Hello,

I always enjoy finding and reading people’s stories, whether they were successful, still going or stopped posting, so I thought I would start a thread for mine. It is nice thinking that in the future I can go back and re read this as my personal journey.

I started out dieting after my first son was born. I had put on a lot of weight during the pregnancy, due to being immobile and having cravings for fast food. After I had him, I weighed 76 kilos. I lost 11 kilos through shake dieting, then went on Sure slim for 12 weeks and lost about another 10kgs, ending up at about 55kgs. I had begun running at that stage and was running 5kms a day as well as weight training and felt really fit. My husband and I started trying for number 2, but due to PCOS found I needed chlomid to get pregnant. Thanks to chlomid I had put on about 7kgs before finally falling pregnant, even with the exercise everyday.

For number 2 pregnancy, it went really well. I continued exercising every day, and after having him within a few weeks weighed about 65kgs. I again started the shake diets, tried sure slim again, but honestly it was much harder that time around. I had started going to the gym again, and through a lot of hard work stayed around the 60kg mark.

Then life got in the way. We started trying for number 3 and needed chlomid again. By the time I got pregnant I was about 70kgs. After number 3 was born I weighed about 80kgs. I tried numerous diets within the first year, but just couldn’t stick to them.

So, I started out on 5’2 with my Mum 2 and a half years ago. I lost about 6 kilo’s quite quickly, but as per usual with my diets, got very carried away. I went from doing nothing to fasting as many days as I could, exercising like a nutter, and doing Michelle Bridges body transformation on my eating days. Needless to say it was too much to quick and I gave up. My Mum has kept doing 5/2 ever since, and has lost about 20 kilos, currently reaching a plateau.

Back in December we moved out onto a farm and due to no take away, and a lot more exercise, I had lost a pant size. I hadn’t weighed myself since giving up on 5/2, so it had been about 2 years since. I got on the scales at the start of March and was 92.5kg! Holy crap. And I had lost weight. Who knows what I was back in December!

Anyway, after giving myself a good kick up the butt and realising that I have finally got some determination back, I am starting the long road to losing over 30kgs.

Todays weigh in was 87.5kgs so slowely going down.

Anyway, hopefully writing in here weekly will keep me honest and fingers crossed in another couple of years I can read back and remember my struggles. Better that than giving up and having to start again!!!

Thanks Dragon Fly 🙂 Are you losing or stabalising? Good luck to you also 🙂

It has been a long, busy week this week. We picked up a few Silkie chooks to add to our chooks. They are very cute. We have been busy converting half of our horse stables into a shearing shed, as we will be shearing at the end of this month. One of our older sheep had a lamb, and it is very cute. And besides that I am bottle feeding a poddy lamb, my brother found some tiny kittens dumped at a truck stop that we have also been added to our family. They were so skinny, but are putting on weight nicely. And today we are getting a horse delivered 🙂 Very exciting. He has a sore knee at the moment, but in a month or so, we can start riding him once he is all recovered.

5’2 turned into fasting Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. I am enjoying the 4’3, so will stick to it. I am doing from dinner the night before, all the next day, till lunch the following. I am just drinking either water, no sugar cordial or tea. No food. I am finding I am fine until around dinner, when I am really hungry. My hubby is making the dinners, so I just have to ignore them eating. After they are finished and it is all cleaned up, I find I am fine. Last year we were snacking a lot after dinner, but I got rid of that habit back in December, so am no longer wanting anything after dinner.

Starting weight:92.5kgs Current weight:86.2kgs Weekly loss:1.3kgs Total: 6.3kgs.

Thanks Coldpizza. How are you finding the 4:3? The past couple of weeks have been every other day because I put in extra days because my parents were supposed to be visiting. I was supposed to be eating today, but hubby stuffed up the bread and I didn’t want to waste my eating day, lol.
This week I have been so busy fencing and fixing up the shed. I think there are muscles I didn’t know existed, lol. Still got another couple of weeks of it. Looking forward to May!

