Hi everyone

Got a app for my phone (map my walk) bit confuse don’t take much lol but I walk 2.25 miles and it shows calories 336 don’t know what it means any help would be most helpful.

Hope everyone is having a good week xx Lynda

Hi Welshy

It is so much easier to not eat that to exercise, I’ve just found myself walking around the cul-de-sac to get to 5000 steps – though that 4950 than I was doing before 5:2 though I have so much flab any toning won’t be showing anywhere – the more weight I’m losing at the moment, the more I wobble like a jelly – hoping its all my fat getting loose before it goes. Well its been stuck there for more than a few years!

Hi Linda – its supposed to be 100 calories per mile. but I imagine that is as much guesswork as how we use up calories. Though doing my steps just in case its true – 10000 is about 5 miles, therefore 500 calories.

Its nice to dream!

Hi all,

I have been a naughty girl, had some friends pop in unexpected so ended up with pub lunch, followed by fresh cream cake! Naughty but very nice. No way am I hitting 10.5 stone this week now.

Glad you are exercising milena sure it will help.

Welshy thanks for the post perhaps if I walk 10 miles today I may pull it back!

Audrey

Thanks ladies
For all your input on calories on my power walk.

Felt much better on my FD today after being so flat the other day.

Breakfast – half melon
Lunch – WW soup
Dinner – fish in butter sauce and vegetables
Cup of tea and biscuits later.
Weight in tomorrow I need 2lb for my stone.
Fingers cross lynda xx

Lynda, Glad today was better for you.

Milena, you are a hoot, keep on walking.

Welshy I am sure you can lose that weight before the 24th, keep up the good work, you must be feeling better now you have lost your first stone.

Twiglet, glad you are back you have been missed. Great news on weight loss it must be amazing to be at your target weight, mine is later in year I hope. Hope daughter keeps improving, keep in touch.

Greetings to everyone else,

Fast day tomorrow for me think I am going to try a fluid only day again.

Audrey

Hi everybod!

At last it’s kind of summer here, and tomorrow promises to be better! whey hey! I have 2 days off work. I’ve been despondent with 5:2 this week and did a perfect FD on Tues, that is until 6pm, when I went “off piste” to put it mildly probs because I wasn’t at work? Anyway today, paradoxically I was very good on my NFD.

I am the opposite, I find it much easier to exercise than not to eat, and that has been my downfall, but am inspired with my Fitbit, I did 26,000 steps today! beat that, ok that does include the Zumba class I give, and had to “rehearse” a few new routines for a couple of hours, so I don’t think I’ll be notching that up everyday! but I did have a glass of celebratory wine, which was allowed in my Fitbit allowance and I’m not working tomorrow.

Twigglet, that’s really inspiring 🙂 I’m glad to hear your daughter is doing better

Welshy, that sounds like a nice target to aim for, good luck! you can do it!

Audrey, nice to have a bit of indulgence, when is the wedding?

Milena, have you done the sleep tracking on your fitbit? fascinating stuff, seems I’m awoken about 13-16 times a night

beldy

Best wishes to all, FD tomorrow, I need to be strong, sending positive vibes!

Morning ladies,

Twigglet: glad to hear your daughter is doing well. And I’m very impressed you’ve been so good. If you can control your food when stressed and busy, you can do it anytime.

Audrey: enjoy the wedding this weekend. While we all encourage each other to be healthy etc sometimes you’ve got to enjoy life and there are more important things so make sure you enjoy yourself on the big daysnd not worry about food at all!

Lynda: that sounds a lovely fast day menu! I fasted yesterday but had nothing in the cupbaords! In the end I made a small portion of fresh pasta and added loads of green veggies and some pesto. I didn’t actually count the calories but as my plate was 70% veggies to 30% pasta, it’ll do.

Milena: have you done 3 fast days in a row? I’d be careful as you still need to get the nutrition from food. I also find the diet more effective by alternating days. I understand though-I find FD quite addictive as I get a kick out of knowing I’ve lost weight.

Beldy: if you cave in the eve after being so good (it’s so annoying when you’ve been good all day isn’t it?) then try and keep yourself busy. I’m in the middle of crocheting veggies for my daughters play kitchen and it can take a whole eve to make a carrot!

I’m on a NFDS today. Yesterday’s FD has helped me lose another pound so hoping I can get another FD in on Friday and lose one more. 5lbs to go to my first personal target of 1 and a half stone

Good luck to today’s fasters. Remember-you can always eat _____ tomorrow instead!

Welshy xXx

Milena,

Sounds like you are starting to enjoy your fasting and exercise. I think 10,000 steps is a fantastic total well done.

Will post tomorrow then away for 2 weeks so will tell you all about wedding when I return

Audrey

Hi Audrey

I think I am!

