Day 2 -Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD

Morning, back to work after a super sunny June Bank Holiday lockdown weekend, and a bumper reading on the scales that made my jaw drop!

So in keeping with some others here @shinything, @flourbaby, and @emma-taylor, I might forego a weight target and daily weighing and concentrate on the clothes fitting. Otherwise I will just get annoyed and angry with myself and I don’t need this right now!!

When I get home from work tonight I will choose a target pair of jeans and a skirt….both will be my goal for June. Weekly weigh in on a Friday, and that’s it.

Today my work lunch delivery is a tuna salad bowl with guacamole. I will take that home and work out the calories on MFP, and perhaps ditching the guacamole, this could be myevenig meal instead 🤔

Love the daily question @penz

What surprised me most about 5:2 was the first time I fasted and couldn’t believe I didn’t die of STARVATION after 12 hours 😀 Also, how breakfast actually is NOT the most important meal of the day for me. Also, people’s attitudes to fasting……I keep my fasts to myself now.

Pocket list Day 2
@daffodil2010

DD list for Day 2
@penz
@daffodil2010

Day 2 – Lake District UK – FD

Good morning everyone

Well that was some pocket list yesterday! Hope the wagons power steering was OK and @penz managed to keep it on the straight and narrow 😉

I didn’t join you all yesterday as we had our friends round in the garden for our first sit and natter get together since the lockdown began. We’re neighbours and good friends, have all been speaking ‘over the wall’ but ready for a proper catch up! Everything was just fine or maybe that should be ‘wine’ ! Amazing how much we had all missed just getting together and having a load of laughs.

@flourbaby – Have to agree with your comments about the ‘monthly challenge’ it really does help.
The 5:2 WOL isn’t a silver bullet, you still have to work at it, but I’ve found breaking it down into monthly challenges really helps me. Particularly after a holiday (remember them?) or whatever and you find a few pounds have crept back on, jump straight back on the wagon and be honest with yourself, look at holiday weight gain as temporary and fun at the time.

Pocket list Day 2
@daffodil2010
@i-hate-lettuce

DD list for Day 2
@penz
@daffodil2010

Day 2 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD

A successful start to June with the first FD over with, & what a whopper of a Pocket List!

@penz:- what initially surprised me the most about 5:2 was, as @snowflake56 already said, the fact that I’m not hungry at all the morning after a FD. But now it’s the fact that I’m still fasting six years later!

For Michael Mosley fans; this was in a UK newspaper at the weekend. How to gauge how well you’re aging, physically & mentally. And what you can do about it if you’re not:-

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8372289/DR-MICHAEL-MOSLEY-Want-know-long-youll-live-one-minute.html

He’s also recently published another book, ‘Covid-19: What you need to know about the Coronavirus and the race for the vaccine’. As if we haven’t heard enough about that already 😒

Pocket List – Day 2 🍏
@aidan64
@daffodil2010
@i-hate-lettuce
@mia139

DD list for Day 2 ☕️
@penz
@daffodil2010
@funshipfreddie

Day 2 Melb Aust TDEE

Going okay.

@penz, what has surprised me about the 5:2 WOL is how much more difficult it is to control NFDs than FDs.

@funshipfreddie, interesting article, thank you for sharing it. Re hand grip, I wonder what difference there is if someone has arthritis in the hands. Hand grip would have to be less, but would that have any effect on lifespan?? Interesting question.

Onward and downwards everyone!

Day 2 – Switzerland – FD800

Hi everybody. Having a definite monday-feeling on this lovely tuesday – thanks to the holiday yesterday. Quite busy at work, that’s good for my FD. So far had two coffees with milk and scrambled eggs. That leaves me with about 500cal for the rest of the day.

@penz: what surprised me most about the 5:2 WOL was how effective it is! I never really dieted, but the 2 or 3 times I tried something, I had a (small) effect for some weeks and then I went back to normal. 5:2 followed by 6:1 made me loose a lot more weight, was sustainable for months and even after stopping I didn’t just regain all the lost weight, because I had learned that A: hunger doesn’t kill me instantly and B: my body tells me, when it needs more or less food, so I should just listen to it instead of eating out of pure habit.

Adding myself to today’s pocket list:

@aidan64
@daffodil2010
@i-hate-lettuce
@mia139
@snowflake56
@beck100 FD800

Day 2 UK NFD

@penz thank you for hosting! And I love the daily question idea. I think the thing that surprised me the most about 5:2 is how it’s changed my feelings around food quite a lot. I think it’s made me much more aware about what I’m putting into my body and how that makes me feel. Maybe that’s because I’ve got that extra time on my FDs to just go a bit slower and think. Other diets in the past always just made me see food as numbers or macronutrients. I love how this is a flexible thing of ‘how I eat’ as opposed to ‘what I eat’. At least for me, anyway, who’s always eaten lots of whole foods and mainly plant-based.