Weigh in day. A 1.2kg loss this week! Very happy with that. It ended up being a pretty full on week. My parents came down to visit, and besides still getting ready for our own shearing at the end of the week, I was helping my brother out with his. So I fasted Mon, Wed and then I couldn’t do a full Friday due to Mum and Dad being here, so I fasted from lunch time Thursday to dinner time Friday night and then Sunday.

I was in the kitchen cooking all day on Friday, to have some yummy things for the kids and family to eat, and although I could have some on Saturday, all I had was a mouthful of choccie cake and half a date scone. I am finding after eating my meals I am content and don’t really want the usual sweet thing.

Starting weight 92.5kgs Current weight: 84.6kgs Weekly loss: 1.2kgs Overall loss: 7.9kgs or 17.4 pounds! It sounds like more when you convert it, lol.

Hi Shaylee,

Happy Birthday for last week. And congrats on your weightloss. I imagine the last 10 are going to be the hardest, but you are now on the downward climb at least!
I am lucky that my husband cooks mostly on my non eating days. I have an 11, 7 and 3 year old. They are boys and barely notice if the shoes they are wearing match each other, lol. I have just said that I need to lose weight and that it is not fun, and that is why we tell you that you can’t eat the entire contents of a choccie block in one sitting or one day you will need to lose weight too! All things in moderation and all that. It really hasn’t been an issue for us thankfully 🙂

Thanks Coldpizza. Congrats on staying motivated! I think it must be easier to stick with healthier food with kids, because you have to prepare them healthy meals! Whereas, if it is just you, it seems not as important or you can’t be as bothered. Where my husband and I always fell down, was snacking when the kids went to bed. He doesn’t have much to lose, but even he has lost weight just watching me. In fact he lost almost as much as me this week and he eats everyday. I’m helping him by not buying him any snacking food. Good for the wallet too!
Good luck on your fasts this week. I’ll be doing Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 🙂 Here’s to a good fasting week!

Hello, This week has gone well. I have successfully signed into the 42 day challenge every day which I was a bit apprehensive about and almost didn’t sign onto it. But, one week gone!

This week has been really good. We have managed a fair few rest days, which has been wonderful. We met up with the family yesterday for a Mother’s Day lunch which was nice. We just had a sausage sizzle over a camp fire and the kids loved going and getting kindling. I made a potato bake and date scones and they went down really well. I decided not to make a dessert, to make sure I didn’t eat it, lol. Nobody missed it, so that was good.

So this week I fasted Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday until dinner and Friday. And I have lost 1.3 kilos!! So, you have to be happy with that! That brings me to almost a full 10 kilos since I started in March!

My Mum asked me yesterday whether I had been doing anything to lose weight and I mentioned that I was back on 5:2 or alternate day. She said that she is going to be much stricter with it, as she has put on a few kilo’s even doing it religiously, so we had a chat about that for awhile. She has been doing it now for 2 and a half years, so has fasting down pat!

The only issue I have had so far with fasting has been constipation. Have upped my fiber intake on non fast days, taken Metamucil religiously, upped my water intake, once every couple of weeks take a laxative. Not much has worked to make me regular. So I am currently trying a different fiber supplement that has a small amount of laxative in it that you swallow everyday, which are like 2 tea spoons of hard grains, seems to be working, fingers crossed.

Oh and it is Mother’s Day today and I got my Fitbit!! And a box of choccies, lol. The kids are pretty interested in all the different flavours, so I will be lucky to get to eat two. They are helping me out really, lol.

Starting weight: 92.5 Weekly loss: 1.3kgs Current weight: 82.7kgs. Total loss: 9.8kgs or 21.6 pounds and lost now about 15 kilos since December. No wonders my clothes are getting baggy!

