SparkleRay – I would say, straight off the bat, you should see a doctor. If you feel like you may have put your body into “starvation mode” then you need to make sure you are healthy enough to attempt 5:2. Also, as your BMI seems to be in the healthy range (not that it is a concrete form of health detection of course) I’m a little unsure why you have so much weight lose? See your doc.

Heavens-hazzard 1100 on non-fast says? Bloody hell. That is not a lot. Are you sure you are hitting required nutrients on that? Is that on the advice of doctors? You could really hurt your body putting that little into it.

Posts like these scare me a little. At the end of the day, any diet and/or exercise regime you take up should be for your health. Not to hit a certain number on the scale or to look a certain way. I don’t mean to sound in any way judgmental or preachy – but after many years worrying about numbers on scales and dress sizes, I feel so much happier going for health – and 5:2 has health benefits above and beyond weight loss. So yes I too want to shift a few kg, but not at the expense of my health. Just some food for thought (pardon the terribly pun)

I’m really not sure what nurse would advocate eating 1100 calories five days a week and then 500 two days a week. I’m not trying to have a go at you at all, you’re only 20 you don’t want to hurt your body – you’ve got to live in it for a long time yet. I think nurses are fantastic – but they aren’t doctors.

Also, your calculation about losing a pound a week is actually for a kilogram or about 2.25 pounds. I only put this in, because cutting out 7000 calories a week is enough to lose 2kg a week. Which is a lot. I’m not sure where this idea of ‘fast tracking’has come from, as it isn’t in the Fast Diet books. Even the Fast Beach Diet doesn’t advocate that.

Basically, I say this being a woman who has obsessed about all of this stuff, please, please be careful.

There are many people on here who have cut even lower than me – It is a system that works for me and doesn’t damage me in any way.

You can put me down about it all you want, the only person on here who knows about my health and well being is me, so enough with the judgement.

I came on these boards for support, not to be preached at.

Also, I am not ‘obsessed’ over loosing weight – you have no right to judge me, and honestly just because I am loosing a good amount doesn’t give you the right to make me feel bad about it.