My First Day to the New Me.

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SandcastleOz

9:52 am
16 Sep 14
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If anyone is on Pinterest, lots of posts for meals under 300 cals and 5:2 if anyone is struggling to know how to eat. My fitnesspal app,is also a great way to count calories.

SSure

10:07 am
16 Sep 14
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Hello, you will find answers to some of your questions about food and drink on fast/non-fast days here: http://thefastdiet.co.uk/michael-answers-frequently-asked-questions/

On the non-fast days, you eat in accordance with your needs. That probably sounds a bit obscure but it’s difficult to give examples that meet the needs of other people. E.g., I weigh 108lbs with a BMI of <19; I have clinically low muscle mass so I have an abnormally low TDEE for my age and activity levels. Read about how to calculate your TDEE (and therefore your suggested number of calories on a non-fast day) here: http://thefastdiet.co.uk/how-many-calories-on-a-non-fast-day/

On your fast days, you have a notional allocation of 500kcals for the entire fast day. Some people choose liquid fast days and stick to water and no-kcal drinks for a zero kcal day. Others (including me) eat. I eat 3 meals on my fast day (but, I should say that I’ve been in maintenance rather than weight loss for a while) because eating doesn’t trigger my hunger. Other people skip breakfast and lunch and save all of their kcals for one meal in the evening because they are hungry once they start to eat and prefer to eat all of their kcals in one, larger, satisfying meal.

As for what you eat – it really depends on your preferences. Some people restrict the higher GI/GL carbs; others restrict carbs altogether; some fasters are vegetarian or vegan. However, there are several recipe threads here (just a bit buried at present) that might give you some ideas. https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=site:forum.fastday.com+loaca+recipes&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=wgsYVPvRKajo7Ab8n4GADA

Good luck.

simcoeluv

4:53 pm
16 Sep 14
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Hi KathyK:

You have identified one of the hardest things to understand about 5:2 – you can eat any food you want – but just 500 or fewer calories of it on your diet days or your TDEE or less on your non diet days. From my point of view, as I think life is too short to eat food I don’t like or don’t feel like eating that day, I just decide what I want to eat that day and eat it. On some days, I don’t feel like eating anything, so I don’t (and, of course, it becomes a diet day).

Focus first (I mean for your first month or two) on doing your two diet days each week correctly – 500 calories or less of anything you want to eat. Don’t stress over your non diet days, whatever they bring. Once you are routinely doing your diet days correctly, everything then usually falls into place, like magic. Here are a bunch of tips: http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/the-basics-for-newbies-your-questions-answered/

Good Luck!