So due to how god awful I felt on Monday, and therefore how badly I wanted something delicious and comforting, I’ve moved my fast days around a bit. So even though it’s Wednesday, it’s a fast day, so here I am.

I’ve been doing a workout plan with a friend of mine, and we are on week 4 of 12 right now. It’s timed circuit workouts of mostly body weight strength stuff and it’s a lot tougher than I was expecting. I took pictures before week 1 and after week 2 and I will again after week 4… hoping to see some improvement after a month. But regardless of how I look, I feel great! Combined with 5:2 I feel like I’m really getting healthier and stronger.

How is everyone doing on this fine Wednesday?

I know the official 5:2 plan says to have 2 non-consecutive fast days, but makes it seem like other than that you can schedule them however you want.

I was thinking about that as well, since I have done Monday/Thursday the last couple weeks, but this week is Wednesday/I haven’t decided yet. I think my best option is Saturday, since I have plans Friday night to make sushi and I want to get back on schedule for Monday. Except I don’t like the idea of not being able to eat on the weekend, you know?

I’ll be taking my next set of pictures next Tuesday morning… I’d like to have 3 fast days before then (today, Saturday (?) and Monday)…

Would it be strong discouraged to do two fast days in a row?

Newbie here also , I’ve made it so far to my lunch hour at work , am about to have my 2nd cup of coffee . But was wondering about tea , prefer tea in pm. Hope I can pull off cooking supper for family, late night snacker here , i need to do this , just have too.

Today has been a particularly tough fast day… I had chicken broth and a garden salad for lunch because I was too hungry to have just the broth. And then around 2 I was STILL too hungry to focus so I had a small banana with peanut butter, but I’ve basically been feeling hungry all day. I just want to go home and have dinner, but I have some plans after work. I’m really hoping the hunger pangs will subside.

Wah.

Hi Piglet,

We had some Thai Green chicken from Asda & I cooked it with some light coconut milk, with some veg & half a cup of brown rice it was 431 calories. I prefer to just have water, herbal tea & some fruit during the day & save as many calories possible for dinner.

Today is another fast day, for dinner I am having a jacket potato with cod. I will cook the cod in a parcel with some garlic & lemon & make a sauce from a bit of 1/2tbsp each of butter & corn flour to make a roux then add vegetable stock, cook down then add wholegrain mustard & lighter mayonnaise. With some veg this comes in at 397 calories.

Struggling a bit today, drinking lots of water!

I thought I was pumping myself full of liquids, but by the end of the day I had used up all my willpower and had a full meal, bringing me over 500 cal. But that’s okay, you win some you lose some. Looking back now, I probably could have had more water and tea. I’ll remember that nexttime. At least I don’t feel like I went out of control or anything, I just had a larger dinner than I’d planned, and I’m okay with that. It’s only my 4th fast, I’m still figuring out what works for me. 🙂

I love peppermint tea and this “Raspberry Zinger” herbal tea… not really a fan of juice of any kind. Even as a kid the only time I drank juice was orange juice when I was sick.

I usually like to drink seltzer… I have a soda stream and I go through so much of the stuff. But I didn’t bring it yesterday, so maybe that will help next time too.

This is my first fast day….and it’s going Ok i think. I’m trying to stretch my 500 cals.

Breakfast – Banana & Black Coffee
Snack – Black coffee (mid morning)
Lunch – Salad (onions, lettuce, toms, peppers, cucumber) and 30g of feta
Afternonn – Apple (to keep the sugar cravings at bay!)
Tea – 100g Chicken breast, brocoli, asparagus, carotts

I’ve already drank 2lt of water so far 🙂

Thoughts?

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I chose Monday/Thursday as my fast days, though gave myself room to adjust if absolutely necessary depending on the week. I do exercise on those days, but I find it helps to give me something else to do at lunchtime which is helpful. Though I do stick to cardio and plyometrics on these days and save my heavy lifting workouts for feeding days.

I thought I would be too exhausted, but on the contrary, I’ve found myself full of energy. This might be because I workout at noon on these days and therefore my body is already adjusted to fasting but not worn down (ie. not first thing in the morning when my body is expecting breakfast but also not after work when I’m dead regardless of if I’ve eaten.)

Piglet, in regards to your question, I’ve definitely found it easier to fast on busy days than slow ones. Keeping myself occupied so I don’t think about food helps push through those times when you might not be ravenous, but you still want to eat. It’s good to have something to take your mind off eating… I think that if I were to try to fast on a day off, I would struggle. That being said, I probably would stick to fasting on your half days because your full days are so long and, like you said, you can nap through some of your half days.

Good luck with whatever you choose!

Hi, piglet, I’ve just seen this! I joined last week, posted twice, but can’t find my posts.

It’s going well, although, I did bash the wine last weekend.

We fasted yesterday and then Thursday this week. Just been out to change a pair of size 14 trousers. I didn’t have the receipt and now they’re on the sale. Didn’t have 12 so I only got half back.

Never mind. Loved trying on size 12 in Next – linen pants and top.