Motivation?

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Kirsten70

7:48 am
7 Jan 15
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Hi folks,

I thought it would be interesting to find out what your main motivation for choosing to follow the 5:2 lifestyle is.

I know that many of you are here to drop some unwanted pounds, but what other motivation do you have?

Are you looking to adapt fasting regularly as a part of your future life?
Are you in it for all the other health benefits of fasting?
Are you in the process of overhauling your health and lifestyle and are using it as a spring board to get going?

Me? I’ve done 1 day fasts on and off for the past 4 years and want to integrate them more permanently and consistently in my life. I’m also in an on-going process of smartening up the family’s eating habits (and mine!) and am using this as an extra motivation to tweak a few more changes. If, by following the 2 day fasting a week for a few months I should happen to drop 5-7 kg (10-15 lbs), then that would be an additional, wonderful bonus. However, I’m focusing on improving our current and future health.

What about you?

MyJubileeYear

2:52 pm
7 Jan 15
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Hi, Kristen –

Apart from the obvious (losing a few extra pounds) my motivation for adopting the 5:2 is because I am turning 50 this year, and realized that I have spent far too much of the past half-century worrying about my weight, worrying about food, going on diets, yo-yo’ing both physically and emotionally between feeling slim and great (or chubby and full of self-loathing). I thought it would be a great time to adopt a new way of living/approaching food so that I can enjoy the NEXT fifty years (hopefully!) ALWAYS feeling good, slim, attractive, and unfocused on ‘what I’m going to eat’/’what I’m NOT going to eat’.

🙂

galexinda

3:06 pm
7 Jan 15
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Well, I was 60 in December and luckily have no health problems apart from being overweight. My BMI is 25.4. However, age is against me and I want to give my body the best chances to avoid diseases associated with old age and so losing some weight and keeping it off is my main priority. Using the ‘waist size should be half your height’ formula is definitely a motivation to lose weight as I need to lose about 5″!!

Emilyashen

6:01 pm
7 Jan 15
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Main motivation to keep up this way of life is to stop my yo-yo dieting. I would buy the new diet books, new “miracle” foods and supplements. It’s so much easier mentally for me to do 5:2.

I also love how it feels to take a break from food, my body seems to appreciate it.

TracyJ

12:42 pm
8 Jan 15
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My initial motivation (after seeing the documentary in August 2012) was to get rid of the visceral fat I was pretty sure I was carrying. The weight loss has been a very happy and also motivating, side-effect but the health benefits will keep me on this lifestyle forever.

I wasn’t in particularly bad shape or unfit (despite being 5 stone overweight) to begin with but the clear skin (spots & eczema used to be an issue for me) and lack of horrendous menstrual pain & excessive bleeding are more than enough to keep me fasting, even if my BP shot back up to it’s previous high level and I stopped losing weight altogether.