Another upsetting scale weigh-in…I am going to ignore it and keep on keeping… 😑
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Three days fasting is tough!! I admire your strength and determination.
I am making some bad choices this and last weeks. Ate some sweets, did not complete fasting. Trying to push myself back to the schedule… Your post actually help me. Somehow I feel ashamed that you are trying 3 fasts per week to get the results, and I am skipping my 2 days fasts… Ok-OK, will try not to eat today for a while. Black coffee only. Will see how long I could last. :-\
Congrats on losing some more!!!
Did you recalculate your TDEE?
The more we lose,the less we supposed to eat. [this feels soooo unfair though!!]
In order to consume less calories on non-fast days, I started to eat more soups – they have more liquid, and less calories, but still manage to fill me up.
Unfortunately, I also has to watch out what I eat. The idea that I can eat whatever I want during non-fast days is not working anymore. I still have some days when I “rebel” and eat whatever I want, but I definitely not losing for those days and even could gain some. Still, it helps to get out some “build-up steam”. When I fast two days, and do not overeat – I lose.
I am trying to regulate my rebellious outbreaks. For example – if I reach my goal, I could eat 3 day whatever I want. Then work on the next goal.
Good thing that we have plenty of time, and overall we are going right direction! 🙂
I am sure that you will figure out what works best for you and will continue your success story! 😀
Hi Pink:
Here is some information on plateaus that might help: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/on-plateaus/
Good Luck!
What a great idea to calculate TDEE at the goal weight. Mine is also below 1400. Urgently adjusting my calories intake. It will take a while to get used to that small amount of calories, but I will never need to adjust it anymore. 😀
Fasting today. My first fast after my Mom left. It is harder for me to do it alone. Join me?
Oh, those carbs!!! – Love hate story! You cannot live without them, you cannot lose with them! Vicious cycle.
So agree with you PinkQueen. Carbs are giving us a hard time. I just could not resist them. The more you are into them, the harder it is to get out. I am back now and starting all over again after submitting for a while to carbs attack. I gain some of my hard-lost pounds back, and now trying cut carbs intake to a minimum.
I am so glad that you continue fasting and fighting carbs temptation. Congrats on you loss. 🙂
Nice to hear from you, PinkQueen!
We can both fast tomorrow, after the election day. 🙂
Don’t give up. And look what those carbs did to me – I gain more than 10 lb back just for loving carbs too much for 2 months. Please don’t believe the carbs’ songs, don’t vote for them. Choose apple or carrot for stressful chomping. 😀
Hugs.
Hi Pink Queen, saw your post and just want to send some good wishes and sympathy. You are having a hard road and feel for you.
I remember your very first post!
When you say you have fasted for over a year, do you mean that you have 5:2 nicely settled into your life so that the two fast days are easy and regular, and that what you are eating on the other five days have led you to no weight loss?
Like you I am short and sedentary (I have CFS, a chronic illness that means activity is restricted). A couple of years before I began 5:2, I cut out sugar, so that might be what has made it so much easier for me.
I hope you can keep on keeping on. Keep analysing what you eat and why. How social things, childhood experiences, whether you binge eat or not, effects your health. You can’t work on everything at the same time, and it can be a long complicated business. But remember this is a longterm strategy for longterm health.
Good job, PinkQueen! You have had your ups and downs, but you know the drill by now. PLUS you are discovering that certain foods make you gain/retain weight and you are avoiding them. For me it is white rice, which I now avoid. I’ve been Fasting for 4 years with my husband with good results. We are now Maintaining and life is good.
You can meet your goals as you gain wisdom about what works for you.
Keep posting.
Hi PinkQueen! Not read your whole journey, but quite a bit of it, sounds a bit similar to me! I have done ADF for 8 months (2 FDs weren’t enough to help me lose any weight!), did well to start with but since Christmas I’d been in a fasting / feasting cycle, eating way too many carbs, so barely maintaining even with 3 FDs per week. I decided to give keto a go like you, as well as 3 FDs to try & get rid of the cravings. It’s definitely helping, my taste is already changing & losing some of the cravings… I steered away from artificial sweet stuff to start with, but made a keto cinnamon bun recipe with Truvia & I don’t think it’s helped, like you said setting up a hunger cycle… I have to face the fact that I really need to steer clear of anything like that, keto or not, as I’m quite all or nothing! So you’re not the only one on this journey, hope that helps a bit!
Yeah, fake sugar is a bummer. And so many of them on the shelf, all competing to be the best to help you ‘avoid sugar’. Rubbish. Ditch the lot of them. Truth time: I still put sugar in my AM coffee, though lots less than previously. Have been secretly reducing the sugar amounts in cookie recipes, too, so that when my ODH scarfs up a plate of cookies on a Slow Day, at leas they will be a tiny bit healthier…
Good for you, Pink, to figure out about those sneaky little snacks which were sabotaging you. Same here. Must. Not. Eat. Snacks.
I have had the same experience with fake sugar. Initially, I was adding pure organic stevia in my tea on FD, but found that my body wants to hold on to the lbs when I used it so I have had to give it up –at least until I get to my goal weight.
Since I only do water and tea on FD, I have turned to Yogi licorice tea and their fasting tea as well since those are so far the only 2 herbal teas I have found I like plain. I definitely need to find other options though.
Hi,
Fake sugar also keeps me from loosing weight, I noticed. That is because , in some people( not all), it triggers similar mechanisms that increase insulin secretion. This also why recent studies found that diet sodas are associated with increased obesity rates. So yep, have to ditch them.
That said,when I am really hungry, I cheat a bit and add one ( not 3, like I sometimes did!) stevia. That did the trick during my 2 first weeks, but I will progressively decrease them and get rid of them eventually. I just don’t want to go cold turkey,it will just frustrate me!!!
@mychoice7 – correlation isn’t causation. There have been a few studies that showed diet soda drinkers tend to eat more food when given the opportunity but that isn’t the same as directly increasing insulin secretion. There is something like 700 different artificial sweeteners, some of them have been shown to stimulate insulin production, however many don’t. It isn’t anything cut and dry.
As a person that monitors blood glucose I can factually claim that most diet colas have no impact on my blood glucose. The reason I no longer use them much is because now they taste too sweet to me most of the time. I’ve avoided sugar long enough that I’ve grown more sensitive to sweet favors.
The big upside with many artificial sweeteners is that they are often 50x to 700x sweeter than sugar so there is far lower amounts of them consumed.
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