This is my last one as I must get to bed.

http://www.womanmagazine.co.uk/diet-food/slimmer-dinners-meals-under-300-calories-31299

I hope these help. Xx

Ginette

Go gal Audrey

I’m with you today, doing a b2b myself, first day is always easier though, – break the day into quarters, once you are into the third quarter you will be holding on for dear life – and be sure to fill up with water!

And plan something tasty for tomorrow!

Hi Audrey!!!

Not the time to get disappointed, its goods in transit – keep the water intake up, might keep the scales high for a while, but in the long run gets everything flowing – literally!

Heck, was going to suggest you do the cupboards, but would have been pretty cheeky as I desperately need to do mine, and I’m sat watching telly, while listing on my computer – and of course not dressed yet – eeck! Just a third of a cup of tea so far though, sometimes lying on the settee is good for weight reduction. OH has just put some croissants in the oven, which I think is grounds for divorce, but these things are sent to test me – size 14 or even 12 by Christmas or crumbly pastry now – get thee behind me satan with the pastry, if all else fails, I’m going online to buy a frock!!!!

we’re doooooooomed!!!

Oh dear milena

Let me know how many you buy!

Ian came in the other day I was having fruit for lunch, he had 2 chicken butties, pkt of crisps, cheese and onion my favourite, then followed this with piece of banana bread! He has lost 2lb HOW HOW HAS HE LOST AND I HAVE GAINED! Men are soo lucky in the weight loss game!
My wedding suit is now for sale a size 14 if your interested hehe. …
Good luck my fast friend

I am having an oxo for my lunch as we speak!

Audrey

Ha! I meant to say that I love oats porridge – I have it every day for breakfast – always with coconut milk – not the tinned milk… the cartons which appear low in cal’s. If Carbs are a no no for the 2 days, will have to have a little think….

xx

Hi Audrey,

Thanks for feedback! And you are right… as my granma would often say “a little of what you fancy does you good” I will stick to my lovely porridge and have my bread on Saturdays (as I love it plus its simple to make a packed on the go lunch with rolls)

One thing I have tried this week – and I will have to see how I get on with it… I love my food – portion control??? Whats that??… I absolutely eat with my eyes… to this end, I have been using a side plate for my main meal as a means to control my portions. I know I will develop the self control and discipline needed, this way it might make it a little easier to begin with.

xx

thanks for the offer, Audrey, but I’m hoping to wear my wedding outfit to my son’s wedding, if and when it ever happens.

Gawd, I do make myself laugh sometimes – last wore it 21 years ago – though it was bought at Jenner’s and they had to take it in when I got it, wonder if they cut off the excess materiel or just folded it.

Hi Audrey

Good luck on your back to back. I have done one of these by accident! I hope you have recovered from your busy day. It is so unfair that mem lose more easily, just one of those things I suppose.

Thank goodness I don’t have anybody wafting food around me, well done to you and Milena for staying strong.

Hi Stingray

Yes carbs are a weakness of mine as well, I try to restrict them as I find they make me feel hungry. I also find I don’t lose weight if I don’t restrict them. This is just me and hopefully things will be different for you.

I do know that on a slimming world diet I ate mostly carbs, pasta, jacket potato, rice and bread and restricted meat. I lost hardly anything. The person that I went with did the opposite and had mostly protein and lost over a stone in a few weeks, she also had a packed lunch of three egg sandwiches made with Danish bread, this was her allowance of carbs for the day. Of course I am not counting vegetable carbs in here as they are complex and so didn’t count. I went again a few years later did the same thing and had the same result.

I know that when I started 5:2 I restricted carbs much more than now. Then I lost more now it has really slowed down. Next week I shall go back to a week like my first weeks, I shall see then if this helps.

Here is a link about carbs.

http://authoritynutrition.com/how-many-carbs-per-day-to-lose-weight/

But obviously you may be someone who can eat them without worrying and if that is so then good. I wish I was but I have got to move some more weight and I shall worry about what I eat when I get to maintenance.

Good luck all of you falsting, I am as well.

Ginette

Hi Audrey

if you are not hungry, don’t eat! But have a drink of water. See it as banking for a day when the siren calls, then you can eat a few hundred calories WITH NO GUILT!

I think one of the pluses of doing this long term is that we just don’t get hungry as much, so go with the flow, if we can crack eating only when hungry – and stopping when we have had enough, not when we are full – even if it is a couple of mouthfuls of something – then we really have cracked it, and the carbs, no carbs discussion won’t really matter. Wish I could say I do this now, but when we are out I have taken to buying only one sandwich or whatever we are having, and sharing with OH. And its usually enough. Not always, but usually.

