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@strawberriesandcream thanks for hosting the June challenge, please count me in, I will keep an eye out for the spreadsheet as I never did one in May since I joined mid may.
June is going to be an interesting month for me, I am taking a 1 week break while i’m on holiday (8th – 16th June) but I am hoping to get to my goal weight too, not sure if I’m too hopeful, only time will tell…
Hello! @Strawberriesandcream I’d love to join the June group, thanks for hosting. I’d also like to send my warmest thanks to @pissupoosa for hosting May’s challenge. I missed my target, but this group is certainly a great help and motivation for keeping on the FDs.
Hello! Thank you @strawberriesandcream for hosting this challenge. I’d love to join! I’ve been playing around with fasting, but I haven’t officially done 5:2 for more than a week at a time. I want to get more consistent and I believe a group like this will really help me. The timing is perfect, because I would like to lose a few pounds in June in preparation for the July 4th holiday here in the United States. 🙂
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I’ve been a little absent here in May. I think it’s just a case of new job and needing to put my focus on my children while they have each had some teen troubles.
I feel so overwhelmed for them, growing up through the teen years is difficult at times, and probably always has been to some extent, but trying to navigate through all the same issues and have social media and constant bombardment from all those external influences surrounding them 24/7 is just so much pressure.
Like most mothers I would give anything to take the pressure and pain on myself and spare them the suffering but that’s just not one of the options.
So I’m still checking in here, but I’m far more focused on giving them as much time and energy as they need whenever they need it right now.
I think availability can’t be underestimated for kids, they are such ‘here and now’ thinkers. If I miss the window where they need to talk or need a hug or just need in any way it doesn’t come back around the same way again.
I am reading when I think to check in and I am still fasting 5:2 but I do admit my attention isn’t fully here.
I’ve signed into June and hope to be more present in the forum again but time will tell.
In the meantime thank a to all for the Birthday wishes and for listening/reading my story. It’s fabulous to get it off my chest to people I know will hear me, and not judge my need to have a little vent about my worries.
Hi @strawberriesandcream please add me to June challenge. I’ve been doing 5:2 since Jan 17 and have lost about 4kg. I’ve been lurking here for about a month and would love some support. My biggest struggle is to fast and still cook for the rest of the family. And to not binge after a fast day! Thanks
@EmmaTaylor – I’m in the same boat as you. Had terrific results when first finding 5:2, but then “forget” to make it a WOL (way of life.)
Then I remember this wonderful international group of Fellow Fasters & jump on the wagon with them again.
Even when I hit my goal, I’d like to stay on board so I don’t “forget again.
I know I’m grateful for the successful maintainers that still contribute & give me hope, such as @at @songbirdme @lindasue @onahealthyhigh just to name a few!
Hi @strawberriesandcream count me in as well. I will add my goal and start numbers tomorrow. This WOL has worked well for me. I have lost weight am close to my goal and moving into maintenance. The previous challenges were so helpful and so many on this forum have found their way into 5:2fasting as a way of life. What worked well for me in past months was alternative day fasting (it was easier for me to commit to, for some reason) but I will be moving to 5:2 for June. Looking forward to the group!
Hi Strawberriesandcream count me in too please.
A big thank you to @pissupoosa for the sterling effort last month. Didn’t meet my target this last two months because life got in the way. I must make a big effort – I saw a photo of me at a recent wedding and I’m not as thin as I thought I might be! Ha!
Welcome to all the newbies. This is the best forum in the world!
Hello all!
Long post to follow… just want to catch people up on “me” before i jump back in here.
Don’t know if anyone remembers me, but I’ve been faithfully doing the 5:2 (sometimes 4:3, and twice I even did 5:2!!) since the end of January.
After January 3 – 31st, I’d lost 6.8 pounds. !! My highest weight was 165.2, back in November; on January 2nd I was 162.8, and had decided to try The Fast Diet.
SO; since then, I’ve been, as I said, doing the day-long fasting, with a normal dinner at the end, and counting/tracking all of what I eat, to keep realistic and not play head games with myself.
On fasting days, I have been keeping my calories below 1000, and don’t eat until dinnertime. In January and February, I tried to keep them at the recommended amount of 500 calories, but couldn’t be consistent, so I aimed for below 1000 and had great success at that number. When my confidence went up, I went a little lower, and now I reach about 750 calories on fasting days regularly.
To compensate for the slightly higher calories than recommended on fasting days, I keep my non-fasting days pretty low — somewhere between 1200 to 1600 every day. So on average I am still a little hungry at times on non-fasting days, but then, when I eat, boy does it feel like a luxurious amount of food on those days! My ideas about what constitutes a “meal” or how much food I eat for a “snack” (actually I never snack anymore, interestingly) and how much food is “a huge amount of food” have changed a lot — I consider a bite to be adequate to address a craving, and a meal to be really satisfying at about half of what I used to eat.
I’ve lost, so far, a total of 24 pounds.
I am still riding horses, finding a lot of motivation for my choices there, as riding is easier, and getting on/off the horse, as well as managing my seat when riding, and feeling just generally stronger and lighter, have improved my confidence a lot. I’m walking back and forth to work, and using a balance ball (to improve my balance and core strength) on a regular basis. i added the balance ball because of an experience I had when I actually cantered a week ago. It was the first time I’ve cantered for the since I was 17. And it was clear that I needed more balance, and more coordination, and more strength, in order to be able to canter without getting panicked or lose my cool…
so, although I’m not an “athlete,” I’m now far from sedentary and that has helped my confidence too.
I am now within about five pounds of goal weight, and I’ve doubled down on a lot of my behaviors in order to get here without losing momentum. In the first six weeks, I 6.8 pounds — most of that was lost after starting the fasting diet on January 2nd; in the second month, February, I lost 4.6 pounds; in March, my third month, I lost 4.4 pounds, and in April, I lost 3.6 pounds. In May, I’ve lost 4.6 pounds so far (and have fasted more frequently in order to keep the pounds coming off).
I hit a long plateau when I got to 150 pounds — it took me a month of going up and down to really crack the 150 mark. I think it was emotional as well as physical — I’d spent a LOT of time, earlier in my life, at 150, and my body was trying, I think, to convince me that I was just fine at 150. And I almost believed these “messages” I was sending myself.
But I kept going somehow, thank goodness for my riding or I would have lost focus completely. And now I’m within sight of my goal weight of 137.
I could never have done it without this site, and I’ve been reading your posts all along. So many success stories! I’m proud of everyone who’s not given up, sympathetic to those who are struggling, and proud of myself for sticking it out even in the face of my own struggles. .
Here’s to my newly learned skills of tolerating discomfort without losing sight of my goal and without deciding to quit. I’m learning that hunger is not an emergency, I’m fine even when I’m not “full”, and I can handle a difficult and challenging goal just fine.
so, count me in for the month. I’ll be posting as often as I can, likely every day, and hope to be able to keep up with your posts too. 🙂
Cheers!
Pamela
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