Hello all 🙂

in short my data for your orientation: 52, pre-menopause-ish female, 172 cm, fasting since middle of November 2014, non-native English speaker (so mercy on me, please 😉 ).

I like to share my personal experience with weigh-ins and their vagueness. I have reached my goal of 63 kg (actually I was a bit below even with 62.1 kg) after one year. Started 2014 with 86 kg and insulin-aware food combining in August 2014 with 83,5 kg and switched to 5:2 | 4:3 in November 2014. Have been fasting since then and am still loving it.

Right now I am testing ADF (one day feast, next Water Fast, feast, WF) for three weeks (two weeks are almost over). Additionally I am drinking 3 liters of water every day (Sarah Smith inspired me; FYI: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2480491/How-drinking-litres-water-day-took-years-face.html).

Today the computer scale of the pharmacy’s said 63.6 kg. My new jeans size 27 says: “almost fitting”. So the “gain” can not be a “fat gain” really. When I bought the jeans via bidding platform I could not even close all buttons. Now I can. And the belly that was significantly overlapping is not that much anymore.

I like the way of “shrinking into a (reasonably seized) piece of clothing”. No matter what the scales say I see and feel whether I fit in. That gave me motivation and encouragement in the past year. And it still does.

First I had a lovely red skirt that did not fit when I bought it last year. Now it does. A few weeks ago I purchased that mentioned jeans that now is supposed to be my “goal wardrobe” and future maintenance guard.

A tv-reporter in my country tested the 3 liters a day cure. She had the same weight as before yet had lost fat and waist circumference at the same time.

Do you use clothes you love as a motivation? Do you flank weigh-ins with other methods of orientation to stay focused when the scales are “against you”?

Cheers and a happy day – feast or fast
Mahalo

Cinque,

that is nice, isn’t it 🙂 Wishing you an ongoing enjoyment.

I haven’t got scales at home either. Go to a pharmacy once or twice a month. They have a “print scale” there. And you have to put 50 cents in. So I can carry the result home and keep the “up and downs” documented.

I truly think weighing myself daily would not have gotten me where I am now. Guess it is different for every person, isn’t it. I’d have “worried” too much with all those ups and downs – up to 4 kg difference between single days sometimes 😎 Four?!

Do you have a “goal piece of clothing” that is going to fit you in the future? (If I may be so curious?)

Heya 🙂

I drink water with some organic lemon juice. 3 liters minimum. And I drink some coffee. Have done totally strict water days without anything but water yet returned to allowing myself coffee (with a little bit white in it).

I had done 5:2. Then 4:3. Then I read about what they call “10 in 2” (read one zero in two). Which is a way of alternating day fasting with feast/just liquid. Have done the latter for almost two months now and feel very good with it. I am not losing right now because I do not count calories or watch my “fat/carb/sugar”-intake at all. I really eat what I want.

Cool, the blood pressure went down that significantly! Wishing you a great and encouraging appointment with your GP. That is why I love fasting – the health impacts are so wonderful. I am 52 and feel like thirtysomething. Like I could go and pull out trees (it is a saying in Germany) which I won’t, of course, love trees where they are! 😎