Hi Sal:

Losing weight is as much mental as physical. If you really, really want to lose weight you will overcome the ‘irrational’ desire to over eat and lose your weight. If you don’t, then there will be an unlimited number of reasons you will come up with to quit trying and go back to where you were.

Here are some 5:2 tips: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/the-basics-for-newbies-your-questions-answered/

Good Luck!

So what are you eating on your NFDs? Its very hard to break long established eating habits. Its very hard to fight foods that trigger a natural hormone response to “eat more”. Simple carbs, sugar, processed foods will trigger a hormonal response that makes you eat. What foods do you break your fasts with? Choose high fat foods rather than carb based foods. Cheese, low sugar high fat yogurt. Avoid processed grain based foods.

Im not sure why you think Weetabix is low GI?? Weetabix is highly processed and most of it will be converted into maltose (two glucose rings joined together) in your mouth. Shortly after entering the stomach it will be broken down into glucose and enters the bloodstream. It never makes it to your large intestines so all your poor gut bacteria starves to death.

Happynow is pretty spot on. I have greek yogurt with a cut up apple or plum. Handful of nuts and pumpkin seeds. Avocado is good. Fried haloumi cheese. You don’t have to avoid carbs, just processed carbs. My simple rule is, if it contains anything with grains in it I avoid it. Bread, cakes, biscuits, breakfast cereals, pasta, pizza etc. Get your carbs from vegetables and some fruit.

Keep eating it if it satiates you for long periods of time. However if its a breakfast cereal its highly processed. Go to a pet food store and by some wheat. Does Weetabix look anything like wheat? To get it to look like that it must have been processed. Sounds like your doing well though. Perhaps have Weetabix as your fastbreaker breakfast the day after a fast and avoid foods that turn you into a hollow leg eater? Personally I use a very simple rule. No grain based foods and eat whole foods. It works for me.

“Dr” Kellogg was a very disturbed individual with very strange views on sex. He invented breakfast cereal and wanted his “patients” to eat it because he thought it would severely reduce their tendency to self fornicate. As weird as this sounds that’s the origins of breakfast cereal. Feeling a bit randy? Eat Dr Kellogg’s cereal and the temptation will pass.

Hi Sal47, I am very familiar with the feeling you described after a fast day. I sometimes feel it before a fast day as well when I start to panic that I can’t eat these foods tomorrow. These are some of the thought patterns that are also common for those with a binge eating disorder and have been discussed at length on the following forum thread:
https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/binge-eating-disorder-group/

For me the most important thing was to allow a minimum of 2 days between fast days. If I don’t my risk of binge eating is much greater. If allow a NFD break of at least 2 days then I seem to settle into a much better eating pattern.