It is disappointing, but we need to stick with it, not everyone is losing, there must a point when it will come off again. Keep fasting. JIP
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Hello LOACA – I read your posts more than I comment. Enjoy your comments. I log in during my work lunch hour (12:18pm CST – USA) and depending on my work load, I often don’t have time to comment after I read. Stay encouraged, and Boo — thank you for keeping this forum flowing. Hello JIP – you are such an encourager — I appreciate you.
I’m sore from my HIT (high intensity training) workout yesterday, but will return again this evening and then I’ll enjoy watching my handsome grandson (5 yrs old) play baseball. My gym workouts are 4-6 times a week, depending on personal schedule. I have things I do at home when I can’t make it to the gym. My workouts are shorter, however, the intensity of the training leaves me sweaty and sore — so I must be doing something right. Until my vacation in late June, I’ll be going with 4:3. Just finished my noon fresh fruits.
Again, stay encouraged. None of us want to go backwards! It is a slow process. I put on 40 pounds, or almost 3 stones, beginning age 35. Three children, career, marriage, home to care for — and I let my weight go. A regret. I have forgiven myself. It took years to put it on, so it will take a while to shed it. Keep smiling and moving! Jean
Hi JeanDee I think the most important step is acknowledging the weight gain and then taking action to try and do something about it. I too found that having children, 3 over 11 years, toke a toll on my body shape. So I have dieted over the years to try and stay relatively trim, not always succeeding. I attempted to do 4:3 this week but I think 5:2 is better for me and I usually eat my 500 calories over 8 hours. But it is trial and error to see what suits you best.
Keep going.
Hello Jean, not sure if it’s morning or evening with you, 9 pm here. Just you said it took years to put our weight on, just think we can get if off in the same number of months, I did, 17 months to get it off and keeping 99% of it off for 3 years on the 5 th July, we can do this together. Keep fasting. JIP
Hi Booboo
Thank you for my award.
The answer is yes, in fact I’ve been on my low GI eating plan for the last 18 months. Last year I had hit a plateau, then saw the program on fasting and used that to get my weight loss going again. I don’t want to lose much more as my BMI is much better and acceptable, plus I’m a regular blood donor and have been for many years. I have just donated my 29th pint, I must be healthy as it is used for neo-natal packs – premature babies! I now need to maintain.
I did make some flax milk, it’s quite different. I didn’t add the dates in the recipe and next time I will miss out the vanilla as I use unsweetened soya milk. I’m used to milk alternatives not changing the colour of tea much but flax milk has hardly any colour at all.
Yes support from others is very important and a good moral booster. X
Hello LOACA,
Not feeling 100% this morning, my sore throat and cough have been hanging around for nearly a week and I’m doing B2B Thursday and Friday (today). My fast calories will consist of Butter Menthols (16 calories each, total carbs 6, sugars 4) and several mugs of clear soup I think! I usually fast on Tuesday but that was a birthday and because I found a forgotten Christmas pudding I’d made and frozen in 2012, decided to have pudding and fast another day.
My pedometer didn’t get much of a workout yesterday but mysteriously managed to do four steps between 12:15 and 12:30am when I wasn’t wearing it…. must lead a secret life of its own when I’m asleep.
Hi all,
Well after a week with new puppy, I’m both sleep deprived and a kg heavier. The former I expected, the latter not so much, but isn’t entirely surprising as I haven’t fasted this week. I think I would collapse with no sleep and no food. I have read about studies showing weight is negatively correlated with the amount of sleep you get and had thought that it would be an issue of having more time to eat. On reflection, however, my current experience suggests that it’s about eating to give you the energy to continue to function when all you want to do is sleep.
Still I’m not too fussed as she is gorgeous and I’m sure one day I’ll be back to a more normal life, including fasting. Not that it will be anytime soon as my six year old grandson arrives in just over a week to spend two and a half months with us – part of the reason for getting the puppy at this time.
Maybe reading all your posts will remind me that there is the possibility of getting back on track at some time in the future.
Happy fasting.