One thing I have noticed recently is how the way I dress massively impacts me. For a long time I hid away cropped tops and more revealing things, and it’s sort of a vicious circle. Don’t feel confident – cover up – no motivation to change, as no one will see me.
So I’ve made the effort to wear things I love that show off a bit more skin on these hot days. After all, we’re all beautiful regardless. Then, not only does it feel more normal and comfortable, but it’s made me feel more motivated to keep looking after myself, so I feel even better in my skin.

Hope everyone has a lovely day today x

Day 2, UK, NFD, 68.5kg

Successful FD yesterday and even skipped breakfast today. Having a lovely cheese and salmon salad with a full spoon of mayo, apple as a snack, and will have another salad with homemade SW quiche for dinner.

What most surprised me about 5:2 was that we dont die or pass out if we dont eat every 3h or if we skip breakfast or dinner. I grew up in a family where all (5!) meals were important and I couldn’t dream of skipping a meal – big no-no for my mum.

Have a great day everyone!

Day 2 USA (Illinois) NFD

Managing quite well, but DH is in the hospital with at least pneumonia. Don’t know how long he might be in. They are also treating him like it could be COVID but test won’t be back for a couple days. Ugh… now it has been suggested I self-quarantine too. Certainly not going anywhere myself today.

Hugs to all you wonderful fasters out there. Prayers for you all, and appreciated for us too —

Onward and downward.

Day 2 UK NFD

Just finished a very sweaty 5k with Leslie – a good reminder for me that one of the key reasons I want to lose some weight is so I won’t get so hot and bothered when the temperature rises

Oh @songbirdme – You and your DH are in my thoughts ❤️

Day 2, Rural Nebraska, USA, NFD

I’m feeling quite noble: not only did I work 4 hard hours in the veggie garden yesterday morning, I spent 4 hard hours in my perennial bed this morning. Not only is that a lot of calories burned and physical exertion, it’s also that much time when I’m not tempted to eat, and now I’m too beat to care, LOL!

Yesterday’s FD went fine, although I had about 650 calories instead of <500, so my plan today is to limit calories to 1400 or so, which will feel plenty generous, and will certainly compensate for yesterday’s splurge in calories.

@songbirdme, prayers for your DH and you both; keep us posted.

@penz, the biggest surprise to me was how well I sleep when I’ve eaten so little, and how it’s possible to go to bed slightly hungry (and feeling okay about that) and wake up not in the least hungry. Go figure!

@at, thanks for the welcome! It’s so fun to read about the journeys the rest of you are on, and I wish us all a laser focus on our goals, with no distractions from cravings!

Day 2, 2nd post

@penz, I only now managed to read all the posts, and saw your question about if I’m tracking calories on NFD. Not carefully, but I’m decent about mental calorie counting, so keep thinking if I’m not losing a pound a week, I should be losing a pound every two weeks, or every three weeks, or at least a pound a month!!! LOL, I’m clearly not paying close enough attention to what I’m eating/drinking.

DH and I started 5:2 in January 2013. In 2015 I was really focused, and got down to 137 lbs, which is about 22 BMI for me. In 2016 and 2017 I gained much of it back, even though we were supposedly still doing 5:2–NFDs were clearly way over the mark, and designated FDs often didn’t actually happen. Last year, we agreed to simply give it up since we clearly weren’t actually doing it.

In late February, we committed to 5:2 again, and I promptly lost 8 lbs. By late March, I wasn’t losing any more.

I’ve tried adding in a third FD each week, but never succeed with that, so have acknowledged I simply have to employ more discipline and more attention on NFDs–and I’m certain this group will help with that.

I happened across an email notification that led me to the forum, and with a bit of hunting I found this particular group, and am so pleased to be back. I think the biggest danger to a successful 5:2 is to forget to THINK about it, and just sort of float along. Even if FDs are good, it’s too easy to go way overboard on NFDs unless some focus is involved, you know?

Okay, I’m good at novels, but clearly need to quit now, LOL!

DAY 1 – USA – FD
DAY 2 – USA – NFD

Thank you @penz and @at for hosting. I am back for the second month after a successful May with you all. I didn’t lose a lot of weight, but I look and feel thinner and found it so very doable that is truly is a WOL, rather than a diet. I have a pesky autoimmune disease called Hashimoto’s which makes losing weight VERY difficult and gaining bloat/weight VERY easy, so must do the dance.I tried keto but found myself feeling so deprived, it wasn’t for me. I also sleep better on FD, so for those of you starting with insomnia on FD, it gets better!!

