Well done Charlie!
Sometimes it takes longer than others, but it DOES pay off!
Keep up the good work 🙂

Great results everyone!! Good luck with operations and husbands and weight loss and blood work people
Good to hear!!

Welcome!! We hope you enjoy the forum.
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Hello fellow coffee lovers and Australian / Kiwis in this forum. I’m from the Sth Island originally, then Auck for 14 yrs and now Melbourne for 2 yrs.

I’ve been doing 5:2 since the Melbourne Cup, when I realized that I looked terrible even in a new dress. 🙁 Too fat!!

Redemption has occurred over the last 14 weeks … lost 9kgs and 20cm off my waist. Best yet, my BMI has gone down from 41% to 33% and cholesterol from 6.9 to 5.1.

I’m so glad it’s summer with all these lovely vegies – and I LOVE the heat. Not looking forward to winter. Will need lots of moral support and food ideas from y’all then.

Again, it’s great reading all of your encouraging posts – took me months to see they go past page 2 and the original date. Duh me!!

Cheers I have a waist,I think overall healthiness is the plan..I still need to get to the doctors to get my bloods re-done, hopefully that’ll happen in the next month or so.I guess part of the reason for my post was to re-interate the fact that any changes you make must be lifestyle changes and for me trying to brealk plateuing by going 4:3 , while it worked , i realised that if this is going to be a lifestyle change , then whats the rush ? If i’m another 8-10 kgs lighter at the end of the year , then thats all well and good..i dont under stand why people would treat this as a temporary diet, maybe those that have little to lose and have just come back from a month of holidaying and eating , then maybe in that case, for the rest of us though..enjoy the ride !

Is anyone else ‘starving’ today?
Why is it some days the rats are gnawing worse than others!

I’ve had a frightful headache all day and have been drinking plenty of fluids, as it’s been 35C since 11am, but am still battling the rats 🙂

Do you call it quits and choose another day to fast, or just miss the day altogether?

Aussienow, I struggled a bit today as well although I was feeling very
gung-ho about it earlier. I’m afraid I ate half a piece of my son’s toast at about 4.00 and even though I felt guilty I still felt better at the same time if that makes sense? If it’s really THAT bad, have something filling but sensible to eat and try again another day. One day won’t make any difference, congratulate yourself on what you’ve achieved, don’t put yourself down for having a bad day.

How’s everyone doing this week? I must admit to secretly enjoying fasting tomorrow….it gives me a strange sense of calm and inner peace, not to mention a great feeling of self-mastery.

Have a wonderful fast day tomorrow, if that’s your day too!

Well done Jaybee!
Funny that it works so well, even when we do slip up, but it’s also so flexible.

I am meeting friends for a catchup on Thursday, but have decided to move fast day to Friday, rather than be odd one out!

Extra line dancing could be the answer for us all jaybee! Congrats on your progress so far, even if you don’t get huge results quickly, there are often positive changes in you size, clothes and blood measurements. Yes that’s what I truly love about 5:2 too, you just keep going, even when the scales aren’t cooperating!

The other thing is being flexible like Aussie, it is your journey so you can say when and how you fast, hope you have a lovely catch up with your friends tomorrow and feel great fasting on Friday instead!

Welcome to the southerners Lainey! Nice you have joined us and I’m really looking forward to seeing how you’re going with this journey, especially dealing with an upcoming operation and diabetes type 2. A few words of advice… Keep hydrated, stay with your plan and keep a good eye on your blood glucose. Also measure yourself with all over to see where you shrink, its sometimes surprising where you lose weight from on this 5:2 WOE. I wish you all the best, please please keep posting! Do you think you will be continuing with this after your operation, or is it just until you have it in a month’s time?

Another tip is to use the calculator here to work out your daily requirements more accurately, it’s really helpful. I use it to re-calculate as I lose weight, as my calorie needs change as I go along.

Cheers for now!

