From a doubter to believer!

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Husky

9:34 am
20 Feb 14
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heyy 🙂

About 5 months ago my mum and dad told me that they were gonna try a new diet called 5:2 ,all i did was laugh and tell them it would work.As the time went by they had their fast day’s and I was making fun of them how they could eat so little and doubting the whole 500cal thing.I dont live with my parents anymore so i don’t see them as much, and as the weeks and months went buy they kept on loosing weight and i mean in a good healthy paste. Coming to this day they have been on the 5:2 for about 4,5-5 months and my mom has lost 16kg’s an my dad 19kg…And me.. who was doubting everything about this diet, I have now bought the book, read it, and started my own diet this monday, and so far lost 1.5kg which is probably just fluids that left my body, but kilo is a kilo and it’s a start! 🙂
Your comments have helpped me to start my journey and hopefully keep helping me all the way. 🙂

LittleDragon

10:17 am
20 Feb 14
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Hi Husky, amazing progress by your parents and well done on your loss! Congrats! xx

Angie090465

10:23 am
20 Feb 14
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hi and welcome Husky!

well done from me too to both of you, fantastic results!!

enjoy your journey 🙂

Husky

10:30 am
20 Feb 14
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Thank youu 🙂 and Thanks from my parents too 🙂
I’m soooo excited to see the kilos go and see the results on my body! Can’t wait!:)

Lizamor

10:55 am
20 Feb 14
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1,5 kg is a great start, congrats! 🙂

Ive done 6 fastdays, and haven’t really lost any (0,4 kg) but since
my activity has increased (run 5 km 2-3 times a week) I hope it’s
because of all the muscle I gain 😉

Inspiring to read your success stories!

Husky

11:01 am
20 Feb 14
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0.4 kilos is pretty good too, we’re all different and loose at a different paste:)
I’m not much of a runner cause of my bad knee , had surgery on it so its not as strong as it used to be, even tho im just 20years old 🙂
But tomorrow I’m about to start swimming, it’s less stress on my knee and I really like swimming:) any tips if i should swim on a non fast days or on fast days?:)

Keep up the good work 🙂

Nial

11:16 am
20 Feb 14
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This is my second week of the 5:2 I do two days consecutive, 1st day no food just pots of green tea, 2nd day one banana 50 gms of nuts and lots of green tea, I combine with exercise, 40 min fairly intensive each day and that four times per week

I have not weighed myself before starting and probably wont after, I eat normally other days and try not to consume alcohol between Mon to Thursday I just want to lose my middle age spread, I’m male 68 and I will know if it’s successful when the belt around my waist seems looser.

I have not read any particular book but caught an article in a National Newspaper.

Husky

1:15 pm
20 Feb 14
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isn’t the 5:2 idea just to eat the 500cal so you can take it a part of your daily life not just as a diet, not just drink water and tea for the 2 fast days, i mean there are other diets that do just drinking liquids. But if it suits for you, then no problem:)

🙂

Nial

1:54 pm
20 Feb 14
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To me a fast, my fast, carried out in the manner and reasons on this blog is a “Diet” I’m adjusting the message implicitly to what suits me as I generally drink tea, eat nuts etc I can follow this as perhaps a way of life for the forseeable future!

Anyway if its a fast the 500cals really are not reqd it’s only a sop to the wimps, me included but only on the second day.

TracyJ

2:59 pm
20 Feb 14
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Hi Husky, everyone has their own interpretation of the ‘fastdiet’ concept. If that works for Nial then that’s no problem. Most people do do non-consecutive days though and most people do eat something on both of their fastdays, as you say it just makes it more of an easy to follow lifestyle for most people. Not everyone is ‘most people’ though and 5:2 is so flexible you can fit it around what will work for you. Experimentation is encouraged to find ‘your’ 5:2.

As far as swimming is concerned. I’m a swimmer and I always swim on fastdays (& now on non-fastdays too). Early experimentation revealed that for me it is a bad idea to eat my 500cals before I swim. I save them until after and I find that very comfortable and I actually swim faster on fastdays (when I’ve had nothing before swimming) than I would on non-fastdays (when I might have had some lunch earlier in the day).

Weird but true! Good luck experimenting – I hope you find what works for you.

Husky

5:18 pm
20 Feb 14
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Hey TracyJ!
I understand that everyone has their own style of doing the 5:2 didn’t mean to disrespect anyone 🙂
I plan not to eat anything before I go swimming,cause of my working hours I’ll be swimming in the morning so I’ll have my meals after that 🙂 and a non fast day too so should get some weight loss too , hopefully 🙂

🙂

Husky

3:18 pm
21 Feb 14
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Hey everyone:)
I went swimming today and did about hour and a half and I feel GREAT! 🙂 Going to keep the swimming part of my life this day on!
While I was swimming I was thinking about my dinner times, ’cause of my work I sometimes get to eat my dinner between 8.30pm and 9.30pm and I was wondering is it going to affect my 5:2?

Have a nice day everyone:)

TracyJ

3:24 pm
21 Feb 14
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I’m the same way Husky, don’t often get to eat before 8pm during the working week, as I tend to swim or do other things after work too. It doesn’t seem to have any affect on my fasting, beyond getting me VERY used to going long periods without food 😉

Husky

3:36 pm
21 Feb 14
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Great! thank you! I got abit worried 🙂
I was also wondering that, I want to lower my eating and calories on non-fast days too.. so i tend to eat less on thoes days too that I normally would, and I was reading from the forum about the starvation mode and I was wondering is my diet on non-fasting days going to get me in this mode?

