Keep with it, Graham! I will add an s to your name and think of you as FastGraham.

Fasttrackers, have I told you lately that I love you? Because I do. Been reading and lurking lately, but keeping up with reading. Have not had the mental energy to post, but wanted to give Graham a big boost! xoxo

Thanks Amazon, Jojo, and all, I am fine, just a lot going on. It has been a very full winter, but all is looking up for spring!

Zzzzz

Zs are my fasting strategy today!

Well, today is a fast day and I’m starting to feel very hungry now, so I may have to open that tin of grapefruit. I went up to the village shop earlier to get some money out, but fortunately I didn’t have to go in as I may have succumbed to the cake shelf which is just inside the door.

Next FD is Monday, so I’ll see how I feel on Tuesday whether I want to fast on Wednesday as well. Seems a lot of people on here think that 4:3 and ADF are difficult to start with, so I’ll see if I can do it before dropping onto 5:2.

Happy Friday everyone

Good luck Graham, the good thing is even if you’re feeling hungry today, just keep telling yourself to keep going and then tomorrow you can have something nice for breakfast. Whether you fancy it in the morning or not is by the by, it will give you determination to get through the evening.

If you’ve for calories left try having something filling like soup. Or if not then each time you feel like raiding the fridge, just log in here, either the comments from others will keep you motivated or your can share your cravings and by the time you’ve typed it up the feeling will have passed.

I’m only 5 weeks in and like many others I’m starting to look forward the fast days and enjoy the feeling.

Not a fast day for me but I like to keep Fridays about 1000 calories so semi fast day. Back to hula hooping now that the bruises have gone. Trying to do 10 minutes X 3 times a day. Apparently it’s quite a good fat burner.

My plan to replace the fizzy drinks with water getting better, I’ve kept a water bottle beside me all day and got through 3 full bottles so far. I am determined to make this a good habit.

Looking forward to a lovely curry tomorrow night. We treated ourself one day last month and i stuck to a chicken tikka starter and still managed to stay within TDeE for the day.

Not so sure about Sunday as Mother’s Day here and my folks coming for dinner and tea. But I’ve told them we’re going for a long walk in between.

Have a lovely evening.

CW

Hi Comespring and others

Hang in there. As Jojo says, the weight eventually comes off if you stick with intermittent fasting.

As an experiment of one, why not try to go without any sugar or grains for a month. For many of us, it is harder to fast after a day of eating that includes carbs and sweet foods, than after a day without any carbs and sugars.

You will know very quickly if this is going to shift you off the plateau. The good part is that once you start losing, your body seems to crave less. You are not giving up sweet foods and grains forever, just for the trial to see its impact. 😉

Keep on keepin on!

Cheers, Bay 🙂

Welcome the newcomers,

Newcomers – I think it’s best to stick to a long plan goal! This is the nicest online forum I’ve beento. No kidding! I belong to quiet a few others, not to lose weight and the support here is very genuine.

My 2nd FD – I am on 5:2! Yesterday I prepared my total 500cal so I would not get desperate looking for what to eat. I had coffee w/ almond milk, small lunch and rest of the food for dinner. Because I made quinoa and chicken I believe kept my hunger under control. I made sure to drink lots of water as well.
I feel surprising pretty good! I never thought I was gone be able to to a fast ever. Many times I was starving soon after food.

Jojo and the others its very nice of you to share your experiences here! I can’t imagine what those three months were. But we are here sharing the good and the bad and to learn.

Be well everyone

Hi dolly sue I’m going to start my first fast day Monday to, I’ve been doing it on and off since Xmas lost track the last few weeks had a weekend away in London 2 weeks ago but want to get back into it now. I would like to loose 2 pound a week got a wedding in Greece in September and would like to loose about 2 stone for that. Let me know how your first week goes Hun and I will let you know to. I’m goin to weigh next Friday. Goin to enjoy few lagers tomorrow for the rugby. Come on wales!.

Hi all. Just thought I’d let you all know about the 10 calorie low fat jelly u can get in asdas it’s a good snack with A bit of fruit to snack on to curb hunger on a fast day. That’s what I be stocking up on when I get back onit next week .

Hi Bryn.

Unfortunately there will be very little nutritional value in that jelly. It will contain artificial sweetener which most of us avoid, and probably artificial flavouring too.
Most of us are doing 5:2 for the health benefits as well as weight loss, so are trying to ensure we eat a healthy diet.

