Well done to the two of you and welcome to the forums. Try not to think of it too much like a diet, much rather a new approach to eating. Weight fluctuates so try not to become dissolutioned (is that how to spell it?) Don’t weigh yourself everyday and if you are feeling desperate, visit us on the forum 🙂

I think there is real hope that this is not a yo-yo diet as they usually are, but a shift of lifestyle, where normal days complement fasting days, to make it sustainable. Best of luck.

Good luck! There’s a place next to where I work that spend all day making crêpes. The smells coming from there are wonderful/ terrible! They start at 5am so the smell hits me as soon as I arrive in the morning!
Do you speak French or English in your home? My husband and myself spoke French and I try to keep up the English with the children but they’re so much more French than English now! Sometimes we use both …. in the same sentence!

Hi I’m also in France, 2 nd day of the fast diet and have just done the first two as fast days! Was going to do Mondays and Thursdays, but I didn’t feel hungry this morning, so decided to skip breakfast see how I felt lunchtime, not very hungry so skipped that and had 490 cal meal this evening with the family. Normal week now

Well done. We had 2 weeks in France on the diet and it was hard enough!

Hi ChrissieinBrittany. Miserable here too, just having coffee and watching the news before setting out to work in 30 minutes. 12 hour shift today, I dislike them with a vengeance but hey ho, the mortgage has to be paid. How I wish I could speak French. I once thought I was asking for a box of matches and realised when the shop assistant started laughing I was actually asking for a lightbulb. That was in my smoking days, don’t do it now. Anyway, enjoy your day 🙂

I’m a nurse working in forensic mental health with male patients, very challenging. I’ve been a mental health nurse for more years than I care to remember. Done most things, worked in acute mental health, elderly, eating disorders and in my first few years as a nurse, children and adolescents. Variety is the spice of life 🙂 Will stay in the forensic field now though. Time for another coffee, there won’t be time once I get to work 🙂

There isn’t a language barrier. I’m English working in the UK. Sorry, it must have sounded as though I were living in France. I wish. No, I’m a Yorkshire woman living in the Midlands about 2hrs from the sea. The only language barrier I come across at work, is patients not understanding the word ‘no’ 😀

Hi, I’m in France too, near Toulouse. It is the bread over here that got me – I just love baguettes! When I discovered I had put on a stone and a half in the 3.5 years we’d been here I realised it was time for action, and the 5:2 has been great – I’ve lost nearly a stone so far so am on my way to achieving my goal of my pre-France weight!And I can even eat baguette at the weekends!

@sam2bsvelte
” just love baguettes! …And I can even eat baguette at the weekends!”

I also enjoy bread, especially French bread. Luckily, there is none close by for me to eat.

Recently, I’ve reduced eating a foot long wheat bread, after several years of almost daily consumption. I’m not quite sure what to replace it with nor how to have sandwiches without the bread to hold it altogether?

I’ll figure this out.

Je vais comprendre.

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This is not going to be a good week fast wise as I’m on a course which involves all of us piling in to the local restaurant for lunch! I’d like to say that I’ll make up for it in the evenings but I won’t because once I’ve started eating I have a problem applying the brakes! So I’ll just have to deal with it!

Bon courage indeed!