Was just thinking of you, have a great water fast! Plenty of the clear stuff, will do wonders for your skin for those photos! Have a great time and post a pic of you in your posh frock when you get back!!

have a fantastic time at the wedding Audrey cant wait to hear all about it , very interesting about the fit bit I do a bit of jogging and have done for years but recently I havent been out but doing the Milton Keynes race for like 10k end of June so better get my trainers on quick

interesting reading seems like theres a pattern of people adding in fast days and doing more , it does become additve . Originally I was fasting every monday and Tuesday and the rest of the week eating healthy things have changed a bit now and I try and still fast Monday but with 700 calories then until saturday I have been doing the 13.8 system effectivaly skipping breakfast then the weekends back to 3 meals and lots of it , obviously its been a struggle over the last few weeks but I think mixing it up a bit really helps with the weight loss

happy fasting

Hey everyone!
I don’t log on here too much anymore, as I had some harsh words spoken to me from someone and it put me off a little.

I have been on here before, but for those who don’t remember me – my name is Zoe, I have recently turned 22, about this time last year I broke my knee VERY badly and had a couple of diffult surgeries that left me unable to walk for 8 months.

Feeling sorry for myself and unable to work out, I put on a lot of weight and found myself at 13 stone, the most I have ever weighed.

I started walking in January, and as a result started my 5:2 and began my route to excersising.

I started by shedding 8 pounds my first week, then 2 pounds consistantly after that sometimes more.
Now I am down to 9 stone, I am shedding up to a pound a week.

I also put on a bit of weight the week of my birthday, cake and meals out – and alchohol!
Special occasion, but I lost it the week after!

So I am nearly at my goal weight, and my knee is still healing…

That is my story, a bit long winded, but I like to think it has a happy ending.

My knee has been a major hinderance – it has been a year now, and it still collapses at random, so it is difficult when I am working out – always worried I will fall on the treadmill.

You are right, I did have some really hard times, but whenever I looked at old photos of myself in my little dresses out in clubs and parties, it motivated me to get going again.

I started watching old tv shows from my childhood while I was working out, like the xmen cartoons – and it all went so quickly!

Heavens welcome back and well done on your weight loss.

It’s the wedding tomorrow so I am off up the m6 later today to spend the night at the hotel.

I hope the forecast rain does not dampen our spirits, as it is in a nature reserve it could get very muddy!

I am not going to be on the forum again for a while, we are off to caravan on Sunday for a much needed break.

Keep on losing,

Audrey

Lynda,

Don’t beat yourself up, we all fail at times the important thing is that you keep on trying.

Put yesterday behind you, some of the extra weight could be food in transit.

Hope this helps

Audrey

Hello everyone,

I’ve enjoyed reading your posts so I thought I’d add my two penneth worth. I’m 67 and I’ve been doing the fast diet for 10months. I only had a stone to lose and have lost 10pounds over that time because I probably eat too much the rest of the week. I’m now using it as a choice of lifestyle. And on the days I feel like I need to eat – I tell myself that I can eat tomorrow morning and I remind myself that I am doing it for the health benefits that Michael so brilliantly researched. It’s the only diet I’ve managed to keep to even though I’ve not reached my target. I have had illness to contend with too.

I’ve run diet clubs for clinically obese people in the past and know how hard it is to keep trying to lose weight when you’ve tried before. But time and again people said -” oh I’ve only lost a pound or a half a pound this week” Have you seen how much fat that is? Take the butter out of the fridge now and look and see how much you’ve lost and think of those organs being cleaned of fat girls. Visualise the fat melting away from those critical organs when it gets hard to look in the mirror.Its not all about the outside (but we do like to look good I know).

There were weeks, even when people stuck to the diet they might not have lost weight but do you know why ( and trust me on this) – they either weren’t drinking enough water; they were near a period; they were going down with infection or they were on antibiotics. I worked with hundreds of people in groups and this always panned out. However, one of the main reasons too was that some of them had some core belief that kept them from losing eg I’m not interesting, I’m not loved; Nothing good happens to me; I don’t exist; I’m bad; I’ll always be fat and so on. Core beliefs are hard to get to as well. So before you start, these can work against you – that’s why it’s so important to keep telling yourself you’re thin and beautiful even if you are overweight. Think yourself thin as they used to say. Get some motivating quotes and stick postits to the wall. One that is useful – “The road of 2000 miles starts with one step” ; And remember on that road there will be times when you’ve gone two steps backwards, there’ll be times when strangers will be unkind and you feel can’t go any further but like the cowboy who is thrown off his horse you’ll get back on it and take more control. ( ok I’ll stop now)

Before I started this diet, I did a strange thing called Tapping and I believe that it has helped me adopt the diet as a discipline/ way of life. At my age my weight would have kept on climbing especially when I got sick. It’s a fantastic technique which you can look up online. it particularly works well on pain and there is some science behind it.

Sorry girls I’ll stop now, I’ve just realised how much I’ve written. Hope some if this helps.

Got through another FD yesterday with no problems. I think Stuart forgets that he gets 100 more calories than me….yesterday afternoon he brought me a cup of tea (black lady grey) and handed me a couple of oat cakes, so I reminded him that I was a FD and he ate them. Yesterday’s food intake was water oat and barley porridge, a small nectarine late afternoon, the second batch of the veggie goulash with cavelo Nero and 6 g of 60% chocolate. Interestingly I found the 60% chocolate almost too sweet so we will go back to the 72% and 81%. 6g is plenty and I find I prob eat it less than once a week .

