2d post. @coda thank you for the information about the spreadsheet. I’m not sure that I really want to do that and I like the tracker. I find the spreadsheet so big and unwieldy or perhaps my mind just doesn’t function as well using those kinds of tools. That being said it seems like a lot of people do really like it. I tried to follow and use it in March. Since then it’s just not worth this well for me. So I don’t know if it’s better for me not to join the challenges, if I’m not going to keep up my part on the spreadsheet or if I can still be in the challenge but not be on the spreadsheet. I don’t want to make it difficult for people who are using it. I just find the tracker a lot simpler to use.

I love this site and I love seeing the post and sharing my little tidbits. I don’t post as frequently as many others but I do read through them and feel connected to all of you.

2nd post

@sirisan – please stay with us 🤗
There is no need to join in on the spreadsheet – it is there for those who like that sort of thing and not essential to being part of the challenges!

Day 2 Lancaster, PA, USA FD
@strawberriesandcream and @pissupoosa Thank-you for getting the Spreadsheet together for June’s Challenge Group!✨
In case anybody doesn’t have the link @strawberriesandcream posted it…. here it is again.😊
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SLq0JjjWe8jvsiubsJSS8owJ-qYfGYtY1ceZPkWphLM/edit#gid=0

Yesterday evening I was wide awake at 2:30 am, this morning.
Has anybody else experienced kombucha keeping you awake at night after drinking it in the early afternoon?
That’s got to be it. I did everything I normally do to help sleep and yet I was wide awake. I told myself chocolate would make it better… But did it really? It did relax my muscles a bit so I could finally relax and go to sleep. So yesterday’s 360 calorievFD turned into a 761 calorie NFD.
So far today only probiotic dairy drink of 80 cals.
Vegetable with steakbone broth of 150 cals planned for evening meal. So far FD l👀ks g👀d today😊
@sirisan I see many people in the group are in agreement with you and don’t choose to post on the spreadsheet… That is Ok 👌 and I’m very glad to have you and others continuing on together in the group. The beauty of our group is we each do what works for us in our own way …. Giving and receiving support along the way. Please continue on with us! I love to see your posts!✨
✨✨I’m looking forward to more to read today!✨
@rerunirret I make the green vegetable stew with bone broth so as to have the protein, vitamins from the veggies and the bone with some steak on the bone for flavor. That and grilling zucchini, squash onions and eggplant have been helping to eat more protein and less carbs for the past week. The beauty of this group is that we have many variations of the FD’s and NFD’s, when we share others will be able to share similarities. There are quite a few people here who are on the ketogenic diet. When we do a water Fast after the 1st day all of our bodies are in ketosis. I was just reading about the ketogenic diet and what to do to help prevent insomnia while on the ketogenic diet. So please share your experiences and daily food when you feel comfortable.✨I try not to eat any carbs on FD’s. I read that yogurt if it is under 25 grams of carb will be ok. I had heard before no carbs at all in order to stay in ketosis. I also read you need some carb to transport healthy amino acids like tryptophan for serotonin in your body. For a few days, a week no carbs at all, but maybe not a life plan.✨ Please share your experiences
✨Together we are Stronger.✨

@at ✨🎉Wishing you an Early ✨ 🎶 🥂🎂Happy Birthday!🎁🎉 http://www.hummingbird-guide.com/images/stargazer-lily.jpg

✨Keep on Keeping on!
Ever onward and Downward!✨✨🤝✨✨

Day 2– Colorado USA– very low calorie Controlled Day

Still limited diet during my Crohn’s flare-up. But thoroughly enjoying homemade bone broth & smooth, blended soups!
One of my Favs is creamy asparagus-cauliflower-potato soup. Delicious, loaded with nutrients & satisfying!! 🍵

Day 2, Montreal, NFD

Hello everyone,

I’m going to need a bit of help and advice here cos I think I’m now starting to be in the so-called “plateau” in loosing weight. This is my 7th week on 5:2 and in the first 6 weeks I lost a total of 7.5 kg (more than 1 kg per week) and I was feeling very happy with that. So for this June challenge I set a goal of 4 kgs (which is actually the remaining of my global goal), but it’s day 2 and I think I won’t reach that goal.

