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I started 5:2 on 2nd June aiming to lose 16lbs to get back to where I was 5 years ago after I’d lost wait using LCHF (low carb/high fat). I’d bought the Fast Beach Diet book as well as Michael Mosley’s book and the recipe book but was expecting it to be a very slow process….how wrong could I be!
As of this morning, I am 0.8lbs below target!! I am going to do a couple more fast days before a 10 day break with family to give me some breathing room although I should be able to manage a fast day while we’re away.
My husband is already on 6:1 so I will join him.
This WOE is amazing and can’t thank MM and MS enough for the inspiration.
Morning Auri snd MCs
All this talk about sausages to wake up to!
You are right Happy. I have a pool in the garden so can dispense with swimwear at night…until my fella turns the lights on for a stir 😉
I had a white costume too Elaine. Very Ester Williams until it got wet. Then it was more like the Emporer’s New Clothes.
Slept like a log last night. So much better than Weds. Must be having my mate back home ♡
Well done Metchick. Great success 🙂 P
Wow, Metchick! You didn’t hang around! I was pleased with my 20lbs in 4 months. Now I realise I was a sloth…..
I’ve just had 9 days holiday with family, which did involve more carbs than I like, nightly puddings (I don’t normally do sweets) and alcohol each night (normally only weekends). I came back 1kg heavier and lost that again within days. You’re clearly a super efficient fat burning machine so don’t stress about the holiday! A bit of mindful eating doesn’t go amiss, but go enjoy!
The trouble with swimsuits is that they work in the cubical of John Lewis, but once in the sea, well anything can happen and with me it usually does! I bought a black onepiece a couple of years back, all was good, I swam, got out all still good, but whilst sunbathing the sea salt dried white all around my boobs – well I’m big busted anyway but gawd they looked absolutely pendulous framed in white glistening salt against a black background – hmmmm, yeah I don’t have a lot of luck with swimwear – oh, and don’t get me started on bikini bottoms that tie up at the sides….
I tried the tankinis but they’re too revealing for me, too much cleavage and too high in the leg. Off to buy a lovely discreet one piece today. Love all the reminiscences. I was the nerdy one on the beach wearing a T shirt over my bathers and a large hat. Staying white after a couple of disastrous burns and peels. Imagine looking like that on the Sunshine Coast with bronzed Aussie dolphin friends all around me. I stayed under the umbrella while they all roasted themselves in the sun. B 🙂
OK. So I wasn’t very regular at recording weight loss but I have compiled my records.
04/01 159lbs (72.4ish kg)
08/02 152 (69.1)
08/03 146 (66.5)
15/04 139 (goal, on my birthday!)
02/05 138 (62.8)
31/05 136-138 range; join maintenance thread, shortly thereafter Elaine suggests I can’t get below 60kg (132lbs)…
16/06 132! I join the club….
07/07 132
11-17/07 131
26/07 134 (post holiday)
29/07 132
30/07 131
I had one plateau only (weeks 2 and 3 weigh in), lost 20lbs in 16 weeks (goal) and a further half stone or so in the following 2 months (without trying…). Since mid June however I have been maintaining in the 59-60kg range.
I’ve lost 4 inches bust, 5-6 waist, 4 hips, 3 thighs (each!).
Gone from 12-14 (probably closer to 14…) to 8-10 (closer to 8…).
Oh and apologies for the mix of imperial and metric! I’m on my smart phone and can’t switch to calculator without losing my post.
Oh and I really should reiterate that I would not have begun 5:2 if it was just another faddy diet. I knew this was a sustainable lifestyle change that would provide important health benefits over and above weight loss.
We all tend to celebrate, and focus on, the weight loss because that’s the short term tangible benefit. But hopefully we’ll all still be here as centenarians, looking like cadavers and quite mad! But still with all our marbles and not rattling from all the pills our parents/ grandparents ended up on!
I started on 24th April 2013. I lost 18kg (40lbs) in 6 months and 25kg by one year (55 lbs). 27kg to date. I am now hovering between 58-60kg. (just over 9 stone )
My waist is 12″ smaller and I am wearing size 12 tops and size 8 jeans. I was wearing 16s and lots of flowing clothes.
My husband started at 100kg. He has lost 30kg and gone from XXXL to M size shirts and 30″ trousers. He lost slightly faster in the initial weeks, but after that we have been consistently 10kg apart! As you know, he has gone from an insulin injecting diabetic to one who only takes 1 Metformin tablet a day and has low steady blood sugars.
Neither of us actually ever plateaued. We slowed after the first 6 months, but continued a steady downward slope throughout. We have both maintained this weight since April, despite frequent holidays. The only period my graph shows an increase, and only very slightly, was over Xmas when we travelled to Perth to visit family and didn’t fast at all.