I’m 53 years old – 5’4′ like a few of you gals here; enjoying the gorgeous spring weather in New England with the flowering trees in full bloom – (the peonies in my backyard are stunning). My goal for June is to limit calories a tad more on NFD – hopefully to help with the weight loss around my middle. I confess I’m not doing any measuring of any kind, but the glass of wine here or there or extra helping of dinner doesn’t help. Sugar and sweet isn’t my nemesis – it’s food, so portion control is what I’m after this month.

anyone here think dairy is a culprit in sabatoging weight loss? Something tells me that (cheese, cream in coffee, cheese) may be hindering my best efforts….

Day 2, UK, NFD

Happy with yesterday’s FD, which makes me more motivated to be controlled on my NFD today. Trying to remember that 🙂

Answer to your question @penz, I find it surprising that I find FDs easier than NFDs, I didn’t think that would be the case.

@aidan64 “Woke up to a strange thing in the sky….cloud!” …. 🤣

@snowflake56 its good to have you back with us 😀 . I’m still watching the eagles, and I always think about you when I watch them now 😀
For all who were not here then, I and few others here love birds, and last year @snowflake56 watched live bold eagle nest, absolutely fascinating 😍

@songbirdme sorry to hear your DH is in hospital, and with a possible Covid19, that’s so worrying 😨. Try to stay positive and remember, in case the test comes back positive, that vast majority of people who got it will recover fine. Sending you a virtual hug and prayers 🙏

@dee22 you have a right approach, one day at the time is the best thing to do and not look too far ahead 👍

Have a great day/evening everyone 🌞

@songbirdme – 🙏 so happy for you both – praying for his safe recovery 🤗

Day 2 – USA/GA – NFD

Checking in from the Atlanta area. I’m a 45 year old man who is 5’9″ and ready to finally get down to a healthier weight.

My AFD was yesterday and this morning I weighed in at 264 lbs. This is down from my all time high of 279 lbs. in late January. I started 5:2 on May 11 and 7 lbs. of my weight loss has been since that date. This way of life appeals to me, because it is so easy to stay on track compared to so many of the other plans and diets out there.

I’ve been kind of up and down the past week and a half when I hit 264 originally, so I am trying to be more wary of not overdoing it on my NFD.

Something fun I do is create a paper Christmas tree chain garland with strips of junk mail. Each link is taped onto the chain with the weight written on it. I hang it in my closet. If I haven’t returned to that weight within a week, I rip off that link and toss it into the trash. Today I ripped off the 269 and 268 links. I can’t tell you how therapeutic that is! LOL

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@penz I would love to fit back into “traditional” clothing I bought while traveling around the world. There’s the linen shirt from Colombia that I insisted was too small (and was right) but I couldn’t resist buying in 2018 with colorful embroidered patterns around the collar. That’s first! Then I’ll see if I can’t dig out my guayabera shirt I bought in the Yucatan in 2005. Next, I will find out if I can fit into the white washed linen pants and shirt from Greece way back in 2001, although I don’t think I’ll wear it in public. Finally, if I haven’t given it away, I’ll search for my woolen suit bought in Romania in 1995. But most of all, I look forward to going into a store and not worrying about the sizes when browsing!

Day 3, Emden Germany, CD

yesterday’s FD went well, going for a CD today.

@at Happy birthday!

@songbirdme glad the test result was negative, praying for a fast recovery.

@funshipfreddie thanks for the interesting article.

@basyjames I hope the family issues can be sorted out. I can stick to this WOL for a while and when I stop doing FDs my NFDs seem to be derailing too. I don’t even know why I stopped doing FDs, they are not hard to do and I just have to do them to keep my weight at a normal level.

@shinything hi, my fellow eagle watcher! I’m not much on the computer nowadays and only take a look when I’m in. The black flies are back in the North nest again, I hope the eaglet will fledge soon instead of falling out of the nest. I’m so glad the three last year’s eaglets were all released from S.O.A.R. at some point.

@penz I’d like to be able to fit in my black silk low back cocktail dress. I bought it 1991 in Toronto and used it as my measurement dress when I started 5:2 instead of scales. If it fits I’m at the weight I want to stay at.

Have a nice day everyone!

Day 3 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – FD
2nd B2B

For some reason my iPad is not allowing me to click further than Page 1 on the forum (plus the Tracker is not available on the site) so I can’t catch up with posts since yesterday b

Hope you are all fine the positivity at the start of a month is always uplifting.

I had a great FD yesterday, I have gone back to using MFP and logged in at 432 cals so delighted with that. I brought my tuna salad lunch bowl (lunch delivered every day to office during the pandemic ☺️), there was some pasta shells in it, I took them out and weighed them, and although only 50grams that’s over 200 cals!! So in the bin they went. The rest of the salad ’twas just fine.

