on teaching yourself so much! I went on to teach science at secondary school before leaving to look after my daughter. Loved it and am still just as fascinated by it today as I was when I was a kid.
    I was impressed how much those three girls toned up in the article, you really could see the difference. It was good to show a naturally skinny girl as it explained the difference between weight and health but it would have been good to see someone a bit bigger too.
    You girls have done so well with the FBD. And the end is in sight!! You must tell us how much you’ve lost just on the FBD alone.

    I’m not quite there to my first stone yet. It will take me another week. But really looking forward to it. I’m already planning to hit the 2 stone mark for my birthday at the end of July.
    We always tend to have a bit of a Friday night treat when it comes to food and I’m afraid it was no different yesterday-curry! As I’ve mentioned before, smaller portion sizes is becoming the norm for me and normally I was stuffed after a curry but last night I had 1/3 to a 1/2 the amount of rice I had before and I felt satisfied but not stuffed. (I could still easily eat popadoms all day though!) i also had breakfast yesterday and consequently was hungrier during the day and picked a little bit (on baby plum tomatoes lol). No drink for me this weekend and I’m starting to enjoy it. Saving wine for meals out and not automatically having 2glasses on a Friday/Saturday night at home.

    Hope you all have a lovely weekend. After a busy few weeks we’re looking forward to a quiet family weekend and we’re taking the dog for a nice walk to a nearby forest today.

    Happy dieting

    xXx

    Hi Welsy

    Just always been interested in things and researched a lot of those things. I know about some very strange things….. 🙂

    When I get back to work I do fancy a bit of a change and I would love to study nutrition. I have always been a little interested in it but 5:2 has catapulted this. I am also on the reversing diabetes thread – not because I have it, I have been tested for it a number of times and was a prime candidate. I really must say though that the way exercise and 5:2 works really fascinate me. Also diabetes does. My saving grace maybe is never liking fizzy drinks and only a little alcohol about 1 glass of wine or cider a year…….I did say only a little.

    Well Welshy I think you will gather momentum and start to find this much easier, with less of the cravings.

    I’m glad you are still enjoying a curry. I am the same, breakfast triggers hunger in me. I don’t have it any day now. I usually eat at the latest 9 pm and then about 2.30 – 3pm and so have a short repair mode period on a regular basis. Repair mode to our bodies start after 12 hours. This is from one of the fast diet books. So it lets out cells do some housekeeping. So I have about 5 hours of this going on and boy……must I have tidy insides!!

    Have a lovely weekend a walk with the dog sounds lovely!

    Here is my sum up of Fast Beach Diet.

    Well had my final weight in again and I have lost 3lbs for the final week.

    So that is a good loss for the final week on FBD.

    So just fast beach diet

    Week 1 – 3lbs
    Week 2 – 5lbs
    Week 3 – 1lb
    Week 4 – 2lbs
    Week 5 – 2lbs
    Week 6 – 3lbs

    Total on FBD 16 lb or 1 stone 2lb. A great result.

    I only found out yesterday that Milena was telling little porkies and that some treats were allowed. Ok course I did have these in the form of a small ice cream, three weeks in a row as I went out and 1 midget gem, I felt very guilty about these but still ate them. 🙂 So I have to thank Milena for this. She was really good throughout giving up wine and treats!! So good on her, she has done brilliantly not to have anything.

    I was a little worried about the 5lb week….too much in a week!

    Anyhow I have today and tomorrow to go and next week I can relax.

    Ginette

    Hi Ginette
    All I can say is a big fat WOW! Your doing ever so well.
    Had a read up on your profile very interesting might write up mine when I’m in the mood.

    Pick up my Maltesers from co-op but put them out of sight only to find other things I’ve stashed out of sight lol

    I miss my fruit when on FD so make up when I’m not so a fruit day for me.

    Lynda

    Thanks Lynda

    Yes this is a way to find out more about people. Applepie has her email address on there or you can join us of Facebook under Fast Friends.

    Oh yes I can get my chocolate out from the cupboard if I want to. I will at some point.

    I have cantaloupe melon on a fast day really low in calories so a lot for few calories. Strawberries are low as well ideal with half a pot of yogurt.

    Have a good weekend.

