Day1, Guildford UK, FD

Start 72.6 kg
5ft 4
Aim 4 Kg
BMR is 1280
FULL is 1790
With exercise 2200

Been on intermittent since Oct 2015, already down 19 kg ie 1 Kg per month, no losses expected Dec or Aug just hold. I have 9 Kg to target 1. I weight train and have good muscles just covered with the white stuff. Was slim until I had fungal lung infection when given steroids which was incorrect treatment. I have underactive thyroid. I am strict apart from one binge weekend per month. This month it’s this coming weekend as I am on holiday from Fri to Wed. I exercise 4 days per week at moment for 2 hrs. I hr cardio usually spin and I hr weights usually body pump.

I do 4 fast days on the run before binge weekend (2500 cals Sat and Sun) and two immediately afterwards. I will not do structured exercise on holiday (usually).

Plan is to lose 4kg in June this year so super strict.

Today is day 3 of 4 fast days on the run.

I am new to the board and making loads of mistakes, some days so hungry. I eat a large bowl of salad leaves with every meal (even breakfast). On the road tend to eat my own homemade protein bars.

Very stressed as having a high conflict divorce with a compulsive gambler.

Aim: to return to jive which I used to do every week (when heavier knees hurt) and new goal for 2017 to finish weight loss and go to maintaining. Wear my size 10 (UK) clothes in my wardrobe is immediate goal, discard size 14. I feel awful in all my clothes especially workout clothes some of which are too big and most too small. I want to date and have no confidence at this weight.

Today won’t eat until 2 pm (leaves, green beans and protein bar) though will have coffee with milk as I am at an abuse divorce support group this morning. There will be biscuits and cakes which I imagine are mouldy sprouts so I can ignore.

I will next eat at 6 pm (leaves and protein bar) at 8pm I will finish with an apple and ginger fried in coconut oil with quarter teaspoon of roasted sesame seeds with a spoon of low fat yogurt. I drink water until 10 pm otherwise I pee all night. Endless ginger tea or chai at work. I may have marmite broth or marigold powder and if desperate more green leaves (grated uncooked beetroot for flavour and colour) or fibre tablets or dried seaweed leaves.

Looking forward to reading everyone’s reports to exchange achievements, disappointments ideas and recipes

Thank you for hosting us

Hi..day 1..fast day. Uk
Busy mum of 2, works part time as a nurse. I want to lose 7lbs in June…please. I turn the big 40 in August having a party and want to look hot! Plan to then lose another 7lbs in July then would be party ready and at a happy weight. Weighed this am 149lbs. Plan to fast two days a week and then mindful eating the other days.. No calorie counting .nearly 40 done with points and sad syns.. Thank for this thread plan on using it alot x

Day 1 Tasmania Australia NFD

Starting weight 65.2kgs this morning. Goal is to get below 64kgs and to successfully maintain. I think it will be a challenge for me to balance my maintenance. First to this last kilo or two!
Have been doing this for the last just over a year. Got to goal end of last year but went a bit backwards over a long holiday away. Took me until end of March to get back again then lost it again due to a few things and not being able to do much fasting for the month. Finally almost there again and desperate to work out maintenance. Will be doing it this month with all your support. There are so many wonderful people here who have been maintaining for a while now. So going to follow them closely when I get there! Just finished a b2b2b this morning so not sure if I will fast again this week. Probably not until Monday.
Good luck everyone and have a great June!😁

@strawberriesandcream I dont know if you have already posted the link to the spreadsheet but I didnt do it in May because I wasnt sure what to do with it or how you share it, can you please let me know about the June spreadsheet as I would like to do it this month.

Thanks 🙂

Hi all!

Day 1 – Herts, UK – FD

Starting weight 144lb
Target weight for end of June: 140lb (4lb loss)

I’m new to this challenge so here’s a little introduction… I started 5:2 a couple of years ago and had some success, I lost a few pesky pounds and it made me feel pretty good. However for multiple reasons (long-term health condition diagnosis, losing my job as a result of said diagnosis and studying for a degree at the same time) I started eating a bit more and a bit more on my fast days, and then binged more on my non-fast days to the point where I’d put on the weight I’d lost.

