Thanks for the warm welcome, BooBoo!

I feel incredibly positive about this WOE, and seem to be dealing with the head stuff better than I have in a long time. I’m amazed that I’m relishing the hunger pangs – I’ve always been terrified of being in the least bit hungry and head straight for the fridge (for a low carb snack of course), usually at 5.30pm when I get in from work. Must learn not to weigh daily (1.8lbs after first fast day on Monday, 0.8lbs up this morning 🙁 )

Very happy to be part of the LOACA waggon. Onwards and very downwards!

Thanks very much Metchick. It will be interesting to see how it goes from here. As you rightly say, even if the weight loss slows up, it will be worth it for the health benefits. These days, I’m as concerned about those as the vanity side – ‘though it’s a great feeling that the size 18 jeans are getting very loose….! Good luck with your own FD. If you can avoid the daily weighing, I’m sure that will help x

Fantastic JIPWGP! An inspiration to us all!

hi i am aged 53 5ft 3 and menopausal. started this diet february 2013 having read mm’s book and kate harrison’s fast 5 2 diet book. i got to goal of 2 stone loss in july and have lost 3 stone in weight now so maintaining. i had high cholesterol and was a weight of 12 stone 8lbs. now i am in the range of 8 stone 8 to 8 stone 13 and maintain with 1 fast day a week and 2 if i have had a holiday. my cholesterol is down i have more energy and love exercisee. my menopausal flushes are almost non existant now. i have read fast exercise and do 2-3 hiit sessions a week either with weights, kettlebells, or walking or runnng. i lost weight at 2lbs a week and the odd 3lb a week if i had upped my exercise.

Gosh Buckslady, that’s brilliant! Were you into exercise before you lost weight? I must admit the only exercise I really enjoy, apart from long walks with the dogs, is swimming, and I’m quite a way from the nearest pool. Also, I’m not over keen to display large areas of cellulite in public at the moment! I’m hoping it will become less apparent when I’ve lost a significant amount of weight.

Sorry smiffy, I got your name wrong.
Thank you, I am staying around on these boards because I want to keep to goal and just under if I can. And it’s fun hearing everyone’s comments.
Happy fasting. JIP

Hi BooBoo
http://www.learntonordicwalk.co.uk/
I have read that you use 40% more muscle and all different one too. Hopefully it will be good for upper body too.
The walk is on a bicycle track and it’s for 1 hour, there are other groups about 10 miles away and this one was about 15 miles but as you know my bus service is very good and I do have a bus pass, we do not pay in Wales.
I will not be going far, I will let myself have a day or two with out counting calories but not going too mad. I will B2B sun/min still and if feel it slipping I will do another FD. It’s 3 years in July I got to WW’s goal and with you lot and WW I feel in control. With all my walking and do not for get the trampoline I can do this.
Congrts on 2000 threads I am glad I got into these.
Andy Murray as just started playing Tennis so I must finish again. Sorry. Go ladies go. JIP

I failed to ask — Boo, is your health almost back to normal? The only nice thing about having a cold / virus / sinus infection is that you shouldn’t have another one for a while. Take care.

Hello to all – Jean

Hi Smiffy, I think I told you I lost 56 lb. but if you go to my profile by just holding down on my JIPWGP to the left you can read it all. I do not want to bore everyone again with my journey. I wish you luck but you will not need it just these boards and these very committed 5-2ers. I like walking and when I first started I walked to my ww class in my village which was about 10 minutes away from my home, but I took the long way round and walked for 30 to 40 mins. I still go WW class but now I do a morning class and it’s about 6 miles so I take the bus and get off a few stops early. I think I was so determined because I put my photos on my computer when I got back from a cruice February 2010 and I was enormous, if I did not look old, people would have thought I was a pregnant 64 year old. LOL. We can do this together. Onwards and downwards as BooBoo says. JIP

You’ve done wonderfully well JIPWGP. Your bi-monthly visits to your sister and brother in law sound fantastic and you’ve obviously coped very well. It’s so easy to fall off the wagon after a good night out, but you’ve obviously been able to get back on track. I’m out for a Thai meal tomorrow night and think I will follow your example and have my usual fasting day breakfast and snack lunch, with a complete fasting day on Friday. I will then have to fit in another over the weekend ready for my trip to Scotland on Monday. Happy days!

