Hi everyone! I’m new to 5:2 and hoping it will help me sort of my years of yoyo dieting. Basically I’ve always been quite slim – but a change of job five or six years ago, teamed with being in my late 20s saw my weight rise by about a stone. Now I know this isn’t the be all and end all, but on my frame, it makes me look podgy. I’ve struggled now for years to take this stone off. Had moderate success with Slimming World but found I was eating the same foods over and over. No other ‘diet’ has worked and exercise seems to do very little for me unless it’s at excessive levels. I’m in my second week of 5:2 and already feel a wonderful feeling of being free of the daily food obsession that’s plagued me for years. Barely an hour would go by normally when I wouldn’t obsess about how many calories I’d taken in and how I was going to get them off. Ironically, this just led to me getting fatter! For years I’ve had this mindset that ‘I’ll do that when I’m thin’ or ‘I’ll be thin soon so I’ll buy that nice coat then…’ Of course, it never happens. So 5:2 for me is really my last hope at getting rid of worry and fear around food. And also the hope that I will be able to whip off this pesky 10/12lbs and drop back down to a weight where I feel comfortable with myself. So far I’ve lost 2lbs but am very conscious of the need to control myself better on my non fast days. But it’s all good! Are any of you in the same boat with a poor attitude towards food and your body? x