Today I will B2B, same technique as yesterday, bring my lunchtime salad bowl home for dinner…I think it’s vegetarian salad with quinoa today…MFP it and work from there.

I aim for two Leslie Sansone workouts a day as well as my morning walk.

I tried on a pair of casual trousers that I was able to wear until a few months ago. These are my measuring jeans. I have vowed to get that button closed and zip up by the end of June.

So that’s me sorted!! @flourbaby, hey you inspired me again…your impromptu WFD and then drowning the dragon with water and not taking anything before bedtime….I felt peckish at bedtime and was going to try find a healthy snack, but thought of you, cleaned my teeth, drank water….yeah, sleep is for wimps….but got a whoosh myself!!!

@funshipfreddie liked that M.Moseley article, and will try out a few things. I like that hand grip one, and me being me, even thinking of getting one online 😀

I will check in later to see how everyone is doing, if I can move on from page 1 that is.

I am on the Pocket List today if anyone can swoop me up…I can’t see at the moment ☹️

Happy Hump Day.

Day 3 UK West Yorkshire NFD went well yesterday and woke feeling positive. Looking out this morning we’ve got some of that wet stuff, ah well it will be good for the garden and make Mrs C happy. Hopefully only a small interruption before a return to the glourious lock down weather. Or is it nature’s way of telling us to stay indoors?

Day 3 – UK – NFD

Hi

Yesterday went ok. A little over 1100 but not by much. Today I intend to be more controlled to set up my appetite for tomorrow. I’ve noticed if I have plenty of protein & fat rather than carbs the day before my fast day, my FD Is easier to navigate. Also my FDs tend to be OMAD.

Take care, stay safe x

Day 3 Oxfordshire, UK FD Bad night’s sleep last night so going to try to stay busy today and away from food till dinner time.
I have a couple of dresses that I can wear when I’m at my lowest weight. One LBD I bought pre children and the other a white linen sundress bought a few years ago from a charity shop.
I also have a pair of jeans from the 1980’s that I can only fit into when I’m at my lowest.
It’s a lovely feeling when they fit.

I got rid of my big clothes or altered what I could when I lost the weight before as an incentive not to put too much back on.
Joining the pocket list.
Pocket List – Day 3 🥕
@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@mia139
@suki2

Day 3 – DD list ☕️
@funshipfreddie
@suki2

Day 3 Melb Aust CD

The weather is much colder, and the past 2 days I’ve eaten more than intended. Need to put the brakes in!

@songbirdme, so glad that OH doesn’t have Covid-19, and will pray for his rapid recovery.

@bestintentions, welcome to the forum. I’m another shortie – down to just over 5 ft (154 cms)(I’ve shrunk 2 cms over the years) so also have to lose a lot to reach a normal BMI. Started this month at 70.9 kg and aiming to get down to 52 kg, though anything from 59 kg down will have me in the normal BMI range. Whatever, we’re a great multinational group, so welcome.

@funshipfreddie, interesting article. My problem is osteoarthritis rather than RA, but I still need to work on hand strength.
My goal steps is 8000, rather than 10,000. I figure at 70 years old, that’s okay.

@penz, to answer your question, I have a leather skirt I’ve kept for many years, but never worn – would love to be able to wear it, but will have to lose at least another 12 kgs to get anywhere near it.

@i hate lettuce, you find the most beautiful places to walk!

@ericaa67, I don’t think dairy is necessarily a problem, so much as the calories. Dr Moseley always encourages the consumption of full fat yoghurt, milk, etc. However, I always have skim or low fat milk in tea, and often eat lower fat cheese because they contain fewer calories, no other reason.

Keep on keeping on everyone!

Day 3 UK FD

Morning everyone,

Feeling drowsy this morning, and hopping on the black coffee train to get things going!

Hmm, as for the daily question. Luckily most of my clothes fit alright, but it’s a question of wanting to slip into them as opposed to squeezing…

Adding myself to the pocket list for today. I’m going to make that courgette pesto soup that @michelinme posted in here for dinner tonight as it looked amazing.
Pocket List – Day 3 🥕
@i-hate-lettuce
@daffodil2010
@mia139
@suki2
@endellion

x

Day3 UK, NFD

Checking in. Today will be a controlled day, I’ve planned my meals and it should come out about 1100 cals – including a lasagne which I am looking forward to. I don’t tend to limit the types of foods on NFDs – all in moderation.

@penz – I have a black lace shift dress which I bought a couple of years ago just when I lost a load of weight on this WOL, I love it and currently it’s hanging in the wardrobe looking at me reproachfully. My aim to get to the stage where this is too big.

Keep safe everyone.