Hi, I’d like to join please! This is my 6th fasting week I’m starting to feel good. Family starting to notice a difference too. Id like to set a higher target and loose 6lbs which should see me down to 11st. I really need to up my activity so I’m hoping that will make a difference. Looking forward to taking part. Baboo

Hi, I’d like to join! I’m new and have been posting in the over-fifties thread. Getting my head around it all and have lost 9 lbs to date. I would like to set a goal for another 9lbs for June – may be ambitious but I have a LOT to lose. Just seen some photos of myself from the weekend which suggest that I’m not yet in the goddess category, even after losing my fabby 9 lbs so far. Feeling motivated to stick with it – the fd’s aren’t as bad as I thought at all! Thanks for having me x

I will join you. My starting weight today is 121.6lbs. I would love to lose 4lbs this month.

Good luck everyone!

Hi everyone and thanks Upagumtree for this thread. I’d really love to join. I’ve set my goal quite high this month and am going for a 2lb loss each week until the end of June, and hopefully will carry that on into July. Its going to be hard, I could really use the support.

Good luck, I really need to do this … things are so out of control at the moment 🙁

Hi I’d love to join as finding this forum really helpful and inspiring in times of self doubt and wobbles.

I started last wk, had one good fast day on Tuesday but messed up fri. Managed to lose 2 lb though to my relief, i think due to extra running and being more thoughtful about food in general.

My goal for this month is 5lb. Thanks and god luck everyone.
Ps thanks fitnfast for your kind and encouraging words in your thread. You have helped me not give up!

Sorry, my adding up is awful tonight, maybe lack of food….I weigh 150lbs today!

I’ll join. I have just registered and will start tomorrow so will go for 4lb and see what happens. I’m a whopping 217lb at the moment and 5ft7 so a long long way to go!!! Wish me luck. And good luck to all of you!

I’d like to join! I’ve been fasting off and on since the fall. I’ve been able to keep off the 10 pounds I initially lost. I’m now going for a 5 lb. weight loss by my b-day (end of June). I’ll be very close to my goal weight if I accomplish that this month! Good luck to all!

Thanks Up 🙂 its nice to be back. I’m doing okay, quite a lot been going on at home and not been able to concentrate on myself much. Thats changing from now hopefully! I think i’m quite possibly at the heaviest I’ve ever been 🙁 its all too depressing. Anyway, went for a long walk before work this morning and I’m going to make myself walk again at lunch. I’m working up to the fast days, just keeping it low each day for now. I’m of work for a few days next week, so might give fasting a go then.

Good luck everyone with your day, I’ve missed being here x

Wow, so many newbies, that’s wonderful. Little voices is certainly shouting loud. Great to see you back Dragon Fly, you gave me support at the start when I badly needed it. It’s great we have a good crowd to support each other.
I feel positively lazy when I read the targets some of you want to achieve , but if I can lose 4 lbs and get to 10 stone for June that will do nicely. Then I can get my head around the next half stone.
I am trying low carb/ high ( natural ) fat just now as I have health issues, so will work with that and get used to it rather than put pressure on myself.
Good luck to you all, and thanks again UP for taking the lead.

Hi Third Time Lucky 🙂 I’ve really missed the support this forum brings, you’re right, its good to get a good crowd together to cheer each other on. Hope you’re doing okay. I’m taking it easy so far with fasting, again for health issues, and coming off medication. I’m hoping to start introducing them next week when I have time off work. We can do this! I want to get to 10 stone by the end of June too, so I’m with you all the way.

Hope everyone is having good and positive days 🙂 x

Hmmm maybe before I set my target I should have paid more attention to the fact it’s both my kids birthday this week, I’ve been baking cakes all day! Oh well….

Ahh dreaming of sugar, wish it didn’t feel so good!
Just about to try a kettlecise class, hopefully not too painful 😉
Fast again on thurs I think….trying to eat clean in between but can be tricky.

Second fast day for me today. I got a lecture from the receptionist at my gym yesterday whilst booking an appointment to update my workout after I stupidly mentioned that Mondays and Wednesdays would be out as they are fasting days and I’m not a fan of exercising on fast days (tried it last time). It really annoyed me, I don’t feel the need to lecture anyone else on what works for them… =/

Oh well, I know there are lots of people here who understand and know how well this works both for weight loss and your health in general.

Good luck with the June challenge 🙂

@bluezoo last fime I did this the fasting side definitely got much easier, I stopped getting hungry on fast days, and I found the desire to eat cake/sweets/my body weight in bread on non fast days died off really quickly too 🙂

Thanks for the support, have a great day today and a good fasting day tomorrow 🙂

Kits

Mid-day update, how’s everyone doing fasting or otherwise. I have to say that I can tell I’ve not fasted for a while, its rough, although I’m keeping on with it. I had a black coffee earlier which helped and will just have water this afternoon. My soup will taste soooo good later! Hopefully if I can get a few fast days done, it should start to get easier.

WE CAN DO THIS!