    Ginette

    One for all of you who like pasta:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11167883/Cool-and-reheat-pasta-to-make-it-less-fattening.html

    I had bare names noodles today as a pasta, it really wasn’t the same. I then remembered afterwards that I could have done this.

    How annoying. Something to remember for next time. It also mentions rises in blood sugars.

    Ginette

    Good morning everyone just checking in to report that almost lost all of the weight I put back on – 2lbs to go! Have done two back to back fast days and they have motivated me both mentally and physically and am feeling determined (fingers crossed!) Met a lady at my son’s football game on Friday and she said that she had lost weight with 5-2 and had kept weight off for past year by keeping to 5-2 way of eating – she had not visited website or heard of forums here so I told her to take a look as the people on here are both informative and inspiring. Bye bye for now ..

    Dear all,

    I turn my back, and there’s tremendous loss.
    Ginette, that’s amazing! well done you, pleased? worth it?
    Fizzy, that’s awesome, I think it gets easier..:)

    I have been struggling with this WOL of life, but am determined. Not sure if my sugar cravings are thyroid related or peri-menopause, but…at least I’m not going OTT and stuffing myself, so there’s a subtle change. Yesterday at the afternoon tea, was careful, and didn’t fancy the cakes, just the scone! nice! yes a few glasses of bubbles were comsumed..but it’s not so high calorie for a treat 65 cals a glass. I am seeing a Dr about thyroid to see if they will re-test, the only do it on a yearly basis, but I’m going to insist, just want to rule it out..

    This week I’m trying a longer fasting window (for me) and seeing if it has an impact, will keep you posted 🙂

    Bye for now
    BB

    Morning all

    Well that’s my pasta cooked ready for tomorrow FD. Thanks again Ginette for the link
    Very interesting read.

    Used to have a banana for breakfast apple for lunch and scrambled egg on toast for tea on a FD now with all these recipes I found going to have more variety with my food.

    Lynda

    Hi All

    It seems the same principle as above for rice.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32019176

    Hi Fizzy

    How annoying. Let’s hope you have a better week this week. Yes this forum is a lot of help.

    I was looking at a thread on IBS last night and read that it had been really good for that as well. Some people who had suffered before for years had been able to reduce or come off of meds. This was a thread on the forum.

    Hi Beldyboop

    Yes really pleased knowing that weight loss always shows up two days after fast day for me I decided to look at the scales today. I had lost another 1lb. But the recorded weight will stay, that will give me a little bonus towards next week.

    I started FBD as I had been enjoying myself too much over the Easter period. Far too much chocolate etc. So I decided to nip it in the bud and went onto this. Primarily to support Milen, but knowing that it would also help me break my growing re addiction to these foods and put them in their place. The first week was difficult but I coped with the other weeks although I had a small ice cream as I was eating out on three of them.

    You will see in coming weeks how it works.

    Struggled more with fast days if I attempted to eat early. I was never a breakfast person, but having it drummed into me that breakfast was good for me I forced myself to eat it. Now I know that it doesn’t matter if you don’t eat breakfast, but you do have a longer fasting window if you don’t. So I have a mini fast on most days. Anything past 12 hours is really beneficial.

    So for example if I ate or drank last drink at 9 then ate or drank at 1 pm the next day this would give me a 16hr fast. Michael Mosely’s research shows after 12 hours fast the cells regenerate. You can drink water between these times.

    So my cells must be improving after the years of abuse I gave them they truly deserve this. I think it also helped me with cravings. I can tell you that in my case, eating breakfast and I often just ate a token piece of toast triggered my eating. Even if I ate porridge it was the same.

    I’m glad that you enjoyed your day out. I’m hope the longer fasting window might help – it did for me.

    As long as it breaks the addiction that is good.

    First week maybe hard but second probably easier. I know someone who has just started 5:2 and has brunch now, she has found that it is easy. I can’t wait to hear her first week loss.

    Good luck for next week.

    Ginette

    Hi Lynda

    Our posts crossed.

    Yes that is good research. As it shows that it will make you less hungry as it is now resistant starch, it will also help you get rid of food in transit. I couldn’t find calorie difference but I would advise cutting down on portion sizes. This way you are hedging your bets. One good way is adding some vegetables in with it to bulk it out. Farm foods do some really tiny vegetables so these would be ideal or the Mediterranean type works as well.

