Fuvvie, thanks so much for getting this all underway! I’m looking forward to getting started tomorrow- goals are:
Lose 4kg in October
Better control on NFD days by planning/writing down what I eat
Exercise – 4 times per week (minimum 30min)
Water intake – 2 to 2.5 litres a day
No eating after 7.30pm (I’m a big night picker!!)

My birthday is at end of October & for the past 10 years I think to myself “lose weight for it”. Never do – just yo-yo up & down. I want to feel light & positive (instead of constant head battle over food/self esteem with body & weight). I’ve got about 8kg to lose in total (will know for sure tomorrow morning when I hope on scales!!) and think about weight & food too much, with too much secret eating/bingeing. Time to find a weight I feel happy at and learn how to maintain it!

Enough from me! I enjoy reading everyone’s posts – very motivating.
All the best!

Surrey UK Hi Fuvvie, are we following the same plan with posting, i.e. Our location, what day, etc. It is really useful that we start on day 1 of October..makes it easy to follow, as we did in September.
Slimsylv, you are definitely not the oldest! There are some of us who are over 70…actually, how many of us are there who are 70 and over? I am 71. I thought that I would be a lost cause at this age, but it does work for me. My habits are more set I suppose, and more effort is needed to overcome them. I don’t actually feel 71, have to say. It constantly surprises me that I can’t do with ease all the things I did 20 years ago. Oh well, aging is not for the faint-hearted!

Hello all,
This is a reply to JoyT (hope I’m doing this right). Just wanted to say, I love your positive attitude and wording for your October goals. Saying ‘I will’ rather than ‘I will try’ really sets us up on the path of success 🙂 You can do this!

Hello Fuvvie,
Please add me to the challenge too. Looking forward to it 🙂

P.S. I’m new to the side so wondering if there is a way to mention other users in one’s posts so they get notified if someone replies to them?

Thanks,
Tanja 😊

Hello all, I am K-Lo (Karen) from New York/New Jersey, USA. I am coming up on 61 (December), have a wonderful hubby of 30 years, and two sons in their 20s (one still in college).

I started 5.2 in March and I have gone from 130-131 to 119-120. I am sort of maintaining, but would be happy getting down to 117-118. I have been wearing a lot of older clothes that I thought I would never get back into. Of course, once I got back into some of them, I realized they are just shot or too out of fashion.

I have had some chronic pain problems that have caused me to pull back on a lot of my old exercise habits, but with the help of an incredibly talented, brilliant, intuitive massage therapist, I have done an almost 180 in the past few months. I am now lifting weights again, and getting stronger again.

61 is going to be a breeze.

Looking forward to spending October with all of you.

Hello…could you sign me up to this as well please? I am new to 5:2 but hoping to shift about a stone and a half.

Rilla, you’re in the right place for support!!

Australia Day 1 NFD well it is already October 1 here so I thought I might as well do my first post. Mind you it is only 3:40am – I can’t sleep though. Fuvvie I will go to the gym later this morning and will then do my full weigh in and measurements to kick off the month. I have to buy yet another set of scales as the last set gave up the ghost a week ago and my original set are so hard to read. I am looking forward to staying in touch with all of those who joined Coda’s first challenge in May and getting to know all the new people. Good luck everyone!

Tweed Coast Australia / Day 1 / NFD

Start weight 57.0

I’m not able to exercise much due to adrenal insufficiency.

For most of my adult life I weighed between 54-57 kg. When Menopause, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Adrenal Insufficiency hit, my weight rose and a few years ago I clocked in at about 70 kg. To help shed weight, I followed something called an ‘Adrenal Reset Diet’ which enabled me to drop to 64.0 though when I reached that weight I suddenly wasn’t able to maintain the discipline of that diet for even a couple of hours so began to gain again. For the past year my weight fluctuated between 67 and 64 kg though every time I’d reach the 64 kg low, I’d fine myself voraciously hungry and I’d eat my way back up to a higher weight!