Anyway, fast forward to 2016 – I finished my degree (wohooo) and had a wedding dress to slim down in to, so I picked up 5:2 and lost a stone. Brilliant result! I found it really easy last year, and the weight did drop quite quickly. I’m lucky in that I’m not considered overweight, but I carry my weight all around my middle and was starting to creep into bigger dress sizes and up near the overweight mark before the wedding. A month counting syns resulted in zero weight loss and then i remembered my old friend 5:2.

Our winter wedding was great, but our honeymoon ran straight into the Christmas build up and before i knew it, I’d not fasted for about 6 weeks and piled on about half a stone! Ooops.

I’ve been trying to get back into the swing of fasting over the past couple of months with a bit of success, as I’m keen to shift a few of those pounds again and feel that bit ‘brighter’, which I do with 5:2. On my FDs I’ll not eat in the mornings at all, if I’m hungry at lunch time I’ll have a low cal protein shake and then a low calorie dinner in the evening. I’m doing a pilates class tonight too, so will make sure I time my dinner well so my stomach’s not rumbling away through that. Protein is definitely my saviour on a FD!! Also, I try to stick to Mondays and Thursdays for my normal fast days, though do jig that around if I’m not feeling it / have other plans.

Ideally, I’d love to lose 4lb this month. It’s harder with nothing big to aim for, like a wedding or a graduation outfit, but I think doing this without those motivators will make it feel even better when I achieve it. Looking forward to the month!

Day 1 London NFD

Start weight 11 stone 2

I’ve just completed the May challenge and lost a massive 11 lbs I can’t tell you how happy I am. I joined SW in January and only lost half a stone. Lost more in a month than I did there in 4!

My goal for the month of June is to stick with it and lose 6/7 more
My finish goal is 10 stone. I haven’t bee that weight in about 4 years but I can do this with the support on these forums.

It’s half term so I’m out with my son and a group of friend to a place called Knole Park. Apparently a medical deer park. They still have deer just roaming around. It’s a beautiful sunny day so sun cream and shades at the ready.

Thank you for hosting next challenge good luck everyone

Day 1, London, UK, NFD

Wow page 4 already!!!! @strawberriesandcream, thanks for hosting this month, you have your work cut out but no doubt we’ll all be chipping in with our tuppence worth based on our past experiences, whether flops, fails or successes!!!

Welcome newbies, Hello again oldies!!!!!

I’m looking forward to June if only because the warm weather means my favourite comfort foods are highly inappropriate……………………. Although sticky toffee pudding & custard isn’t entirely unheard of in 30 degree heat!!!!!

I’ve posted my mediocre results for May on that forum, actually a loss is a loss is a loss, so I AM happy with the 2.4lbs eliminated in May!! My stats & aims for June are……………
• Start weight 168.2lbs (12st is playing a blinding game of hide and seek, glimpses here and there don’t count!!!!)
• Aim for June ………………… Lose (Sorry, I ‘lose’ things I want to find all the time……… this does not apply to lbs of fat!!!) so, eradicate 4lbs OR lots and lots of inches. Exercise may foil weight eradication, so I need to balance lbs and inches this month.
• Continue to weigh daily…….. just to keep me honest!!
• ADF throughout the month as this seems to work best for me. (Alternate Day Fasting)
• Practice 16:8 or less on NFDs, FDs probably closer to 22:2 (Fasting window : eating window)ensure the kitchen is closed at 7pm sharp!!!!
• Continue drinking 3L water/ day………………… it’s the only way to keep hunger at bay, drowning the hunger dragon and his evil mate who moved in, ……….. The carb dragon!!!! The visual helps me when I see his flame being doused by my water consumption…………… works for me!!!
• Exercise, exercise, exercise!!! HIIT 4 times/ week…………. I need to tighten and tone the loose bits!!!

