I thought it was just me….never thirsty. I’ll have two cups of tea in the morning and then a coffee but after that i have to force myself to drink. Sometimes drinking a lot of plain water makes me feel sick too.

I’ve been contemplating what you were saying Natasha about non-fast days beginning to resemble fast days, with no room for treats and having to hold back earlier in the day to allow for dinner. The thought of having to do that forever is exhausting so I think we have to work out some solutions. I don’t want to feel deprived or restricted all the time either. And I don’t want to feel like I’ve stuffed up my diet if I eat dinner out or have a biscuit at morning tea.

Some things that I’ve tried:
Cut down on bread and try out some lower cal alternatives. I used to eat stacks of bread because of how easy it was. Now I might have a couple of pieces once or twice a week and have mountain bread or ryvitas (a rye cracker) the rest of the time. Also, I’ve stopped eating pasta and rice. Now this is a huge deal in my house since my partner is Italian and loves to have pasta at least twice a week. I’ll have the sauce on steamed vegetables now or make zucchini spaghetti. Pasta, rice and bread are so high in calories 🙁
Portion size – rather than put the amount that I think I want to eat on my plate I put what fits with my planned calories. If I’m still hungry 20 minutes after eating it I’ll get something else. Some days this is hard and I eat more than I should. And I have to have calories left for after dinner so that I can have something sweet…fruit or yoghurt…even when I really want ice cream…Sigh!

Anyone else have any ideas for how to stretch the calories on non-fast days so that they don’t turn in to semi-fast days?

Monday weigh in: I lost 0.5kg this week. Was feeling a bit crappy about this so I measured my waist. I’ve lost about 6cm from around my waist since starting again. So that is good! Sorry, have to keep it short today – kids are sick 🙁 🙁 🙁
Good luck everyone – I look forward to reading about how your week went.

Hi all, can i join you? I’m a mom of a 14 months old boy and HAVE to get back in shape. I’m so fed up with being overweight. I’m Estonian but nobody here seems to have heard of the 5:2 diet so i have to sneak in to an English speaking forum 🙂
Anyways, i’m 172cm (i guess it’s something like 5´7) and 75kg (around 165lbs). Have been trying to fast every 3rd day and tomorrow will be my 4th fast day. This far -2kg.
First 2 fast days i had a horrible headache and i usually never have any. It’ probably normal i guess. Also i noticed that it’s easier if i don’t eat until late in the evening because it sucks to go to bed hungry.
Has anyone noticed since they started that eating makes them feel sick?
I’m glad you all exist 🙂

Oh, to fit in:
my main goals to lose weight are:
* to wear my favorite clothes again
* to be a good looking mom to my little one
* to feel sexy again

My weight kept climbing up after i came off pills and continued doing so until i gave birth. It was 2 choices for me – either eat and puke a bit or starve and puke a lot, so i chose eating. The heaviest i’ve been was a week before delivery, 95kg. Have never been too slim but most of my life the scales showed 65kg. Would be nice to get back to that weight.

Hi all,

I am on my 2nd consecutive fast day today after fasting yesterday. I think I was closer to 600 than 500 yesterday so super strict today. I find the second day actually easier than the first. I am eating a soup for lunch and a veg omlette for dinner (whilst family eats lasagna)!

So I am on my 5 week of fasting. I think I am down 3 kilos in total. I feel frustrated by this as I don’t think I lost any last week but all in the first 3. This is definatly the point where I give up normally. So I have reset my goals. baby steps!
99.0 k by end of August (weigh in next Monday)
96 k by end of September.
93 k by end of October
90 k by end of November
under 90 by Christmas.

So this should keep me on the straight and narrow. I will have done my two fasts be end tomorrow morning and I will have to stay under my TTDE to hit the goal so I will need to track as I tend to fall down on the weekend. I am also going to try and moderate my wine intake! I think I will really feel like this is not working if I don’t see the 99.0 on Monday so I need to stick to this this week. I did hope to have been closer to 98 to by now. So sad because this time last year I was 96 – so I am just getting off the weight I gained rather than getting it down to where I need to be at. Still at least none gained!
Sorry you are sick Steph! No fun.

Look forward to hearing how everyone goes this week.

MEz 6 cm is heaps – Wish I had a tape measure to check this way.

Welcome Eston – I am only 2 cm taller than you and would love to weight what you do!

My tip for hunger days would be drinking something bitter like grapefruit juice or black coffee. Doesn’t have to be much, just a couple of sips would do the trick (for me at least). I’m also one who can’t drink very hot drinks so i usually let my green tea sit until it cools down and then drink it. By that time it usually resembles more coffee than green tea but i like it that way 🙂 It’s more filling like this as well.
Janeone, you are one brave woman. I could never fast (deliberately) 2 days in a row. I would probably just die 😀

Steph sorry to hear you are so miserable. Do you need antibiotic?

