Hi Fattymessi,
I started just yesterdays,and this is my 2nd day in a row. I felt cold too, yesterday, and wasn’t able to get in a profound sleep. During the daytime the fasting went well, now My feet are cold, and a bit hungry, but it will pass

I had two days of fasting, and today was one of the five ‘feastdays’. Didn’t really overdo it with 1300 kcal (i track everything bij weight with help of myFitnessPal. And had a glass of wine 🙂 . Tomorrow birthdaycelebration of my eldest son, probably no pie, but we’ll have a chinese dinner. Perhaps I do a 3rd fastday afterwards. We’ll see how gentle the scale is for me 🙂
Good,luck to everyone

Hi Fattymessi, I had 2 days of fasting, no problem, but yesterday was a normal day. I had a chinese dinner at my son’s house, and returning home I had a binge, I drank a whole bottle of wine at night and ate 3/4 of a camembert cheese 🙁 And today I wanted to repent and have a fastday, but that is not going to happen, as I allready ate too much. Think it will be a low carb day instead…
Tomorrow I’ll stick by the fastday. That means that my last meal will be at 7 pm. That way it is more easy to keep away from the food.
It is key to keep busy, as PeelyWally says. But I wish we were allready in week 7 😉
Good luck in keeping the wagon on track!

Fattymessi, how are you after your first day of fasting? I hope you’re doing ok!
PeelyWally, had another day of fasting, untill now (8 pm) no kcal, and Doing ok. Allthough I think I will turn in early 🙂 I had a little exercise this afternoon, and it went well. Hopefully I will see some result on monday!

Hi all, just woke up after a dreadful night. Couldn’t get to sleep because I couldn’t get warm feet, and warm in general, till 5 am, so just got out of bed at 9.30, too late for spinninglesson. Feel like I have a huge hangover, not really hungry, and I feel slim, as my stomach is empty of course :-). When I have had my two large coffees I am heading over to the gym and do some weightlifting. Today a normal TDEE day,with a birthday and a workshop technique Tango and something else 🙂 Hope you are doing ok!

Hi Lynette
Great to see you are wanting to start 5:2!
Just a couple of things:
Do you test your blood sugar levels? Unless you are diabetic (and even then it is not necessarily a problem, just needs monitoring) you should not have a problem going long hours without food. My Type 2 husband eats only in the evening on fast days, has turned his diabetes around and now has stable bs levels, drug free.
Feeling “lightheaded” can simply be you becoming more aware of your physiology. Your body will become used to, and look forward to, fasting if you are doing it regularly. Many of us find we are more alert and possibly sleepless when first fasting. This is normal. Humans needed to be more alert when they were hungry so that they could find food.

500 cals is an upper limit. You need to eat less than 500 and this will lower as your weight reduces.

Have you read Dr M’s book? It explains the detail behind this way of eating and gives you ideas on food. It helps to understand the background research.

If you “feel you need some food”, have a drink of water, go for a walk, occupy yourself in a task, give yourself another hour. Hunger passes, it does not grow. You will learn to embrace your hunger. Tell yourself the hunger you are experiencing is your body eating up fat! 😉

You have started, now keep going. Your body will thank you for it.
All the best PVE

Lynette, in addition to what PVE just wrote,even if you are diabetic, you can modify your medication in order to prevent getting hypoglycemic. Most people can take their Metformin without any problem, only the Sulfonylurea derivatives should be prosponed untill you eat, or even deminished. When you inject insulin than also adaptation is possible; how is dependent on the kind of insulin.
When you are not diabetic your bloodsugars can’t drop too low, because the body regulates everything. You CAN have the feeling of a drop. But when you are not on drugs, you can give it time, and the body will provide extra sugar from the liver. You just got to learn and trust your body.

I think I will space out my fasting days next week. In reality I do not think this will solve itself until after the new year period. I think it will be trial and error with me. But at least I am keeping up the exercise. I did notice this evening my clothes clothes felt slacker. Tonight I do not feel hungry. Breakfast is the difference.
Ann thanks for the advice.

Lynette j

I fast on Tuesdays and Thursdays mainly but it’s flexible to work around whatever you’re doing.x

Today I am having an extra fastingday, and just came back from a 17 km walk. I am feeling cold, now, and I am a bit hungry, but more than hungry: I want to eat chocolate, cookies etc. And a lot of bread with my favourite spreads on it. So… is it real hunger? Part of it is, part of it is the old me, screaming for satisfaction. I know the old me. Was glad my only sin yesterday on my feastday was a piece of pie and wine, but then again, I would have been prouder when I hadn’t drunk any wine. So now I am sticking to a cup of coffee, perhaps later some bouillon, and that will be it. Tomorrow there will be bread and other things. I hope I will be stronger than the old me 🙂

Hi Lynette, I had hoped to stay at zero kcal, but that was too hard. I ate 450 kcal, only protein, and that combined with lots of tea, is ok. Tomorrow will not be a fastday, but I will remain well below my 1600 kcal. It isn’t easy alltogether, but tomorrow, 2nd week, other chances 🙂 Goog luck!

Well done!

Well, my weight went up, (measurements dropped slightly), so I think it is about time to have a very long visit to the toilet. But helas, my bowels don’t respond on my coffee as they normally do. I count everything I put in my mouth, with in a week 3 FD of 500 kcal and 1 day 0 kcal, scientifically their most be some loss, so I’ll just keep on track and hope for my stubborn body to give in

Hi simcoeluv, thanks, I know I have a stubborn body. Last spring I did Dukan for two weeks, and registered all I ate, and just underate for two weeks, andnoloss on the scale. It made me angry, and I just quit. The 5:2 is a WOE one can maintain indefintely, so I just keep on tight, and will enjoy the feeling of becoming more slim, even ifthe scale doesn’t support my feeling. I don’t have a lot of weight to get rid of, so thatalso makes the process more slowly. I am very curious however how ling it takes before the scale will give in 😉
I won’t!

Fattymessi, how was your first week? Lynette and Acctg, how are you doing?
For me, after a big binge yesterday, I had a good fastday today. Glad I made it!

Hi Margaret,
good to hear your day was a succes! My biggest problem is sticking to not-overeating on my non fasting daya. I hope that will go better when I do this more often. Good luck, feels good to be able to share it. Best regards, Ann

Hi all I’m new to 5:2 and today is the first fast day. I’ be had 500c and now really am fighting the urge to eat!!
Have had a look at these posts and love the support here. I think this will be a big journey for everyone!

Hi all, my weightloss is one kg in two weeks, but also cm’s. Yesterday should have been a fast, but I started not feeling ok, and it was no success. Today I try again, at home, doing housekeeping, no stress, and feeling ok. This is going to work. Allthough the weightloss is minimal, somehow I look better (in my opinion 😉 ). So, allthough I do have trouble with keeping within my TDEE and eating healthy on ‘feastdays’, some things seem to change for the better, and I think it is a matter of adaptation on the lifestyle, so a matter of time, before I really see progress. I will hang in 🙂 Good luck and a good weekend to you all.

My 4th fast completed, with no kcal at all. Now I am going to bed, tomorrow lots of things to do, and I look forward sleeping in my warm bed. Glad the day went so well 🙂