Hi everyone,
Have been offline for a week or so as work and life have been super busy! Great to hear everyone’s updates – congratulations and commiserations where they should go 🙂
I’ve brought my fast day forward a day too this week as its big birthday celebrations in the office tomorrow and I’m not missing out on treats or drinks! Yay for the flexibility of 5:2!
Have to say that I’m loving my miso soup at lunch time – only 27 cals and it really keeps me going. Tried some of that ‘slimmers’ pasta on Mon night and it’s weird. Only 8 cals per 100gms and I wish I’d had two packets (portion sizes are really small) but its a good standby for the nights when I absolutely HAVE to eat. The last few weeks I’ve found that I don’t really need dinner so a fast day consists of a large skim flat white, a miso soup, several herbal teas and gallons of water. If I eat dinner, I get hungrier – weird.
Keep on keeping on peoples – we’re all gonna be gorgeous in a minute! 🙂
Cath

Hey, hang in there Charlie!
You can do it and will wear that dress 🙂

I empathize with the headaches so don’t let it get you down.
Fresh air and exercise is bound to help!

I love that there is a thread for us upside down people!! 🙂 My name is Trista and I’m in Canberra Australia, 26 years old, married, working as a barista and studying (well…at the moment procrastinating)Primary school teaching at Uni. I lost 20kg from my heaviest weight last year, but had not been able to shift any weight in this new year on a calorie restricted diet. Hubby and I watch all the Michael Moseley doco’s and when i heard about this and then read the book i decided to give it a go. i am in my 3rd week of fasting on Mon, Wed, and Fri’s…4:3 works better for me as i still wanted to lose another 20kg. since beginning this diet i have gone from 89.8kg to 86.1kg…and i am so happy and excited that i am finally seeing some progress again! i am 2kg off no longer having the dreaded “obese BMI”.

I have told everyone i know about how amazing this diet is, and i love how good i feel on fast days now that i am used to them. I actually need to have them, i feel kind of fresh after a fast. Anyway i just wanted to introduce myself, should probs do some studying!

Trista

Hi Aussienow and ihaveawaist,
Thanks for the encouragement, I had to give in, have something substantial to eat and take some pain killers. Tonight the headache is gone and I only went over by about 50 cals. I have learnt my lesson, even though I drink decaf coffee I now know that I need to have one in the mornings on my fast days. To everyone fasting for the rest of the week, good luck.
Trista wishing you well with the next few kgs and welcome. Charlie

Morning everyone! Well since enjoying this WOE since November last year, I had a fast day yesterday and failed! My first fast day where I have caved…. I had a really bad day (at work and in general) and I gave in to that chocolate bar haha. I still ended up having a low calorie day (maybe around 1000 calories instead of my TDEE of 1700) so that’s ok. I had a fast day on Monday, and am fasting again today.

On a positive note though – I put on a pair of pants this morning that I haven’t worn in a few months and VOILA they fit nicely! So that was a great incentive to have another go at the fast day today. Its all swings and roundabouts I find.

I have a few small figs to have for lunch today if I am hungry and will sip on my herbal tea and water and then have my homemade minestrone for dinner. At only 200 calories per serve for the soup – I added a few tablespoons of cooked risoni to go in it. So I will balance out my 500 calories fine today, maybe even a little under 🙂

Stay strong everyone – and positive

Had an early weigh in this morning and am down to 77kg, so only lost 1kg this week. Was initially a bit disappointed but a loss is a loss and if I’m honest I think I knew I’d gone a little bit over 500 cals yesterday. Cottage pie is my downfall!! Good luck to everyone fasting today and hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

I hear ya, lost 1.8 kilos in 3 weeks, went away for 3 days, 2.7 kilo on!???????

So over it.

Am trying to now eat for 2 hrs each day and have a 22 hr fast.
This is what I am trying, cos every time I go away I ain’t putting on…full stop.
There has to be a way where you can eat out and not put 12 kilos on.

I don’t have a huge bmi, if I did, then I would stick at it, but I am only 28 or summin anyway, if I was 30 plus like a lot are, I would stick at it.

So my plan is breakfast 30 mins.

Lunch 30 mins ( I time from the time I start a mouth full and if cake comes out 35 mins later..too bad, take it for later)

Dinner was 30 mins but I ran out of time and was guzzling, trying to gorge.
So I now have one hour. After that..no snacks, no midnight feast, no nothing,

No morning teas, afternoon teas…nothing,
So far had 2 days like this!! Ha ha
I can see I just eat cos it is there, so I have enlisted a friends help and she is trying it with me. She failed yesterday..ice cream ‘ cos no room in freezer’ so finished old tub. To make way for food, then chips, then continued eating!