Hi PreciousBooBoo, operation went well his hand is all bandaged up and I have to do the dishes, this is not my job. LOL
I am fasting today and I have walked 10k so far and I am playing bowls tonight so I should get another 6k in I have had 200 calories so far. Only tea and biscuits after the game and I can now say NO to biscuits.
Weather is smashing here in South Wales so should be a good game. Have a nice weekend all. JIP
Hi everyone
It’s been almost a week since I’ve had time to catch up with our LOACA group due to being extremely busy at work – only 3 days but I was flat out preparing for and teaching two classes, including one on Tuesday evening 6-9pm 🙁
Then when I wasn’t at work I was catching up with domestic stuff. Now have a few minutes to say hello and read all your posts.
Had a successful B2B Monday and Tuesday and up till today was quite moderate, but it has turned cold and rainy so made bread for lunch and … Not too bad on the scales hopefully but know that refined carbs have disproportionate effect on my weight. Unfortunately, while VLCarb diet works spectacularly for me I can’t keep it up because I love bread and potatoes; 5-2 is a good compromise. Weigh-in last Thursday showed a loss of 0.6kg for the week so very pleased (slightly over 1lb) and I had clocked up about 40k steps Monday-Thursday with all the running around.
Have just booked for us to see David Suchet in The Last Confession at the end of August so really looking forward to that.
Thanks for all your posts and keep up the good work.
Nicky xxx
Hi
I started the fast diet almost 4 weeks ago and have lost steadily since. I
I am 61 and have always exercised but decided to do the “fast exercise” program alongside the diet.Contrary to expectations, on my fasting days I feel energised so I also do my fast exercise on those days and more normal walking, jogging and swimming at other times.
I dont know if this would help you.
I have recently retired and although very busy, the change of pace and lack of work – related stress meant that I gradually put on weight.I have found the regime surprisingly easy and seen the benefits in unexpected areas – I feel much healthier, have a lower BMI and BP and my cholesterol level has dropped. So it is not only a matter of losing weight.I love the flexibility of the diet and its sound scientific basis. The only things I have cut out are cake and biscuits.
Keep going with this! Look at how you exercise and see if changes are possible. Good luck.
A quick hello JIP and Precious and thanks for the holiday wishes.
My husband managed to connect up to the world, so I grabbed his computer to check you all out.
Yes, JIP, I’m an Aussie. Well done. You get my award for cryptic clue solving.
Precious, there are large swathes of this wide brown land with no telephone or internet connection, even in capital cities! We use kangaroo pouches to send messages….only joking!
Have found it very hard to diet while away this time as we are with family. Will just have to cop it sweet.
Yes, not a typo, size 16 jeans last year. Size 9 now. 26 kilo is a lot.
Happy fasting
PVE
PreciousBooBoo
I can hardly keep up with one thread ! 🙂
Which is this other one?
Happy weekend all . . .
Back from babysitting my 9month old grand daughter in London as her nanny was off to hospital visits and have what I call grand-mother’s back. Little minx would only sleep when I put her in a sling facing me and go off walking to the park, and then wake in time for the swings which she adores.
No fast days but plenty weight-carrying and walking so hoping that was enough for the week . . . and really had a little appetite the whole 3 days, but had a fabulous burger back home, with my wonderful 95 year old friend at our favourite restaurant for lunch yesterday.
PreciousBooBoo will check the home menu but do send me the link just in case I do not find the other thread.
Have fun ladies . . . sun in and out here but stayed out for my tennis this morning . . . and me and partner I am playing in the tournament soon won so feeling pretty good . . .
Hi again Boo
long time since I posted here but still sitting on 21kg loss after the last 4 months of not very serious fasting, but I still do an hour cardio at the gym 5 days a week (and 13 months 5:2 water only fasting before that)
As for the health benefits:
The weight loss is great, but the really good result is the
Cholesterol from 7.2 (January), 5.9 (April), 5.4 (December)
Tryglicerides from 3.2 (January), 0.8 (April), 0.6 (December)
I did keep a very detailed food diary for the first 2 months but then stopped, I really don’t see the point of getting into the calorie counting treadmill, that’s why we all started fasting!
BMI from 34.8 to 30.1 to 26.61.
So since January no weight change (70kg give or take half a kg)
I feel great and will fast forever in some form.