Hello,

Another week gone. This week was a pretty quiet week as well. We have been in town almost daily. The boys do swimming a couple of times a week and are now doing hockey. So have to drive in for their practice and then for their games. Plus doing just general farm stuff, homeschooling and keeping up with the house has kept me busy. The fast days were hardish this week, although have kept just to water fasting and still doing alternate days. Fasted Mon, Wed, Fri and fasting today 🙂 A 0.6kg loss. So 1 kilo down in the last couple of week. Have to be happy with that!

Starting weight of 5:2: 92.5kg Weekly loss: 0.6kg Current weight: 81.7kg. Total loss: 10.8kg or 23.8 pounds. Since Dec: 15.8kgs.

Coldpizza – You are doing so well too. You are finding it difficult and keep coming back to it. That is so important and very impressive. Also remember that consuming 500 calories is less than half what you would do on a calorie restrictive diet. And you are doing that twice a week. You don’t want to sabotage yourself by water fasting if you are finding it too difficult. Truthfully the majority of days I only really struggle at dinner time. All excuses that are used seem important at the time. It’s whether we recognise them for what they are and don’t let them sabotage our efforts 🙂

I heard on the Coda 6 week challenge people talking about Dr Jason Fung and looked him up on Youtube. It was so interesting. He was talking about intermittent fasting and how insulin works in the body. It made me think of my SIL who did the CSIRO diet back in 2003. She was mid 80’s and brought the cookbooks and lost about 20+kgs following a low GI diet. The amazing thing is that she has followed it ever since, has had 3 kids since, and still hasn’t put on any of the weight she lost (baring pregnancy, but bounced straight back into shape). I haven’t really thought much about it, until last night. So I had a look at low GI food. Since moving out to the farm, we have cut down on the amount of bread, rice and pasta we were consuming by a lot. And now that we rarely have take away and cook the vast majority of food from scratch I think I might invest in some cookbooks and learn some new recipes. Also I swapped out pepsi max for diet cordial. I have heard a lot recently about artificial sweeteners and that they are bad for you. I would like to hear more and understand why. But for now, I am going to try and wean myself off the diet cordial. It is no sugar, but it gets its flavour somehow! Anyway, it will take time.

Coldpizza – Yes, I was addicted to Pepsi Max for about 2 years. I had weaned myself off Coke to Pepsi Max and then Pepsi Max to Diet Cordial. Now Diet cordial to water. Hopefully it won’t take long. I always have drunk water, I just enjoy an icy drink of something else as it seems to lift me up. I’ll see how I go tomorrow when I am fasting.
I’ll get around to watching more of Dr Fungs videos. I think it is good to get it in perspective of how good this way of eating is for you. And congratulations on a good fasting day 🙂 It’s evenings that are the worse for me too. After they have eaten and the dishes are in the dishwasher, I kind of get over it and am fine. But those few hours, I find hard.
I used to be in the Air force and I remember doing the 2.4km run. You had to run it in under 13 minutes. I did it the first time and every time after that I kept saying to myself as I was running and getting puffed, that I had done it before, so I can do it again. I kind of keep the same message to myself on fasting days. I have fasted when I woke up hungry, when I was sick, when I was tired, when I was busy, when I was around other family, when the boys have gotten take away, when the others were sick and I haven’t broken yet. We can all do this!!!

Hello,

Coldpizza – Yes, the water went down. They are predicting another big lot of rain tomorrow. Things are still sloppy out here, because of getting intermittent rain throughout the week. And I hope everything is well with you this week!

Apricot – Thanks. I thought about trying the lemon in sparkling water. We have a soda stream, so could just use that. I have been good lately and getting down the water 🙂 And with weight loss, you just need to do what works for you. Find that something and stick with it!

So this week, I had no loss. No gain either. Still at 79.2kg which is good. We ended up having a very socialising week, so although I still alternate fast, I have eaten banoffee pie, butter popcorn, maltesers etc. A week I would have put on weight for sure if I wasn’t living this lifestyle. We went to the movies twice, which didn’t help. I’m not going to go to the movies and eat air! We visited my brother and SIL and they both said “wow, you have lost a lot of weight” upon seeing me, and my SIL kept saying how well I was doing, so that was uplifting! This week should be much better for weight loss, as we haven’t got much planned and I have a lot of work to do. We also are helping my brother out by looking after 2 of his horses, so I will be very busy with 3 to look after. That’s a lot of brushing, hoof cleaning, feeding, walking etc! But I’d better get used to it, cause we will have them for a while.