    I love pasta and haven’t had any since I started as I love it too much and really don’t know if I could resist it. I always used to have a second helping.

    The other good news about this is that you have a home made ready meal that you know exactly what is in it. Make sure you thoroughly was the starch off as if not it will stick together.

    My fast day at the moment is melon or strawberries with half a diet yoghurt as late as possible on a fast day, maybe 3.30 onwards. Then one of my favourites is spicy chicken from Farm foods and vegetables or fish in butter sauce over vegetables, the fish is small but low in calories about 108 all supermarkets do this and I love the sauce over the vegetables – delicious. This also allows me to have something else maybe a piece of fruit or yogurt. I also have 250gm of skimmed milk in tea.

    I avoid carbs as they seem to be a waste of calories on this day. I have found that by not eating carbs every day I have broken my addiction to them.

    So for me it is a winning combination.

    Good luck with next week. Keep posting so we know how you are doing.

    Ginette

    Hi Lynda and All

    These are recipes under 300 calories.

    Worth a look.

    http://www.womanmagazine.co.uk/food/slimmer-dinners-meals-under-300-calories/

    Ginette

    Hi Ladies 😀

    Ginette: I agree with you – the science of health/nutrition etc is fascinating. For example that article about pasta changing its properties once its cooked and cooled. Why does it do that? its amazing stuff. I studied environmental science (which was a nice mixture of bio/chem/phys) and so I never did much human biology so still pretty clueless about most of it beyond GCSE level.

    I personally find the diabetes stuff interesting too. I think Ive mentioned before that my partners dad and two aunts are all diabetic and so my partner has almost resigned to the fact he’ll develop it one day. His dad takes medication daily for it and occasionally alters his diet for it (eg. he doesn’t drink orange juice due to high sugar content) but he still very much enjoys his cakes!

    16lbs is amazing!!! so so well done! You should be really proud of yourself. I think you can feel happy in enjoying the odd sweet treat now (in moderation of course lol) How did you do Milena?

    Fizzy: isn’t it funny how fasting gives you a feeling of such power over food/your eating that you get a real kick out of it? I always find that after Monday’s fast I’m on such a high after it that it will keep me on track for the rest of the week. I struggle a little on weekends due to the long gap since my last fast. I find just one or two temptations will be enjoyed when I know I could say no to them.

    Beldy: It is hard sometimes isn’t it? particularly when you’ve got events/social things on. Its a good idea to go back to the doctor as the more info/help you get the better it should be for you. It sounds strange but for me I don’t eat anything during the day when I’m fasting. I started off having an apple for lunch but then I realised I didn’t actually need that but was eating because I felt like I should because it was lunchtime and I was eating out of habit. I usually get hungry at breakfast time but I know that once I get through that I’m good for the rest of the day (thanks to all the drinks) I think its a good idea to stretch the fasting window as far as you can. I eat dinner in the evening (sometimes not till 8pm) but I’m not even hungry sometimes! You mentioned training for fitsteps? I personally love it, I imagine a lot of the latin stuff you’re comfortable with teaching already but I like the ballroom stuff just to give it a change and I can really feel them working swell. I always try to do the steps properly in order to get the full impact (some women just seem to walk through the steps with little effort put it – why do they bother going then!?) I’ve never been a big exercise fan so I’m enjoying that buzz you get from exercising. I might be a really good girl and do some rowing in the morning too.

    I’ve been ok this weekend. Not too naughty, not too good either. It didn’t help that after a work event on friday, my partner came home with a goody bag of left over food (beer/lots of cheeses/little jam pots/4 giant scones and more) so both lunchtimes, I can a scone with clotted cream and jam. its was bad but so so good! So I haven’t eat large quantities of food, but I could have chosen better. Looking forward to fasting tomorrow and fitsteps in the evening. I’m chasing those next 2lbs!

    I hope you’ve all had lovely weekends and have successful fasts next week

    Welshy xXx

    Hi Welshy

    Yes I am really pleased. I shall weigh tomorrow again as that is the official end…..I should say later today!

    Yes it’s over.

    That is fascinating I agree and another tool to add to our growing arsenal of useful facts.

    Yes I have friends and family, they don’t want to change at the moment, maybe later though.

    Planning a meal out this week WITH dessert…..I can’t wait.