Thanks Aussie Oma, you are correct, I multiplied the 126lbs by 2.2 instead of dividing it.

Think I’ll do as you all suggest and do 5:2, cutting down on the bread and white rice which seems to be the staple of all my meals. Yesterday was very hard when it got to evening and I’m not sure I could do that three times a week, though I’m sure I should be able to do it with at least three normal days inbetween.

Morning/evening all.

A sunny but cold morning and I’m going out for a nice long brisk walk, and see how many steps I can do. It’s a B2B fasting weekend as I’ve come to realise that I’ve not got over that “it’s the weekend I’ll have some of everything” mindset just yet and I need to work on it.

I saw Second Best Marigold Hotel a week ago and really enjoyed it.
I have a huge list of films I want to see, and I’ve probably missed half of them despite receivng an email from the Odeon every week containing the listings!

Have a good day/evening everyone 🙂

Cheers for Weebil!
Wonderful to reach goal even when you thought you couldn’t .

I like the 19/5 too! JoJo particularly when on calorie restriction. Though I see a variant for 19/5 that haven’t had much experience with it yet. For me looking at addition health benefits big and small.
Where rather than 19/5 at the same every day. It’s more of a 5 hour window of eating.
With that say on Monday.
Mon 8am-1pm
22hours non calorie.
Tues 3pm-8pm

Seems the more we know about the natural DNA repair mode , that the non calorie window may have a role. My understanding is it’s after most everything from digestion has left the blood. I’m still reading on the subject. Still trying determin what will be my best approach to maintenance after I’ve reached goal. I know I will still want to get into the DNA repair mode as often as possibleand still live life deIciously. Without the issues of 23/1 one meal a day. I have an expectation for myself to have a complete understanding of the DNA repair mode and the foods that help cell division happen correctly in the first place. Wish I knew about much early in my life , but amm glad to be doing it now non the less. Currently I observe 3 occurrences a week of 27 hours of non calorie intake. Exact times are Based on my work schedule. Has nothing to do my fat loss goals but the seem to coincide. I figure why not?

Only 45 minutes to go and ican have the Saturday morning 500 cals of oat bran with berries and walnuts.
🙂
Just saying I seem to do better sleeping on an empty stomach than trying to work on an empty stomach.

Hiya everyone

sorry \I haven’t been around as much . There has been a lot going on family wise and we are due to go visit middle son in the afternoon and eldest and his wife coming here later . OH has had 2 hospital appointments and had to go to youngest sons a couple of times . 5.2 is going great and have now lost 5st 3 pounds in total (3 pounds) that is 3 and a half stone on 5.2 since July (49 pounds).

I bought new tops from Asda yesterday size 14 . I keep thinking everything must be big made lol .
Went to M&S factory outlet yesterday . The girls all know me there and were asking what I had done and to explain 5.2 . They knew me when I was 22/24 .

dad is slowing down a lot . Not surprising at 97 but it still is really upsetting .

I don’t cut out my Ice Cream but I only have it now and again . I try to do low carb as much as possible but I still have my grapes . people say you can’t loose weight when you are old … WELL!!! you can 🙂 . Age is just a number .

I am with Amazon here in the fact that I don’t do without anything I really like . If I did I wouldn’t be here long and I wouldn’t loose weight . I still have what I like but in smaller portions and not every day.

I record everything I eat every day . I like to keep track all the time .

I started 5.2 because so many of my family have/had Alzheimer’s and I wanted to ward that off as long as I could . I also have RA and asthma . I just cannot believe the difference in my RA .it is amazing . I was hoping the weight would come off too and that has also been amazing .
I love being on this journey with all of you lovely people

Wee xx

Afternoon all.

I had a lovely walk round Kew Gardens with a view to walking back home along the towpath, but it was too cold on a FD having had nothing to eat yet.
I went to the shops and came away with nothing more damaging than some daffodils, which was not far short of a miracle considering my growling stomach and the smell of the bakery products.
I was going to have a coffee in my local Costa but realised that I was a bit short on willpower so came home rather than succumb to anything edible at the counter.
I spent 15 minutes polishing my halo when I got home 😉 and have now settled down to watch an afternoon and evening of sport on TV, rugby followed by tennis.

