Hi Everybody,

I am from the Netherlands, and 37 years old.
I have 2 kids and I work 36 hours in 4 days! (pfew)
I lost since October 2015 till December 2016, 30 kilo’s!! with the 5:2 lifestyle.
The day that I started was 1 month after giving birth to my youngest, so I gained a lot of extra weight during my pregnancy. Even so I am very happy that I lost so many kilo’s and I am slimmer now than on my wedding day!

I will try to follow this topic, I can use some fellow fasting people to keep me motivated. I still fast almost every week 2 days. I want to keep my current weight (or loose even a few extra kilo’s…) and I also love the health benefits.

Love, Miek

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@orlando. Im a male not a female. My BMI is 22 and I care about people. Im happily married with 3 children. The few posts you have posted direct people to a website advocating that you purchase a diet plan by Brian Flatt. If you were genuine you would tell people what has worked for you but you wont. I suspect that you will disappear and reappear under a different username and try again.

Hey there!
Even though I am a quite disciplined person (I think) I am struggling at the moment. I think I am eating a bit too much on my NFDs and never manage to end up with 500 kcal on my FDs.
I tried to do 4:3 but realized that I feel too weak then. I can do that once in a while but not too often. I didn’t dare to weigh myself last week…
Hope next week will be better!

Heyyyy Beck!
Really good to read from you again!
Really cool that you managed to skip lunch during your skitrip!!
And great that you are ready to go on with 5:2 😀
I would be happy to read from your experiences further more!
For my part I did go on with 5:2 all the time except for the holidays when we went away. Yet I put on some weight since last october. Dont know how much since I don’t date to step on the scale but I can tell from my pants… 🙈
The problem was that I had couple of real binge nights in the last months that made my weight steadily crawl up!
I am not a patient person and would love to have my goal weight back rather today than tomorrow but I know that it will only work for me one day at a time with my 5:2 lifestyle in pocket and with a determined no! to further binge events!!!
I guess I would like to lose 4 kg again. By the way, I turned 40 in december so I’m also not a mid-30 anymore 😏
Dear Beck, I hope you could enjoy the rest of your ski trip with your boys and I wish you a powerful start back into fasting 🎉💪
Greatings, Lou

Hi Beck, Hi Lou, Hi everyone,

I love it when this thread springs back to life! It’s a really good moment for me too, as I am back trying to lose weight, also with a goal before my impending 40th birthday! My goal is called “6 in 6” i.e. lose 6 kilos in 6 months. I also want to get fitter and stronger. I have started doing jungle hiking more often (up to 5 x per week instead of 2x per week) and now I am looking for a way to strengthen my upper body as well and will try cross-fit. Has anyone ever tried this?

Food-wise, I shook off 2 kilos pretty easily in January as that was the easy weight to lose, holiday weight etc. I didn’t have FDs as such, but I cut out a lot of crap and was aiming for 1200-1500 cals 5 days per week and a couple of days where I didn’t worry as much. I think I will introduce a proper fast day (or 2) soon because it has the added benefit of reducing my appetite on NFDs. Like Beck, I try to not eat past about 7pm on weekdays (and at weekends if possible). I have never enjoyed eating in the evenings and I don’t find it difficult as my husband is away during the week so I eat with the kids and get early nights usually. In the mornings I have started eating a small bowl of fruit and fiber cereal with papaya and/or banana and full fat milk. This is flling and adds a lot of fiber to my daily diet which helps. I have this maybe 3 x per week, other days I skip breakfast (gives me a longer fasting time) and one weekend day I have something more exciting.

Things for me to watch are alcohol consumption (but I’ve reduced to 2 days per week) and fast food (about 1 per week). I try to offset these digressions and for me that is more realistic that cutting them out all together. In that way, I think it’s more sustainable.

Looking forward to keeping up to date with each other’s progress on this thread and motivating each other.
FB 🙂

Hi there Beck and Lou,

Great to get your replies. I think being back on here is going to help me stay focused. Yes, we’re still in Brunei. It’s great. A lovely place to live with a young family. We will probably stay on for a few more years. Walking/ running in the jungle is one of the best things about being here. The jungle is stunning amd being able to do an hour hiking before work makes me feel very lucky indeed!