    Have a good week. Fast day for me tomorrow.

    Ginette

    Just weighed in this morning and turns out I lost another pound over the weekend so lost a total of 3lbs last week (I’ve never lost more than 2 before) so only one more to go for that first stone by Friday. Woop woop! I think having no wine over the weekend really helped (even if I did have scones!)

    Enjoy that dessert this week Ginette-well earned!

    Fasting today 🙂

    xXx

    Hi welshy

    Well done to you on your dry weekend and getting nearer your stone.

    I’m on a fasting day too, going to give not eating till later will see how I get on plenty of water.

    Lynda x

    Ginette enjoy your meal out you deserve it with all the typing you do and the helpful advice you give.

    Hi everyone!

    Hope you all had good weekends! I’m fasting tomorrow, but the scales have not been kind! it’s my own fault, this WOL works, as long as you stick to it, and between stress at work, and social events, I’ve blown it at times. So looking forward to get on track. My main goal is mid August, when I go on holiday! have counted the FD’s and am marking them off, old school, but works for me.

    Thanks Welshy and Ginette, I’m going to try the longer fasting window, to see if I can go for longer, I think that will help my NFD’s 😉
    Luckily full on Zumba this week as no Bank holidays, so that will keep me on track, and also training for marathon. Welshy wine is an absolute trigger for me, and nearly always means inhaling a bag of Wotsits or the like.

    Lynda hope it’s going well
    Fizzy are you ok?
    Ginette enjoy any treats today to the max!

    bb

    Hi Welshy

    Another 1 lb is great…..going down!!

    Yes I will. A front tooth has fallen out. Teeth aren’t good due to meds that I have been on since six years old. They really aren’t kind to your gums and I have had to take them.

    So I shall have to call the dentist now to make an appointment.

    At least it doesn’t effect my typing.

    Thanks Lynda

    Hope fast day goes well

    Hi Beldyboop

    No chance there as it is a fast day and meal out is on Weds which is normally another fast day. So I might do b2b with tomorrow and then last one Thursday or Friday. This is to stop myself going to mad with food!!

    Milena and I have taken Audrey’s challenge, 16lbs by August. But kMilena tells me she wants to to FBD in 4 weeks again.

    You can join us if you want.

    Ginette

    Ginette

    Hi Ginette,

    Yes am on for 16 Ibs by August! that’s great to have the support. Not sure am ready for FBD yet, but would keep in in mind, I suppose FBD would be for July and part of August? that might give me time to get a grip!

    Love to all xx

    PS. Wow that is commitment Ginette, doing the FD’s, you’re a star!
    Also forgot to say congrats to Welshy, what a result! a stone would be awesome!

    Hi all, I thought I’d introduce my self. My names Tara, I’m rapidly approaching my 47 birthday. We have just moved from middle of no where rural Norfolk to North Norfolk coast. We are just starting the second week of 5:2. Fast days are Monday and Thursday. I think I’ve lost some weight over the last week….haven’t yet found the bathroom scales. I’m a size 20-22 (biggest I’ve ever been ). Not good at 5′ 1″ . I lost a load of weight in 2014 when I spent a month rushing around visiting my partner (now husband) Stu in hospital after he had a massive stroke and spent time on a coma.
    Stu has made a good physical recovery
    I put all the weight back on during the most stressful few months trying to get our house move sorted….we had always lived seperately (all be it 6 doors apart).Our move took nine weeks( due to Stuarts hoarding and his cognitive impairments) and I don’t think I’ve ever been so stressed. Needless to say I reverted to old coping strategies and binged on loads of junk.
    Doing 5:2 is the first time any kind of diet has ever felt normal or do able. My goal is a size 12. Not too bothered about the weight numbers.,if I ever get back to gym my bmi will be higher due to muscle. I forgot to say we are both vegetarian.
    Anybody else in East Anglia?

    Hi Welshy

    managed a 12lb loss, so quite pleased, so 3 more and Im at 40lbs, so concentrating on exercising it of for a few weeks, also fixed on work so wont be around for a wee while.

    Will be lurking occasionally, so expecting to her good things from everyone, but its a long road so be kind to yourselves!!!!!

    “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.”

    Hi
    New to this diet, hoping to lose a stone, how is everyone else doing?