Hi FG

I’ll start by saying .I’m not an expert. I just started doing intermittent fasting in 2013 alone. And in 2014 liked it enough to make it a longterm lifestyle.

so in the beginning i believe it best to build up the confidence that this is something that can be tolerated . Only then move to any other variants of Intermittent fasting. Near the three month mark.

Many times I failed the 5:2 in the beginning . But kept trying . Found trying on monday Wednesday and Friday . Helped me get in a succesful 5:2 week without having to give up weekends.

as far a benefits of 19/5. Its more to the point of what are health risks of eating only 1 meal everyday at the same time. I read an article about a study that determined that eating all calories in a 4.5 window had no known health risks. My apologies I can’tfind the article or study. It was in 2006.
Many folks struggling with eating too find that eating in an 8th window helps them from grazing .
personally I believe in eating either 2 or 3 meals instead grazing. Unless it something like aspargus.

further there are other benefits to fasting. I’m hooked on keeping up on them reading as much as possible.
one is the dna repair mode. It is a naturally occurring function of being mamal. For me I want to make my meal planning less about grazing and more about putting as many health benefits into a ten week menu and the take a planned break for two weeks to focus on muscle strengthening.

I want to get into that dna repair mode as often as possible. Coincidentally 19.5/4.5 is much the same discipline on a regular basis. Basically 19/5 is a conditioning .

It occurred to me after one of jojo’s posts the 4.5 hour eating window doesn’t have to occure exactly the same time everyday. By sliding the early one day and then sliding hours late the following day a 26 hour non calorie window could open up 2-3 times a week. While observing tdee everyday.

where as my current fasting regimen is geared for fat loss. I still have two 27hr fasts and 1 36 hour semi fast. I’ll probably tweak the semi fast to fit both my work schedule and the long dna repair mode.

I believe there may be perfect amount of time per individual to get into dna repair mode and stay only as long as to create other health issues. But i strongly believe it will be more important as to how often the dna repair mode occurs as opposed to the quality.

researching other factors like what types of should have been last ingested prior to the mode and afterwards to best return to optimal dietary requirments.
AND of course enjoy it. Because if it’s not enjoyable I’ll never stick to it.

the reason i belive dna repair mode is crucial to extending longevity . Is that when avoid all other risks of death. Accidental, preventable, and age related. There is still cancer. It is also age related . In that on the cellular level we can only make so many copies of our dna before the errors become too numerous. Those errors become cancer.

so after about a year of being accustomed to fasting I was less intrested in how food tastes as long as im not getting hunger pangs. Thinking on how do I use the intermittent fasting to also accomplish the other benefits too so that im not only lowering my body fat ratio, but also adding a health benefit each time I put something in my mouth.
More tha just the macro nutrition of fats, carbs, and protein. More than the micro nutrition of vitamins and minerals. But to include if doable nutriceuticals and the dna repair mode. To also exercise daily and detox from time to time. For me after two years the 19/5 discipline helps to go further when trying for extended fasting.

so just to be clear if someone said this stuff to me when I was first starting intermittent fasting I tell em to go jump in lake. But over time is more doable than before. As the 19/5 has no known health risks.

Thanks Samm, I’ll stick to 5:2 as you suggest for the time being instead of doing the 19/5 because I think I wouldn’t be able to cope with it. I’ll leave it till I’ve been on the fast diet for a few months and I’ve got used to it.

My doctor, where I used to live, made the mistake of telling me in my 20’s that if I didn’t lose weight I’ll never see 30 and the same for 40 and 50, which I didn’t believe as I was still alive at 30, 40 & 50, whereas if she had said ‘if you don’t lose weight you’ll get cancer or have a stroke’ I’d have slimmed down there and then. No one tells you these things when you are young. That’s why I’m trying to loose weight now, not so much because I want to look good but because I don’t want cancer / diabetes / stroke / heart disease / early onset dementia or loose the use of my knees.

Graham can I suggest when you buy the zero noodles to try just the one packet at first . Some love them and some hate them . I could not swallow them . But as I said some love them so they are well worth a try pal

Wee xx

Had a look on Amazon and the Zero Noodles are £36.00 for 20 cartons, which I think is a bit much to pay if I don’t like them and have to throw them away. Has anyone tried the Eat Water variety? What about their pasta, is this any good?

19/5 means only eating in a 5 hour window for example between 1pm and 6pm, and fasting for the other 19 hours.

Don’t eat it all SAMM 😉