I’d really like to be a size 14 for a wedding I’m going to in July.

Am at a tricky stage whereby the initial excitement of a new plan has worn off, yet I’m not seeing any amazing results as yet. Need a bit of a boost!

Hi – Would love to join. I am plugging away but losing a bit of motivation having stayed the same for 2 weeks. I would like to lose another 7lbs by June/July just so I feel better in my summer clothes and can perhaps (perhaps!) brave a bikini! I have lost 8lbs so far since beginning of January.

Thanks Mogs, I’ll bear that in mind.
I forgot to say that my summer goal is to loose 2stone before my holidays in August. Seems like a daunting task right now but I’m up for it.
Al

Hey guys! I’ll join you on this – I am new to fasting. Have tried a few times before but always lose heart and give up. This is the first time I’ve joined a weight loss forum and I’m hoping it will keep me accountable and encourage me to keep going! I’m always starting diets and giving up after losing half a stone or so… This time I’m aiming to lose around a stone by August (which is when I go on holiday).

Fast days are Monday and Thursday – weighed myself this morning and I’m 142lbs. Planning on weighing myself once a week on a Monday and if I have lost a pound I am going to buy myself a little beauty treat as a sort of incentive to keep going!

Just had my dinner and the post food elation has worn off – please tell me it gets easier?!

Hi all, I am 47 and started the fast diet last August. Starting weight was 13 st 8 lbs, I am now 12 st 5 lbs. I would like to get down to 11 st by the school summer holidays which is around 20th July here.

hi all
I’d love to join.
I’ve just started this week, and been a bit up and down. taken me to start it to realise how much I do actually eat.
but – nothing ventured nothing gained, so I’m going to do this properly.
my goal for july2nd (our scottish summer hols here) is to lose 2 and a half stone. I have more than that to lose, but if I can lose that I will feel on top of the world.

all your info on how much weight you’ve already lost cheers me on, so – here goes – my fast day is tomorrow !! 🙂
x

Hi, I started in January, hoping to reach goal by Christmas, maybe even this Christmas!!!! So hoping to be halfway there by the summer.

Planning a driving holiday from Edinburgh to Rome, meandering through France, we have a wee red two seater sports car, and it would be lovely to have the roof down without having to put it back up every few miles.

Ideally I would love to be thiiiin, and not stand out among the very skinny french, and wear pretty clothes.

But frankly if I could be thin enough to fit comfortably in the bloody car I would be a happy bunny!!!!!

Nobody is up in my house yet but had to share……
Today I have an important visitor at work so wanted to look uber smart. Am thrilled to be able to wear a dress I bought 2 years ago and havent been able to wear as its very clingy and today I dont look like a pound of oranges stuffed into a pair of tights so was feeling a little smug twirling infront of the mirror. I then put on my jacket – also brand new before Christmas, never worn and it swamps me! It looks ridiculous! So i thought right try on the other jacket, the one thats a size too small and it fits!!!!!!!!
So excited and fresh motivation to keep going.
Hope you all have a good day, its a manic fast day for me and wont sit down till 9.30 ish tonight so hoping it shows on the scales next week :o)

Hi all please can I join? Am 50 , have an arthritic hip so think if I can shed some bulk, it has got to help!!! Really looking forward to summer but not looking forward to not fitting into lovely summer clothes. Would love to lose a stone by Aug but probably 10 lbs is more realistic. Have reached a plateau for the past few months and nothing seems to be shifting. Am going to try to follow some recipes from 5 . 2 diet book. Good luck everyone.

Anyone who’s been IFing for a while now, do you find your weight/fat loss stalls if your fasting days are too close together, or too far apart? I can’t work out if a Monday-Wednesday pattern or a Monday-Thursday pattern would be better, or if it doesn’t matter.

MAC2015, I’m like that with goals – it works out better for me (in terms of not going doo-lally) if I just keep plodding on and see where it gets me rather than keeping my eyes on the prize the whole time. Reason being, if I ever have an off-week where I don’t seem to lose much it sends me into a right downward spiral for days. In a way, I suppose, my “goal” is to be more accepting of the ups-and-downs and take 5:2 on as a way of life, not just a diet.

(in small quiet voice…still want to be a size 12 though…)

yes, I just want to look better in summer clothes. I find that during this cold weather i just want to eat, eat, eat. any one else have that problem??? I fall off the wagon once (or twice) in a while but keep on keepin’ on towards summer.

A bit more from me . . .

Just read your post meggiemae. Well done for venturing!

It sounds like you’re going through what I (and others?) did in the early stages ie a learning process of how much less food we need, compared with what we habitually eat. I’m finding that, gradually, eating less becomes a more comfortable, enjoyable habit (with the odd detour of course!)

I really hope you won’t take the following as me being discouraging but please be aware that the average weight loss works out at about 1lb a week. That could help you work out your likely weight loss between now and 2nd July. Many people lose more in the first month but it then, on average, evens out to 1lb/week. I would hate you to unwittingly set yourself up to fail. You can read more on this thread:
thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/fast-diet-tracker-great-results/

I hope you had a good first fast day today
Bootsy x

It’s sunny today and I saw a daffodil, therefore it is SPRING (even though the temperature is arctic but ignore that).

This means summer dresses adorned with bingo wings and chub-rub are looming. To not look like so much sausage meat squeezed into a flowery tube is not so much a goal as a desperate hope, but it’s effective motivation nonetheless!

