Hello. I could eat less today. I finished dinner at 5:50 pm. But feel a bit too full.
I am fasting tomorrow- will need to stay in 500 cal.
Looks like summer is here it is almost 7 pm and still hot.
Regarding Wendy Hendry… she is a former binger, wrote a book and has a website http://www.wendyhendry.com/blog/
There are many videos of her talking about the subject on youtube. I read anything about binging hoping that something would work for me.
Hope your day was good, Floridagirl!
Talk to you soon

Good evening. I did ok today – about 630 cal, not 500. Once they said 700 cal work as good as 500 cal, it is hard to do less.
For dinner I made zucchini spaghetti with tarragon and a lentil burger. A local family company makes pretty tasty vegetarian burgers- 110 cal.
How are you trying to eat: more protein, vegetarian… ?
I love to eat oatmeal with yogurt and raspberries for breakfast; then eggs and vegetables for lunch and dinner is usually fish and vegetables. I love my plan, just need to stop eating in between;-) sometimes I think I will never be able to control my portions! But there were other things, I thought were impossible and managed them. Let’s keep going!
Will look for your post in the morning…

Good morning…I did very well yesterday. Yeah!

It’s funny how our brain play tricks on us. Like Wendy Hendry said, “like a bratty child”.

Your dinner sounds wonderful…I’ve been doing a lot of zucchini spaghetti also, thankfully hubby likes it too. We’re not really following a vegetarian lifestyle any more. I’m just trying to stay away from processed food. It sounds like you have certainly found a good plan for yourself.

Portion control seems to be my big issue also…it sounds like you are slowly but surely doing better and better. I think that the fasting is helping me to make positive changes over time.

Have a great day, Alisa

Good morning Alisa,

Sorry to hear about your day, yesterday. I am very glad to hear that you are reporting and moving on…that’s the important thing…not to give up. I did that for many, many years and that is why I am here now, trying to remove 40 lbs worth of giving up.

I am fasting today…I’m feeling really good after the past 2 days…getting through my fast on Tuesday…eating well yesterday…getting all my exercise done…back on track…got to keep it going!

Have a marvelous day!

Good message, Floridagirl! Yes, where are our people? We need your support, stories… please talk to us!
I was good today, easy (not!) anyway, I went to a health seminar at work today and joined 14 days portion control challenge ( I will get a day vacation just for participation )
There were healthy eating, vegetarian eating, 14 days of exercise (done!) and a portion control challenge – all suddenly I thought, this is the challenge for me! My group decided to start tomorrow, so, the next step for each of us was to write meal plan – I did. We need to plan meals for next day, get a kitchen scale (control portions) meet every day (not on weekends).
There are food plan templates, like
Breakfast- 1 protein + 1 cereal/grain +1 fruit.
Lunch- 1 protein + 6oz vegetables + 1 fat + 1 fruit
I got a list of foods for protein, grains, fruit.
I will keep my F-days on Tuesday and Thursday too, will report tomorrow my portion control addition.
Hope you are doing well, Floridagirl!

Greetings Alisa and Floridagirl! I am still here (in spirit)! I had dreadful food days mid-march to early April and then on got on a plane for the South of France and I am here until May 5 (with a short trip to Germany). The weather has been stellar. The food and wine great. My eating has been to excess which I sort of consider ok(?) considering that it is my big holiday for the year. I have been reading your posts and admiring your focus and struggles and focus. I am hoping to regain the 5:2 focus when I am home. I will say that my clothes fit much better than in early January and I feel good in my clothes compared to
My visit at the same time last year. I will be back on the thread in early May, but reading you every day. floridagirl and Alisa send me an email to hikergirl@telus.net and I will give you some links and info about what am I too. Reading about you everyday!!

