As I said in September Challenge thread ( https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/september-challenge/page/16/ ), as a back-up for October I could run my own version (link to Demo Template at the end of the post).

Info about this version of October Challenge:
– uses a Google sheet embedded in a blog post, updated in real time (but with a delay up to 72 hours, when I’m travelling).
– starts on Saturday, 1 October, when you need to post your Starting weight, in kg.
– ends on Tuesday, 1 November, when you need to post your Final weight, also kg.
– the reporting system for the start and final weight is kg-only. To convert pounds to kg, you can use google search “pounds to kg” or a link in the blog post. (You can write in pounds in all the rest of October days.)
– minimum number of participants: 5
– maximum number of participants: 30+1 (me)
– starting Sunday, 2 October, daily, you need to post what type of fast did you had in your previous (ended) day: FD = Fast Day // WF = Water Fast Day = minimum 36 hours water-only fast // NFD = Non-Fast Day. Ex: on Sunday, 2 October, if on previous day (1 October) you had a Fast Day, you need to post: Day 1 = FD. On Monday, 3 October, if on previous day (2 October) you had a NFD, you need to post: Day 2 = NFD. And so on. Always you are reporting the previous day. On 1 November you will post your fast type for 31 October.
– your daily post must look something like this: first row, mandatory: Day x = FD / WF / NFD. After this first row, you leave another row empty, and on the third row you can write everything you want, like how hard was the previous fast day, or your plans for today’s fast / NFD, etc, etc, etc. This rule is to help me to see in a second the info I need to update your fasting pattern in the table. Thank you in advance for this.
– the sheet makes totals for every type of fast, and with the help of the colors, you can easily see the pattern.
– the daily reports will be posted here, in this dedicated thread. If you do not have a 5:2 Forum account, but you wish to participate, you can also post in the comments of that blog post.
– at 3 consecutive or 5 non-consecutive missing reports the name is removed from the list.
– the order in the list will be alphabetical (sort field “name”).

The list of sign-ups (max 30) you can see it on that blog post (also updated in real time). At this moment: HannahWatto and Maui.

If anyone wishes more details, I’m happy to respond.

If anyone wishes to join, please tell me here or in the comments of that blog post, so I can add your name to the list of sign-ups. And on Saturday, 1 October, you will update with the Starting-weight (kg).

Please: if you are not 90% sure that your time allows you to fully commit to reporting daily on this challenge, please do not sign up, because that means a place minus for someone who can 100% commit, but had not yet seen this thread. Thank you!

All the stats are here: http://dailyfastingweightloss.blogspot.de/2016/09/fasting-challenge-oct-2016.html

Good Luck to all participants!

I forgot. Don’t worry about your spreadsheet skills. I will do all the filling work and update the file daily. All you have to do is post here daily your report for the previous day and to see at the end of the month, the statistics and the colored pattern for your name, to corelate with the lost weight and make changes, if you need, for the next month.

Hi Anaide. Glad to see you on this challenge too! Hugs back! 🙂

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For this October Challenge, I will be the only person with editing access to the file. If we will be max 30, I will manage all the daily filling work. (But I don’t think we’ll be more than 10. 🙂 )

But if anyone wants, I can do for your personal use, a free-to-download version of that file, to keep it in private, on your own computer / smartphone. And you can duplicate the sheet, and use it for many months in a row, until you get to your target weight.

Today I’ve been working on something similar for me, kind of 6-months-fasting-journal, with weekly input of the current weight and daily input of the type of fast. The progress %Goal vs %Time, both for short term and long term, plus fasting statistics are automatically calculated. It’s already filled for almost 4 weeks and I think it offers all the info I’m interested in.
So you can use this more complex alternative, if you love statistics, like me.
For me is useful to see them, because I can evaluate the past and make changes in my fasting pattern, for better weight loss results.
Next weeks I will work on a free-to-download version, adapted for 5:2 diet.

The current template (adapted for my type of fasting, which is not 5:2 diet, but days with only one meal a day (OMAD / 1.000 calories) and days with 2 meals) is here: http://dailyfastingweightloss.blogspot.de/2016/09/daily-fasting-weight-loss-journal-6-months.html

I forgot. Violet, please confirm if you are following IF-not-combined-with-5:2. This will be a separate group. If yes, when you will write FD in report, will mean IF 18/6. And NFD will mean that you’ve eaten in a more-than-8-hours window, so No IF 18/6.

Ex, for me FD = OMAD, one meal a day. NFD = not OMAD, but 2 meals, IF 20/4.

IF-combined-with-5:2 fasters remain in 5:2 group.

Thanks!

PS: sounds complicated, but it is not. You’ll see!

With longer fast you will choose the way you report, because you will read / interpret your pattern. If a 24 h fast it’s an achievement for you, you can write WF instead FD for that day, to differentiate it from standard FD=18/6. Otherwise, remains the standard report: WF is after min 36 hours without food. If you manage 48 hours, you report WF for 2 days in a row. For 3×24, 3 days in a row WF. And so on.

You choose. You tell me daily only one of this variants: FD, WF, NFD, but what each option means to you, you decide.

Had the time now for the template update. Last 2 columns are IF Demo.

So if someone else will sign up, please say in which group: 5:2 / OMAD / IF.

I like it! 🙂

Done for today. Have a nice week-end! ☕🌞

No problem Violet. I like the data to be accurate.

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Day 2 = IF 20/4

Have a great week! ☕🌞

Day 3 closed for me too. IF 23/1.

Happy to hear, Monabee! 🌷