Onward and upwards and I hope to see 78 something next weekend! Good luck to anyone reading this. We can all do this. Just keep trucking along!

Colpizza – Hi :waves: Texas is always a place me and my husband would love to visit! We love watching Man Vs Food and watching him eat those massive cinnamon buns.. yum! And yes, it is hard fasting after a hard day of work outside. It’s not hard while I’m doing it, just those dinner hours.

We had a great week this week. My brothers horses didn’t turn up last week because of the rain, but apparently come rain, hail or shine they are turning up today (and yesterday we did actually have snow and rain, lol)My horse Jack is all rugged up and so is my poddy lamb Shirley (she looks very cute btw rocking her maroon jacket). We had about another 70mills of rain this week, so everything is still super slushy. We went for a family walk around the farm and took heaps of great pics of our full dams, animals and farm (and kids).

So weight loss this week I am down to 77.8kg!! So good. I had my monthlies last week which could have been the cause of the no weight loss. I have PCOS so they are completely irregular. And that is a 1.4kg loss. So, now I am firmly in the 70s and only 0.3 BMI away from no longer being obese! The new Coda challenge starts on Friday, so trying to lose as much as possible for the new challenge. So I will weigh in on Friday and take measurements again. This challenge I am hoping (fingers crossed) to be 75 by the end of it. It has always been my goal for August (which is a couple of my kids birthdays) because I hoped if I made it, I might be able to make it to under 70 by my birthday in October. We shall see. There is most definitely no way to make it happen any faster than it is! I just have to keep on keeping on.

Starting weight of 5:2: 92.5kg Weekly loss: 1.4kg Current weight: 77.8kg. Total loss: 14.7kg or 32.4 pounds. Since Dec: 19.7kgs or 43.4 pounds.

Thanks Merry!!

Hello, it hasn’t been quite a week, but the new Coda challenge started today, so I did measurements and weigh in. No weight loss this week, still at 77.8kgs. But I have lost an overall of 5cms in the two and a bit week interim of the challenge.

Tomorrow we have a family birthday to go to at a play center so the kids will have fun. Haven’t seen Mum and Dad in a while, so will be interesting to see what they say. This week has been a good week, although almost sprained my ankle on Wednesday. I was getting feed for my horse and my foot slipped on a wooden pallet and went in between the grooves, it couldn’t move and I fell down hard sideways. No idea how I didn’t break it. It was so painful straight away, I could hardly get my foot out. Finally made my way back to the house and got my boot off. It was so swollen and bruised straight away. All day I was getting sharp shooting pains up my leg. Went to bed and woke up the next morning and besides a bit of bruising – it was all better! What on earth! I am so lucky! Was busy at the start of the week removing fencing in the far paddock. Now that is hard physical work!

I have also been getting throughout last week and this week this horrible gas pain in the middle of my ribs. I have never had it before. It feels like a tennis ball is stuck there. So I decided to start having on my eating days the Dr Oz green smoothie, which is spinach, apple, lemon, lime, celery and cucumber, blended. It tastes like grass. Then I have some bran, 1/2 banana, 1/4 tps of honey and almond milk. I have only had it twice now (two eating days) and today I haven’t had the gas. It is so filling and I haven’t been constipated either. I am a person of habit, so am going to have it either for lunch or breakfast most eating days. Today I took the kids to the cinema to watch The BFG and had some popcorn too. I have to stop going to the movies!! lol. Onward and downwards this week!

Starting weight of 5:2: 92.5kg Weekly loss: 0kg Current weight: 77.8kg. Total loss: 14.7kg or 32.4 pounds. Since Dec: 19.7kgs or 43.4 pounds.

