I agree with you Kirsty – we certainly do look at food differently now don’t we !
a good “chippy” now and then sounds so fun though…whenever I visit my son in the UK that’s our first dinner…lol…and he is a health nut !

thankyou for your comment simcoeluv – the reminder helps…I certainly will not be stopping exercising – 2 more half marathons/an olympic triathlon and a century bike ride are in my future during the next 4 mos…I just know they would be easier if I could get this 10 lbs off ! 🙂
V

Kirsty, so glad everything went well for your little boy!

Virginialu, don’t worry – see I only lost half a pound after being very good for a week and then it showed another pound only the following day. I can’t agree with simcoeluv about exercise – I can only talk through my own experience and I’m sure, from past results, that it has accelerated my weight loss. And well done on the time of your half marathon – that’s highly respectable! Dublin is pretty cold and I’m looking forward to getting home tomorrow night. I shall try to fit in at least one 5k run at the weekend and will try to fast on Sunday once my relatives have left.

thanks topcat!not a PR for me – but no injuries or issues – so I was happy…I’m 57 – I placed 47 out of 91 in my age group – a lot of fast old ladies out there !!
enjoy your last night in Dublin. let me know how you do.
V

Oh my, please stop talking about fish & chips, not a single decent chippy on this island and I’ve been here for two years…. *drooling*

I had the feeling that I wasn’t going to lose this week (I sneaked on to the scales yesterday and I was still wavering between 93.7 -94kg) but when I stepped onto the scales this morning… Ta Daaa 92.4kg – for everyone working in imperial that’s a huge 3.5lbs off this week

I haven’t even done my “semi-fast” this week!.

Fact – 5:2 works and no one will convince me otherwise 😀

Ladies..,How soon after your time of the month should you weigh yourself?

Thanks for the advice mamie!

Thanks everyone 🙂 Gerrystar Chippy is short for fish and chip shop. Fasting today feeling good so far 🙂

Kirsty, I am so happy that everything went well with your son. I hate it when my kids are sick, just feel so helpless. And those fish and chips sound delicious to me!!
Gerry, if I had lost one pound a month last year, I would be thrilled!! Determined this year!! I just know myself, and I tend to have an “all or nothing” attitude concerning eating/weight loss. That is one of the reasons I like this plan so well. I am going on the thought that if I don’t fast, nothing lost. But my goal is not to binge or gain weight. I have fasted 2 days now, and no one knows about it. With my friends and family, it is much safer if I just do it myself. Try to eat just one meal on fasting days, and they are calorie controlled meals so no one knows that I am dieting. If someone wants to go out for lunch on a fast day, I will go…just no binging because I give myself permission to fast or not. Make sense??

Oh well slight gain after my excesses at the weekend but never mind I’ve still lost over half a stone in total which has made a huge difference – my clothes now fit rather than being a bit tight. Good luck everyone fasting or weighing in today.

I just realised that most of us started on 5th Jan obviously its the title of the thread that Janpartly created. So well done to everyone we have been doing 5:2 now for just over a month 🙂 its a little anniversery woohooo lol

A stone janpartly! a stone! that is brilliant in a month, wow, well impressed.

I don’t know how you guys do the b2b with no food – having a tough time just doing the regular 500 cal days. I am so impressed with you all.
I have lost 5 lbs this month…hope the progress continues. I have a big weekend of visiting family in desert of southern california – a lot of eating and drinking I am sure…it’s going to be really hard .
wish me luck.
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Hi to all those who started the 5:2 on 5th Jan. It’s so good to read all the positive posts and great support from the Fast community. I’ve managed to lose 7 lbs so far which I’m really happy about. Now just inside a healthy BMI but have set my goal for another 16lbs loss. I’ve not been down to that weight for years and at 62 (well almost) it’s so much harder. I’ve booked a holiday in Malta in May and plan to look great for it!
I do have 500 cals on my fast days even though 25% of my TDEE would be more like 400 but I just can’t starve whilst I’m still working full time. Also I split my cals 150 breakfast, 150 lunch and 200 evening. Works for me.

Thanks for your post Kirsty. You really seem to be a model Fast dieter! I hope Tyler is recovering well. Kids tend to bounce back remarkably quickly even after major surgery. Good on you doing your fast today, I’m sure it will go well as you’re so motivated and that’s what it’s all about. I did one of mine this week on a ‘work from home’ day which I thought may be more difficult but I got through fine. Good luck today! 😉

I have two questions for anyone on here;

1) Has anyone else noticed an adverse reaction to refined carbs like pasta, bread etc? I can eat potatoes, rice, bulghur wheat etc but bread and pasta have started to make me feel really bloated and uncomfortable even in tiny amounts.