Would also like my waist to be half my height, but I calculate that means I should be about 7 foot 8. Have I misunderstood? 😉

Charliebear, have you tried Bravissimo or Brastop for -ahem- more accommodating bikini tops? They do proper sizes, but I find Bravissimo are a bit pricey.

Hey Charliebear – I’ve found that even though when I measure my bust and underbust the measurements haven’t changed, my bras are definitely a bit roomier than they were. I must be losing something from somewhere! Don’t want to spend much on posh lingerie while I’m still doing 5:2 for weight loss, because as you say, when your weight isn’t settled it means you’re spending on something that might not fit in a month or two.

I dream of the day I can go into a high street store and buy a “normal” bra!

I’m new to the site, and have been following the 5:2 plan for three weeks now.

I’m 49, male, and have found my weight creeping up every winter for the past few years. Part of the problem is that I almost got to my old goal weight a few times, but then went on extended vacations where there was just too much eating involved. I find that if I eat too much for a couple of weeks, I tend to keep doing it.

Anyway, this time I decided to go with the 5:2 plan. I started at 175lbs and weighed in at 168 this morning. My goal is to lose 1.5lbs/week until I get to my goal weight of 138lbs. Why 138? I’m an avid recreational cyclist, and that’s my recommended race weight.

I got down to 152 last summer, and I noticed that it made a huge difference to my cycling. Those 35mph sprints were doable, and I just had much more energy overall.

This year’s vacation will be in a mountainous area, and 7000 ft above sea level, so I want to be in the best shape possible before I get there.

Apart from cycling, I go to the gym when the weather sucks (a lot, this winter) and do HIT workouts on the Stairmaster (the escalator-style one) and a Marpo Kinetics rope machine.

I find that I have much less of an appetite after being at the gym, so my fast days are the two days of the week that I usually can’t do much due to schedule conflicts (Monday and Thursday). This has really helped with weight loss, and I still eat pretty much what I always do on the other five days of the week.

The fast days are not bad now that I’ve figured out when to eat. Being an early riser, I have found that eating 300 cals at 7am and 300 at noon works best for me. I can ignore the hunger pangs after that! I feel cold on fast days, but with the winter we’re having (another 8″ of snow today), that’s not surprising. I expect it’ll be easier once it warms up a bit.

It’ll be interesting to follow people’s progress here. Good luck to all, and remember, it’s all calories in vs calories out. Stick to it, and it’ll work for you!

Hi all,

Really like this thread. 🙂 I’ve been doing 5-2 since early January. while I originally thought easier to fast during the work week I now feel one of the weekend days can be good. On the weekend I get up later. Exercise and am pretty busy all day. I save up the calories to eat dinner with the family and isn’t so bad. Seems more difficult when I have work lunches…it’s tough for me to use up the calories at lunch and get nothing later. Have noticed I tend to be most hungry from about 3 to 5 pm but then passes…eggwhite omelettes with lots of veggies and some cheese and salsa make a good dinner. 🙂

Hello there, I hope you don’t mind me joining in this thread. I love reading how everyone is getting on, all the ups and downs (especially the downs in weight!), its really inspiring.

My target is 1 st by May 31st when I go on holiday. It is our 20th wedding anniversary and this is a second honeymoon. I would really like to feel more confident when I go, able to wear all the lovely summer clothes I have in my wardrobe. So I am currently 12 st 10, and I am aiming to be below 11 st 10 in 11 weeks. It’s going to be a lot of work, but worth it when I wear the lovely dress I bought last summer for a wedding but didn’t quite manage to slip down into. I will wear that dress this summer.

Got the first 20lbs off, decided 20lbs for my summer pledge between now and 22 June, holiday starts around then, hopefully enough to fit in the car comfortably, so pretty much on course with you Dragon Fly.

Hope today is the start of a good week for all!

Afternoon all!

I haven’t been on for a few days but I’ve just spent some time catching up on what’s been happening.

Charlie bear – I hope you’re feeling better?

Mogs – your posts do make me laugh. I dread the summer, in some respects. I’ve not worn a t-shirt in public for years and would love to get rid of my bingo wings! I’m there, secretly boiling but always answering “no I’m fine” when people ask “aren’t you hot in that?” :-/

Hello to everyone else 🙂

As for me, my fast days are Mondays and Thursdays and I feel like I’ve had a bit of an epiphany. I’ve always been an all or nothing type, but on this plan, I’m able to accept that I don’t have to be “good” 100% of the time. Life happens, and if I want to eat a bit more one day then I can easily adjust the next day. There are no hard and fast rules for me to break, or points to go over. Therefore I can’t “blow it” and therefore the downward spiral doesn’t get triggered. I know this is common sense to most people but to me it’s a real turning point and it makes me very optimistic about the future!

Good luck everyone, I hope you all have a positive week x

Can I join in? Last weeks double digit snow storm totally blew me off track and I didn’t do my wednesday fast and went nutso with comfort food. Keep your fingers and toes crossed that the weather they see for this weekend is rain not snow (forecasters are fighting over that one). The sky is almost blue today and the sun is melting the snow yay! So feeling optimistic again. ….

My goal for the summer is to lose enough to not have chafing and heat rash….

Woo hoo in fact double woo hoo
Firstly I am starting to feel better and my voice is returning :o)

Secondly 2.5lbs off! So thats 18 in total so far for me *dances round the room *

Hope everyone else is doing well x