My name is Eva, and I’m a 47 yo SAHM in Sweden. I saw the TV show sometime late last year on Swedish television, and thought it was a fantastic idea. But – I was kinda sceptical. How could this really work??? But then 5:2 started popping up everywhere, and I though “Why not?” I’ve tried every other diet known to man. I had my first fasting day on Jan 30th, decided to make Mondays & Thursdays my fasting days. I skipped a couple of fasting days since then, because I had a fever, but so far I’ve lost 1.6 kg (3.5 lbs).

I really like this diet:
1. it’s easy to follow – rules are simple
2. the fasting days brings me a feeling of cleansing
3. there’s no MUSTs and HAVE TOs – if I need to skip a day, I just skip a day
4. the magnificent feeling when you go to bed on a fasting day, you’re hungry, and you know – tomorrow I can eat!

This has been the stumbling block for me in every diet: the feeling that you will have to do this every day, you have to be hungry every day, and it’s forever. I guess this is forever too, but it’s so much easier to know you can eat tomorrow. I dream about pizza for breakfast LOL But when I get up, I eat my regular breakfast. In fact I think I eat less on the eating days after a fasting day. My body doesn’t crave so much anymore.

I started on
Your BMI is: 32.0
Your BMR is: 1375
Your TDEE is: 1650 calories
My BMI is down to 31 already. Lost a couple of centimetres around my tummy as well.

So far I’m very pleased 🙂

So tell me – when does the dreaded plataues normally hit you?