The reason I think I won’t hit my goal is because I weight myself every morning before shower and I see how my weight fluctuates (although for weight tracking purposes I only write down my weight on Mondays), and so far, the day after a FD, I usually lose about 1.5 kg (and then slowly gaining a bit on my NFD so at the end of the week my total lost is a bit more than 1 kg). But this week, the day after my FD I’ve only lost about 0.5 kg, so on my NFD and easily regaining that weight lost 🙁

Two things to note here is that this first 7.5 kg I’ve lost so far have been the “extra weight” I’ve put in the last year or so, and now I’m in my more normal weight (only a couple of times in my life I’ve been on around 72 which is my goal), so I can imagine that my body is thinking “oh great, we’re back at our normal weight” and stops burning fat. The other thing is that I’ve started to exercise a bit more and I have the feeling that maybe and gaining muscles weight, could that be possible?

Anyway, I’m not going to give up with my 5:2. I take the advice of many of you and I’m not going to get obsessed about losing weight and just make this my WOL.

Thank you all for your support and thanks again to @Strawberriesandcream for organizing the challenge!

Thanks!

Day 2, USA, NFD
Finally got the 5 lbs. off that I gained last weekend while out of town on a trip just in time to leave for another weekend. I am going to try to be better this time!

FD UK Glasgow ITS SCORCHING!!! Scale advised 80.4 kg today and am currently in huff with it 😛

Back from a short evening walk managed to clock in 10km plus walking today and am very pleased with it. Plan is to keep this going I usually clock in minimum 6 -8km on my walk to work commute but feel and sleep better if I do 10 plus.

Feeling good I missed this mental clarity feeling when fasting and am over the moon I am back to this. Tomorrow walk with a friend planned last time out wee catch up took 18km hoping to get similar result. I need to fit in a first post half marathon run somewhere on sat prolly early am once I ll have something nice for breakfast. I still haven’t decided what I want. Off to have relaxing bath and re read Thin For Life by Anne M. Fletcher a book someone on here recommended and I love it to bits.

Forgot to post yesterday 😱
NFD today. In Ayr
2nd week into fasting and Weighed myself today after 4 fasts over the 2 weeks and 4 pound off !!
Feel montvated ! Lol xx

day 2–ma, usa, fd
day1–ma, usa, fd

2nd posts from the too hot to soon Florida…..

Thank you everyone for the welcome backs!
It really feels nice to be back to my old self….. hopefully, I’ll stick around for a while. The other me is such a bore!

Date day and grocery shopping are going very well, spent way to much money but it should last us at least two weeks….. Well unless the boys go into a hungry spurt and eat all of it in one day!

We had a nice lunch and my favorite coffee after wards and we’ll have a nice dinner of fish later on!

Well, I’m off! I’m gonna make a nice dessert for after dinner…… healthy of course!

Surely, NOT everyone was Kung-fu fighting?

Day 2 – NFD
Scotland

Think I”ll go for Monday as my next FD. Tuesday seems too far away right now.

Loved reading all your posts, saw my name on the spreadsheet – now to suss out how to access my row, thanks for adding me

Have a good weekend one and all.

Me again, @sirisan no no noooooooo please don’t feel you have to leave this challenge group. Not my intention at all. The spreadsheet is there to use or not to use. As with this wol you find something that works for you and what works for you may not work for others and vice versa. I am sure @strawberriesandcream will log you in.

@pashaw no apologies necessary with so much on your plate you are an inspiration to us all. When we moan and groan and use excuses we should think of you. It’s in the job description of being a parent to worry, we can’t help it when one of our little birds start to flutter.
One of the twins has announced he wants to go to NZ next year for at least a year if he can. They were with us when we visited in 2011 and loved it. To commemorate our visit we arranged for a Kauri tree to be planted with our family name. Maybe he can find it while he is there!

Day 2 – West Yorkshire UK – FD

Oops forgot to post yesterday.
My fast week starts on Saturday.
Started today with a 45min spin class. It’s been a good day.

