Hi All,

It’s my first day on the 5:2 diet. It was recommended to me by some family and I can see it fitting in to my lifestyle quite well.

I am busy reading as much information as I can to get the best results for weight loss and for my health in general.

I’m a 43 year old english lady living in Australia. I am 170cms and currently 95kg. The most I have weighed is 110kg (weighed) and maybe 120kg (suspected, completely in denial and would not get on scales). I have been down to 79kg using weight watchers, but they changed it and I hated it and so on went the weight. I also found it focussed a bit on processed foods, something I am trying to leave out of my diet if I can, particularly artificially sweetened foods and their own products.

I am quite active, I exercise 3-4 times per week, Gym – weights and cardio, tennis, walking, cycling. So I know my weight is all about the food.

So far today I have had a soy latte coffee (something I might not be able to give up…quite yet) and peppermint tea. I have some lettuce, tomato and tuna in a paked lunch container just in case i feel the need to eat while at work, and nothing else planned for the day. I just want to see how I go.

I would love to hear from any one who is very new so that maybe we can share experiences along the way.

Thank you for reading

Carol
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I have been so ill since i lat wrote anything on the forum, with the worst flu/chest infection I have had in years! I have not managed to fast as my head was just not in the right place, I just wanted to get better and it took all of my focus to do just that. Having said that, My appetite did dissappear a little bit and so on the whole, I think I ate less food while i was ill.

I am still not 100% and so I am going to wait until next week before attempting another fast day as I don’t want to fail and then be put off of the whole process. I do not deal with failure very well and it can swing me in to huge bouts of binge eating.

any way – thats me for now.

Thanks for reading
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