hi and welcome Wayne!

that’s a brilliant result so well done you 🙂 here’s to many more!

Keep up the good work, Wayne!

congratulations, Wayne! That’s a tremendous loss for such a short time!

Hello Wayne

I read about catfish and red beans having a substance in them that doesn’t make feel full, but helps us feel sensitive to the full feeling. So moved my fish days to my fasting days for dinner, and red beans for lunch. Well not every fast day. I experimented with it and as i long as ate two bitter meals 250-300 cal each with a lot of fluid to fill me.
I usually can go till 11am and feel hungry til 12, and eat 250 cals of a red bean dish like chili.
That keeps me from feeling hungry till about 4pm I can wait till 5pm to eat 350 cals and fish and onions. This keeps me going if I’m sedentary till 11pm without hunger pangs.

I go to bed early because my will power gets weak around 11.
It took me about three weeks to realize that it worked every time. I mean To say i had have three week period on 5:2 with no hunger pangs at all. I was hungry, but no starving feeling poking at me poking at me. Besides. It’s recommended to eat fish 2-3 times a week. So I simplified 5:2 for me. Going out with friends for dinner was no longer a problem either. I just order fish. Guess about portion size. Skip the starchy carbs, by putting then in Togo bag for the next day. And walla.

Red beans have the THE highest antioxidant rating too, but they are high in calorie compared to low energy vegetables. So I count them out 15 beans does it for me.
2.7 oz of catfish. I also order catfish from New Orleans , because cat fish from there has vitamin D in that species. I only do that because I try to get all my vitamins and minerals from organic sources. So on fasting days I try to get a little sun or fish. I also eat mushrooms with the fish and onions, because some mushrooms also have vitaminD. And are low in calorie and chewy. Chewy on fasting days is good for satiation. Lemon water with stevia and sugar free chewing gum helps me with wanting for flavors on fasting days.

Hello Dreamgirl 2014
Glad to hear of your goal and your brothers success. I watch Michael Mosley’s two 1hr videos. Eat, Fast, Live Longer and The Truth About Exercise . One video explains how fasting can help to avoid age related diseases and the other how understand the need for benefits that target visceral fat around our internal organs. After his experience with fasting he lost more than twenty pounds. He basically used Intermittent Fasting of 500 calories. In the live longer video we see some surprising plates of foods. I didn’t expect 500 calories to look that appealing.
What I did was learn when I was most likely to give in to temptation. Either morning or night and moved my intake to that time. Ii know for some people. The fasting day no problem at, but for me it was challenge , I guess because I was 274lbs so my BMR had a big appetite. Never the less I was determined to succeed regardless of any results. I learned that starchy carbs make it difficult to stay under 500cal and not get hunger pangs. That some bitter foods help with ruining appetite.
My mistakes at first was due to a lot of experimentation , going to grocery and buying lots of fasting food to be prepared. However 500 calories, or 600 for me was not a lot of food needed. Much of the fresh vegetable went to waste or simply became unappealing over a weeks time. I learned to buy frozen instead of fresh. This made very easy to stick to low calorie vegetables for carbs instead of starchy high calorie carbs. Then fasting days became easy with a lot of what I like always in stock in the fridge. I got both frozen vegetables and frozen fruits. I only eat the high calorie fruits on non fasting days. After I got fasting days down pat to the point that I hardly need to measure and count calories, because I had memorized the values over time. It became easier to start counting my calories on non fasting days especially with oatmeal and fruits with nuts to start non fasting days. After that was plethora of ways to make fasting and non fasting days to work optimally. Working in probiotics, antioxidants, finding high nutrition foods and eating healthy fish when out to dinner with friends. Looked back scratching my head – how the heck was my 5:2 journey so much better at getting me to eat healthier?
After 7 months of IF. I hit a plateau. I got discouraged, and after a switching from days to nights I stopped semi fasting. I kept on with the better food choices though. Stepping on the scale at the one year mark of starting 5:2 I still kept off 27 pounds. I was no longer discouraged about 5:2 plateau. So I have restarted IF with knowing what makes my fasting days successful and was very pleased to step on the scale a month later and had another loss of 5 lbs. Not dramatic weight loss, but weight loss non the less. What I’m leaning is the benefits don’t just allow me to buy new clothes. However as I’m encouraged by my new clothes I’m also encouraged to have better inner health. After mastering the 600 calorie days. I use food to not to heal , but for health of my inner body as well.
Thing is by reading ,reading , and reading after an automobile accident left me sedentary for 23:45 hours a day for months. What I became to understand is it very difficult to change food habits. How there are many great diets that actually work, but if you stop the diet you return to old habits. I hope I explained my motivation to get healthier was due to being obese and then becoming so sedentary I felt like I turned corner and was seeing an unfavorable out come. That I could lose fat but still be unhealthy on the inside.
So I’m now motivated to stick to IF, eating better, and exercising the best that I can. I learned to make my fasting days flavorable enough to look forward to fasting days just like Sunday’s at Moms. I am very pleased looking in the mirror telling myself im happy on 5:2. I crawled with 5:2 at first, then I got out of that bed and walked, and now I’m running with it.
Best wishes!

Wow Samm,

I loved reading your post. I suppose I feel the same actually …. I look forward to reading your posts in the future ( as a newbie here ) Thank you ”)