5:2 diet

Mamjak

Didn't have such good week last week at the fasting although as I am generally improving my diet and keeping eye on calories I still lost 2 lb. This was because we had to stay away at my in laws and just had too much going on to manage fasting on thursday. Ended up have MaccyD's on journey down - ridiculous amount of calories and made me a bit bunged up all weekend so will definitely avoid in future.

So back to it again this week and fast day today. Had my usual cup of tea first thing and then drunk water or herbal teas rest of day. Had Apple for breakfast, 2 bits of toast with tiny spread of butter for lunch and lovely bowl of my homemade Butternut Squash soup for dinner, which I was very pleased to discover was only 90 cals per portion.

Have any of you found it more difficult to control eating with all this snow around?!?

azureblue_2

I've found by 5 o'clock I really need to eat and, having started with dinner, it is hard to stop. The cold certainly makes my brain say "Feed me now!" and blue hands and feet are not a good look.

Obesecow

I started yesterday by doing a fast day and weighed myself for the first time in over a year. Yes, it was a shock. One and a half stone heavier than my ever heaviest during times when I use to weigh myself so not good at all. I thought not weighing myself would help me not focus on food so much and help me lose weight but I have realised that this does not work at all!

So all in all I've got 3 and a half stone to lose. :eek:

I'm hoping I'll have achieved my goal by August.

I'm using My Fitness Pal on my iPad at the same time to spur me on and keep track of what I eat on my non fasting days.

How many calories is everyone else allowing themselves on a non fasting day?

azureblue_2

I'm aiming for 1500ish having checked my BMR on the web. Best of luck Obesecow, so many in the same boat.

teaandcakeordeath

I've just read the fast diet book after watching the horizon programme. I was wondering if there's anyone on here who does the diet like the programme/ book details- as in calorie restrict on your 2 fast days but just eat as you normally would any other days?

I worry that if I calorie restrict on all of the days I won't stick to it at all (either that or I'll become a calorie counting menace which isn't what I want to do either) but was wondering if anyone is experiencing the benefits from doing as Michael Mosley said to? Thanks.

fatboyonadiet

Obesecow wrote: »

I started yesterday by doing a fast day and weighed myself for the first time in over a year. Yes, it was a shock. One and a half stone heavier than my ever heaviest during times when I use to weigh myself so not good at all. I thought not weighing myself would help me not focus on food so much and help me lose weight but I have realised that this does not work at all!

So all in all I've got 3 and a half stone to lose. :eek:

I'm hoping I'll have achieved my goal by August.

I'm using My Fitness Pal on my iPad at the same time to spur me on and keep track of what I eat on my non fasting days.

How many calories is everyone else allowing themselves on a non fasting day?

When I started I was limiting myself to 1500 and using myfitnesspal to keep track which I found really useful.

I managed to lose 10kg over 3 months but now dont count the calories on my nonfast days and still losing 1lb a week.

Obesecow

Thanks for your replies. I've had 1200 cals today and am starving. I don't know how I'm going to fast successfully tomorrow all day until tea time if I'm hungry now. I'm female so am thinking that I should be having 1200 on my non fast days.

Perhaps my stomach will shrink and I'll get use to it. I found it easier fasting yesterday than I am finding it today on a food day. It's probably just a case of mind over matter.

azureblue_2

Obesecow wrote: »

Thanks for your replies. I've had 1200 cals today and am starving. I don't know how I'm going to fast successfully tomorrow all day until tea time if I'm hungry now. I'm female so am thinking that I should be having 1200 on my non fast days.

Perhaps that may be being a bit too hard on yourself to start off. May I suggest 1700 on non-fast for the first week, taking it down to 1650 next week, 1600 the next. Please check your BMR and BMI online too for best health.

tyllwyd

I would have thought that 1200 calories on a non-fast day wasn't enough - that's a dieting level of calories, but the point of the 5:2 diet is that you fast on two days and eat normally on the others, which would be more like 2000 calories.

Jei70

Well, I am female (and tall), and online calculators say I should eat around 1800 kcals per day if I want to lose weight (I burn 2200). The figure of 1200 kcals sounds abnormally low.

The whole point of the Fast Diet is to deprive yourself only twice a week, and eat normally on the other days. Normally and reasonably healthy, i.e. not binging, but not depriving yourself of nutrition either. (There are other versions of the Fast Diet: 4:3, 8-hour eating window or the alternate day fast, but they all involve regular periods of no deprivation as well.)