Hi Gooseylucey,

Thanks for your reply. I can eat lightly as long as I don’t start eating the demon cheese or chocolate then it all goes downhill rapidly, As tomorrow is a fast day and I am taking a day off I fear it may be more of a struggle than a fast day at work. I will have a good old nose around the web site as a distraction and to keep me motivated.

Thanks again

Hello all,

Totally relate to all I have read, and I too could really benefit from a buddy – fast days are Mon and Weds – today is day one, after a very indulgent Easter break. Would be great to track results and keep on the straight and narrow with some other fellow 5:2’ers. Need to get back into some old fav’s in the wardrobe, also, trying to keep this low key at home as my family think I am a serial dieter!!! Here she goes again….:-)

Hi all and congrats to everyone who is steadily losing weight….I am starting today, my fast days will also be Monday and Wednesday and I would love to join you all for support and inspiration. Zacindie72….had to laugh my family think I am a nutty serial dieter too, so I also want something I can keep low key, without tracking, counting, food optimising etc., I have tried them all…..I need to be free!

I’m on a week off from work this week so I’m also at home and not feeling like I need lunch yet either, in fact I am quite enjoying hearing my tummy rumbling now and again, is that sad?! I’ve never done the measuring thing, I maybe should so that I can see progress not just on the scales….but I don’t want this to consume my head so,I figure once a week on scales every Thursday is how I’m going to play it, that and seeing my clothes getting looser (and the clothes that are stored in boxes under my bed fitting again!!). This time it feels like I’m in no rush which is great, I figure I am what I am today and that is where the journey starts, I have 2 stone to lose.

Yes gin, sounds like we all have a common love of mothers ruin!

I am doing two meals. Day one and I had a cup of black coffee with cinnamon first thing, herbal teas, then a wholemeal pitta with two large tomatoes, 3 x slices of ham, pepper and salt. Tonight, I will have soup and some stir fried veggies.

Ultimately, I want to get to eating one meal, with the family so I don’t feel I miss out and disguise the fact I am ‘dieting’, until such a time that I shrink and they wonder what happened to me:-) I have about 2 stone to lose and am thinking July I should have really started to see some results and gained some body confidence.

What does everyone else have for meals?

I’m keeping it simple with a can of baxters chicken broth for lunch and a roast beef dinner ready meal for dinner tonight. I will start looking at recipes and healthier choices as I go. Zacindie72, I’m like you with 2 stone to lose, July is a nice first thought for feeling/seeing a difference, it will be interesting to see how we are both feeling by then 🙂

Thanks gooseylucey, that is exactly what I need to hear, healthy choices along with freedom to have the occasional glass of wine or piece of cake thrown in without guilt, bliss. Thanks to everyone for words of wisdom.

Hi lazycat – you really are beating yourself up aren’t you! Relax and don’t eat. You could do 4:3 if you feel you can, it certainly won’t do any harm. Double check your calories for fast days, just in case you’re having a few to many, do you eat your 4 Quorn sausages on fast days? Would that be about 400cals? You could have lots of veg soup for that, – I don’t eat on fast days because I can’t be bothered to count calories. If I need a boost I eat leeks and ONLY leeks for 2 days, the bonus is it gets rid of water retention. Don’t panic!! Make you plan. Take a big breath and dive back in. Hope any of that helps. GL X

Hi,

I’m a Monday/Wednesday faster. Mondays are fine. Wednesdays are getting more difficult – I’m actively hungry and it’s not getting easier!
Have been doing 5:2 since Jan 26th – My New Years resolution to finally get a grip on my weight problems – but had to read the book first!
I’ve lost 19lbs in 11 weeks but that has included normal life – eating out, Easter chocolates etc. etc. so I maybe could have done more but my clothes are fitting me and – well, I’m in this for the long haul – 5ft and over 15st at my worst. I’m hoping to end up more like 9 or 10st over time – not too quickly though because I want to enjoy my existing wardrobe!
Wine is a problem for me too – especially when cooking – so I’ve cut it out during the week – Monday – Thursday thereby avoiding the problem and I feel better for it. My problem is keeping out of the kitchen when I’m on a fast day(!) so I try to plan easy fast lunches and evening meals that can be carbed up for my partner. Does anyone have any simple favourites that they can recommend??

Hi everyone
Havent posted for a while so thought i would report on progress. I have been doing 5:2 for 12 weeks and have now lost 12lbs. I have lost 1lb each week without fail and i am so delighted. I have never faltered from fasting on Mondays and Wednesdays and i cant believe how easy it is to keep on track. The other five days i really eat anything i want but always keep under my TDEE. Just to encourage you all that it can be done with a little willpower. I am so feeling the benefit of it and, surprisingly, i am losing weight in exactly the places i want! Please all keep going – your goals are totally achievable.
G x

Hi all lovely to read through all your posts this evening first day of fasting for me went ok, got to about 3pm and I was starving lol drank loads of water and green tea so these kept me feeling full and still managed the gym I must be mad haha

Hi Folks,

Having to switch my fast days from Monday and Wednesday to Monday and Tuesday this week due to social thing. Anyway 2 days in a row is working out ok, although I am feeling a bit tired today due to poor nights sleep. Again am going to try and not eat until dinner so fingers crossed.

How is going with you all? Please keep us updated on weight loss as I find it quite motivating.

Not sure that I would do 2 days in a row again. Unsure if tiredness is due to poor sleep or fasting. Considering fasting on another day this week instead of today. Not preoccupied with food just tired.

GL,

Meant to say you should check out other quorn products. Chicken fillets are only 45cals so 2 fillets ans salad only around 120cals. Quorn peppered steaks are lovely and around 120 cals. Good to have in the freezer for fast days

Morning Balacksharp1,

Please don’t be so hard on yourself. I am much the same despite knowing that it is not helpful. I drank my weight in gin on Saturday and munched my weight during my hangover on Sunday. Great fast on Monday then on Tuesday fast like you munched on oat cakes later taking me over my 500 cals. However I actually got out of bed to eat them. I am sure that you will manage fine today.

Good luck!

When I hear about everyone’s weight loss it motivates me to keep going despite having days when I totally blow my cals. Please keep me updated. Am off work this week so will check in later to see how things are going.

I’m with you tomorrow for my second fast, busy day at work so should be OK. I was Ok with the first fast, although, the sleeping was as everyone had mentioned much shorter and felt wired!

Have been eating loads of veg, and lots of soup, coming into Autumn here (Cape Town). Not as hungry as I have been, so feeling virtuous, I am sure that will change:-)

It worked for me having a lunch and dinner when fasting, this may progress to dinner as my body get used to this. Have also experimented with some low cal dinner options that we all eat, lost of courses, soups, stuffed mushrooms, chicken, veggies and so on…

Also, take into account scales reveals a lot of the water retention, but the loose clothes will reveal the actual fat loss. This is why I am ditching the scales momentarily. Thinking inches!

Good luck and please let me know how weight loss/inch loss is working out for you all!

Maybe a hot cup of decaf before bedtime?

I, oddly it seems, sleep much better on fast days. Caffeinated coffee or tea in the morning, water, water, water, 500 cal meal around 7pm followed by a decaf tea and I could pass out by 9pm.