In late June 2016 I started experimenting with 5:2 and fell right through my 64 kg glass floor and now on October 1, I weigh 57.0 kg something I didn’t think possible even 6 months ago!

Sydney Australia
1st October
97.6 kg
This is my 5th day doing th 5:2 fast diet, I have have a long road ahead, but after reading lots, I am confident this is doable for the long term!
My goal for October is 5kg, which is a lot I know but hopefully achievable. Ultimately to lose 25kg.
In October I have a friend quitting smoking and another one giving up alcohol, so In support, I am going to get off my bum, and commit to moving 10,000 steps a day. This is going to be a mind game for me, as my willpower for exercise atm is zero. I am sitting here trying to think of excuses not to do it ! Ultimately, I want to live a lot longer than my 51 years, so my health will be my motivation.
Looking forward to a great October with you all!

Extra post – well I started the first day of the October challenge at the gym which was good and took the opportunity to weigh myself on their scales which was very, very bad! Starting weight is officially 88.9kgs – nearly 5kgs heavier than on my home scales. So for this month I will weigh in each Saturday at the gym. I have taken my measurements as well. My goal is to lose 4kgs this month and to exercise 6 days a week. Fingers crossed! Thanks Fuvvie for managing us. 🙂

Perth, Australia/ 1st October/ FD

Starting weight 92.5kg

Hi all,

Just wanting to wish everyone luck with the challenge. Hope you kick your goals. Thanks to Fuvvie for organising and making this possible 😊

Sorry, can’t stay, this assignment is not going to write itself and if I want to go out tomorrow (winery lunch with work mates – I know, great timing but it has been organised for months. I’m driving though so alcohol intake will be minimal) then I’d better hop to it.

Have a great weekend wherever you are 😊

Day 1 NFD NZ
I think my start weight is 63.7kg- haven’t weighed since Friday but that’s close enough for me.

Goal weight is 57-58kg by Christmas – I just hope this year Santa brings me a big fat wallet and a slim body because last year he got those two mixed up and I don’t want him to make the same mistake twice.

I am actually more interested in measurements than scales so when I get home from holiday on Monday I’ll take my tape measure to the work in progress that is my current generously proportioned self and set some goals.

Ideally I want to lose another 4kg this month and see something on the scales that starts with a 5!!! I don’t mind if it’s 59.9 but something under 60 would be just dandy.

Looking forward to following along with you all, I’ve started October great, baked a Ginger Crunch that I havnt wanted to taste yet today and went for an 80min walk with a huge hill climb this morning…even the dog struggled to make it all the way up and I certainly felt the effort (mostly as Sweaty Betty drips of perspiration running off the end of my nose) but the view was worth it and so was the sense of achievement at the top.

Will check in tomorrow 😊😊😊

NZ – Day 1, NFD
Starting weight – 66.5kg
Goal maintain weight – 58kg (by end December)
October goal – 4 kg down

Am going to weigh myself once (or twice!!) a week – no more daily weighing.
Been a fairly good NFD start although only 1/2 way through my daily water goal!
Going to run tomorrow morning.

Off to have another big glass of water. Great reading everyone’s posts.

London Day 1 Octobet Challenge thanks to Fyvie for leading 😊

Here is to a new month with a focus on exercise for me. Swimming later this morning and a low carb day is planned. Last month I managed to control weekend eating and drinking which has always been my downfall. My goal for the month is a 7lb loss which is a lot but I need to catch up as I lost 3.5lbs in September not the 5lb I had set as a goal!! Good luck one and all and here’s to a successful month for all☺

