Hi All,
I found this great thread and can see the support. I am finding the 5:2 challenging due to the over eating on ‘fast days’ (even on the normal days of eating). However, this week I decided to try the 16:8 after giving the 5:2 a go for a few weeks. I eat my last meal at around 19:00 in the evening and next meal around between 12:30 and 13:00. I lost 4lbs this week so far. I stuck to high protein: eggs, chicken and beans with a horrendous amount of veggies and moved a lot more, leaving the car at home and taking the hour long walks to the shops and back. I found that I actually eat less and I get full quicker, more so, as I drink a lot more water throughout the day. I do believe that over eating is my biggest challenge and doing the 5:2, even when I prepared meals, I was decidedly hungry throughout the day, and if a stressful situation occurred, I was eating again. For me, doing the 16:8 is ideal place to start before I move to the 5:2, which I believe is a more sustainable way of eating. It is managing the over eating for now.

How do you manage your ‘fast days’ by not over eating?

Morning All..
A good walk this morning weather seems to be improving..

Someone is coming to measure for a small blind in the cloakroom more for dressing the window than using it.

I had a good fast day then crashed.. it’s no good on a Friday.. I am eating out this evening as it’s my daughters birthday..

Then I must get back into fasting.. had a few iffy loose weeks..6 weeks to holidays…

Hemmy..
Hope your bench looks nice.. I have a bit of painting this week too..

Hedgehog..
Hope you got your plants potted up..

Autumn..
Welcome to our group, pop by every day it helps with support..

Dave…
What are you doing today?

Steve..
Where are you? Are all your birthdays over.. I think you said you will be back early May..

Jean x

Thank you Symba7!
Good to be here.

Hello Autumnsky, & glad you found us! I joined here for the support & also for some accountability, it helps me if I say I’m doing a FD publicly to stick to it! It’s good that you’re getting into 16:8 & that’s helped! I’ve always found eating small meals on FDs made me hungrier, so I’d just have one meal in the evening…Lots of water will help, sometimes I have a little bit of salt on my palm to eat, & that can make a difference for me …summer’s coming, I’ve got a photo on my fridge to remind myself how I’d like to look! We chat about all sorts on here, not just the fasting…feel free to join in!
I wanted to do an organised walk today but it was 3 hours so would’ve been too much for my feet, a bit gutted. So had my usual walk with Xena, the bluebells are out in the woods & very pretty! Seeing Mum later, I’ll try & get her out to see them another day….
Have a good weekend everyone!

Lots of us have dogs on here, do you have any pets Autumn? Just about to take mine out again if I can wake her up. You would think greyhounds are very active dogs but they are three laziest of all dogs. She probably thinks I did all that running so now I’m retired and just want to sleep.I am only having one meal each day on most days. When I eat it makes me hungry.I told them this at MoreLife and they said they’re was a medical reason for that. Forgot what it was, leptin something or other I think.