We realised the other day that we had had in opened cake in the cupboard for over a week. As self confessed ‘cake hounds’ this unheard of and a first!

I forgot to say that I got Stu to to put a couple new holes in my belt and I think next week I’m going to need more 🙂

Well done Heavens you have done brilliantly now your nearly there I would be interested to know how you plan to maintain? I lost my weight then I need new cloths as nothing fitted everybody warned me that I would continue to lose and I thought no way, but it has happened hopefully I will be able to maintain now as I am never going back to my old habits .

well done Lynda getting right back at it stay away from the scales I know lots of people weigh every day but during my journey I only weighed every couple of weeks I knew if I had a gain I would be imediatly in the fridge , I now weigh once a week but everybody is different I am trying to keep in a 4 pound window .

Have a lovely weekend everybody a

Hi everyone!

Have not had a great week, and with hindsight shouldn’t have thought I could do FD’s while not at work, silly…have now decided to just have a “free” couple of days until I go back to work, Tues will be FD.

Carla, thanks for sharing your experiences with us, and well done for your weight loss. I thought it was so interesting your comments on the core beliefs, I’m quite certain mine do hold me back, I have another stone and a half to lose, but seems quite stubbornly staying!, I think I believe that if I get smaller I will lose my oomph!! and will become “invisible”, it’s not logical of course but nevertheless that’s my barrier. I will follow your tip and reaffirm
these beliefs,thank you ;-0

I have had some fun with my Fitbit this week, and it does confirm that I am very active, hoorah! now what I need to work on is what I put in my gob! I have checked and despite the Zumba, yoga, running, walking, on most days I don’t create enough deficit in calories, or am just shy of -500, so never really lose that elusive pound…mmmm…it’s def more food than exercise.

Tara, yes it’s amazing what can make us have a wobbly moment, I’m such an emotional eater that both happiness and sadness can set me off, sounds like you’re doing a good job, love the “cake hounds”, that made me laugh.

Lynda I’ve been there!, I know how you’re feeling, hope today is better. Although I have some very on and off FD’s I do feel that I’m being a bit more mindful when I do overeat, and certain foods no longer hold any appeal…

Twigglet, it’s great to hear that you cam now buy new clothes!

Best wishes to everyone!

Hi Carla,

I’ve been using this tapping method for over 25 yrs but only on the front of my forehead. I tap and say out loud what I want to remember it’s never let me down, I say to myself while tapping my forehead I must remember to buy a birthday card or phone so so.

Lynda x

Hi Lynda You can get a map of the tapping points on the web. I think you might find it on the Gary Craig EFT site. Great that you’ve used it for memorizing! I used it last month for packing to go on holiday (pathetic really) but I get really stressed out trying to think of what I need. I start three days before but always end up still packing between midnight and 2 am in the Morning. After tapping on it, I was done and dusted by 6pm the night before.

Think I need to do something on my diet now – last night I had a bar of whole nut chocolate and a dish of kettle chips!

Morning!

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. The weather was a bit pants here and we ended up being very lazy as we were both shattered. I thought I was naughty with my food but no weight gain so I’ve got away with that one.

I had a FD yesterday with my fitsteps class in the eve. Had lovely chat with instructor afterwards saying how it actually gets harder each week (and I’m sweating more!) as im doing the steps properly, rather than just learning the routine. Plus it’s in a poorly ventilated old school gym and the warm evenings make it a sauna! The instructor always says sweating is just fat crying! Some ladies turn up and seem to just walk through the routine, I’m not sure why they bother turning up!

Weighed this morning and I’ve lost a pound since yesterday so pleased with that. 3 more and I’ve reached the first goal I set myself-a stone and a half. I REALLY want to do this by next Wednesday (bf birthday). I’m confident I can manage 2lbs but the last one might not be possible by then. Fingers crossed though.

This week isn’t too bad-just busy with normal life: made Father’s Day & birthday cards with daughter yesterday which need finishing off today. I love this bit about mummy life. We’ve made a foot print into a racing car for Father’s Day and a hand print into a monkey for his birthday (he always calls her monkey). NFD day today and just enjoyed a bowl of bran flakes & raisins (my fav). I now find that while I get hungry mid morning after brekkie, I’ve now got the discipline to accept the hunger and not eat till lunchtime.

Who else fasted yesterday? Enjoy cardiff Lynda-that’s my old stomping ground before I moved to East Anglia

Welshy xXx

hi everyone – what a friendly thread – day one for me today, with 3stone or 19 kg to loose! surviving on green tea and water at the mo…. feeling peckish but determined to try and only eat in the evenings as evening snacking is my downfall! worked out that if i loose 2lb a week i should be my ideal weight around mid october just in time for my 50th birthday!, im 12 stone now but need to get to about 9 stone, but ill see how i feel and as im 49 i dont want to get stick thin as them damned wrinkles will show lol!!any hints and tips would be fab – look forward to hearing from you all xx sara xx

I want to feel comfortable in my body, to be fit and to take up less room!