I’m hoping to lose weight this, I plateaued in May stuck at 86.1kg for 3 weeks but I have lost inches.
Wish me luck weighing tomorrow

Day 2-Albuquerque, NM -NFD

whoo–effed up last night’s FD breakfast by getting into a bag of tortilla chips! Oh well, still a few days left in this challenge.

@happymargo–I really appreciate your attitude through this temporary setback. I will try to adopt it next time something comes up. My Sweetie is currently undergoing treatment for cancer and responding beautifully. He is most upset by his loss of strength and energy and though I keep telling him that it is temporary, that he will regain his natural athleticism, I know that it is easier to say than do. Thank you.

@Onahealthyhigh–We used to call them thongs here in the U.S. too until those awful ‘thong’ underpants became trendy. I call them flip-flops now.

@annemarilyn – welcome to the POCKET LINGUISTS (well, we already had POCKET WINOS!). I have done crossword puzzles and now play more Words With Friends. Chuffed is ‘extremely pleased’ but Mr. Google didn’t help me with “haff with it” this time. I took Latin a couple years in high school to improve my vocabulary, and it did help. But boy was it ever hard. Besides just words, I also love Trivia (Trivia Crack is a good Facebook game).

Day 2, Rochester, NY, USA – FD

I did well with my fast day until the evening….I didn’t eat anything until I had a 200 calorie smoothie at 3pm. Dinner was a salad and lettuce wraps with chickpea salad. I should have stopped there! I ended up walking to a local pub with my husband where we had a beer and split an order of French fries. I’m still in a calorie deficit for the day, but I definitely went over my 500 calorie budget. I normally wouldn’t choose a Friday as a fasting day, but this week was unusual and I thought I would try it. Monday will be my next FD, and I will aim to eat reasonably over the weekend with plenty of activity.

Day 2&3 NFD NZ

@fatrabbit I agree with your sentiments about the spreadsheet. It’s having a supportive coordinator that i know will read my post and reply if I need something that makes this so valuable for me. I know some do like to record on the spreadsheet but I really just want support and I’d rather @strawberriesandncream saw my post and responded to me than got bogged down logging data.

@strawberriesandcream thank you for posting the spreadsheet, I do know it’s important to some but I value your time and input to my posts more than a log of data.

I too echo the concerns for @paulmarsh, I do hope he reads our comments and sees them for the care and concerned responses that they are. There’s no judgement here that I’ve ever seen or experienced from anyone but it does appear that your goals are bordering on unhealthy and potentially damaging to your body in the long term. Please take care not to force your body into using your muscles for energy. Cardiac muscle is susceptible to this phenomenon as much as skeletal muscles and there are many distance runners that have succumbed to heart attack when their poor hearts have been damaged by insufficient calories over too long of a period.

Personally I’m having a great start to June. My two NFDs have been under TDEE, it’s all about mental attitude for me and I’m in the controlled and determined zone right now. I feel lighter and my jeans today have a baggy waist that wasn’t like that a couple of months ago…I’m going to go ahead and assume that’s a product of weight shedding and not stretchy pants giving out in the wash. My husband is quite sure his clothes have been shrinking in the wash (nothing at all to do with late night chips and chocolate marshmallows) so maybe mine have grown into the fabric his lost because there’s no extra bits floating around in the machine lol.

Day 3 UK FD

179.6 lbs. Bounced up but at least stayed under 180. Saturday’s are always difficult so today will be a challenge. But I don’t think there is anything bingeable in the house. I just need to eat slowly and just once, preferably at 4pm. Just because there are more people around is not a good reason to be hungrier, and anyway with the roadworks out front I may be lucky if I have any people here today. Although as Google maps recently cottoned onto the fact that the sanctuary is here (I am amazed it took them over ten years) we are now classed as a business (they don’t seem to have a separate category for a charity although they probably found us while searching the charity commission website) and our access is supposed to be maintained during the works. Useful as they let the veg man and a visitor and a personal delivery through yesterday. I don’t know what the critters make of the constant shaking and noise from the works. The house moved yesterday when they scraped the old surface off the road! The noise is bothering me much less than it would have before fasting, my anxiety os so much less:)

I didn’t mean to disparage anyone’s work on the spreadsheet, the amount of work put in has been enormous, it just seemed excessive and rather overwhelming for an individual to take that on but the new self entry version seems to be a better solution:)) I confess I have never even looked at the previous spreadsheets as I don’t have a computer to open them on and am unlikely to update the new one. I am logging onto the tracker here daily and using it as a food diary too, which along with logging here on the thread is enough for me.