Vicki
Hi Im fat and old pass menopause and so sick of feeling fat that I am going to start this diet tomorrow. I am hoping its not one of those diet fads that don’t work I can’t handle that dissapointment have tried so many things this is like my last try befor I buy xxs.lol So please help me out by replying and giving me tips ans hope. I just need a big puch. thanks Carol
Hi Carol
When I do fasting days I plan the meals in advance, that way I don’t spend time on fasting days looking at cookery books or food shopping! So plan today what you are going to eat tomorrow. If you can manage it spend time marking recipes you think you will like to eat on fasting days. I cook the recipe and my daughter, 18 but healthy weight, eats the same as me with extra carbs (on fast days we normally only eat protein and plants). I then serve the meal up and put the extr portions into containers and freeze them for another fast day. There are many ways you can do the 5:2. Some people have 12 hrs between fasts and others fast for 16 hours and eat all meals within an 8 hour window. That’s how I started the 5:2, I know it’s supposed to be a complete fast but if you can’t do that then think about what you eat in between meals. I usually eat about 550 calories, last week I ate: two poached eggs and slice of ham for breakfast, a cup of Bovril and some crudités for a snack, light weight cottage pie for my evening meal. I drink herbal tea and water. Fizzy water, no calories, also helps to fill you up if your tummy rumbles. I also use the My Fitness Pal app as a food diary. On non fast days I follow a low GI eating plan, the slow release carbs help to keep me full for longer. Like all diets / healthy eating plans if you fall off the wagon don’t give up. Oops a long reply, I hope it helps. Good luck and be positive.
Hi PreciousBooBoo and co
I have been busy playing bowls and out all day Saturday 30 miles with 3 buses and then we walked 4 miles back all along the seasea prom it’s a new walkway and it follows the sea back to the marina to the city. Weather was just right for walking no sun and just the sea breeze.
BooBoo our evening bowls starts at 6pm lasts about just over 2 hours. I usually play three times week, if I am selected to play. 2 afternoons games, Tuesday and Thursday.
I have just got the new Fasr Beach diet book, read some of it on my bus journey yesterday, the first thing she says, is cut out the alcohol! Have you been talking BooBoo? Anyway I am still reading it so I am still drinking. LOL. looks like I need to cut my rum and coke for 6 weeks. As I said before I am not an alcoholic but I enjoy practising.
fasting today and tomorrow, I find it very easy, in the FBD it says to leave as much of a gap between meals as possible, I have been having something even if only a cappuccino 100 calories,1pm is, do you have anything between breakfast and even meal? I am had a chocolate whey drink 10am and the other 6pm to day and plenty of black tea and water by the pint in between. Hoping to do it again Monday.
Happy fasting everyone. JIP
Hi Precious Boo Boo (your objection to initials duly noted, my apologies :()
I’ve not been posting very much lately – day job and dissertion both getting in the way – but I’m prompted to do so now by your mention of Colditz. We had a holiday in Germany in 2001. It was very soon after 9/11 and while we were in Berlin I was genuinely worried that some nutter might decide to fly into the Reichstag. We visited Dresden but became so enthralled with the city – particularly the area of Art Nouveau houses outside the centre which completely escaped the bombing – that we got to Colditz after nightfull. However, we did get a lovely dinner at a very un-touristy place nearby. We’re going back to Germany in July. We’ll be based in Berlin – great city, right up there with Paris and Amsterdam – and will almost certainly hire a car for a couple of days. Hopefully, we’ll get to Colditz on time.
Hi also to vicki. Your results are most impressive. Even when I was stuck on that pesky plateau for 5 months, it was comforting to see, as you have, that 5:2 was having such a good effect on BP and cholesterol levels. And as for your weight loss, wow! You may have plateau-ed (is here such a word?) but you’re still very close to home. Before the medics (or was it the megabucks slimming industry?) moved the BMI from 27.5 to 25 you would already be home and dry. I’m also hovering around 72 kilos – not bad seeing as I started Fast Dieting at 84, not to mention the 2 or 3 lost without even trying pre 5:2 when I was taken off the evil steroids prescribed for polymyalgia rheumatica. Another 10 kilos would be nice, but I’d be content with 6 or 7. Although it’s still technically overweight, I know from experience that I look pretty good at 65-66.
