Good luck sweets x, I started at the beginning of January having discovered that my bmi had crept in to the overweight zone. I hadn’t had much success losing any weight over the past few years, it certainly gets more difficult the older you get – I’m 37 now, having said that I’m not sure I was trying as hard as I could have, but part of that was because I know that I won’t stick to a “diet” forever and so when finished the weight will just all go back on. This way of eating is do-able long term (forever in my mind) and so I was keen to get going. TBH I would have been happy at losing half a stone, but I’m now 22lb lighter and back to well within the healthy zone for my BMI, I just can’t believe it. I have dropped two dress sizes, and haven’t been this slim since my early 20’s. I look and feel so much better. I wish I had taken a “before” photo, but I guess when you’re overweight the last thing you want to do is have a photo of yourself in your underwear! I did take measurements and my waist is 5.5inches smaller (yikes!), so its now less that half my height – said to be a good sign health wise.
My aim now is to drop another 4lb which gets me bang in the middle of the healthy BMI but it’s a slow going now (my average weight loss while sporadic was 1lb a week but has gotten less the smaller I’ve got), I plan to carry on with 2 fast days until our holiday at the end of August, if I’m no lighter I’ll be happy with my lot and think that I will then reduce my fast days from 8 per month to 5 or 6 and see if this can maintain my weight.
I am so happy to have found this way of eating, it really works for me. It helps also that my parents, sister and husband are all doing it too, we all do Monday’s and Wednesdays, and we have all had fantastic results.
Good luck! X