Did someone say pocket linguists? That is much more me than the pocket winos. It is years since I had so much as a glass of wine but I am a language addict. I am working on Hungarian and Russian at the moment. Count me in.

Hello all day 3 uk co down nfd

@krits best advice is to just keep on keeping on – what is the alternative? A plateau while frustrating can be overcome just keep the faith!

I believe for the pocket linguists what @fatveganchickslims said was she was in a huff with the scales lol not a haff. Meaning she had fallen out with them – we have all been in a huff with them one time or another.

@strawplash – welcome never too late to join. Jump we were we are, day you are on is always day of the month no matter when you start.

Welcome back @s1u2e3

Day 3 – UK – NFD

On holiday so not sure whether I’ll be getting too many FDs in. Stuck to eggs and yoghurt for breakfast so hoping to at least keep within TDEE and avoid sugary carbs.

Help!! This has not started well for me at all. I lost 20kg 2 years ago, with the help of phentermine and have put it all back on☹️My GP will not prescribe me any more and it isn’t sustainable either. Managed to cheat on my first fd, and then have not stuck to my calories since then, it’s always going to be tomorrow, everyone sounds so positive but I was just soooo hungry on my fast day. How do people deal with it? I am on medication for life for epilepsy which increases your appetite so I feel like i am fighting a constant battle.

@rerunirret

Hi, I do LCHF as well, i actually think that it is the most effective way to fast. I originally most weight with LC in 2010 and got to goal but have drifted up since and had trouble getting back their with the same technique. Adding fasting really helps.

I find one the biggest benefits is that you don’t get fast day headaches when you LC. i believe that this is because during a fast day you use up any glycogen stores and your body goes into sugar withdrawal (something that any low carber will be very familiar with) if you low carb on non fast days you don’t eat sugar/starch so these stores are never refilled and you don’t have to withdraw from the sugar each time you fast so no headaches.

They are very complimentary ways of eating and i would recommend to anyone who is particularly carb sensitive. I personally practice a high vegetable, low carb diet so all my carbs come from veggies and some limited fruit (too much sugar) this is because i am trying to cut down on eating a lot of meat as people often eat lots of meat on low carb, something i would rather avoid for the sake of the planet. Im not vegetarian at all but i dont think low carb should be an excuse to eat nothing but meat.

‘Diet’ advice cant make up their mind about what macro nutrient you should reduce in order to successfully lose weight fat, carbs, or protein. The good thing about fasting is that you just reduce all of them 🙂

Bug

Hi @annemarilyn,

I think it was Huff not Haff. ‘In a huff’ mean you are grumpy/sulky/frustrated about something (think huffing and puffing)

found this online

In an offended manner, angrily, as in When he left out her name, she stalked out in a huff. This idiom transfers huff in the sense of a gust of wind to a burst of anger. [ Late 1600s ] Also see: in a snit.

Day3 Guildford UK NFD

Very hungry today, first day of holiday. Nursing shoulder pain from rotary cuff injury being aggregated when minor trip with suitcase.

Yesterday went well, day 4 of FD, I only do this before a holiday and then afterwards if needed.

Enjoying reading everyone’s progress.

Day 3 | Herts, UK | NFD

Terrible night’s sleep (overheating husband!!), but off to the gym shortly for a zumba class. Will have to take it a bit easier than normal as my injury-prone spine (I have a prolapsed disc combined with another condition) is feeling a touch sensitive.

Out tonight with friends, which I’m really looking forward to!