JFitzy so sorry I didn’t wish you a great and fab holiday!!

am sure you’ll have a lovely time, enjoy and bring us back some warm sun please! take care xxxxxxxxxx

hi all! LD, don’t give up. I think it’s normal for the weight loss to stall out for a bit as your body gets adjusted to it. I haven’t hit a plateau yet, but it seems like everyone does sooner or later and if you stick it out it eventually moves again.

JFitzy, glad you had a good vacation. Coming back home after is always tough isn’t it? I have 6 weeks left til Hawaii and I still haven’t decided how I’ll handle the eating while I’m away. I’m thinking I’ll not fast and just try not to go overboard.

Hi LD & Kilda I have yet to find out what the damage is from my holiday and will know on Friday. Prior to that though I had also hit a plateau but that is because, if I am honest, I was not sticking to the 5:2 properly as I wasn’t as careful on my non fast days as I used to be. I am now definitely back on it though and my new swimming regime starts this Friday. I plan to swim 3 or 4 times a week and I will also be watching what I eat. I have started looking at how much sugar is in ready meals, not that I eat that many, and there is loads so I am not going to have those anymore!!

I think it is good to change things around sometimes so let us know how you get on LD.

Speak soon 🙂

Hi everyone, have just had a horrendous couple of weeks with work where I have barely had time to breath let alone fast. I was traveling all the time and find it difficult to fast in hotels/planes etc.

Things are a bit calmer now so am fasting today – anyone else with me? I have also reached a bit of a plateau recently but think that is entirely due to now being as careful or doing as much exercise as I did at the beginning of the year. So I am going to fast properly, go to the gym more and try and shift some of this weight. I have a big (rather scary) birthday in August and want to lose a few more pounds before that milestone!

Happy fasting!

hi ladies! I’m fasting today too although I’m sure you’re all tucked in bed by now. Hope you all had a good fast day.

Hello Ladies I hope you are well. I am now back in the groove before my next holiday. Went swimming at 6.30 this morning so feeling very virtuous and alert!! I too have hit a plateau but as everyone else has said I am also be being too complacent on my non-fast days and some bad habits have been creeping in again! Anyway delighted to say no real damage has been done but now I have to crack on and lose that next 10 pounds or so. I plan to swim 3 or 4 times a week and do a couple of yoga sessions if I can find the time. I will report back with the results of my weigh in next week.

Angie how are you doing? I haven’t seen you on here for a while. I hope you are doing ok? (x)

LD how are you doing are you back in the groove yet!!!

Speak soon x x x 🙂

Evening everyone,

we’re all out of sync with each other at the mo, maybe that’s while we’re all plateauing, we’re missing each other’s moral support!!

Angie glad you’re surviving; it must be so difficult for you, not just your grief but also having to sort things out in another country. I do hope him indoors is giving you some support.

Big hugs xxx

Hello Ladies I hope you all had a good weekend. It has been very quiet on here of late – where is everyone! I am now firmly back on the 5:2 as it has been a bit hit and miss of late. I managed 3 swims last week and I am on course to do 4 this week. Also doing some workouts at home with weights so hopefully that will all speed up the weight loss. I am back on my “no carbs” during the week and then the odd treat at the weekend (usually strawberries and ice cream yummy and a few glasses of wine!!).

Have a good week one and all. Not long before I go away again so need to make sure I have lost that pesky 10 lbs by then 🙂 !!!!

Hi JFitzy, yes it has gone quiet on here. I miss everyone 🙁

How has your fast day gone JFitzy? I’ve fasted today too, am finding fasting days are very easy at the mo, so think my plateauing is probably caused by a little too much on my non fast days!!

That said I lost 1.2lbs last week, my first proper downward move since the beginning of June!! Ho.pe it means I will start regularly losing again. It’s only 4 weeks before I go to my cousin’s in Weymouth for a week (new tankini is definitely required) and only 7 til I go to Finland. Would be really good if I could lose another 10lbs before then but things have gone so slow even another 5 would be good.

Love to all of the gang – keep fasting.

x

Hiya. First post just started the 5:2 plan in a bid to loose weight. Never tried this before but was spurred into action by my impending wedding later this year. Would ideally like to loose 2 stone but maybe a little more if all goes well.

I watched the Horizon programme on recommendation by my future sis-in-law and was impressed also having heard all the press about this.

I started yesterday with a ‘fast’ day only 477 calories in total the majority after 6pm. During the day at work tea, water, soup for lunch.

It would be good to make some new friends on here. 🙂

Hi LD good to have you back everybody has been so quiet on here lately. Go girl 9 kilos since last year is fantastic well done you!

Welcome to Twitter22 good luck with the fasting, it isn’t that bad once you get used to it and I have to say if I over indulge on a weekend I am usually looking forward to fasting by Monday 🙂

I am on my second fast of the week today and so far so good. I am having chicken on the BBQ with salad tonight and hopefully I will have good news at my weigh in at the weekend. I am swimming 4 times a week a mile each time so that should help!