Last but not least, Speedy. It’s sounds as though you are back on form, physically and emotionally, after what was a not very happy time. It’s lovely to see.
While we’re on the subject of hiding wobbly bits, what does anyone else out there do about bingo wings? Mine are positively obscene! Easy enough when you are fully clad, but it makes sleeveless, or even short-sleeved, tops a no-no and cozzies a crime against humanity!
Carol and Hopeful. Like you I was fat and old. After 16 months of 5:2 I’m still old (correction, very, very old) but not quite so fat. It does work. It will work. However, it’s difficult to know how fast it will work.
It’s taken me 16 months to lose 12-13 kilos (about 2 stone), but then it’s the first diet, or should I say way of eating, that has worked for me post menopause. After giving up smoking just under 12 years ago, I found it impossible to lose weight, despite being extremely careful not to replace ciggies with sweeties. Prior to this, reduced calories meant reduced weight. Not any more, it didn’t! I confess I was often tempted to go back on the Marlborough Lights but never did.
Others, meanwhile, have lost weight very much faster. One reason may be that for those like me who were already eating pretty healthily the results are less spectacular than for someone who was previously chomping away at the fatty, sugary stuff.
Apart from weight loss, though, 5:2 has a lot of other healthy spin-offs – lowered blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose levels. You’ll probably have more energy, too.
There’s no single ‘right’ way to do the Fast Diet. You decide what works best for you. You’ll find lots of ideas on the forum and plenty of lovely people who’ve been there and done that ready to help and support you.
Good luck to you both! xx
Hi hermajtomomi, I wish I could come off the steroids, I think I told you I have the same problem with poloymyalgia and I have been on these all the time I have been dieting about 4 years or so. I have taken it on myself to reduce them by 1 gram from 5 grams to 4 since last Tuesday Ok so far. I will go to 3 grams in a day or two.
But is the stage I got to last year when I tried it before. And I went down hill fast only a day or two and I had to go back to 20 grams for a week and then had to reduce by a few grams a day over month and now I have been on 5 grams for about 9 months ago. Doing a B2B today and tomorrow. Hoping to lose for my WW class on Tuesday.
Happy fasting nice to see you here again. JIP
Oh JIPWGP, I do feel for you. What is so annoying is that the steroids do attack the polymyalgia and in a matter of days most of the pain and stiffness has gone, then, after a week or two, it has all gone, but STILL we have to take the wretched things. I’m not sure I would have got off the perishers in 2 1/2 years if I hadn’t been such a pain in the doctor’s neck. I also had acupuncture which seemed to help quite a lot. I still have it once a month or so, just to get energised. Even now, whenever I have a blood test an ESR count is included and the doc – who is actually relatively young and forward-thinking – has come to the conclusion that my ‘normal’ is higher than average.
When you say you ‘went downhill fast’ do you mean the pain returned or the ESR shot back up? Do they make you feel unwell? I felt OK – until I looked in the mirror!
One thing’s for sure. Losing 56 lbs while battling with the beastly things is nothing short of heroic. I’m green with envy. So I guess in a way we are quits. I got off the steroids the fastest, but you have lost all that weight in a relatively short time. Respect!
Hi All,
I second K8ie.
The weather here has turned cold, we had rain over the weekend and now it’s proper foggy this morning. It’s the start of my 8th fast day and so far I seem to have dropped 2kg so I’m very happy, especially as my pear shape is definitely less pear-y in the mirror, wearing jeans.
BooBoo – my B2B last Thursday and Friday went fine, I had an extra busy (and a mite stressful) day at work. At lunch time I had a glass of water and then went for a long brisk walk around the bike paths and away from shops, coffee smells and general temptation until it was time to reapply my nose to the grindstone. So no ill affects from doing two fast in a row, I would do it again but Monday and Thursday is my first choice.