I hope we have a good month and manage to eradicate a loads of excess fat lbs!!!!! Keep the faith everyone, this WOL (Way of Life) works, it’s adaptable, not restrictive and educational!!!! Who would have thought I could do liquid fasts; surviving on water and herbal tea for 24hrs+??????????
This really does work, but you have to work at it too!!!!

Keep the faith!!!! We’ve got this!!!

Hello all and welcome to day 1 of our June challenge (UK Co Down) FD – may as well get the month off to a good start. Dumped 5 lbs in our May challenge so beginning June at
158 lbs – target will be 4 lbs for June and as that will include 2 weeks in the USA it will be interesting.

Newbies be warned – this is a fast moving thread especially at the beginning – don’t get over whelmed – read what you can but if you can post everyday it will become a habit and the support is huge. This is your journey – no one else’s and never, ever think what you feel/eat etc has not been experienced before by someone else – we have all been there got the tee shirts. Also note this is a challenge for 30 days – Cross the days off on a calendar if you want but you can do this, you just have to believe you can and you are half way there. If you are here at the end then you will have achieved something to be very proud off.

Also note just a few rules – the word failed/fail are not to be used on this thread – if you are still trying you are not failing. If you lose something – you generally want to find it again – I lost my keys, I lost my purse – so when you exterminate or eradicate lbs you get rid of them for good!

@tpmorgan – it’s never too late to join – jump in, we are on day 1 – post everyday if you can, start post with day of challenge (which is also day of the month so everyone is on same page no matter where in the world you are) state your location in the world and if it is a nfd or fd. Our host for our June challenge @strawberriesandcream will be putting a link to a spread sheet that we can update ourselves and put in our starting point, our goals, fast days, non fast days, controlled day, BSD (blood sugar diet 800 cals) over/under TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) or on holidays.

Day 1…..Florida……FD

I love writing day 1, is like the start to something so exciting. Well, I weighed in this morning, I’m up a whopping 2.2lbs since day 1 of May. So, this girl has got a lot of work to do.
For the last couple months, day one has always been a day about putting goals in and how I plan to reach those goals. Since my plateau, I can even call it that since the 2.2 gain, none of my plans have worked. So, this month, I’m going to wing, Nilly Willy style.
FD a couple times a week
16:8 when I remember
CD on other days.
No set plans, a recharge of my system!

Newbies……. Rome was not built in a day and I’m almost positive they had days where they just wanted to lay around and be bums, but they didn’t. They kept pushing forward and eventually Rome became a beautiful city. That is how life is now! We may want to lay around and be bums but we can’t…… because remodeling our temples is a lot of hard work. Everyday we must work on it, even if we have to redo the work we did yesterday because the wall wasn’t straight.

I’m off another day, another dollar that can’t be stretched far enough!

Surely NOT everyone was Kung-fu fighting!

Day 1 – Lancaster, PA, US FD 😊
Well definitely a re-evaluation about metabolism is a good idea for me. For June… I’ll have to make adjustments about activity, excercise…. eating Whole Foods to speed up metabolism. ✨I’m not losing weight, I’m getting rid of it. I have no intention of finding it again.✨
My weight is at 155lbs. : 70.30 kgs. I seem to be plateauing at this range.
I’ve been reading many articles about revving up metabolism. Drinking kefir, probiotics, eating yogurt daily. Are just some of them. 😊eating Whole Foods. 🥗 I’ve been doing most of them. A broken Tibia under my knee cap will be healed the way I want it within 5 more months I believe. I’d like to start doing aerobics, and dance classes again. I have been working my way up to walking, 10,000 steps two days ago. Mostly 5,000 steps daily.😊
Because I will be traveling and celebrating … my nieces Wedding, June 10, my Birthday, June 14 😊, my hubby and my 30th year Anniversay😊 most of the month of June. Maintaining (or by some miracle, purging a couple lbs) is my goal for June. Then back to serious FD’s in July. I will check-in daily. To maintain, I’ll have to do 2 FD’s per week and stay below TDEE of 1,468.😊
@slogan15 ✨Good for you! Your Persistence has paid off!✨✨🎉🎉Eradicating 10 lbs. in May!✨✨🤜🏻✨🤛🏻✨✨✨
@coda Thanks again for starting these wonderful, supportive Challenges!😊 ✨✨🎉🎉Congratulations on purging 5 lbs in the May Challenge!

