Nothing to add to the Crisco Kid this week which isn’t surprising as I ate out three times this week and each time had a dessert after a very disappointing main course. One dessert was just a 2” square of complimentary bahklava, another was a piece of apple & raspberry pie with custard as part of a set 3-course menu. Finally I had a voucher for Friday lunch at a steak/fish restaurant and I only eat chicken breast. I eat lots of vegetables, but here in Cyprus you’re lucky if you get a salad garnish with the option of rice, chips or jacket potato. So I ended up with a chicken breast all by itself on a huge plate. I was very hungry by then and dessert was a choice of local fruit or chocolate lava cake with ice cream. Not had anything chocolate for several weeks and fruit makes me all bloated. Yes, it was very nice but my digestive system has got so used to not having chocolate I was amazed that the next day I was really craving something sweet and it took all my willpower today to stick to my Fast Day. I knew I hadn’t gained because I enter everything on a food tracker and I haven’t been over the TDEE on non-fast days.

1 June SW 128.6 CW 127.00 GW 125 lbs So, my total loss remains at 1.6 lbs

Shall probably do 4:3 next week to see if I can shift another 1 lb as I want the Crisco Kid to grow up quickly!

Well I’m afraid Crisco is hanging around here and thwarting my plans (or is it me). Was invited to a charity strawberry tea yesterday, knowing this I actually skipped breakfast for the first time on a FD. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was and didn’t feel hungry all day. Had an early dinner (cod and salad) so I wouldn’t eat too much at night. Sitting at 320 calls for the day before the ‘good’stuff came along. I have never seen such an array of desserts. The table was groaning! Of course I just had to partake, to be sociable you know – proceeded to devour another 800 calls worth! Didn’t seem like much on the plate, and I actually felt sick afterwards. Then the bloating, runny nose etc etc kicked in. This is what carbs does for me! Anyway the result is I have gained 1 1/4lbs! So – I will now try to keep my daily allowance to 1000 cals to try and unload this rubbish. Still have a week till the end of June so will really work at getting down to 10 stone. Feel fed up with myself for gaining but know I did my little bit for Breast Cancer. Hope you other little voices are doing better than I am. Good luck all.

Down another 1/2 lb for a total of 3.5 so far in June. 1.5 to go in one week. Crossing my fingers.

Definitely agree that location of the scales is important – I keep mine in one place as I have also noticed a variation if they are moved to another area! So pleased the Crisco Kid weighs an extra 1.5 lbs because of this discrepancy!

Good FD yesterday. No breakfast, no lunch, an hour of pilates and felt good. Kippers and quinoa salad for dinner, and just had to finish off the last little bit of pavlova! Hate wasting food! All in all ended up at 530 cals for the day . Shows as a loss of 3/4lb which after my strawberry tea feast I suppose is not too bad. That puts me at 10st 1 . 1/4 lbs still 1.1/4 lbs to target. Running out of days now, so will try to keep my cals down to 1000 for the next few days. Too much going on to try for another FD so not even going there! If ever the weather would improve I would be gardening, but with all this rain all I can do is watch the weeds grow. Just realised too that I haven’t used my rebounder for a few weeks – how could I forget that? I almost fall over it going into the spare room!!! One thing to note, a lady at Pilates remarked how much thinner I looked, and was I slimming? Told her about 5:2, she hadn’t heard of it. Will speak to her more next week, see if I can make another convert! Any more TV programmes coming up about 5:2 Dr M? You have to keep getting it out there. It would solve a lot of health problems for a lot of people. Onwards and downwards fellow fasters. The end of the month is nigh!

Good morning everyone,

I just spent the last few minutes catching up on the posts for this week. Congratulations to everyone who lost weight. It seems the bodies are cooperating as the end of the month approaches.

I have been doing 4:3 since I started the fast diet in March, but for the past month, no weight was coming off. So, I started cutting down on my calories on the non-fast days as well. That just did not work for me. It was too hard for my body to recover after exercising. I also started to wonder if maybe I was starting to have some vitamin deficiencies from eating so little.

