Good luck. You can do this. Remember that you will eat pretty much as normal tomorrow and you won’t keel over with hunger today.

Hunger comes in waves and waiting it out works for me. I like drinking tea and lots of water.

Hello everybody, newbie here, really want to join you but need some detailed explanation on how to do HIT and strength exercises. How many repetitions and for how long do I need to do them please?

Many thanks and good luck to all 🙂

If I eat at 7pm last meal on non fast day, and than next non fast meal have at 7pm next day, does that count as fast day? Technically I will have 24 fast window.

I usually do not eat on fast day, only 500 at dinner time. But since we have to fast 3 days, I though I would do that on 3rd day, but now Im not allowed;) so will need to brave it;) or do 2 fast days in one go just to get it over with haha;) will write how it went Saturday after checking weight!

Thanks detoxmanic!!!! Saved my friday evening;) that’s what I though I read, just wasnt sure. It is easierfor me just not to eat at all for 36h, not count calories etc.
that’s how im going to do my fast friday not eat ar all and than have healthy dinner in the evening. I just dont want to bit myself up over peanuts while im watching movie with kids, or slice if cheese that I add to rosted veggies;) apologies to anyone fasting today;)

Hello All,

I have decided to play around with my Fast Diet methods as I was a tad stuck and doing some of the Beach ideas already.

This week I am doing 24hour fasts (from 7pm-7pm) on a Fast Day x 3. Then, from fast day meal 7pm to 1pm on a feast day x 4.

I eat all 500 cals on a fast day and two meals (12-1500 cals daily total) on a feast day. I weigh in on Saturday and hope the shake up show a loss:)

The forum info is a fab crutch! Xx

Thank you detoxmanic, I’ve done my first HIT session this afternoon, chose to run the stairs, managed to do 4 30sec runs with about 30 sec rest in between. I was very surprised at how much of a workout it was considering the little time it took. Really enjoyed it!

I’m in – just got my book yesterday and starting today. Will be good to do this with others. 🙂 Have been doing 5:2 since August and love it. Need to start HIT but having trouble just doing it.

I am losing weight quite quickly with 4:3 as well – 2.8 last week and 2.3 lbs this week. I limit the calories on the non fast days — for most of them. I may not need to.

I am only 2.8 lbs away from my goal.

Last July (I was 78) I started a variation of the 5- 2 fast Diet. I am a wee bit of an extremist and even 4 – 3 wasn’t exciting enough for me. My son swears I twisted Mike Mosley instructions completely on their head and went for a 2 – 5 diet. Well I may have done now and then but what spurred me on was the rate I lost weight. From being around 13 stone in July – I’m now slightly under 10 stone and I feel 20 years younger. Now I don’t actually think the extremism was very important; more to the point was my ‘normal diet’. I did my best to cut out sugar and that’s not easy because so many manufactured foods contain an alarming amount of sugar. I recommend to all a great American called Lustig who has made several long videos all on u-tube explaining how the food industry cons us time and time again and just how dangerous sugar is. I live alone which means I can control my shopping and not have anything on the refrigerator shelves that will break my resolve. Don’t I sound perfect? Well perhaps not. I actually bought 12 small ice creams from Lidl’s with the idea that I would have one a day. It didn’t work out like that. I finished them off within three hours. So barring accidents on/off eating works a treat.

Hi Beach Fasters,
I am starting on Monday, any tips?
I have been on 5:2 since January but I have had success with losing 2 lbs per week as I am very strict non carb dieter and very active. I run my own thread here on losing 2 lb per week as I see this as a realistic goal for me. I have just under 5 stone to lose, three stone down in the last 7 months. I will record results weekly on Mondays. Looking forward to seeing how you all get on with this plan.
Good Luck all

Woohoo! Received the book in the mail today. Order was placed May 8 – 2 weeks and 2 days ago. Not too bad for delivery to the U.S.

Now that I have been doing this for 2 weeks, let me see what I ought to do differently.