We are now on the life long maintenance of our lovely new healthy bodies. P 🙂
good Morning Ladies x
All this talk about bathing suits , as a bloke my favorite is the topless bikini lol i wonder why
Well for me it was back to being naked this morning with my Jumbo Sausage lolling around ha ha ha , gosh you lot are awful ,,, but i do like you all
the best thing is , i have maintained my weight from last week so i am chuffed with myself for that
reading some of your posts just above this one PVE wowww you and hubby have done fantastic , tell your hubby i am proud of him ok
Metchick , yours to is a brilliant read you have done so so well , good on you x
Happy , hello happy at last we get to have a natter , are you on FB happy ?
as for running round naked i am with you all the way on streaking at 80 hee hee , what a laugh x
ok girls i better get on , will be here lots today so keep those posts coming in x
love
ken
x
Morning guys, on surfing the morning papers I noticed the Mail Online is running a headline article on the difficulty of maintaining weight loss with a picture of a yo yo dieter backing up the story and the paper predicting that Dawn French won’t keep her weight loss off – all the more reason for her to prove them wrong I say! I will have a read and report back anything interesting…
Well guys I’ve just read the Yo Yo Dieter’s article in the MailOnline, and I think it’s worth a read, especially for us maintainers. The woman is being brutally honest and I found her story a painful and cautionary tale. below is an excerpt of part of what she says-
“I can’t believe I have fallen from an inspirational success story to another fat flop who couldn’t hack staying slim – that I worked so desperately hard to achieve my goals only to throw away everything in a few short months”.
It might not be everybody’s favourite paper but I wonder if there is anything for us maintainers to take away from this “failed” dieter’s story?
The article says Dawn had lost 7 stone (94 lbs) by 2012 and apparently appeared in Australia’s “Australia’s Got Talent” in 2013 “allegedly” having regained all of her lost weight plus more and according to the MailOnline’s article has now lost it all and more again. Perhaps that’s so perhaps not, I don’t believe everything I read in newspapers, however, what is of special interest to us is the dilemma of maintaining weight loss and it is one that’s real and important to us maintaining buddies. I do also remember reading a quote from Oprah Winfrey where she said “I was slim for about 3 minutes”. So I guess what our message from all if this is that we can’t take our eye off the ball!
Hi Elaine,
I don’t think any of us will fall into the yoyo cycle.
Speaking for me only, my heaviest weight (at starting 5:2) only put me on the cusp of healthy/overweight BMI range, so I have never been very heavy. Also, I have not dieted previously (so have no previously history of yoyo-ing).
The article refers to not really noticing a few pounds when you’ve been several stone over weight, but I think we have all set ourselves an upper limit on weight, over which alarm bells will ring? For me, at your suggestion (!), 60kg seems like a nice round number to aim for. I crept over this on holiday, but made sure I got back below it on my return (and 59.5 again this morning!).
And we are all monitoring our weight closely (daily weigh ins), so no complacency there. I had said previously that I would like to stop weighing so frequently, but realise now that monitoring of success (and that includes not only of losing weight, but also of maintaining that loss) is necessary. It may be micromanagement, but it’s easier to shift a kg than 10kg…
Also, we have all incorporated intermittent fasting (in various forms) into our lives. We have not treated 5:2 as a weight loss tool, and then reverted to old habits once we reached goal. We have made sustainable lifestyle changes.
It is early days I know, but having maintained a healthy weight through inadvertent intermittent fasting in my late 20s/30s, I have no reason to believe that I will not to able to similarly maintain my weight now.
I am not a fat person, temporarily thin; this is me.
HappyNow I concur with everything you say and like you my heaviest weight was only ever 28lbs over what I am now so not obese but even so I’ve still struggled over the years to maintain weight loss and I think everybody is in agreement that keeping the weight off long-term is the more difficult task, so any discussions on this endeavour is welcome. I never understand the motive for bearing one’s soul to the media but nevertheless I found the woman’s story in the MailOnline honest and thought-provoking and I hope somebody points her towards the light of the Jedi, sorry meant the light of Fasting! Bye the way, it really isn’t my fault that you’ve re-discovered your toast rack, you ran with a comment I made and I think believed you couldn’t be a member of this exclusive club without attaining below 60kgs but I did point out that you are a Goliath compared to the rest of us 5ft 4in pygmies;-/
From the outset, the 5:2 wasn’t intended to be a diet but more a pathway to better health perhaps that’s the key to this successful WOE. Most commercial diets don’t work in the long-term and if they did, they wouldn’t be commercially viable – the diet industry is a multibillion pound multinational industry that probably makes most of its money out of yo yo dieters but it’s tragic that somebody who worked so hard to shed such a gigantic amount of weight finds themself having to start all over again with that awful sense of failure. Sadder still is that the failure story is more common than the successful dieters’ stories.
Hi Elaine and Auriga,
I refuse to be labelled a ‘recovering fatty’! I am not going to define myself as a fat person in a borrowed thin suit (who’s owner wants it back by the end of the year)!
Visualising success is a tool used by successful people. The successful golfer, for example, does not concentrate on not finding the bunker with his tee shot; he visualizes hitting the green or the fairway. He does not think about potential failure, he visualises success.
So focus on what you want to achieve (staying slim and healthy) and not on want you want to avoid (being overweight and unhealthy). And think of yourself as a slim person, not a fat person temporarily thin.
Well, I am now confident enough that my new weight is sustainable that I am… wait for it… going to go shopping tomorrow with the purpose of buying some new clothes that actually fit!! Tops and t-shirts are mostly not too bad (my shoulders are still as broad as they were, and shapewear helps pad out the toastrack!), but trousers and skirts are shocking (with the exception of a pair of jeans, one pair of walking trousers, and a little skirt bought following some weight loss I think I can mostly pull everything up and down without undoing zips or buttons…)
And I have to tell you that I don’t really like going into town, clothes shopping or spending money. That’s how strongly I believe I’ve made a change for life!
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