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the fab weather and Wimbledon of course 🙂

Hello LittleDragon & friends! I’m new to the forum (about 2months into the Fast Diet) – have been browsing through topics & yours caught my eye because of your recent chats about reaching a plateau (as well as the fact that you all sound so friendly!!). I too, seem to have stuck at the same weight for 4 weeks after such an encouraging start, where 1stone 4pounds came off easily. I started a fitness regime at the same time as the 5:2 (I’ve been reasonably active over the last 40 odd years, walking, occasional cycling, always doing PE with pupils in my class) but now I’ve the time I’ve started 2 different fitness classes (Zumba & street fit) also I try to fit in 2 power walking sessions a week & (to the amusement of my family) bought a weighted hula hoop & manage 10-20 mins every day! Now how is it that all that exercise, & 2 fast days & I’m not losing any weight?! Maybe 3 fast days for a week or two might help? What do you think?

Hi Valbu:

Might be your exercise: http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/exercise-is-dangerous-for-your-diet/

Good Luck!

Hello everyone,

it has been so quiet!!

Have just completed a fasting day so thought I’d say hi to everyone.

Good luck Twitter and Valbu with your fasting, hope it’s going well so far.

Little D, what an endorsement chatting to your doctor about it. Angie hope things are a little easier, thinking of you. How’s it going JFitzy and Jenki and anyone else I have forgotten.

I’m still hovering just above 10 stone but have now lost a total of 21 lbs 🙂 Loads of people are noticing =, it’s really been worth while. Have been hunting for a new costume/tankini as old one now falls down or I fall out!!! Hmm hard to find, may have to shell out for one at Bravissimo but never thought I’d be buying smaller things. I love intermittent fasting, think it’s a way of life for me.

That said just been given a book all about fresh juicing – maybe if the last stone I want gone doesn’t shift I’ll give that a go to give myself a boost.

Hugs to you all

Hilly66 x

hi ladies! I’m still here as well. Total weight loss 46 lbs, with the wedding 2 weeks away. I hit a plateau for about 4-5 weeks then the weight loss started up again albeit slower. Will be fasting with you tomorrow, LD.

welcome to the new folks!

How’s the fasting going today Little Dragon and Kilda. I fasted yesterday, I’ve found it easier the last few months, easier to drink lots of water when it’s hot and sunny and that makes me less hungry. Grr like you I’ve yet to conquer the 10 stone barrier. Last time I weighed I was 10 stone 1.8lbs, hope I make it soon. My final target is 9 stone and then I’ll see how I feel but I think that will be more than enough for me!

Wow Kilda 46lbs that is incredible; you’ll look amazing at that wedding. Wish we could post photos on here, would be wonderful to see you in your glad rags and to put a face to everyone’s name in any event.

Have been banned from jogging for two weeks by the doctor 🙁 – have strained a muscle in my back, which is going into spasm which in turn is giving me sciatic pain in my leg!! I have absolutely no recollection of doing anything to trigger it!! Not sure I like this getting older business!!

How are our newbies doing?

Love to everyone x

Morning everybody,

just been to my son’s Year 6 Leavers assembly – he’s my youngest so feeling sad!!

Hope the fast is going ok so far Little Dragon – I’m fasting tomorrow. Didn’t way myself last week, so am desperately hoping when I do weigh on Friday morning I’ll have conquered the 10 stone barrier!! LOL knowing me I will have gained a bit, am mistress of self-sabotage!!

Had a major splurge yesterday in the Boden clearance sale – have sent off for 3 dresses – that said they were all very heavily discounted, so only £30 odd pounds, nevertheless not really money I have!!

Oops gotta fly, nurse appointment.

Keep going Little D

x

Afternoon everyone,

Little D what kind of torture is that, eating burgers at the desk!! Were you strong?!!

JFitzy glad you’re still with us – hope when you finally weight that it’s good news. Sounds like you’re feeling fab – maybe that’s why we all plateauing a bit because we’re feeling the benefits of all our effort. I think it’s going to be a way of life for me now, it doesn’t feel like a diet and I feel back in control of food rather than it controlling me. It’s a good feeling.

Hi Valbu wow sounds like you have done fantastically well already – hats off to you. Isn’t it funny how many of us are trying to defeat the magic 10 stone mark?!! We will get there if we persevere 🙂 I got the Beach Plan on my Kindle – big mistake for me, just not the same in an electric format, you can’t kind of browse! Haven’t plucked up the courage to do 3 Fasts a week yet. Now that it’s the school holidays I may have to just to try and stay the same!

Well had my exercise today, my daughter has got her first job, delivering Yellow Pages. Her round is to massive houses, so lots of walking seems to be involved. I don’t mind helping her, she’s a good girl.

Am fasting today, not had anything besides fluid so far, am trying to save my calories for later, ok so far but if I get really hungry there are strawberries and cherries in the fridge, so hopefully I’ll be ok.

x

Phew it’s hot, am currently starving but trying to survive til about 6 o’ clock.

A man is coming to sort out a wasp’s nest at 5 so that should keep me busy!! (Oh that and sorting out my tax return!! Eek, only have a tiny teeny tutoring business and it’s my first year, so all a bit intimidating at the moment!!)

Planning to weigh tomorrow, so keep your fingers crossed everyone.

Oh am sooooooooooooooo hungry, water a glass of water, that should stave off the pangs!!