Thinking about this today on my FD…
Success begins with our first steps in the most beneficial direction. Making smart choices for our successes.

✨Good luck all!✨✨🤜🏻✨🤛🏻✨✨✨
✨✨Together we are Stronger✨✨✨

Hi. Please count me in

Day 1 Armagh, Ireland FD

Here goes…..Mum of 2 hoping to finally regain control of my weight. Have spent several years looking after other people (as well as my own children). Time for me now – to get my life back, some fitness, a better shape and some confidence.

Kickstarted my path to change last Sunday – completed my first 5k for Cancer Research. Ached for the next 2 days!
May 28th – 69.5kg
June 1st – 67.7kg

Would like to lose 5-7 lbs this month and will keep up with the running. Aiming to drink lots more water – major struggle for me.
Hoping to treat myself (non food treat) WHEN, not if, I complete this month!

DAY 1. Lancaster 🇺🇸. NFD.

Day 1, Rocky Mountains, US, NFD

Hi all! I am back from Europe after 6 weeks!😊😊😊

@strawberriesandcream: I would like to join the June Challenge. Thank you so much for hosting. 🌺🌻🌹🌷🌸

I am pleased to report that for the first time ever I did not gain weight. It is unbelievable but this WOE works and, believe me,I did not starve in Ireland, Austria and Italy.

My starting weight is 124.7
Goal weight for the month of June 121
I am looking forward to see old friends and get to know new 5:2, BSD, etc.fasters.😊😊😊😊😊

Day 1, Belfast, FD
Weight: 169lbs
Aim for June 2017: Get rid of 7lbs

Hi to all the new posters!! Wow, the group is really growing. And hello to the familiar oldies!

Just a quick intro: I’m 42, 5ft 9, currently hovering around 12 stone, 25BMI. I started the 5:2 around 3 years ago after watching the TV doc and reading the Fast Diet book. I did well, getting down to around 11 and a half stone. But a change of role in work, getting complacent …it all piled on again. So I started again at the end of March 2017- not only to just lose weight but to hopefully reap in the other benefits (mental and physical). My brother has diabetes as did my granda so I’d like to reduce my risk of this (along with other illnesses).

I just feel that this way of eating/way of life suits me. I love my food, good wine, cold beers – I am Irish 😉 – eating with family and friends but there has to be a balance. And I’m working on that.

I started March 2017 at around 175lbs (12 and a half stone). I’m now 169lbs. My overall aim is to get to 147lbs (10 and a half stone). I’ve no strict time frame, but these monthly challenges are enabling me to set achievable monthly targets. And checking in every day, especially on Fast Days (FDs) really keeps me motivated.

So that’s me. Good luck everyone!!

I’d like to join in please.I’m on day 1 and have just downloaded book so will be swatting up and probably asking lots of questions x

***JUNE DAY 1 – POCKETEERS ***

(I had a bit of time on my hands…)

Below is a list of everyone who has stated that they are on a Fast Day today. Sorry if I’ve missed anyone or added you acccidentally.
This is a GLOBAL, EPIC, MOTIVATING list for DAY ONE!!
Good luck!!