Thanks @kitsix that’s good to know and hold out for. Just eaten a packet of rolos, went to shops to buy lemons but got that 3pm urge 🙁
I was explaining to my son about the rolo adverts ‘do you love anyone enough to give them your last rolo?’ Just shows the power of advertising 30years on! Then both children gave me their last rolo! I did give them first and last from my pack though 😉
I hope you are embracing your willpower@dragonfly, you have so got this. Nearly soup and bedtime then enjoy that virtuous feeling in the morning.

2nd fast day done after daughters birthday yesterday. Out for a curry tomorrow night so may do another (my first 4:3) on Friday as it’s my sons birthday on Saturday (more cake). A nice easy fast day today, have rediscovered pickled beetroot!!

Hi everyone

One FD completed, another one today. Have found that leaving a longer fasting window seems to work, used to be “got to have breakfast or I’ll die” but now don’t have anything til about 7pm, it’s quite tough, as have to ignore the hunger pangs, and just BELIEVE, it’s got to work. Going to a wedding on Saturday, so if I’m on a roll today may sneak in a gentler FD tomorrow, let’s see how my willpower fairs 😉
Good luck to all you Fasters, and NF’s today.
bb

Completed my fast day slightly under 500! It was hard going, especially when I got home and my bf was having wine, but … I said no thanks! Had my soup, and then numerous cups of green tea then went to bed early. I’ve had some toast this morning, with weightwatchers bread, and feel good so far.

Happy Thursday to all my friends, we’ve got this!!!!!

Morning everyone – this thread is moving fast!!! I can’t keep up! 🙂 Brilliant to see everyone doing so well, I am DETERMINED I will shift 4lb this month. Determined I tell you!!!!!

Monday was FD – I went over slightly….. monthly hormones kicked in, by 7pm I was feeling very dizzy & faint and just did not have the willpower to resist eating. Ho hum. It’s only the first week. Today is FD number 2 and I am feeling a lot more positive that it will all be good. I only had one week off 5:2, which was last week (all but one semi fast day, which I am not counting), and already found I am feeling so much worse for it. Much more groggy, not quite as alive as I have done. So I am happy to be back on it this week. Just a shame ‘aunt flo’ ruined it for Monday.

Dragon Fly & Kitsix, well done for your self control! Two weeks ago the OH (who I work with) and the guy in the office next to ours had a McDonalds on their lunch break. I was fasting and had a mug of Miso soup. For about 1 minute I was considering ditching the FD and doing it again the followig day but I stood fast and stuck to it – and felt SO pleased that I did. Hope you’re feeling good today.

So, whilst I’m talking willpower – had anyone got any tips they can share for getting through the little spells of hunger during the day, or even recipes you’ve found keep you full for longer? I have been drinking bottles and bottles of water, had Miso soups, the odd black coffee (before I started getting terrible headaches) and trying to keep my protein high on my evening meal. I could do with some different recipe ideas and little tips though, feel like I need to shake things up a bit!

Hi Babs – read your post and got Mimis cookbook out. This is what she suggests:
There’s little point grazing on a fast day – it would soon eliminate the point of the exercise. But some people need a little lift……….avoid carbs and go for fresh raw ingredients.

Almonds
Crudités ( carrot sticks,celery,cucumber,peppers,radish,tomatoes etc)
Tablespoon hummus
Fresh strawberries. 10
Blueberries 100 grm
Cherries 60 grm
Table spoon cottage cheese
25 grm Edam
10 grm air popped corn
10 pistachios
Hard boiled egg
1 tablespoons seeds
Sugar free jelly pot
Frozen grapes

I have the fast diet books and often refer back to them. If I have any doubts they have the answer. I tend to stick to Dr Ms guidelines. It is slower than some people like, but nowadays I’m slow and steady rather than racing to the finish and getting exhausted.

I’m on my second fast day for the week. Had a big portobello mushroom, tomato grilled with a poached egg ( from Mimis book) for breakfast. 124 cals ( I don’t do well skipping breakfast) We will have vege chilli for dinner. OH will have rice, I won’t . 149 cals. That will leave me extra for strawberries and yogurt, plus milk in tea through the day. Though I tend to drink a lot of herbal tea and water.

I can recommend Mimis book for anyone who is at a loss what to eat. The recipes are easy and filling.
Sometimes I need all the help I can get, this way Mimis done all the hard work. I just have to put it together and enjoy!

Do hope this helps Babs, and any newbies.

Second FD scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) as I was treated to a ‘Healthy Breakfast’ today – my meal was lountza (lean bacon), mushrooms and fresh tomato (cooked using 1 Cal spray), baked beans and scrambled egg with two rounds of toast and butter. MOH had the English Breakfast – 2 fried eggs, sausage, streaky bacon (which he did not eat) mushrooms (cooked in oil) and baked beans with toast, butter and jam. I have just added up the calories and the total comes to just under 850, so pretending it is 1000! If I do feel hungry later on then a salad will be fine. Just been for a long walk – a bit faster than strolling, but not enough to get out of breath.

I’ve been following the fast diet since March and I am still struggling with the non-fast days. I tend to nibble more because I know “I can,” even though I really can’t.

Strength to all!

Thanks for putting all that information together. It is fun to think that if we all succeed, a small person of blubber will have melted away.

Cheers.