Surrey UK NFD Day 1…….Good morning all you lovely people! Let us see what this month brings. Starting at 97.9kg. There is a drive being advertised on television to ‘Stay sober for October’. So I am aiming to cut out wine this month. This is a goal. I love a glass or two of wine after a really busy day and am sure it is not helping. I sleep really well when I don’t have wine, but it is such an entrenched idea of a ‘reward’ for a hard day’s work.
Setting weight loss goal doesn’t really work for me because I always sabotage it, so I am taking things one day at a time.
I also want to hear more of what Dr Jason Fung has to say, because being well informed on sugar, insulin resistance, glucose etc. makes all the difference for me as well. I need to understand what is going on.
A brief recap of my history (not that it’s all that interesting). Good idea though, Fuvvie, we have been together a number of months now, so would be nice to know a little more about each other.
Born, grew up, studied art, philosophy, spent a year in the USA on a bursary, and married in South Africa. Had five children. My love affair with the UK started in my late twenties when I started coming here to study medieval art and heraldry, and found the BEST teacher ever for calligraphy and heraldry. Ended up working for the South African Bureau of Heraldry and loved it. Did all the National Orders on parchment, did some awards for big businesses and did some for Nelson Mandela, and then started building up international base of clients. I absolutely loved the work!
Lost my 16 year old son in an awful accident, my eldest daughter married an Englishman (lovely man!) in 1986, and from then on I regularly visited here, never ever expecting to one day live here. My wonderful husband died in 1995, and that’s when the weight started to creep on, and years and years later I was almost 30 kilos overweight. Retired in 2010, and with the whole of the rest of my family, managed to move to the UK. It was a massive change for all of us, for me it was a dream come true. So, that’s about it. This is a new chapter now, we have been here four years and I have just been looking after the family while they establish themselves in the workplace. I am looking forward to getting back to my art!
So very sorry for the long post! I didn’t realize it would be so long. Won’t happen again!

Oops extra post. Forgot to say NFD today.

UK day 1 UK Morning Fuvvie and all,signing in for the October challenge, I’ve lots of challenges this month my Mum is visiting for the week on Monday and the weekend after I have a spa weekend away but I’ve factored these in will have to fit the FDs around them .My starting weight is 10st 5 lbs and my goal is to be under 10 by Christmas so if I could lose 2lbs in October I’d be happy ,I do a lot of exercise so my October challenge is to improve upper body strength – back to the dreaded press ups – good luck all, great to see lots regulars ( I never thought when I signed on to Coda challenge back in May I’d still be here – thanks Coda ) and lots of newbies , looking forward to getting to know you all

Hi from Portugal.
NFD
Start weight 69.2 kg
October GW 66.7 kg
Long term GW 58kg

Exercise – 30 minutes 5 times/week (I love fitness blender) plus a few short walks
Finding it really hard to lose weight as in peri menopause and have underactive thyroid. Any tips very welcome.
Look forward to this month’s challenge. I am completely new to this forum but have tried 5:2 diet before but not for extended period.

UK Nottingham Day 1

Just a quick check in, NFD. I will post my starting stats later.

My goal is to lose anything. Having gone through 6 month of cancer treatment this year and I am now on tamoxifen which has weight gain as one of the common side of effects.

Good luck to everyone xx

Altnata,GA/Usa/NFD, Day 1:

I’m happy to be here in October with you all. It’s my birthday month so Im excited about 5:2! My goal is to loose 5-7 lbs. this month. I’m starting at 196 lbs and would like to get down to 190 lbs. I’m going to continue to work out 5 – 6 days a week as well. Im taking the weekend off from exercise do to a class that I’m taking Saturday and Sunday. I will begin back on Monday on my FD. Best wishes to you all!

Hi everyone newbies and old friends day 1 nfd uk

Starting weight 11.125 or 75.6 or 166.61 I don’t like putting a goal to achieve, tried it and it doesn’t work for me. I have listed my weight and listed it going down in small increments. When I achieve it I stick a date beside it. I also use the tracker on this site. Maybe some of the new members would consider taking a photo. This is for your eyes only but a record of where you are and in your minds eye you can see where you are going. Measurements are also good to write down cus at times when the scale is not playing ball you will have lost inches. Keep strong and keep focused.

Day 1! NFD.

Start weight: 142.5lbs
Goal: 135lbs

Feeling good and motivated. Lovely weather here in Ontario, Canada. Great day for a nature walk.

#gohard