Just arrived home from our latest jaunt. Congratulations JIP. You have equalled my weight loss. No mean feat. We must be healthier for it!
As regards holidays… I am 1kg heavier, but with fasting today and maybe Saturday I know I will lose it again.
We had a fabulous time touring around wine growing regions, not skimping with food or wine tasting, but as we are both so much lighter we seem to automatically eat less. Had great fun paddling a canoe and doing plenty of bushwalking too.
Just awaiting the deliveries of the boxes of fine wines we purchased!
You can holiday, enjoy yourself and maintain the weight loss if you strictly keep to under 400 cal two days a week during the rest of the year.
Don’t skimp on flavour, just calories.
Keep up the good work JIP, Precious and all your devoted followers.
Your skinny mate, PVE

Hello everybody:

I couldn’t find the scales! Can you believe? Just when I had decided to weigh myself, it appears my husband hid them! I will see if he can tell where they are by tonight.

Anyway, I have noticed that my clothes are looser and I am not as hungry as I used to be. However, with the hot weather, down here (I live in Seville, Spain) ice-cream is a huge temptation. And I fell for it yesterday and the day before yesterday, though always within my 1,800 calorie a day limit. But once the craving is over, I am fine and I can survive without something I really enjoy for a couple of weeks. When I am really desperate I have a can of diet coke, but never more than 2 a day and only if I am fasting.

I know one can eat normally on non-fasting days, but when I started counting the calories I was eating I was shocked! I had never realised that a lindor chocolate ball had 80 calories (I haven’t eaten any chocolate for the past 2 weeks!) or that 150g of avocado are 275 calories! Or that a tablespoon of olive oil is 99 calories! My goodness!

I love fresh vegetables and fruit, however I need good ideas for dressings, I am rather bored of olive oil, vinegar and salt. I don’t like yogurt dressing, nor am I ready to trade olive oil for any other type of vegetable oil.

Is fizzy water with a slice of lemon a good option to fill up an empty stomach on fasting days??

Congratulations to all the high achievers. It makes me want to go on….

Best, 🙂 🙂 IOUB

Hi iouabook

I always drink fizzy water which is sugar free on fasting days, particularly when my tummy groans! I also love Lindor chocolate balls but luckily only eat them occasionally. I have just spent the day walking around the South of England show with our school. We entered a Winnie the Pooh themed garden, every child in school helped and we came equal first! Hopefully it has been good exercise, fasting day tomorrow. X

Hi everyone

Precious – hope you enjoy your weekend at home – is it far from where you live?

In answer to your question, haven’t cracked any significant milestones by anyone else’s standards but I was very pleased to see the scales showing I had finally entered the 83 kg (+ 0.8)zone but also that my BMI is now 31.4, down a two full points since I calculated last time.

Public Holiday for Queen’s birthday here (yes, I know, her birthday is in April) so may only be able to manage 1 fast day next week, will see how I feel on Wednesday but usually quite tired after the first day and have weight training on Wed after work.

keep well ladies!

Hi PVE

I don’t drink but also find refined carbs of any sort are disastrous for my waistline. As for fat girl cleavage – I’ll be very glad to get back to 12A (or maybe 12B) bras which I wore up until 20 years ago – isn’t that a confident statement? 🙂

I love autumn, winter and spring. We live in the Adelaide Hills where bushfire is an ever-present problem in summer so always glad to see the first autumn rains.

Have a good long weekend if Her Maj’s birthday applies where you live.

Nicky xxx

Hi BooBoo

They were delighted, it was quite a stressful day taking 150 children to a show where there can be up to 20,000 people there in just one day. To top it all they were filmed and had their 5 seconds of fame on BBC South news last night! Well I did survive, fasting day to do just had my lovely Beauty Breakfast shake.

hello, I am just starting this 5:2 diet, hopefully to lose 5 kilos that are creeping in on my 58 year old body….very excited to get healthier eating habits…wish me luck:)