I am finding its not the fast days that are difficult but the day after. I felt really wierd last night….
And went out for lunch today and had a huge japanese bento box followed by cake! Feel like I just wipe out the work of 5:2:-(

Hey Mez,
Fantastic that you lost so much weight by now, 75 kilos sounds fabulous. Especially regarding the fact that you had a very busy week with your family being sick.

Thanks for all your good wishes, I’m over it now.it really took it’s time, I’m still coughing, but the worst bit is over. my biggest worry was to give it to my little one.- saying little: he’s half a year old now, and it’s unbelievable how fast he’s grown and how he’s developing after his early start of only 2000grams.

Was downtown shopping last Friday. Needed some books and presents, and I thought I might as well find some tshirts. We’re going on holiday in 10 days, and it would be good to have some extra.we’re camping in our caravan and at the moment, I’m in possession of 5 tshirts which actually fit. (although I have a huge wardrobe full of nice clothes from pre pregnancy days…) So I must never forget to have an eye on the washing machine to keep me going …
Anyway, it was so utterly frustrating. Found nothing. Either they were too tight or they were grandma style, so I never even bothered to try them on.
Guess I will try zalando today. See if there’s anything that fits.
I so wish I could snip my fingers and have a few pounds less.

Scales tonight. I’ll tell you then.

Successfully completed the day.
Here the result
August 9- 94 kilos
August 31- 90.9 kilos,
That means I lost about 3 kilos in 3 weeks, whoo hoo.

Looking forward to losing that nasty 9 and moving into the eighties. Next week.

The day was relatively easy,it was so hot outside plus I was busier than I hoped for: spend a few hours at the docs with my little one.
After his morning nap,where I lay him onto our huge bed of 2×2 metres, with bedding all stuffed at the ends of the bed plus Babyphone to hear him getting active, he seemingly managed to roll around silently and unnoticed, and fell off the bed. Knee’s hight. I just heard the noise. What a horrible noise. Then he started crying, such a shock.
But he seemed okay again after a little while, but nevertheless I went to the docs to be on the safe side .
Thank god, nothing happened.
No time to think about food.

It’s my husband’s birthday this Thursday, so I need to shift my fast day as our family will be round in the afternoon. Will probably do the Wednesday, although I need to prepare cakes, which I find really challenging when fasting.
I’ll give it a try.

Take care everyone,
Looking forward to hearing from you!

Hi all,
Another weigh in. No loss this week and no surprises there. I lost my mojo this week…kind of got a bit bored with listing every single thing that I ate and felt like I was constantly hungry and missing out. Also feeling very tired as the babies have been teething and unsettled every night. So I had the weekend off, ate a few things that I’d been missing (hellloooo white wine and bread dipped in olive oil and balsamic!) and now I’m trying to get myself fired up again. I’m fasting today…it’s only 10.30am and all I can think about is food! I’ve even put on some jeans that are still a bit too tight to remind me about why I’m doing this. Haven’t been able to get out for a run at all this week so that is my goal for this week.
I hope everyone else has had a good week.

Starting weight: 82.3 kg
This week: 75kg
Total weight loss so far: 7.3kg
BMI: 28.2

Hi Mez, Hi Eston,
We’re all in the same boat…
I lost only 400 grams over the last week, that’s nothing and not what I expected. Had 2 successful fast days last week and today went quite well,too.
I might step on the scales tomorrow morning again, you’re always lighter in the mornings than in the evenings, so I expect to see a little change which might feed my mojo… Or is that cheating? We said Monday night, didn’t we?

I wasn’t really prepared for good food for today, and as both my husband and my little one suffer from a cold – you know, man’s flu – I decided to make chicken soup all fresh with loads of vegetables in it and no added fat. No rice or anything, just meat, water and vegetables. Don’t know how many cals, difficult to estimate. But had hardly anything for the rest of the day,so guess it’s okay.

We’re going on holiday for 2 weeks, how do you deal with fast days when you want to have fun with your family and friends?

Think I might change fast days into healthy days, cause when I’m hungry I’m grumpy, and I don’t want to ruin those precious days.