*** COPY AND PASTE AND ADD YOUR OWN NAME IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN***

@paulmarsh
@lany36
@shelleyg
@taraga
@mila69
@cream tea
@saffy420
@rhubarbbutnocustard
@fatrabbit
@silverpearl (I hear ya with regards the wine!!)
@steve toon taxi driver
@rainbowsmile
@tpmorgan
@louis05
@babs_b
@pippapah
@coda
@bert1802
@okeydokey
@krlts
@jacqui22go
@basyjames
@happymargo
@belfastsink
@rerunirret

Day 1 (Day 3 of 1st time trying the 5:2), North Carolina-USA, FD (2nd ever)

Looking forward to losing some weight before our family beach trip July 4th weekend.

Goal (total): -30 lbs. (13.6 kg)
Goal for June Challenge: -1O lbs. (4.5 kg)

Day 1 country West Australia NFD 73.4 kgs ( sigh)
hoping to lose the 2 kgs I didn’t lose in May… or April…. or March!!!!
Felt that May was going to be a good month and somehow despite being mindful and doing more reasonable FDs, only lost 500 gms.
Still determined to stay with this WOL but not sure how to tweak and twang things as I have been doing this for a few months with little success weight wise.
Am watching ‘That Sugar Film’ as I write this. Have just been to see Dr Michael Mosley talk about his latest book ‘ The Clever Guts Diet”.
It was a very entertaining evening. I bought the book which Dr M kindly signed.
So … will read THIS book ( have read the others he has written) and see if I can glean any new hints.
Will see how June goes…..
Hello to all the ‘old’ crew from previous monthly challenges and hello to all the ‘newbies’.

Day 1 – Oregon, USA – NFD

Day 1- Mexico – FD
Second FD, first week of doing 5:2 for the first time ever, first time joining a group challenge.
I’m loosing my virginity here! Hope everything goes well, wanting to loose 5 pounds by the end of the month (not sure if doable, not sure if setting myself up for failure, just sheer despair here). But if anything comes off at all I will be the happiest woman alive (I’ve struggled with hypothyroidism for the past year and no matter what I do I can´t seem to lose the weight I’ve put on since my diagnosis). Good luck to everyone! A darle!

Day 1 FD St. Louis USA
Met goal of 136 lbs. revising to 132 lbs. think this might take a bit more work. Adding kettle bell class.

Thanks for adding me @strawberries&cream and for hosting.

Best of luck all.

Day 1 Belfast FD
Today’s stats: Weight 158; Waist 35.5 BMI 25.4
My longterm goal: to despatch/get rid of 14lbs
This month’s goal: to see 10 stone anything. Again!

A quick summary of my journey. I lost around 18 pounds last year, took time out to travel and then returned half-heartedly to the diet after Christmas, despite the motivation of a holiday and a wedding. If maintaining were my goal, I’d be very good at it! I start today with renewed vigour and enthusiasm.
Am adding myself to the list – thank you @belfastsink
*** COPY AND PASTE AND ADD YOUR OWN NAME IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN***

@paulmarsh
@lany36
@shelleyg
@taraga
@mila69
@cream tea
@saffy420
@rhubarbbutnocustard
@fatrabbit
@silverpearl (I hear ya with regards the wine!!)
@steve toon taxi driver
@rainbowsmile
@tpmorgan
@louis05
@babs_b
@pippapah
@coda
@bert1802
@okeydokey
@krlts
@jacqui22go
@basyjames
@happymargo
@belfastsink
@rerunirret
@debster251

Thank you LindaSue for your post. What a pity about the hyperventilation!
So my fellow fasters…. Onwards and Downwards. Cheerio for now.

Day 1 — Colorado USA–FD.
(2nd post)

OMGosh! So many great stories here. I’m thoroughly enjoying reading them while I recuperate at home.

@lilymartin – how awesome you got to hear Dr.MM speak & get an autographed copy of the book. You guys are getting me excited to read it on Kindle.

@arvandee posted a link for info on controlling cravings & ditching sugar & MM’s new book on our May thread. Thought some would like to check it out. It’s a quick, but interesting read!

http://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2017/05/30/michael-mosleys-plan-killing-your-cravings?cx_cid=edm:food:170601