I think she and I are programmed the same, but she is over 110kgs ( I’m 87) and the same height, so she has more to shift.

Anyway, just letting you know where I am at.
And also for those who know Nika, and are in Auckland…we are doing lunch 26 th feb if you want to join us.

Hi poppylocks and dumpling,

Sorry to hear about your weight gains, I faced a similar problem and couldn’t work out why, until I had a serious think about what it was I was eating, rather than just the calorie value of the food.

I had two scary gains after my fast days on which I ate out. They both turned out to be salt-laden. And although salt is free of calories, it stays in the kidneys and blood stream and absorbs water, like osmosis…..so once I did some online research and had a day free of salty foods,( lots of water and salads) my weight returned to its previous state, quickly shedding the fluid I retained.

So give it a try and look up info about fluid retention, it’s fascinating! Also look up all of your fave foods to see how much salt or sodium levels they contain. You might be able to make a big difference to your weight by simply adjusting the level of salt in the food you eat.

I realized that some of my fave foods like cheese and soya sauce are very high in salt. So now I eat them in moderation and increase other flavours like lemon, chilli, pepper, garlic, lime and basil.

Good luck! Don’t give up on yourself!

Well, my scales are going to be mothballed I think, after this morning’s weigh-in.
I’ve been using digital ones, which I thought would be accurate, but my Dr’s were showing 1.9kg lighter.
I bought some cheapy ‘ordinary’ ones, but the divisions are too close to read.
Grrrr….

Like others this week, I have not lost any for 2 weeks and only gained 400gms.
Perhaps I’ll weigh one last time tomorrow 🙂
Nevertheless, I have been watching my off days food closely and drinking plenty, as it’s hot and steamy here again.

Regarding the salt issue, I don’t have salt at all and the only salt added is a light sprinkle on fish n chips every so often.
I’m not aware of fluid retention, but will certainly keep an eye out.

We had a 10km beach walk this morning and according to the digiwalker, I lost 115 cals..lol..well done me!

@aussienow – so long as you regularly use the same scales it’ll show whether you’ve lost weight or not. Switching from one set to another isn’t helpful … but we all want the ones that have us lighter 😉

Great thoughts Dayna! I completely agree. If it was someone else we’d be more forgiving and gentle, why can’t we be this way for ourselves?

You must have passed your 700 grams on to me, @peggy! Commiserations to @poppylocks and @dumpling on your weight gains. It sounds like @ihaveawaist could be right about fluid retention as a possible cause. Not in my case, though! I’ve been away on a terrific holiday at Cabarita Beach in northern NSW, eating out every night and drinking several glasses of wine daily, so I know how I gained those 700 grams this week. I hope I minimised the gain by re-arranging my fast days to last Sunday and yesterday (instead of Monday and Thursday). I craved a flat white espresso yesterday, though, so added some skim milk and 1/4 teaspoon of sugar to my midday cup (developed a coffee habit while away, too). I also walked 4km along the beach every day, as well as doing a couple of cliff-climbing walks to Norries Headland. Hopefully, I’ll be back on the downward track next week.

Thank you ladies for your support and encouragement.
I just think I am being a sad sap, cos I’m not travelling the world still!

I miss seeing new things and doing new things……!!!!!
Ha ha

My head will catch up one day with my situation and realise I’m home, and a holiday is suppose to come to an end, otherwise that would be called home!

Thanks everyone and well done to those actually losing 😉

Those are truly amazing results flange! Especially since you’ve only been doing it for a bit over a month!
The six week holiday sounds wonderful, lucky duck! You have to watch out for those ‘all you an eat buffets’ when out and about, but it sounds like you’ve worked out a few good strategies to assist you keeping on track, as well as having a fun time.

Have a lovely fasting week everyone, cheers!

I’m having a good fast day so far!
Have made sultana cake for craft group smoko tomorrow, put together ingredients for tuna patties for dinner, with a salad.

Thanks to the ladies on FB, for the lunch suggestions and the weightloss.com.au site for some excellent meals recipes!