Keep it going everyone.
Take care

Good to hear from everyone. It sounds like everyone has got a lot going on I their lives at the moment! Well done to all of us for hanging in there despite the obstacles.
Thanks Eston for reminding me that things get better with the whole sleep thing. Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my tiny mind from a lack of it. There have been many days when all I could think about was crawling into bed as soon as the babies are (finally) settled. The problem is, when I’m that tired my will power is gone…and I can stuff up a fast day in the last hour or two before bed by scoffing sweets or the like. My mum is coming to stay for a week starting today so she will take one of the babies at night and my hubby and I will have the other one. Hopefully that will mean a decent sleep….if not, I’ve been fantasising about booking into a hotel for a night! Talk about desperate.
I made a discovery this morning. I stood on the scales holding a set of hand weights (don’t ask me why I did this…see above re no sleep…I’m half way to lala-land at the moment) and the damn thing didn’t change despite me holding an extra 2kg! My scales are dodgy. Anyway, when I put the weights down and got on without them, It showed that I was down another half kg….after the scales not budging for two weeks. Time to go buy new scales…I don’t mind if my weight stays the same because I haven’t been on track but to have those dastardly scales LIE to me is just going too far. Hmmph.
Steph I must’ve missed the bit about weighing at night, I always do it in the morning (because I’m always a bit lighter than at night!). We are also heading off for a two week holiday with family soon….it’s going to be hard because I won’t be doing much of the cooking. I was thinking of maybe trying to fast during the daytime and then just going with the flow for dinner…it’ll be challenging though. Hope you have a great time away – enjoy!
Good luck this week everyone 🙂

There we go – over night, 400 more grams vanished. Magic.

I’ve been fasting for exactly one month, although no,that’s wrong, been with you on this 5:2 idea for one month, and I’ve come down 4 kilos in 4 weeks!
Thanks to your motivation, your pep talk, I’m so you’re part of my story. I’m so glad I found you here online. It’s s great help.

So ladies, no losing any mojos, keep doing what’s good for you.

And that also means some treats when your situation requires it. Even if it’s not a strict fast day then, it still might be a low Cal day plus what we call over here ‘nourishment for your nerves’

I’m getting up now, start a new day and I’m looking forward to a little breakfast.
Take care.

Hi all,
Welcome Nikki, good to hear of your successes. I know what you mean re no time for running post kids…it’s much harder to get out.
So another weigh in. This week I lost just under a kilo (2lbs ish). Got some fancy new scales so no more blaming it on the dodgy old set. I’m really happy with this loss as I had quite a lot on last week where I couldn’t control the cooking – dinner with the in-laws and a weekend away. Maybe some of it can be attributed to the change in scales but I’ll take it where I can get it!

Starting weight: 82.3kg
Loss this week: 0.9kg
Current weight: 74.1kg
BMI: 27.9

I there, I was wondering could I join your group? I have started my first fast today & need serious motivation! My baby girl is 6 months old & I’ve been exercising 2-3 times weekly since she was 2 months. We have a baby friendly gym so lots of mummies in the same boat. The other girls in my class have noticeable weight loss, but I’m just putting it on. People keep saying- you’ve just had a baby, you are gaining muscle but I honestly am not!! My body is flabbier & more bloated than ever…. So drastic action is needed! Does anybody drink diet fizzy drinks on fast day?? – any side effects from this?
I really want to be slim & fit looking for my first night away from baby & “date night” in a luxury hotel with hottub. I wanna put tan on & bikini & feel sexy for my hubby!
I exercised this morning & feel great now, trying to look forward to an early night rather than food tomorrow.
Hope you mummies can keep me motivated!

Hey everyone,

Back home. Had 2 fantastic weeks away in the south of Germany, had some fabulous tours through the mountains, the vineyards, saw the alps covered in snow, some great red wine and nice hours meeting my cousins and their families. The little one is developing and growing, not a baby anymore, enjoying everything going on around him.
Foodwise I didn’t have fast days, did a lot of walking though. Scales say I stayed the same.

Lost my mojo though cause my body is giving me serious trouble. My doc found out that my pancreas is not working properly, and not producing the enzymes I need to cope with fats and starch – so I get serious pain after meals. Luckily you can take these enzymes as tablets, and since I’ve been trying that it’s been better, but really I mustn’t forget them if I want to stay in control of my body.
Got an appointment on Friday, got so many questions. As far as the assistant says,it won’t go away again. So I will need these tablets wherever I go. Unless I don’t eat starch and fat, which is not really possible on the long run as far as I know. So hey, better not eat anything at all,then my pancreas won’t go nuts and I’ll also lose weight.

See how things go, but don’t feel like fasting cause I’m constantly thinking of this whole what’s good to eat thing.

So far for now, take care.

Hi guys,

Read through all the posts. Well, lots to read.

I am in Adelaide and after 2 pregnancy I have gained 12kgs !!!!

I have just signed up today & am preparing to start in 2-4 weeks time due to major surgery 4 weeks ago.

Can i assume that we all are using the 500cal as the fasting day guideline ? I am a bit confused.

Hi all

Just read through all your posts!! Has given me some motivation to keep going!!

So I’m on baby #5 I know crazy……I did 5:2 last year before pregnant and lost 14ibs and I find it easy to follow, as it fits into family life only having to think about fasting on 2 days.

Started back on it 4 weeks ago and have lost 5ibs, pleased with results but much slower than before. I’m putting that down to hormones as baby is only 6 weeks. No exercise as yet due to c section plus the 5 kids!!

I’m currently 66kgs would like to be 56kg (only 5 2″) for my wedding next August so 1 year to go!

Carolyn 🙂