Hey everybody! Just wanted to let you in on my progress. Since I started May 10th (and 90 kg), I’ve lost 4 kg, and I’m super excited. It’s by far the easiest way to loose weight I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve started to look forward to my fast days. I usually have all my calories (or a bit less) for dinner and I drink lots and lots of herbal teas throughout the day. I feel so much better for doing this, and I’m never looking back. 🙂 Only 20 kg to go! Yay!

Chapter 4 of the Fast Beach Diet book is worth the price of the entire book – just what I needed to read to motivate myself to comply with the recommendation to eat well on the non fast days. I have the fast days down pat. It is the other days days where I tend to exhibit hedonistic eating behaviors. This advice may help me get a handle on those days.

Hi Beach Fasters,
I have read the book and decided to switch to ‘non food fasts’ 2 pm to 2 pm. I will do this Wednesday/Thursday and Friday/Sat. Looking forward to this long fast. Usually stick to three meals on my current 5:2.
I have also added Hit using the stairs of my flat. I do this for 30 seconds only, two rounds on non fast days. Made me breathless and hurts my hip joints so I am taking it gently.
I gave up alcohol for new year and diet and am seriously considering becoming tea total permantly. I do socialise a lot with drinking friends but haven’t found it isn’t a problem and at the end of the day it’s just liquid sugar which damages your liver.
Well done to those of you who have lost weight.
I hope to report success next week, I will commit for six weeks, here goes.

I ordered my book the first day it was out and it took 2 weeks and 2 days to arrive in Texas.

Here is the text of 2-to-2 from page 37 and 38 (excuse the typos):

“Some fasters get quite exercised about the precise timing of a fast. Michael and I are not overly prescriptive on this point: our aim is to present a flexible plan that can be adapted to suit your own particular lifestyle and daily agenda. That said, it’s clear that you can experiment with timing in order to maximize the effectiveness of a fast. Your may, for instance, choose to fast, not from bedtime to bedtime, but from 2 pm until 2 pm, with reduced calories (or no calories) consume at all during that 24-hour period. This is the method proposed by Canadian Brad Pilon in his seminal e-book, Eat Stop Eat (if you haven’t read it, I urge you to, particularly if you are interested in fitness and muscle mass.)

If you choose to try the 2-to-2, here’s how to go go about it: After a normal lunch on Day 1, eat sparingly (or, if you follow Pilin’s approach, nothing at all) until a late lunch the following day. That way, you fast as you sleep and no single day feels uncomfortably deprived of food. It’s a clever trick, but it does require a modicum more concentration and commitment than the expressly straight forward whole-day option with its 500-600 calorie allowance. You might also choose to fast from supper to supper, which again means that no day is All Fast and No Fun. The point is that this plan is ‘adjust to fit.’ During the Fast Beach diet, you may want to try 2-to-2 full 24 hour fast to discover whether it is a good method for you. Stay playful, stay alert. Remember, you are in the driving seat, your foot poised delicately on the gas: if it feels, wrong, pull over and revert to your usual 5:2 approach.”

I’m doing the 6/7pm to 6/7pm the next day with no calories – Monday, Weds, Fri are my 500cal days. So for example, I eat 1200cals on Sunday with last meal 6pm. I then wait until 6pm on Monday for my 500cals. I have a ‘cheat day’ as recommended by an earlier post with a YouTube link on a Saturday even while doing the Beach Diet and usually end consuming 1500-1800 cals because I eat out & have alcohol. It’s working well as I’m into my 2nd wk and lost 3lb in wk one.
The Saturday ‘cheat’ is much more rewarding when you are dressed up to go out in smaller clothing:)

Started The Fast Diet Jan 12th and to date have lost 38.5lbs. MyFitnessApp has been a huge crutch. And now the Beach is helping me shake things up to move my loss in the right direction:):):)
We can all do this and must stay strong – slender-arm hugs to you all xx