    Hi Tara

    I’ve been doing it for 4weeks and lost 10lb far finding much easier as weeks go on.

    Only join this thread last week.

    And had lots of support from everyone.

    Good luck
    Lynda

    Hello everyone 🙂

    CelticCrow: I am a fellow East anglian! From Wales originally but went to uni in norwich then met my boy and lived in Ipswich for a few years and have just moved near Attleborough at the start of the year. Welcome to 5:2! It sounds like you’ve had a stressful few years and it’s one thing we understand as we’ve all been there at some point-eating for comfort etc. I agree that 5:2 is the first time a diet sounded realistic to me too and it’s the first proper diet I’ve ever done. Def try and get your scales out and know your starting weight-you may not “see” the weight loss for while otherwise. My tips are just to stick to the basics and learn what works for you. Personally I don’t eat anything till about 8pm on a fast day as I find once I start eating then hunger really kicks in. If I get through to 10am without caving then I’m pretty good for the rest of the day. I know other people don’t do this as they need something small for lunch. Also, drink lots-it eases hunger and keeps you hydrated. Use all your unpacking etcnof your new house to help keep you busy and distracted on fast days otherwise they can sometimes drag and you end up clock-watching! Everyone on this forum is simply fabulous with lots of advice. They will pick you up on your bad days and celebrate with you on your good days. Good luck!

    Milena: that’s fab! Well done! I hope you’re really proud of yourself. good luck shifting those last 3.

    Christabel: welcome! I’m one pound away from my first stone so it’s definately doable, however I have a lot more to lose than you (want to shift 4 to 4.5 stone in total). As I said above, this is a very encouraging and supportive forum with advice in the bucket loads. Good luck with your weight loss

    I’ve had a busy day so far. Morning spent running errands before taking daughter swimming his afternoon and then I’ve got fitsteps class tonight. Apart from 2 strawberries I stole while prepping daughters lunch (they looked gorgeous and I couldn’t resist) I’ve been good today. Desperate for a drink at the mo but daughter has fallen asleep in the car and I’m letting her have a quick nap before going in the house. I’m quite pleased I haven’t caved today-had quite bad period cramps this morning (don’t normally have them) and wanted to do nothing more than curl up on the sofa with a blanket and junk food but toddlers always make you get up and keep going! It’s eased now thankfully. How are everyone’s fasts going today?

    Welshy xXx

    Hi welshy
    I caved in about 3pm and had a banana but that’s all I’ve had, having Loads to drink gonna have tea about 6.

    Next FD Wednesday will give it another go not having anything till later in the day.

    Welcome christabel good luck on your new start.

    Lynda x

    Wow Lynda 10 in four weeks that’s fantastic well done.

    Very good idea . We seem to go at things differently from other nations . Its my first day and an feeling quite tired but hopeful .

    Hi Beldyboop

    Yes that does work out for about start at the end of June – beginning of July time. But I’m heading for the 16lb now I want to to do it without going to mad. It is nice to be able to eat some thinks I like, not today though and maybe not tomorrow either.

    Yes Welshy has done really well.

    Hi Tara

    I live by the coast but in the south of England. Nice to be near the coast. I am also not far from the countryside either.

    I think we have all lost and put the weight back on.

    I must say that I think it is really important to weigh yourself once a week. This is a measure of how well you have done. We all work in how much we have lost here and occasionally gained. You wouldn’t go to buy shoes without knowing your size would you?

    I started at a 24 but a tight size 24, I stopped myself buying a larger size. I am now a comfortable 24 on the top and this is only because on things doing up around my stomach. This was my problem area. Now clothes are starting to fit comfortably. I have always been a smaller waist size. Of course I know that this area is a bad area showing internal fat as well.

    I have been cutting back since last May and lost a stone from May to January. I have been doing 5:2 since about the second week of January. I have lost just over another two stone since.

    I weighed just over 20 stone and then decided that I must start to cut back. In January I had seen my son get really good results on this way that I decided to try. So I started on Thursday 8th January, I didn’t wait until after the weekend in case I changed my mind. I only did one fast day that week and then two every week for a while afterwards. I now have done three most weeks for the past 6 weeks. I shall probably drop back to two next week.

