Today was my fast day. I work outside all day in 23 degrees F. I am a horse trainer, so after years of experience I own all of the proper equipment and know how to dress for it. I was freezing today and started shivering something horrible. I even had hand warmers in my gloves. I’ve decided to not do a fast day if the temperatures are below 36 degrees F. I just can’t effectively and safely do my job. My fasting days are Monday & Thursday. I went in for a DXA scan this summer to truly know my body fat % and to quit making excuses for my weight I started tracking my calories, even on heavy eating days. There were days I was at 3600 calories. Surprisingly my DXA scan showed I had 28.6% body fat at 152.5 pounds for 68″ tall. My goal is to obtain 15.5% body fat and then see if that’s something I can maintain, this the reason I’m adopting a lifestyle change. I have been vegan since 2011, but if was not until 2015 that I found WFPNO (Whole Foods Plant Based No Oil) which has greatly reduced my inflammation in my joints. Now that I’m doing 5:2 I almost have no pain, which is really great for my very physical job.

I was stuck for a while losing weight prior to 5:2 and it was because of how much wine I was drinking every night. I’ve given-up wine since starting on 11/19, am carefully accounting for every calorie that goes in my mouth and went from 149.8 to 142.6 in 3-weeks. I’m happy. Mainly because I’m more in-tune with actual hunger and have stopped the cycle of stress eating at night.

I’m currently eating 1800 calories a day on non-fast, then 700 on fast days in one meal at night. I’ll cut the calories to 1500 and 500 when I get to 135 lbs when I’m going in to determine my body fat using the DXA scan. My goal is 15.5% so based off of my first scan assuming I’m not losing muscle (or gaining muscle) I’ll be there at 129 lbs. I really like how I feel on fasting days, so will keep-up 5:2. It motivates me to not indulge and not drink and then realize how great I feel eating well so I keep it up on the other 5-days. I suspect since my husband owns a pub, I’ll probably drink on Saturday nights when I achieve my goal weight.

Please share the documentation as to why you have doubts about the technique? It figured out exactly how much I weighed and there is no scale. You don’t even know where I had it done so why are you doubting the calibration?

I did state my figures so not understanding why you restated them?