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Mainbeam

11:22 am
30 Apr 19
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Hi folks,

Day one of 5:2 for me. I feel severely bloated at the moment due to totally over indulging on holiday. Ive felt out of shape for some time now and although I have been running and exercising, I always suffered from inertia. I’m a positive person but still find it hard (like I’ve lots my mojo or something). I’ve got two children as well that consume a lot of my energy. I’m not trying to make excuses by the way.

I did 5:2 a few years ago and had success. Nice flat stomach and no more uncomfortable feelings in my clothes. I watched the Horizon documentary again yesterday and when the health implications were discussed, that’s when it hit me to start up again. I’m a train driver so I worry about concentration lapses while at work so hoping it will be ok. It was last time I did it. I have two Americano coffees every day so that keeps me alert.

I’m currently 15 stone and 6ft tall. I want to get down to about 12.5 stone and reduce waist measurements. But the main reason like I said, is for the proven health benefits this diet can give.

I will keep surfing on here for inspiration when the inertia comes knocking- which I know it will!

Thanks for reading.

M

Mr Data

1:20 pm
5 May 19
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Best of luck Mainbeam.

You’ve done it before, so you can certainly do it again.

It took me 6 months to go from 14st 12lbs to 12st 3lbs when I first began 6 years ago (I’m 6′ 2″), so your target is quite similar to what I did.

Once you get there just keep it going this time so it becomes your way of life thereafter.

All the best,

Mr. Data

Mainbeam

1:48 pm
5 May 19
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Hi Mr Data, thanks for the reply.

That’s inspiring to know you did it in 6 months. What type of exercise did you do in that time and how often?

Cheers,

M

Mr Data

7:05 pm
5 May 19
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Hi M,

I’m not sure I can remember now. I’ve always tried to walk one day at weekends, usually only 3 – 4.5 miles, so I was almost certainly doing that, plus walking holidays. I may have been swimming once a week back then too. These days I’m still walking but swimming gave my left shoulder some real problems, and I got foot cramps too, so I gave that up. I now do HIIT on a bike on a turbo trainer 3 times a week. 60 sec warm up then 30 secs max intensity in a high gear with max load, followed by 30-60 secs recovery, repeated 4 times and then with a 60 sec cool down. It doesn’t take very long.

I lost the weight at an average of just less than 1.5 lbs per week, although it definitely wasn’t always a consistent loss, and some weeks my weight went up. The long term trend was always down though, so I always believed it would work if I persevered. Unlike a lot of people I weighed myself everyday (and still do) so if a weekly weight indicated a gain in weight I wasn’t that dispirited because I’d seen the daily fluctuations and it could easily be that the weekly weight just happened to coincide with a heavy day.

Best of luck,

Mr D.

Mainbeam

7:24 pm
5 May 19
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Hi Mr D.

That’s great, even better to know that you wasn’t obsessively training to reach that weight. I doing 2/3 mile runs mixed with a bit of weights/boxing training so hoping I can have the same success as you. I understand everyone’s body and metabolism is different so I won’t let that dishearten me if I don’t have the same results as you. The key word is to persevere like you say.

I’ll post here when I have some decent results.

All the best,

M