TracyJ

3:44 pm
21 Feb 14
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It will if you’re not eating over your BMR figure yes.

If you haven’t already done it, go to the ‘How’ tab above and calculate your BMR & TDEE. You MUST eat over your BMR on every non-fastday and anywhere up to your TDEE will help you lose weight. If you go over your TDEE then you probably won’t lose weight.

As you lose weight these numbers will change, so any time you lose a significant amout of weight (10 lb say) you should check it again and try and stay comfortably between the new goalposts. You don’t need to obsessively calorie count though – comfortably between those 2 numbers gives you a lot of wiggle room, so as long as you’ve got a decent idea of your rough daily intake you’ll be fine.

Husky

3:51 pm
21 Feb 14
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Alright thank you! I’ll check the BMR and TDEE 🙂
Just getting the hang of this , only my first week 🙂

TracyJ

3:59 pm
21 Feb 14
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Well you’re definitely more ‘on it’ than I was 18 months ago, so you’re on course to do well I think. Good luck with finding what works for you 😉

Husky

4:05 pm
21 Feb 14
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haha this once I’m taking a diet serioulsy 😀 may I ask you how much weight have you lost?:)or are you just trying to get healthyer with the 5:2 🙂

TracyJ

4:12 pm
21 Feb 14
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I started for the health benefits. Never expected to lose any significant weight beyond the visceral fat I suspected I was carrying. In total I’ve lost 52 (ish – I never took an accurate start weight) lb.

Better skin, better hormone balance, better BP, good blood sugar & cholesterol readings. The weight loss could stop tomorrow and I’d still be very happy with the way these last 18 months have changed my body, my health and my future 😉

Good luck with your journey Husky – let us know how you get on.

Husky

4:17 pm
21 Feb 14
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That sounds great! And I bet you feel and look very very good!:)
I’ll keep you posted on my progress:) im trying to lose some weight but the healthy side of the diet is just as important:)

LittleDragon

4:20 pm
21 Feb 14
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Wow Tracy that’s amazing, congratulations you must feel amazing.

One question – Tracy – have you found that on your fasting days you have any trouble sleeping? I had terrible insomnia last night, didn’t sleep til 6am, just wondered as a long time faster whether you have had the same thing?

Husky let us know how you get on and best of luck! Do you mind me asking how much weight you want to lose?

Husky

4:24 pm
21 Feb 14
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LillteDragon- Thanks for the support 🙂 I’d loooove to lose 20kg so thats about 44lbs i think ( we use kg’s so im not 100%sure 😀 )
But at the end .. the number really doesn’t matter I just want to feel great in my body :)but yeah my ultimate goal is 20kg’s 🙂

LittleDragon

4:26 pm
21 Feb 14
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Ooh right, well best of luck and hope you didn’t mind me asking, I was just curious!

I count stones and pounds, always been the way, and also it’s easier to lose a pound than a kilo! Haha!

I would really like to lose a total of around 2 1/2 stone . When you set out your ideal goal it sounds soooo far away doesn’t it!

TracyJ

4:31 pm
21 Feb 14
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Hi LittleDragon, I think I responded to a similar question on another thread the other day, yes – a few months into 5:2 I did get insomnia for a while but it passed in a few weeks and I haven’t had a sustained period like that since. Just the odd night here and there, which I occasionally got before 5:2 anyway to be honest.

I’m sure we’ve had this question a few times, so it must be something that a lot of people (although probably not everyone) goes through on the lifestyle. I used to wake up at 5am and just not be able to get back to sleep once or twice a week for a month or so. It was a long time ago now though.

Husky

4:33 pm
21 Feb 14
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haha didnt mind at all 🙂 haha had to use google to figure out the punds and stones and lbs 😀
And YES the goal weight sounds soooo distant. I was just talking about this with my boyfriend and since monday i’ve lost like 2kg wihch is about 4 pounds and I was asking him if the -2kg shows on my body and he looked at me and said.: no… and i was like… i CAN’T wait till i get atleast 10kg’s off and it starts to show!!

We can do it! 🙂

LittleDragon

11:49 pm
21 Feb 14
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Thanks for your reply Tracy – I hope this isn’t a lasting thing for me.

Husky – keep on going! You can do this! I’ve just completed my 6th week of fasting and had a little encouragement from the fact that I was able to wear a pair of jeans to dinner tonight, sit down in them and feel great wearing them when the same pair of jeans before Christmas were cutting into me so badly that I had to change out of them because they were too uncomfortable. My other half has commented saying I look slimmer too now, I don’t know exactly how much I’ve lost – in four weeks I was down 8 pounds in total, but I’m not weighing myself til March 7th so will know then.

As more weight comes off you will be more encouraged. Go for it!

Husky

10:32 am
22 Feb 14
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I’m going to make it, I’m 100% sure 🙂 don’t know how much time it will take, but it doesn’t matter , I know I will lose the 20kg(44lbs) 🙂
Today we’re going out with some of our firends and it will be a test form me, usually when we go out I order some big burgers and stuff.. but even if I dont have a fast day today.. im going to try and order something less..unhealty 🙂 maybe fish or something 🙂 we’ll see if i can keep my temptations under the control 🙂