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HevBen83

8:50 am
26 Jun 16
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Hi everyone. I have just completed my first 2 weeks and have lost 5.5lbs. I am so excited and feel really motivated as my goal was to shift 20lbs and i am 1/4 of the way there already. I am 33 and have started finding it harder to short weight as i get older. I am only 5’2″ and was always told by my GP that I am clinically obese and if i wanted to continue using a contraceptive pill I should lose weight o get my BMI healthy…always found this weird when my BP was perfect everytime and my physical fitness is good from 3 x 45 minute cardio sessions per week.I was 11st 6lbs when i started my journey and my goal is 10st. I know this is still ‘overweight’ for my height when it comes to BMI, but it is the weight i am happy with and i don’t want to be ‘thin’ and my partner doesn’t want that either. My hope is that I don’t get too obsessed with losing weight…i find myself counting calories on my ‘normal’ 5 days and eat 1200 cals those days anyway rather than 1500. I am aiming to carry on with the fasting for life, but may switch this to 6:1 for maintenance rather than more loss.

Has anyone experienced some mental struggles with reaching your goal then wanting more?

bigbooty

11:37 am
26 Jun 16
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At 160lbs and 5′ 2″ your BMI would be over 29. Your 20 pound target is a good one and would get you in the normal range BMI 25.2. Im 5’10 and 158 lbs (male) with a BMI of 22.6. My target was 158, down from my peak of 202. 158 was my pre-married weight and what I weighed when in my 20s. Took me a year and have been in maintenance 6:1 since March. Don’t want to lose any more, in fact Ive been forcing myself to eat more than I really have wanted to eat in the last two weeks as Ive continued to slowly edge down in weight, about 3.5 pounds. Still want to continue fasting 6:1 as I feel there are benefits to be had other than weight loss, hence my “forced” eating to prevent any more weight loss.

Good luck with it. Just cut out sugar and simple cheap dense carbs like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and you will get there.

Bronx

4:15 pm
26 Jun 16
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Hi HevBen,

Yeah, I struggled with stopping after I lost a bunch of weight. I wasn’t doing 5:2 at the time but was counting calories with the help of an Iphone app.

This was over 2 1/2 years ago. I was about 195 pounds and my original goal was to get to 175. Using the app was so easy I kept lowing my goal weight and about 10 months later found myself at 130. I stopped there because I was dangerously close to being underweight and friends had started commenting about how I looked skeletal. I gained some weight back on purpose and started doing a modified form of 5:2 as maintenance. The last time I weighed a couple weeks ago I was 142.

Good luck with your weight loss goal and try not to go overboard!

Bronx

HevBen83

5:44 pm
26 Jun 16
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Thanks Bigbooty. That’s good to know! My sugar and carb cravings have dramatically decreased already! I feel great! I look forward to reaching my goal. Congrats on reaching yours and hope youre able to stay happy & healthy 🙂

HevBen83

5:49 pm
26 Jun 16
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Thanks Bronx! Thanks for sharing your struggle and how you’ve got through it! I think it’s easy to forget that we can go OTT and get obsessed with losing weight. I keep forgetting that we all have different body shapes and no matter how much I lose, I’ll never look like Kelly Brook as I’m not an hour glass! Haha. As long as I get to a healthy weight, I should be happy and love my body 🙂

skinny 55

7:37 am
2 Aug 16
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Hi @hevben83 Great to hear your progress inspiring – i am the same frame as you 5 3 and 157 pounds – i started my journey yesterday which was my first FD – went well and made a nutri smoothie for breakfast with apricot and carrot chia and milk – trying to make sure to avoid bread pasta and sugar.. however want to shift bit more hehe about 33pounds – only cuz i use to be 110 pounds but hoping to reach my goal by december as thats when is my wedding 🙂 i have added yoga and running – did my first class yesterday and doing both today.. trying to get in about 10 hours of workout a week is my goal..