Hello, just thought I’d quickly update even though it’s only been a couple of days 🙂 I weighed in this morning at 77.2kgs. So finally hit 20 kilo weight loss! Only 0.2BMI away from no longer being obese. I have been weighing myself after every fast day for the past week. I am finding that there won’t be any weight loss and then bam. So want to keep track of it. Nothing is really fazing me with any of it, as I know I just need to stick with it.

Not much going on today. We are getting a load of wood delivered today and I am marking out my new fence that I will try to put up this week. Yesterday my nephews birthday went well. My Mum and Dad seemed shocked by my weight loss, although it’s only been 4 kilo’s or there abouts since they saw me last. They both said it looked like I’d halved in size, lol. It’s boosted my spirit. We are planning on heading out and visiting them this weekend, as my other brothers and family are going to be out there. We are getting a poddy calf delivered this week, so will need to take him and Shirley with us when we go. I wouldn’t normally worry about it, but it’s important for the kids to be with their cousins.

Anyways, best go. Good luck to anyone reading. You can do this!

Starting weight of 5:2: 92.5kg loss: 0.6kg Current weight: 77.2kg. Total loss: 15.3kg or 33.7 pounds. Since Dec: 20.3kgs or 44.7 pounds.

Hello,

Another good loss this week. 1.3kg! Our entire family has been hit with a cold, but I stuck with my alternate fasting figuring I was feeling like crap anyways. Drinking lots of hot tea to help with my sore throat and to break up mucus. Today finally feeling like I am on the mend. The kids are already over it. This week was very cold, even got snow one night. It was horrible doing the afternoon jobs. I forgot my beanie one day and the pain in my ears was awful.

Today we are getting a quote for a concreter to come out and concrete in front of the chook shed and making a path to go down to it. We still have to paint the chook shed, but we designed it like a little house. It has a proper front door and a window. It’s fairly big, about 8 meters, by 8 meters, with a large yard coming off it. We let them free range during the day. My plan is to paint it American Barn colours of red and white, and put some pot plants out the front with a table and chairs 🙂 Everyone who comes out here comments on it. It’s pretty flash for a chook house, lol. Really looking forward to finishing it. I keep getting sidetracked with finishing off fencing and stuffing around with the horses. Oh well, that’s life!

And good news. Finally in the overweight category of my BMI! 29.5 it says! No longer obese. My starting BMI was 38.2. Now to concentrate on getting under 75 so I can attack the next 5 kilos. I am only 12.6 kilo’s off a healthy BMI, hubby thinks I should break it up into 4 lots of 3 kilos. We’ll see what works mentally. I’ll probably do both!

Starting weight of 5:2: 92.5kg loss: 1.3kg Current weight: 75.6kg. Total loss: 16.9kg or 37.2 pounds. Since Dec: 21.9kgs or 48.2 pounds.

Coldpizza – Thanks 🙂

Ahh, so annoying. I had written a big spiel earlier today and I thought I had submitted it and it hasn’t worked! I only just realised.

So this week I have lost 1kg. It was a very full on week ending this morning to finding our gorgeous few month old poddy lamb dead (: So incredibly sad, we were all crying this morning. She seemed fine yesterday afternoon. She came around with me while I did all the afternoon chores of feeding all the animals. My husband fed her her bottle around 7pm last night. It was freezing cold last night, but she was wearing her water proof jacket and had the other sheep with her. She just looked asleep. So sad. RIP Shirley.
I’m too sad to write anymore tonight.

Starting weight of 5:2: 92.5kg loss: 1kg Current weight: 74.6kg. Total loss: 17.9kg or 39.4 pounds. Since Dec: 22.9kgs or 50.4 pounds.

Hello,

No loss this week. Been a crazy busy week. We have been going to town many times and super busy with the animals. I am a bit exhausted tbh. I really need a few days at home to relax and unwind.