Anyway, this week I only fasted two days, started taking a few vitamin supplements, and ate my TDEE on non-fast days. (Actually, there was one day that I don’t even want to know how many calories I ate) I can report a loss of 1.5 pounds. I can finally contribute to the Crisco Kid. It’s not the three pounds I was hoping for this month but a loss is a loss.

I am looking forward to finding out how much our bouncing ball of blubber has grown this month.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Weigh in today, and giving Crisco a 1.6 lb. increase, a loss for me. I think I am already over my goal. Only 3.8 lbs away from a goal I never thought I’d reach!

Nice going, everyone! Crisco will be sliding his slimy fat butt out of June soon!

3 times – On another thread, RT has posted a link to a great Ted Talks regarding 5:2 benefits, particularly neurological benefits. I will search back and post the link at some point soon.

This is my contribution to blubber boy:
Start weight 215
End weight 208
Loss 7lbs (yay!)

Kate Eve

Hello lovelies,

Sorry for the lack of participation, my back’s been bad the last couple of weeks 🙁

My total for June is 5lbs. Hope you are all doing ok x

Hello Healthy, it is now officially July. My goal for July …other than stick with the 5:2 program ( as closely as possible) was to keep a real log on my fitness pal of my food intake. I have to keep working at it this month as well.

Hi all

Phoebe – you have to take any silver linings you can get!!!!! I feel like singing ‘always look on the bright side of life- du do du do du do’! AND no puppies ears for you lass! Though that’s not even the worst thing in the world!

Well, in spite of putting on 3 lbs at the beginning of the month, a net 5 lbs loss to add to the lard mountain, that baby will be leaving home and getting his first mortgage at the rate he has been growing – well done everybody!

Wow, everyone did so well this month! And phoebe, I am so happy for you, girl! And just a little bit more than envious!

Managed to survive on just 900 cals yesterday ( not a FD ). And it shows this morning on the scales, another 1/4lb gone. I’m going to grab that extra on my total for June as I need all the help I can get! So I have ended up with a loss of 3 1/2 lbs for June (1/2 lb short of target)

So sorry to hear of your friends loss UP. This bloody cancer seems to be taking over everywhere. We are going this afternoon to our friends funeral, also cancer, prostate. At least with our new way of eating, and excercise hopefully we can get rid of the threat of cancer and many other ailments. Come on, fellow fasters – we don’t want to be ill in later life, do we? Follow the program and keep well.

I am happy to do the July challenge if you to the August one Fit. Not sure what to do other than boosting morale, so UP if you can give me some pointers as to how you have done things we might as well stick to your system. You are much more organised than I would be but will do my best. Let me know how we can communicate out with the forum to get the stats.

Hi All, sorry I am late (I think I am about 6 hours behind most of you in time zone).
My final total was 1.5 lbs lost.

Started at 132.2 pounds, dipped down to 128.9 at one exciting point, but now resting at
130.6 lbs. I am in for the July challenge.

Upa, so sorry that you have been dealing with so much so quickly. Thank you for getting this rolling. FitnFast are you reading to crack the whip now :-).

Hey everyone some great results from June. How fast did that month go?
Well I am 3lb down. I aimed for 5lb but these last 2 weeks I’ve only managed one good fast a wk. Pleased that BMI now under 24.

I need to be more focused for July to be ready for my bros wedding.

Thanks for thread has been really helpful hearing how everyone is getting on and has kept the motivation up when I feel I am slipping.

Looking forward to July’s thread 🙂

This is for anyone who did the June challenge and wants to carry on.
I have set up a new thread in Weight loss under Little Voices – July challenge.
Go there to sign up and I’ll add you to the calculations.

For anyone new we give lots of support and have a bit of fun on the way.
We are working on ‘LARDY LAD’ during July – so join us and let’s add to his weight and then boot him out the door!