Good Saturday morning!
I got a morning messsge from my portion control challenge.
Interesting – the message encourages to fight your ‘wrong’ food thoughts, brush them off, stop with no debates : ‘it is not my food!’
It is interesting because I have heard different ideas: you can fantasize about eating anything, these are just thoughts, they do not make you fat as long as no following actions.
The portion control people say that thoughts lead to actions, so, if you see the food you did not plan to eat (we must write a plan the night before) just firmly say – it is not my food!
What is your experience, thoughts about it? Maybe observe your behavior on Sunday, Floridagirl?
Good day to all

Hello. My Age is 47. A pathologist recomended this diet to me. Where can i find the meal plan.
Kind Regards

Good morning! My health club is closed today?! Why? It should be lifestyle habit without holidays.
I did well yesterday: 3 meals, no snacks, portion control – done!
This morning I got a new message/motivation from the ‘portion control’ challenge and it is strange: do not exercise these 14 days. We have limited will power and making yourself to run, lift weights… uses that will power, so, when some calories burned and you tired, it is easier to compensate with extra food – overeat. I do not want to stop exercising ( so, I am not following the challenge 100%) it is my habit.
Question – what was your experience? When in the past you lost weight were you also exercising?

Good Monday morning…
FD

I hope that everyone had a nice weekend.
We had a nice Easter celebration yesterday…I did pretty well. I only had breakfast, then hubby and I did some exercise before going to the party. I enjoyed everything that I wanted but in very small portions…didn’t leave feeling miserably stuffed…and I am feeling quite well this morning. Some of the relatives, I haven’t seen since Christmas…it was nice to hear that they noticed that I’d lost weight…My sister-in-law even said to be before we left…”keep doing what you’re doing”, “don’t stop”. That was really nice.

I have to say that this is the first time that I have ever stuck to an exercise routine. I am very glad that it is becoming a habit…I am really noticing some nice physical benefits and I want to continue. I started the exercise at the same time I started the 5:2 plan…it’s worked for me. In the afternoons, after work, I exercise rather than eat…my old habit was to eat after getting home, now I exercise instead. I am creating a new habit. You’ve been exercising and it is a good habit for you…I agree, you should continue with your exercise.

Safe travels everyone. 🙂

Hello everyone,

Trying AGAIN! I have a goal to lose 10 lbs. by my bday (late June). I’m a working mom living in the midwest (USA).

I had an indulgent Spring Break & need to get on track. I hate the voice in my head that always tries to talk me out of keeping on track. I always convince myself that there’s another way to lose weight (different diet).

Trying for M,Th fasts with exercise on NFDs. I’m a teacher, so it’s pretty hard to keep going when you feel cranky. Any advice would be welcomed!

I had a pretty good FD so far, I was probably closer to 700 calories.

Anyone else fasting today?

Monday evening. I am not well today, not a big deal.
I will be fasting tomorrow
Good luck to all, thanks for posts

Florida girl – great feedback from family and friends. Wonderful.

Alisa, take it easy.

Break from cookies -welcome.

Hello, all!
thank you, Floridagirl, hope your day was pleasant.
I did well today. The message from my portion control challenge was about a main mistake people make while loosing weight- they rely on will power, which is limited resource and when it is used, we give up.
Suggestions to help your will power were:
Human contact – call/text/meet someone for support ( we do it here), then meditation helps to stay strong, gratitude- thinking about good things in your life…
i hope something would work for me

Good morning,
FD#2

I really like those suggestions, thanks for sharing.

breakfromcookies…how are you doing? I hope that you are finding your groove.

I hope that everyone has a nice day.

Almost the weekend…and I am excited that I will be having a 3-day weekend! So, today is my “Friday” and I can’t wait to get off work!

I may go shopping tomorrow! … and buy myself something new…a little reward 😉

Stick to your plan…
“Three months from now, you will thank yourself.”

Hello, happy weekend! It is a rainy weekend here.
I had a InBody test on Friday at my health club.
No weight loss, few pounds of fat were replaced with muscles. The nutritionist offered coaching sessions for weight monitoring. I thanked her and said that I was sick of all the information/plans/coaching. I think my disappointment and frustration came earlier that day – the ‘portion control’ email informed me that weight loss is a stress for the body and your body will fight back with fatigue, felling down, lack of energy – I hate all that and I know it is true. I am not cheerful today

So true, ratatouille.

