Hi I’m 44 in a week, and have been searching for a way of eating that will help me lose weight for years, I eat pretty healthily anyway, I live on a croft have lots of fisherman friends, home grown venison & pork, chicken & turkey, We also grow lotso f our own veg. My trouble is , well are, portion size, I love my food and I am really good at maintaining my weight. We have lots of friends who we invite over for dinner & then they invite us back. Ive tried low carb, VLCD, Duckan etc but none of them seem very sociable or long lasting.
I went to buy the fast diet book off Amazon and I had already bought it lol, so decided to give it a proper go. On the VLCD I have done its just over 600 cals a day so I knew I could last on 500cals. Ive been on the diet since Monday, fasting Monday and Wednesday. Ive lost 3lbs so far, I weighed today as I always have weighed on a Thursday and didnt want to leave it another week before I looked. I am so pleased, I know I can do this. I want to lose 4 stone. I have gained all that through 4 pregnancies, I had lost half the weight before becoming pregnant again, so my weight crept up and up,after my last child was born I lost nearly 20lbs on the low carb low fat Duckan diet, then I had a mirena coil fitted and the weight piled back on, over 2 years I gained 2 stone, so I got rid of it. I was devastated , but knew I could just go back on to the diet and loose it again, not so, somehow it wont budge. So here I am and I cant believe I lost 3lbs, Im not hungry today and its not a fast day, I wasnt hungry when I woke up, I had toast & a banana for breakfast , now its nearly lunch time, Im still not hungry really, I dont care how its working but it is definitely working 🙂

Hi Sams, thank you, yes Im too impatient to wait till next week and also wanted to see if it had gone down, I was expecting a lb loss but 3 is amazing. Im not weighing till next Thursday now. I am following this to the letter, so really hope to see a los of even another lb next week , but 2 would be good
Good luck to you too x

Hi Dilly, I have measured myself with a piece of string which I have hidden from everyone, I dont know what it measures yet. I am going to measure with it next Thursday when I have been on the diet longer. I started on Monday so not sure there would have been much difference in 3 days. Then I will leave it for a month and go back. Looking forward now to Monday mornings now as that is my first fast day of the week. Once I know its working and I can do it, I will stop weighing myself once a week and go on to fortnightly then monthly. I used to weigh every day, but soon I wont need to 🙂