I have got some home made stew and dumplings out of the freezer ready for later, but am just worried that if I eat it I will not be able to stop!

Think I am going to wait for a while and see how I feel later. If I eat my stew I will still be under 400 kcals for the day.

Ginette even the cat missed you, but not as much as us, it was too quiet without you on here, glad we are back to normal service,

Thanks ladies

Audrey

Thanks ginette think that’s probably what I will do.

Audrey

Well, a game of two halves

1 VERY small serving of muesli and semi skimmed milk at lunchtime, 2.30 ish.

2 small bowls of soup and half a slice of wholemeal bread – a very thin slice, at 7pm

Then a cup of tea and two digestive biscuits.

Over 500 cals I suspect! Haven’t worked out the calories in the soup but a clear broth and veggies with a couple of strips of chicken must be low, especially as I managed to skim off any fat.

On the other hand, the biscuits were lovely.

Must say I feel very full, and the gram of fibre in the two biscuits are what the doctor ordered!! lol!

Actually quite happy. I’m still trying to do – over 5 days – 2 or 3 fasts and the remainder semi fasts – then very mindful on the other two days, so still very much on my plan for the month. Not sure if I can do it for more than a month, so the plan is to assess on the 30th. Off to Copenhagen on the 8th of October, so October’s plan has to incorporate that.

Your hot chocolate sounds nice though, well done for under 1000 in two days. Your are a star!!!

Just worked out the soup, Audrey, under 200 Total including the bread. Wow, so even with my sugar in tea I’m well under 600 cals.

I think soup might be a bit of a life saver!

I need to do something to put an end to the yoyoing, and I can pretty much do anything for a month, just hoping it reboots me. Wouldn’t recommend it long term, that way lies madness – and I couldn’t do it – but I’m halfway through now, might as well try to get to the 30th.

Hi ladies it’s me franee2 better known as Fran reporting in for the first time in a dogs age. Please forgive my absence, it’s not for any reason other than I’ve not been following the 5/2 WOL. That’s not to say I haven’t been plugging away at losing weight. It’s that I’m on a different path right now. I think I told you of the possibility of me needing bariatric surgery to make way for some other necessary vascular surgery. Well I’ve attended an assessment clinic and there I was put on a severely restricted diet consisting of protein shakes and water along with a very small protein rich meal. Well I’m pleased to report that I’ve lost 35 lbs since the last time I posted on the forum. I hope to be under 200 lbs by the end of this week. I’ve been so committed to this diet that the possibility exists that I might have dieted my way out of needing the surgery altogether. I’ll find out when I go back for my follow-up appointment on Oct 19 th. I hope you forgive my silence, but I have been lurking around following you’re exploits and adventures. I think of you often and if you don’t mind, I’ll keep you up to date with mine from time to time. Keep up the fight ladies and remember, regardless of how we get there, we’re all in this together.
Fran xx

Hi Audrey & Milena, super well done on the B2B fast days. What a buzz! and what motivation you both have.

For sure I agree with the sentiments around giving up carbs altogether and the fall out once they are back on the menu.

Ginette, hope your fast day went to plan! I am hopeless on carbs. I just have to look at a breadroll I gain weight. If ever I bought fresh baguette – I would eat it in the car before getting home!! Gluttony is my name. Having said that, I can control that if I dont buy it. So I will continue to eat my lovely porridge for breakfast, and my breadroll for my Saturday lunch to go.

I bought a spiralizer – not used it yet but as soon as it arrives I will use that to make courgette pasta. Does anyone else use this as a substitute for pasta?

Today is my fast day, with weigh-in & meansure-in looming on Sunday. Bit nervous, bit excited and really hoping to have lost at least 2 pounds, while recognising that losing can slow down after wk1.

Have a great day all.

Lxx

Hi ladies

I am sat here planning my food for the day

Am planning on having some pea n ham soup homemade for my lunch.

Then roast chicken with roasted, onion, tomato, peppers and mushrooms for evening meal.

This leaves me with enough kcals left for a slice of my home made banana bread and some hot chocolate later yummy!

I love the day after a fast day!

Stingray, I think ginette does courgette spaghetti no doubt she will be along soon, I haven’t tried it but it does sound good.

Milena, have a good day, enjoy your drink!

Have a good day be you fast or feast

Audrey

Hi Fran

Nice to see you back here, well done on your wonderful loss, as you now the people here are a great support. We have a couple of new people they are all nice and helpful.

Whichever way you are doing it, you are still losing weight and in your case I know it’s just what the doctor ordered. Let’s hope it speeds your way to your other surgery. One lot of surgery is definitely enough!!