Good luck with the weigh in on Friday Lou! And Beck, having such an active holiday means I’m sure the scale won’t have any nasty surprises.

I’ve had a couple of positive comments recently which is always good but as I’ve only maintained this month after a successful January it means I have to get serious. Planning a fast day for next Monday and very careful days leading up to it.

Lou, that’s great about doing a double, how’s it going? I’ve never done 2 together, it must be so satisfying.

Have a great day!
FB 🙂

Hey ho!
@ beck: good that you could listen to and trust your body after so much sports. Great that you are having such a good time skiing!!
@ fraub: it must be an amazing experience to live in a foreign country like brunei!!
I finished my double FD yesterday quite well yet slept bad afterwards. Well, I think I hardly ever end up with 500 ccals, rather 700 – 800 I guess from estimating.
This week I decided to have a third fd (tomorrow) and on saturday will be the day when I face the scale…
Well, Beck, I am asking myself, what IS GOOD FOR ME in terms of weighing?? I really haven’t found out yet. Perhaps once a week to begin with… 🤔 Or just once a month to not obsess about it… 🤷‍♀️
Have you girls ever joined the monthly challenges? If yes, I would be happy to share your experience on that.
So… I’m very tired and I am learning to be good to myself, so I’m heading to bed now…
Have a good start into March tomorrow!!
Love, lou

Hi guys,

Are you home from your skiing holiday now, Beck? It sounded so lovely. Active winter holidays are great, and normally it’s easy to offset the comfort food. I love the Austrian winter food that we used to eat when skiing :))

@Lou- good luck for your weigh in! I think and hope you will be pleasantly surprised. I also used to weigh myself every week after the second fast day, it just made the most sense to be able to see the real progress. Recently I was weighing myself on Mondays but the last 2 Mondays I haven’t, so I think it will be time to step on the scales this Monday for sure. I’m actually hoping only for maintenance, I know I won’t have lost. Next week though, with hubby back working away and a normal working week I’m hoping to make some progress, and in fact, as I said, I plan for Monday to be a fast day, so I may save the scales til Tuesday.

I fell off the wagon with my alcohol allowance mid week this week just gone because a) husband was around all week and b) It was a quiet week at work and I wasn’t having to go in til mid-morning and not work at all in the late afternoon or evenings. But,I flipped it around and didn’t have anything to drink on Thursday and Friday instead, nights when I normally would. Tonight (Sat) will be a test. I could stay in and avoid a party, or I could be persuaded by my friends to attend the party and then I would have at least 2 drinks… hoping to stay resolute and just stay in. It’s a party of someone I don’t know well, so it’s no worries if I don’t make it.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

FB 🙂

Hey girls!
@beck I agree with fraub that maintaining weight on a holiday is great! Especially after an indulgent sunday!!! Could also be lots of water retention…
@fraub 1 kg for March sounds like a good goal. I hope you can manage your planned fd this week!
I’d like ti share sth with you that shocked and impressed me this week! On my fd on tuesday i counted calories for the first time since a looong time – and that was the shocking part – 500 cals are so little!!! I must have always been over that by a couple of 100s.i really felt that i couldn’t manage it but i did! Well including my kombucha health drink it was 600 but it was planned like that. Suddenly in the evening it became easy and the next morning i felt great and wasn’t even hungry! That was a very motivating experience for me!
Wishing you a good rest if the week! 💪♥️

Hey Beck!
Wow! Sounds like the pounds are melting on you! Congratulations!! Hope you find your way back in after indulgence! 😉
How much do you still want to lose until your goal weight?
I’m also doing fine, experimenting with Time restricted eating at the moment. I’m still reading the f800 book from dr moseley and I really like it! Trying to strech out the time until my first meal of the day as long as possible and that really feels good and healthy for my body!
Hope that I will also be pleased by the scale on friday or saturday when I have my weekly weigh in.
I’m still in the March challenge forum, writing daily – yet I feel a bit overwhelmed by the flood of postings there! 😅
Don’t manage to read that all, I wonder how people make it to write such detailled comments on everything posted! 😅😅😅
However the comittment to make a quick post daily helps me to stay on track!
I wish you a great fd, take care!
@fraub how are you doing?