Here we are, Monday again…I’m having trouble getting into it this morning. I ate too much yesterday… too many carbs…has left me feeling a little down. I believe that the heavy carb intake is affecting me physiologically and emotionally. I just need to make this a good fasting day, get a good nights sleep and I will be tip-top tomorrow.

I hope that you are feeling better, Alisa.

Good morning! Just had an awesome jogs class – I felt light, flexible … so enjoyable!
Now I keep telling myself all that great feeling was because I ate right yesterday! Do you think I would learn?!
We have rain from Monday till Thursday and I have not been walking after dinner, I miss my music lectures. I listened to them while walking.
Oh, something new to check out. There is a book ‘bright line eating’ but there are many video logs on YouTube. Susan Pierce Thomson offers her way to overcome binging and lose weight. Let me know your thoughts if you look at it
Good day, thanks for the kind words last weekend, Florida-girl and ratatouille

I have just come back from 2 weeks of frenetic activity and eating/drinking whatever I wanted.

I have gained 1kg. That seems very reasonable! Although, I suspect that will continue to climb for a couple days before that goes back down. Bags of M&Ms are handy airport food but not exactly low-cal.

First fast day in two weeks today. Feels good. I was starting to feel bloated and tired from all the eating and bad food.

I love reading all your updates and I really think it helps keep me on track.

I have 6 weeks before I go to Spain with a bunch of very skinny women. I have a bathing suit one size too small (looks fine other than some sideboobage). Let’s see how this goes 😀

Hi everyone, I’m back too after a totally chocoholic (and alcoholic to some extent) Easter.

I re-weighed myself this morning after my first FD in over a month and my starting weight is 71.8 kg.
I have set my goal to 63kg to be realistic but I have not set a deadline for it.

I would like to have lost 5kg by August when I go back to see my family. There will be lots of swimming and outdoor stuff to do so would like to feel more eneregised and better in myself.
I have also started feeling my old knee twinges that were crippelingly painful when I was very overweight. SO another good reason to focus on the weightloss.

I must say I felt sooooo good this morning after my FD. I was cold yesterday an had some pretty weird dreams overnight but that is usual for me.

My main challenge will be to not binge on my Eat days. So far I am doing well today but it’s the afternoons when I fail.

FD again tomorrow – should be a good one but need to rein myself in a little over the weekend. But I’m back in the game and that feels fab!

Take care everyone 🙂
Lotta x

Good morning!
I am traveling, enjoying NYC!
Will be back on Monday. Wishing to all a good weekend

Hi Floridagirl and Alisa
Lovely to hear from you. Safe travels Alisa.
Good idea Floridagirl – will think about my short term goals for May.

Well I did my two days FD’s this week after weeks of no control and I do feel better for it. No change in weight from FD1 to FD2 but that’s fine.
I almost fell off the wagon last night when I came home from work but I ended up on 600 cal instead of 500 so I’m going to log that as a FD.

Zumba fitness tomorrow with my daughter – I haven’t been for a month so it will be hard work 🙂

Take care all and have a good weekend.
Lotta x

Good morning.
It is the start of a new month. So, my goals for May are:
– 3 meals a day, no snacks
– portion control
– no added sugar in food
I got the portion sizes plan from Bright line eating website and I have my kitchen scale for control
Yes, floridagirl let’s make this month a happy and light one!
Lotta, I am sure you enjoyed the Zumba with your daughter- great idea! I have an eat day today, will be fasting tomorrow
Talk to you soon

Good morning! F-day for me today.
Yesterday went well- no snacks, just 3 meals. I had a big breakfast though, but I felt good and energetic the whole day and did not think about food.
Floridagirl, I see we have the same goal for this month – no snacks. I feel that this is very important for me in my struggle with binging. I really want to make it a habit!
Wishing to all of you a good day…