Our Coda challenge ended today and I lost 3.2kg in the last 29 days and a total of 15cm off my body 🙂 My husband has been commenting on how large my “new” jeans look on me so went yesterday and brought 2 pairs from Jeans West. They were an AUS size 14 and I thought “no way will they fit”. They fit perfect. Not super tight, just right 🙂 And all my size 14 jumpers fit. I went into the work wear shop today to get a new jacket, as I am still wearing my size 20 jacket around the farm. I tried on the new jacket and the lady commented on how nice it looked and I told her it was to replace my size 20 jacket that I wear everywhere. She exclaimed how massive that would be on me and that I must have been able to fit me and the kids in it at the same time. It was a bit insensitive as it wasn’t that long ago that it fit me perfectly, but it shows how far I have come that she would say that I think.

Starting weight of 5:2: 92.5kg loss: 0 Current weight: 74.6kg. Total loss: 17.9kg or 39.4 pounds. Since Dec: 22.9kgs or 50.4 pounds.

Hello Lou Belles 🙂 Thank you so much! I also read everyone’s posts. It helps to know you aren’t alone. I wish you all the best as well!

This week I have lost 1.3kg. Was feeling horrible mid week, so went and got a colon detox. Did that on Wednesday and gees, I lost a lot! I am back on my fiber supplement and I have read around the boards off a few people that magnesium is good, so I have started taking a magnesium, calcium, vitamin d tablet. Hopefully that will fix it all, as I always make sure to drink plenty of water and to eat fruit on non fasting days.

The farrier I brought my new horse off is coming out to take her back tomorrow. She is not a beginners horse. I have been spending at least 2 hours a day with her, walking her around, brushing her, feeding etc for the past non quite 2 weeks since we got her. She was pretty standoffish when we first got her, and fairly flighty, but he had said that she was in season and I thought it might have to do with that. So I have persisted. She has gotten better at being caught which is a good thing.
Well, I haven’t been riding her because I have been getting a bridle hand made by a lady in town, but thought I would buy one in the mean time and try it out. So the day before yesterday I saddled her up and put the bridle on her etc. She was being a pain, so I thought I’d just walk her around with the saddle on, let her eat grass and make it a nice experience. I then took the saddle off etc, put her rug back on her and put her back. So yesterday, hubby said you should go and ride her. So I went and brought her up, she was easy to catch for the first time. All was good. I walked her around for awhile and let her eat some grass. Brought her up, took her rug off her, brushed her etc. Put the saddle, bridle on her. Again walked her around. Thought. Right. Got up on the mounting step, swung up on her. As soon as my butt sat on the saddle, off she went. Straight down with the head, legs kicking. Back and forth. She then swung around and off I got thrown. Straight on my head. She took off sprinting down the road. I am so sore, but thanking my lucky stars that I wasn’t seriously injured, as I was about 10 cms from some huge stones in the garden bed. I have a black eye and some bruised muscles. I had a major headache straight away and got winded, but nothing serious. No way would I trust her again though. Our farrier is happy to take her back. I am sad as I think if I was experienced, she’d probably be a great horse. But I’m not and I already have Jack who can’t be ridden and Silver my son’s pony and the donkey. So not much that I can do.

Today we are going to town to buy hopefully a platform for the front of the chook house, as I had been thinking about it and we can’t pave because it is too wet out here, we can’t cement because it is too wet, we can’t gravel because it is too wet, but we can build a small deck area on the front of it! It is so disgusting there at the moment because of the rain that we need to clean it up. We also brought a nice fountain for the front of the house. We have a driveway that ends in a circle at the front of the house. The people before us have bricked the large circle in the middle but have never planted in it. So we are putting the fountain the middle and then are going to plant around it probably in Australian natives to make it look like an English garden. We had beautiful gardens at our old house that I had planted the same. Everyone commented on them, and I was really proud of them as I like gardening.

Have a good day all 🙂

Starting weight of 5:2: 92.5kg loss: 1.3kg Current weight: 73.3kg. Total loss: 19.2kg or 42.3 pounds. Since Dec: 24.2kgs or 53.3 pounds.