Hiya,

I have just started the 2:5 (easier sounding) last Thursday and wouldn’t mind a buddy.

We (husband and I) started our second day on Monday and then caved in and ordered pizza – cripes. Day 2 today and day 3 planned for Friday. We originally planned for Mondays and Thursdays but we will probably change this now and again.

I made the mistake on Monday of weighing myself and was up .4 lbs from the start of Thursday’s fast and lost a bit of motivation. Going to try and not weigh till I have done at least another week.

Interested in the health benefits especially for hub (we say that we are doing for earch other :)) so we won’t get ill for the other – but I am 2 stone overweight and pretty miserable with it so the weight loss is important and I have to try and be patient.

I have had a pretty unhealthy relationship with food re guilt and restriciton and binging and so hoping to eat what I want on non fast days as a way to get over this – but keeping my tdee in mind. I want to be free of the calorie counting most of the time! Free from the guilt.

As my weight has increased my natural tendancy is to eat too much food and so this may take a while for my body to adjust and start to lose weight which I know I must be ready for. I am . Sort of 🙂

All the best in your journey.

LFLL

I started doing the 4:3 diet about three and a half weeks ago. I began by thinking I wouldn’t even weigh myself, but did it after about a week and a half, and have weighed myself twice since then and so know I have lost 5.25lb, so probably about half a stone overall, but just didn’t have a starting weight. I want to lose another two and a half stone and then stop there.

As my name implies, I have been a bit of a yo-yo dieter, and tend to lose about three stone, then put in on again, then lose it again. I can only diet when life is going well, and I tend to go to pot when things get stressful. However, at least I don’t have five or six stone to lose, so I just look at it as something I have to do from time to time.

My only other experience of the fasting dieting was in 2013, when I had got to my ideal weight by way of conventional dieting, and wanted to see what would happen if I went on the 5:2. What happened was that I stayed at my ideal weight, but didn’t lose anything, and I thought this was a deal worth doing. What broke me was when my dad died – something of a shock, and I couldn’t cope with the diet on top of everything else, and so put on weight again, and lost it again, and put it on again, and so on.

So I decided I would try and do the 4:3 diet until I lose the weight, and will then settle on the 5:2 as a lifestyle choice, to keep the weight off for good. So I understand what you mean about emotional eating, and I certainly know what you mean about avoiding the camera. There’s a lovely picture on my Facebook account that I took when I had lost lots of weight last summer, and it can stay there till I’m slim again, which won’t be before Christmas!

Hi to all you newbies i have been doing this 5 2 diet for six weeks now and lost 11lbs so for, it is not easy on fast days but i tell myself i can eat normal the day after this is what keeps me going.On fast days i have a fat free small yorgart then spinach omelete in the evening, and plenty of tea and water. After a while you feel that you no longer think about food as much as before.It starts to get easy and i feel i dont get hungry. i can go for hours before hunger kicks in.Keep with it what have you got to loose. my clothes are getting loose need to buy a smaller size. good luck to youi still need to loose 2 1/2 stone.I put money in a jar for every pound i take off hope to fill the jar a buy a bikine for my hols.

Hi guys. If any of you want to chat, I’d love to share tips and motivations and that kind of thing. Even if you’ve buddied up already, would love to share a couple of messages – want to get to know people’s journey’s and advice etc.
Vicki

Hi all. I’m going to give this a try. I’ve piled on 20 pounds in the past 12 months. Since moving to Pakistan, for my husband’s career. Too much time on my hands and not much to do living on a compound. I’m starting a new job next week hopefully so thought I would also tackle the weight loss at the same time. Committing to daily exercise – 30 minutes on the treadmill at 6am (groan) but I know me- if I don’t get it done first thing in the morning I’ll find a dozen excuses not to do it later in the day.
I’ve never really fasted before – but the health benefits in addition to the weight loss really appeal to me and hopefully will give me that extra motivation.
Anyone else starting this journey? Would be nice to have a buddy to help encourage each other.

Thanks Yoyo-D! You are doing great. My first day of ‘fasting went easier than I thought it would. I was hungry last night but got through knowing that today I would be able to consume more calories. What is chocolate chaos?