Hey Happy!

Sounds like you’re going at this quite healthily and with a good amount of enthusiasm. Keep us informed and you can always use us as a soundboard! We’ll never heckle you for “bad” results, but maybe the feeling of accountability will help! 🙂

Welcome happylc, Don’t worry about the TV food bombardment too much. It’s pretty hard at first, while you’re still dealing with fantom hunger pangs but if you’re anything like me you’ll develope a perverse pleasure in watching food ads/ cookery shows (they always seem to be on on my fast days) and weirdly (since I never really use takeaways) reading through takeaway menus that get put through my door rather than just throwing them in the bin 😀

Hi Happylc and welcome!
This is a great forum – every query you could ever have is covered here somewhere and everyone is so positive and encouraging 🙂
You may find some people are a bit weird when you tell them about this way of life because they think it sounds extreme so I’d say to you just to tell people you’re being good if they notice you’re not eating. When they start to notice that you’ve lost weight then you can tell them how you’ve done it!
Don’t panic about going over your cals a little – I often go a bit over but at least it is still a significant reduction. All the best and keep us posted, Claire 🙂

Congratulations, Happy! You’re smart to take measurements – weight can be really unpredictable, but measurements really tell the tale. I’ve been on the Fast Diet since July and recently reached my goal (lost 20 lbs). Along the way, I hit two weight plateaus (one for almost a month), but during that time my measurements (particularly waist) kept getting smaller. It really kept me on track to realize that I was still making progress even though the scales didn’t show it!

Regarding how to handle preachy friends, I direct mine to the website, particularly this post, which addresses some of the most common myths:
http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/here-are-seven-facts-you-should-know-about-the-diet-straight-from-mosley/ . I also refrained from talking much about the fast diet until I had lost quite a bit of weight – then if someone asked, I told them how I did it. It’s hard to argue with results that are right in front of your eyes!

Keep going, and good luck!

Nice Happy, 2% is great! Just calculate how much fat that is… 2% of your bodyweight lost! You’re probably retaining some water (or building muscle if you also started exercising) so don’t worry about the weight (although it doesn’t sound like you are).

About those preachy people… just show them in a few months that it works, and they’ll be begging you to teach them! I don’t really have preachy friends, most of my friends are into sports or something themselves and aren’t very judgemental. I do have one friend who, when I fasted a while back, said “Yeah you’re hungry, it’s like 14:00, just EAT something”. He didn’t really understand. Of course this is one of those guys who can eat anything he wants without gaining an ounce 😉 Still he is mostly joking about it and doesn’t give me real grief, he wouldn’t dare.

Water is very important for your body to get rid of toxins and stuff your body is trying to get rid of. Your body creates “waste” all the time, especially when burning fat and stuff, and it needs to secrete it through urine. So yeah, water is very, very important – I try to drink at least 2 litres a day.
An idea to drink more water:
– Have a bottle with you all the time, so on your desk at work, in the kitchen, on the coffee table etc
– Drink through a straw (this helps you to mindlessly drink more, just set the bottle on your desk and drink whilst reading something)

Water intake is very important for weightloss and I can imagine not drinking enough can make the weight loss slower. Some people have no problems when drinking little water, others react differently. It’s all about finding what helps for you!

I’d say keep drinking the water, and see what it does for your weightloss 🙂

Sage advice… that’s a first.

Hiya, happylc!
Glad to hear that increasing your water intake is helping, I drink a LOT on my fast days and feed days, but sometimes it’s a 100 cups of tea (or the like, lol) and maybe that’s not the best thing to have. (I love sparkling water though, I feel so *virtuous*)

“what do you guys say to friends who don’t get it and dump on you”
I read your replies with interest as I haven’t really told anyone yet, myself. I’m hoping someone might say ‘Oh, have you lost a bit of weight?’ I dream about that 🙂 But then the poor soul would probably have the breath crushed out of them whilst I enveloped them in grateful hugs ;D

All the best with 5:2 and good luck whith your exercise

Aud x

happylc

congrats!!!!! yipee 4 u 😀

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happy nonfastdays & fastdays & 5/2 & 4/3 & 6/1 & adf or 4/2/1 or 3/3/1 or 5/1/1 or adf w/1 & the fdl (fastday lifestyle) 😀

happy reversal & nonfastdays & fastdays & 5/2 & 4/3 & 6/1 & adf or 4/2/1 or 3/3/1 or 5/1/1 or adf w/1 & the fdl (fastday lifestyle) & lchf (lowcarbhighfat) 😀

Whoop whoop, great going happy! Sounds like I give sage advice after all 😀