    I waited until I had lost 3 stone for people to notice. When you are big it is hard for others to see, even difficult for me to see although I can’t bear looking at myself in mirrors. I can see with my clothes though. They are getting loose and very loose, a nice feeling.

    I would also say you need to measure bust, top of arms, waist, tummy, hips, top of legs and calfs. This is another way of seeing how many inches you have lost.

    I only do this about every 6 weeks. You want to know how well you are doing in concrete evidence. I would suggest weighing on a Saturday I used to weigh on a Friday but moved it to Saturday, I found by weighing more often weight can have huge fluctuations during the week. I went up by at least 4lb. This could be counterproductive.

    My weight loss I found always used to show up two days after a fast day. Now I weigh once a week, unless I go to my doctor and then I weigh the same day as the appointment as well.

    I really decided to do this as it was really difficult to control my blood pressure and the tablets that I am taking for it give me nightmares…….these have the least reaction of tablets I have tried. I am determined to be on a lower dose. At the moment I can’t even get to within a normal range and sometimes really high. A consequence of this is that I can’t work. My doctor says I need rest. I have also had a tragic event in the family last September. This is an ongoing situation and stress is sometimes really high.

    I hope you are not having bad health because of your weight, but if not sadly you probably will if you carry on putting on.

    I shall add a link to my ten week weight loss in the next post.

    I wish you luck but really think that weighing will be a good starting point. How will you be able to know how much you have lost?

    People on the forum are really helpful and we are all working towards a common goal, lose weight, get healthier and gain control.

    I can say I have achieve all three but there is still a long way to go. I started any 20.1lb and I am now 16.11. It is great breaking though that stone barrier. Every time I go into a new stone I feel so pleased. My targets are always half a sone a time and at least 1lb a week…….a woman on a mission!

    Good luck and ask any questions that you like.

    H Milena

    Fantastic!! So good to have gone past your target. What a great total loss as well. Another woman on a mission!!

    We will miss you around that is for sure xx

    Hi Christabel, can I call you Chris or don’t you like this? I don’t like my name shortened so I would understand.

    Where are you based?

    It is a really good way of life and a very achievable one. Once at target you can revert to 6:1 and this should keep you on track.

    Have you read the original book? I can post a link to a free book and recipes if you haven’t. It was the program and book that inspired me.

    The link to my thread which I will post is relevant to you as well as it shows what I experienced when starting, so maybe what you will as well.

    Hi Lynda

    Yes great loss and it really does get easier, with fasting days becoming something to look forward to, yes I know how strange that is!!

    Have a good week all.

    Ginette

    Thank you Tara

    What days are your FD
    I do mon, wed as I don’t work these days of sick at the moment as I had a op on my foot so still recovering only had a bunion removed lol

    Can’t wait to start walking again to help with the slimming.

    Lynda

    Monday and Thursday. Neither of u work, I’ve got quadriplegic cerebral palsy and Stu has had multiple brain injuries, the most recent being spring 2014

    Hi Tara

    I really feel for you. Our problems seem so insignificant compared with the struggles that you and Stu have.

    I had a student with cerebral palsy and know what a struggle she was having.

    If we can make this journey any easier for you we will. You will also find support and encouragement here.

    I have found a link for 5:2 ideas for vegetaririans. It may help.

    https://uk.pinterest.com/jactinnedtoms/52-diet-veggie-vegan/

    Look up posts in a thread by button boots. She is a real inspiration, she is disabled and is losing gradually.

    I wish you luck.

    Ginette

    Thanks Ginette, we have just had our main meal . I made a quorn cottage pie the other day..the whole thing came in at 600 calories and we have just had the second batch . 600 and does four meals can’t be bad. We had it with kale and cauliflower. We had water based porridge with mixed spice and cinnamon.
    Stu is doing remarkably well for someone who was DNR, in a coma and we were told that he had a 30% chance of surviving and if he did he’d never walk or talk again. Stu hasn’t got much more than half a stone to get rid of. I’ m desperate to do what we can to get his BP as low as possible.
    I am so relieved to have found a system that makes sense. We saw the original TV programme in 2012 but were distracted by Stuarts Mum and Dad getting I’ll then dying within 8 weeks of each other in 2012….since then its been full on with clearing their house, Stuart’s latest stroke, then us getting married and then the sudden house move. Until I find the scales I think I will brave the tape measure.

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