Wow!! Well done

hi guys and thanks,
do feel free to join us in our weekly recording here on this thread, its a great way to support each other in our journey and keep track of how far we’ve come x

Hi, I hope fast for life won’t mind me saying, but the start date was 2012 not 2013 🙂

But fantastic result, nevertheless! 😀

And I should have also said, fantastic for sticking with it all this time – you must be one of the longest followers and it is great inspiration for the rest of us to see that this WOL can be managed longer term 🙂

It will be very interesting to see how we are all going in say 5 years time! 😀

@rockyromero

Found the link when you recommended the book. Thanks

http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/side-effects-to-the-planet/

btw – did you notice new additions to the site – Favorites and Subscriptions – I already started finding them useful.

Hi all. Great posts and motivation here, the latter is something I have been short of lately hence a period of putting weight on due to over eating on non fast days but am getting back on track. I am a meat eater but over the last year or so have found I am eating less meat without it being a pain. It is very easy to introduce a couple of meat free days into my week. There is so much info out there for non meat eaters to experiment with and hopefully more will eat less (meat that is). One of the drawbacks for me is that some veg food sites seem to have recipes that contain a list of ingredients as long as my arm and as such are off putting. Having said that I am shortly going to brave the high winds we are experiencing to go to the supermarket for ingredients to make Moroccan Roasted Veg Soup. Only 7-8 ingredients including ras el hanout, some thing I have not used before. (recipe on BBCGoodfood site). As I post, the news reports winds of 103mph in parts of Scotland so we need to be careful.
Good luck to you all out there.

Every .25 lb lost is gone forever! So no-one will blame your for celebrating weight loss here 😛

I don’t really have an update. Or well, not a very good one :p I gained 1kg after getting sick and binging for two days, and only exercised on Monday. But I’m planning on going full swing again this week!!

@sivasankar – looking forward to posting them! It’ll be next Monday though, so don’t really have an update now. I did start up my exercise routine today and yesterday again, had to push myself to do it but feel better because of it now. It’s a daily struggle for me, I never want to do it, but I know that if I do it I’ll feel better – both physically and mentally. Strangely it doesn’t make the struggle any less, I just always really don’t want to do it x)

I salute your 300+ pushups! Is that in one day? Or a week? I think you said week before, just wondering 😛 Ever since I re-started IF my pushups became terrible, can now hardly handle 20 on my knees, not even my toes… ugh.

Congratulations Rocky – it does seem the guys lose really quickly. Your success is brilliant.

Agree with Sassy – it’s brilliant that you’ve been going for 15 months Fast For Life !

Nika, you’re going so well too, in spite of the bout of illness.

It’s the flexibility I love most with 5:2. I check in to the forums but often don’t get a chance to post. I’m not able to share results as I’m still the judging changes by fitting into favourite (old) items of clothing, rather than weighing. Down from Aussie size 16/18 to a 10 which is just so exciting after 5 months. Feel so slim. Fish, chicken, meat or crustless quiche and salad or vegetables do it for me. Also often cauliflower “rice” to replace actual rice with curry or mashed cauli instead of mashed potatoes. May go back to exercising in January, but with the differences in how I feel and look I’m not even feeling guilty on that score. Just love the principles of 5:2 with “semi” fasting twice a week.

Heather

Start date: 8 Aug 2013
Start weight: 250 lbs
Start height: 5’7″

Current weight: 232
Total weight lose: 18 lbs
Goal: 170 lbs
comment: week of vacation then Thanksgiving week up from 224.75 to 237.5 now back to 232. Back to 225 by end of year. Think I will hand Christmas better than Thanksgiving.
Exercise: Walk 45 min 3-5 times per week do light weights 2 times per week.
Age 68
Health: Lupus, high blood pressure, type II diabetes.

Thanks for the support from you all. In it for the long haul.

Start date of fast diet: 3rd September 2012

Start Weight: 15 stone 11 lbs
Height : 5′ 4.5″

Weekly
Weight loss/gain: loss 0.25lbs

Current Weight: 12 stone 4.75 lbs
Exercise: none
Feed/Fast/: 5 2
Loss to date: 48.25 lbs

hi everyone, hope your all well and ready for the holidays, ive one more week at work then im off until after the new year, YAY! another 0.25lb off this week but ive still been eating what i fancy on my feed days, still doesn’t feel like a diet to me.
keep posting and updating its great to hear how others are doing xx

@nika – We have to push ourselves to get to where we want to go. Since I have kids, I have to be a role model 🙂

I do 300+ pushups in 3 days. I normally do 50-60 in one sitting(!) and usually do 100+ in 3 sets – and 3 times a week. For some reason my number of pushups have gone up after IF – maybe due to losing waist. I have been doing pushups for a long time – as I used to have back pains and maintaining a strong core helps.

btw, I just started reading your “My Story” post.
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@hardjudge, @heatherfast – welcome to Dec edition of FFH group. Let us help each other to stay motivated.

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@ffl – congrats – keep it going.

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@rocky – Did not know you are in Chicago. Can you believe how cold chitown is now (and last few days). It is -ve windchill today. Don’t have motivation to get up early in the morning to go to work. Let me know if you are in Chicago downtown – we can meet for lunch one of these days.

Last post for the year.

Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year and continued success in reaching your personal, professional and weight loss goals, improved fitness and quality of life in years to come.

I am indebted to many people on this board for motivating me to stay on track and also for sharing their knowledge and expertise in making everyone’s life better – especially Dr.Mosley(@michael and BBC), Mimi (@mimi), Vimeo(you know why!), Google (yes – somehow my searches led me to Fastdiet), @wiltldnrusa, @rockyromero, @jeanius, @fast-for-life, @nika and my family – without these wonderful program and people I would still be carrying around 20 lbs or more.

Thanks a lot.
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@rockyromero

“These are clear successes and breakthroughs. You are on a roll.”

Thanks – we are almost there.

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Starting Measurements.

Weight: 170 lbs (01/01/13)
Weight on IF beginning – 166 lbs (03/10/13)
Waist : 42″+
Goal Weight : 142-144 lbs
Goal Waist : 32″
Goal Date : May 2014

Tracking:

12/27/13

Weight: 152.6 today morning – though I broke through 150 and was 149.2 last week, I gained few due to some Holiday parties, holiday snacks at office, home and friends visiting on fasting days – could not avoid eating more after fasting.

Waist : <34″
Exercise : 300+ pushups and 3 days 2 * 30 sec HIT (not HIIT) + weights (total 1.5 hours/week in all workout) + Beginner’s Yoga for 1.5 hours.

Start date of fast diet: 3rd September 2012

Start Weight: 15 stone 11 lbs
Height : 5′ 4.5″

Weekly
Weight loss/gain: gain about 5lbs

Current Weight: 12 stone 9.5
Exercise: none
Feed/Fast/: 5 2 and 1 6
Loss to date: 43.5 lbs

hi everyone, i hope you all had a lovely break, its great to see more of you joining us, this will be my last weigh in this year and its a gain of 5 lbs! last Christmas i didnt fast at all over the hoildays or record my loss/gains, due to parties and family commitments last week i only did one fast, this week ive fitted in two, next week i hope to do two and then it might be back to 4 3 to kick start my new year in gear,
i think its important to share our ups and downs, this is real life, there will be bumps in the road on our journey if we accept them as part of the process we can deal with them and move on rather than see them as failures.

Well done to you all for getting this far in your journeys, Wishing you all a happy and successful 2014 xx