Hi Stingray

I have bought a spirilizer as well, I have also just bought some courgette spaghetti, so I will let you j ow when I have tried it, I have both that and the cauliflower cous cous. I think I will cook it with some seasoning.

That won’t be today but maybe tomorrow. I am trying to eat low carb not no carb, although when I bought this I had obviously forgotten what I ordered in my shopping delivery!! Maybe needs to start the week after. I am obviously feeling the chill as I have a lot of comfort food. I know I shall be having curry this evening as SM fancied it last week and I put it off to this week. So tonight it is. We only have half each but also some chips with it…….does that sound like low carb, I don’t think so. Like you if I buy a baguette I would eat it.

Real French bread in France the Miche type, I get cut into slices when I am there, this lasts a long time as the slices are thin and only half the weight of English bread. Delicious as well.

Hi Audrey

Banana bread sounds lovely. Jamie Oliver was making eggy bread with banana this week. Dinner sounds lovely.

Sadly my food day doesn’t sound good at all!!

Have a good day all, I have a friend coming soon and we have a few weeks to catch up on as she always goes away for the summer.

See you all later.

Ginette

Hi Fran,

I am new to the forum and 5 2 in general. Super well done on your loss to date. I dont think it matters which path one follows – its the support that is needed. I am sorry to hear that your health is not good, you sound really positive about the possibility of perhaps not requiring the surgery after all!

I have an unbelievable amount to lose but…. big sigh…. the only way to eat an elephant is in very small bites! and I have some goals I have set for the immediate future… as I cannot conceive how I will manage to lose all that I need to. Instead of focussing on the end goal… I am looking at the small bites!

Keep reading this forum! the ladies here are fab!

xx

Hi Audrey,

Fantastic job on your weightloss! WOW!! Good on you.

I feel like I have joined a brilliant forum so here goes… confession time!

Hi – My name is Loz and on Monday 14.09.2015 I weighed myself at 18 Stones (252lb or 114kg) My Long term ultimate goal is to weigh in at 11 Stone (154lb or 70kg)

Like I said 🙂 very small bites. I did not get this way overnight… and I am really excited having found this “diet”.

I get the feeling though that I will be turning to all the lovely ladies on ehre for some morale boosting tips.

Have a lovely day!

Lozxx

Hi loz

If you look back through some of the posts you will see that ginette has her own little corner in which she talks about her weight loss and gives tips to newbies! I am sure it will be of use to you, I used to laughingly call it her welcome pack! I know a lot of people have found it very useful, I think it is on the just started/welcome section and is called something like my 10 week journey?

My tip for you would be log your weight and when you grow out of some clothes that fit you now keep them, I have and I now call them my clown trousers! But when it’s a dark day and you feel like giving in its well worthwhile to get them out and see just how far you have come. A walk of a 1000 miles starts with the 1st steps!

Glad to meet you loz

Ginette if you are about can you post your link again please. Another welcome pack is needed! Haha
Audrey

Hi Loz

Missed your last post sorry. We were obviously writing at the same time, yes I came from 20 stone and my target is 11 stone.

I log weight loss on there every 10 weeks, I would imagine a 10 week update is due, so that may be soon now I have a bit more time.

I remember thinking about all the things that I had learnt and about all how my body responded in the first 10 weeks. I learnt a lot in this time and wanted to share it as I thought it may be helpful to others.

Here is a link to that thread, a one here please add your 10 week weight loss as it is really helpful to peopke new to the diet, we are all different so if your weight loss is more or less than mine it doesn’t matter, it shows that we have lost and sometimes how the journey was.

https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/my-10-week-weight-loss-week-by-week/page/2/#post-106384

I really hope this helps.

Ginette

Hi Beverley

Well done on not giving in. I love cheese, one I have never tried is feta. Have you tried it?

Ginette

Hi Ginette K,
Feta cheese is a great cheese and is naturally linked to a Greek salad. However there are many other recipes that use Feta. One is with Water melon. Simply cut some Water melon into bite size chunks, deseed, mix in some small piece of Feta (not to much) toss in some torn mint leaves and enjoy.
Not really a Fast day meal but great any other day. Remember like most cheese, only have a small portion. Up here in the North East another cheese delicacy is to have a thin slice of Wensleydale (of Wallace and Grommit fame) with a slice of nice fruit cake
and a cup of tea….wonderful.

Hello Ladies!!

I did not have the best day yesterday. Have put it behind me and am having a better day today! 🙂

Hope y’all have a terrific weekend!

Loz xx