For those that already exercise or have included it recently.

2)I’m need to include exercise into this diet and I’m thinking about trying to do it without weighing for a month (I don’t know if I’ll manage it even if I get my husband to hide the scales) because I’ve heard that at first introducing exercise can make you gain “weight”. I don’t want to start exercising and then feel really demotivated because the scales aren’t moving. Would you suggest another approach?

I’m a weird “exerciser”, I love it when I’m there and feeling the endorphin high (or as I call them “happy dolphins”) but the motivation to get up and go has usually got up and gone, back to bed.

Today is my “one month aniversary” and I’m seriously chuffed to have shifted 19lbs. That’s a quarter of my total to lose.

Well done Cakey, I’m impressed that you can maintain 4:3. As it stands at the moment I’m sticking to 5:2 until I hit a plateau, at least then I know I have that extra step to take when my weight loss stagnates.

Really, really struggling at the moment – Last week was a terrible week. I was travelling for work so eating with clients, I then returned home tired and hungry – really hungry. Then a box of salted caramel truffles appeared in my house and well….
SO this week I plan to be strong and fast Today, Wednesday and Friday. Please wish me luck.
How is everyone else doing? Great weight loss Mamie Muse!

Thank you Cakey42 – just making a hot herbal tea to keep me going this afternoon.

Yes Janpartly i find Mondays fast easy almost look forward to it but thursdays is a lot harder. I didnt manage a fast on saturday like i hoped to was such a stressful week and im proud i managed thursdays fast. Todays fast so far is goin great love the feeling of achievement i get from it 🙂 have had nothing but fluids so far. Dinner at 6, bowl of soup and a banana then bath, watch broadchurch and bed. Hope everyones fast today is going well

Hey Lusherx, I hope you do well as you’re restarting but don’t think of it as “restarting” but just jumping back on the wagon. You’ve already done really well so far so don’t denigrate what you’ve already achieved.

For some reason I’m finding the fast days a little harder than I thought I would. I thought the fasting would get easier as I went along but it’s not.

Gerrystar, keep going, tell yourself you are a star.
I did good yesterday with hake for my dinner with fresh veg. No potatoes. I had a small desert too of sugar free jelly with rhubard (for my internals) and fat free fromage frais. Total day came to under 400.
Since starting this I have enjoyed fasting, it’s like a switch got clicked in my head. I have not put my hand in the biscuit pot, nor have I broken into a bar of choc. I,ve stppoed eating bread and potatoes, although sweet potatoes go into my casseroles.
On a non fasting day my totals have gone down too, usually around 1100 cals. I guess that’s down to not snacking.
One day at a time, the first couple of weeks I didn’t panic about going over 500 cals.
I was slower then the others but just sat in there reading the posts.
Keep on keeping on.

Hello everyone hope you are all having a good day 🙂 fast went well yesterday and i have been so busy today i havnt eaten yet so think i might fast today aswell will be my first back to back fasts but im feeling good 🙂 will still fast Thursday since i only mansged 1 fast day last week

Hi Pandie, the 18:6 or 19:5 are the times before eating anything and only eating in the remaining hours. This concentrates the eating window and helps to maximise the fasting effect. It also means you can have a more satisfying evening meal. As a result I don’t feel so cold. So 18 hours from the last evening meal is around 12 noon for me and lunch then, or a bit later and evening meal finished by 24 hours from the previous evening meal. Managed 21:3 which meant first food around 4pm and finished full day before 7pm. That’s for me, you might eat later.
I cant work out why my daily calories now are so much lower. What on earth was I eating before? Are there really so many cals in a slice of cake?

OK – I went on a 3 day binge ! OMG it was fun but now I am paying for it. (I went to Palm Springs – 84 degrees and beautiful.)
spent time with family and little exercise. So – all the weight loss from January (5 lbs) came right back!!!! How is that even possible ????
Today I am fasting – already jogged 20 minutes and swam 45 minutes. I am feeling good, it’s 2:30pm and I have not eated yet. So..help me with these ratios, If my last meal was at 6:30 last night and I do not eat until 4:30ish pm tonight is that a 22:?? I’m a bit slow with Math.
I may try a back to back fast tomorrow too….just to feel a little better and hope all my hard work was for not.