Hi there ladies. Room for another? I’m 63 and must be one of the world’s leading yo yo dieters. Ever since I was 15 I’ve done the lot – WW, SW, Slimming Magazine Club, and I even ran a group for a while (anyone remember Rosemary Conley’s SSAG before she was famous?). So it’s not as though I don’t know what to do, and here I am heavier than I’ve ever been at 14 st! I’ve got an armful of reasons/excuses: various emotional events, a love of cooking and an even greater love of eating, a good social life and a very bad habit of sharing a bottle of wine with partner every night with our evening meal. We both began the Fast Beach Diet nearly 2 weeks ago, and at the first weigh-in last Wednesday I had lost 5lbs, which I was pretty pleased about I can tell you! I found the fasting days easier than I thought I would, but it’s the on-going motivation of a group blog like this that I need. Its great to hear others’ success stories and the hiccups and stumbling blocks on the way. It helps when your partner is doing it too, but neither of us is very strong-willed and all too often one of us will give in to the other’s suggestion of having a high calorie treat – usually a bag of Kettle Chips with yet another glass of wine! I’m pleased to report that I gave up alcohol over 2 weeks ago before even starting the FBD, and haven’t really missed it at all except yesterday when I could have killed for a glass of something white and chilled sitting in the sun with a bowl of olives! I didn’t, and had a diet Coke with a slice of lemon instead. Not quite the same but I felt oh so virtuous. So here’s to getting slim and fit – at this age we’re not going to get many more chances and that’s what worries us. Sorry for the long blurb!
Beat me to it, @sonunda! Here is the link to the Facebook page you were asking about, @aussienow: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LLOACAsWA/. The page was started as a spin-off from this thread. It is a closed group (which means it is not available to everyone on Facebook), so you have to click “request to join”. I haven’t posted on here in a while, but I read your comments every day. I started the Fast Diet in November and have lost 14 kg so far. I’m stuck on 79 kg at the moment (no loss last week). I also walk 23 km a week and do Michael Mosley’s version of HIT for 3 minutes a week on my exercise bike. I’m increasing my walks to 6 days this week, to see if it might nudge me off this plateau. I can sympathise with you, @hermajtomomi, regarding the “bingo wings”, and not to mention the cellulite that accompanies them, in my case. Now that I’m nearing 60, my skin is not springing back into shape like it used to, when I lost weight in the past. I remember when the contestants on the TV programme, “The Biggest Loser”(Australia)lost weight in a short space of time, some of them had to resort to surgery to remove the loose skin, even though they were young – a very expensive, painful procedure, causing long scars on the inner arms, and certainly not an option for me! Sometimes I think that when I reach my goal weight of 55 kg, I’ll just be a heap of bones in a bag of saggy, dimpled skin!
Hi there, everybody:
I am 51, started 5:2 a week ago. I forgot to weigh myself, I am allergic to scales as I have been on diets all of my life! But I promise to weigh myself tomorrow morning.
I started piling on weight when I turned 45: 25 kilos. I suddenly found that I had become a fat frumpy middle-aged woman who felt unattractive, unsexy and unfit, overnight. I lost 13 kilos 2 years ago on a high protein diet and have managed to keep 8 off since then.
My first week with 5: 2 has been enlightening:
1) I now know, it is relatively easy to fast.
2) I realised that the day after fasting, I needed less food.
3) I noticed I was eating out of frustration.
4) I had to take in that calorie counting is not necessarily bad. I registered on http://www.caloriecount.about.com and as a result I saw that I was eating hundreds of calories more than I should and that one can eat and be full replacing some foods for others.
So I am very excited to see what will be happening in the next few months.
I count upon everybody’s support.
Thank you….. 🙂
P.S. I am not exercising for the moment, I used to until 3 months ago, but now I am sitting all day in front of my computer as I ahve to finish a huge project!
Hi iouabook
I am another newbie, just starting today! I am 61, the weight has been slowly accumulating and having a waist is a dim and distant memory! I have always been slim, but found that once I hit my forties my old habit of eating everything and not putting on weight went into reverse. I tried the Dukan diet and did lose weight. However I am a pescatarian (that contradiction – a fish eating veggie!), and it got so boring and frankly didn’t feel healthy, so I am giving this a go. Good luck to you and to everyone just starting out. None of us want to be fat and frumpy to here’s to a slim and healthy future!
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