5:2 diet

oaprut

Don't know if I'm weird (family would definitely agree!!) but I enjoy my 2 fast days. I have an underactive thyroid and although I'm on thyroxin if I don't watch my calorie intake I just balloon. Before I started this diet I ate healthly but very small portions - 25gms sugar free museli, homemade vegetable soup, 20gms cheese and a piece of fruit for lunch and about 150gms meat plus 2 portions of veg and maybe a couple of spoonfuls of rice/pasta. Anymore than this and I put on weight.
What I really like about this diet is, I can have a piece of cake or go out for a meal and not worry. I don't ever feel hungry but do feel 'odd' if I don't eat anything. My 500 calories is divided into 3 meals; approx 115-breakfast, 100-lunch, 250-dinner. I have always drunk a lot so that part is easy for me.
Good luck everyone, especially those finding it a bit hard to start with.

fuddle

Hi everyone. I have tried numerous times to fast in this diet. I am reading the book and have several real life advocates so it's something I really want to give a chance.

My sticking point is the hunger feelings. I feel awfully sick with hunger pangs. Can I ask, if I just stay determined and sit them out will they subside? I've read that once you complete a fast day it gets easier. Would you say that is correct?

Thanks

disneyangel_2

fuddle wrote: »

Hi everyone. I have tried numerous times to fast in this diet. I am reading the book and have several real life advocates so it's something I really want to give a chance.

My sticking point is the hunger feelings. I feel awfully sick with hunger pangs. Can I ask, if I just stay determined and sit them out will they subside? I've read that once you complete a fast day it gets easier. Would you say that is correct?

Thanks

My hubbie and I did this for a few months up to Christmas .Had a break of a few weeks for the festivities and then have restarted again in the new year. I find the first day hardest because your body has gotten used to your previous routine and the thing that worked to help me was to drink lots of water. I don't feel sick usually but do get a bit fuzzy or headachy if I don't drink a lot. Hope this can help you too.

fuddle

Thank you disneyangel. I think my body is scarred from morning sickness and thinks 'like heck, you're eating something woman!' That and hopeless willpower has me never achieving.

I've been reading about 16 hour fasting so trying that today, to try to get my body out of it's eat, eat, eat mentality. I'll eat nothing till noon. Monday I will have my first successful fast

Soups. I think I will live on soup that day. A couple of tins of soup with the calories on the tin already is easy and I don't have to worry about calorie counting or wrong choices until my brain is playing game too. Thank you

adouglasmhor

Daedalus wrote: »

Again, laws of thermodynamics, tried and tested science trump anyone's anecdotal evidence everyday of the week.

Medication can slow down one's metabolism. But it does not change the fundamentals of a calorie. If your metabolism is halved by medication, from 2000 to 1000 calories a day, if you eat 1000 calories you CAN NOT gain weight (excluding water weight).

Medication can also trick one's brain into whether one is full or not. Again, the fundamentals of a calorie is not changed, if you don't put a single calorie above that which your body burns you will not gain weight.

You can swear until you are blue in the face that 'I ate hardly anything and gained a stone', but you can't expect us to forget science and take your word for it.

I never said you could or should, but your gross oversimplification is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike, it doesn't help anyone find out what they should eat, how much of it they should eat and gives credence to the ignorant bullies who think everyone who is over weight or fat spend all day on the sofa stuffing Gregg’s pasties and 3 litre bottles of cola down their gullets. My metabolism, activity and weight allows me on average to eat between 2600 and 2950 Calories a day and maintain my weight, I am on 2,270 - 2,620 to reduce. Someone else my weight may find they are on a much lower input level and a full time sportsman or athlete could find themselves on much more.

Tell me how an ordinary person can calculate their metabolic rate as effected by medication? Also how can someone overcome the drive to eat when their blood sugar or appetite is all over the place due to medication? If you do not have serious workable answers maybe you you will to address the possibility you are a bit of judgemental bully who gets off on trying to feel superior to people for things they find very difficult to address. Must make you feel great.

Edited to add - if you are going to pretend to know anything about science a dietary Calorie is capitalised or written kcal, a scientific calorie is one thousandth of a dietary one and is uncapitalised.

azureblue_2

After a month of 5:2 I am pleased to report a weight loss of 8lbs. Delighted.

alwaysbrassic

Daedalus wrote: »

I am not sure what you mean. I don't tend to have a trouble sleeping after a day's fast. I do think it is important to have a good nights sleep if you are going to fast, especially if you have work. The days I have slept well have been much easier then the days I haven't.

The day of my fast I lay in bed for hours trying to get to sleep! Not sure if its the rumbly tummy or something else! Any other day I sleep
Like a baby!

elizabunny

azureblue wrote: »

After a month of 5:2 I am pleased to report a weight loss of 8lbs. Delighted.

:T Well done that is brilliant!

elizabunny

Today is weigh in day after one week on the 5:2 diet:j
We have the proper scales which calculate, body fat, water and muscle as well. So here are the results for me and my DH.

DH Weight down:j 3.8lbs, Body fat down 0.8%, Body water up 0.6%, Body muscle up 0.3%. All in all excellent results! He does not have a sedentary occupation and walks for about 2 hours on top of this per week.

Now to me. I am recovering from an injury so fairly sedentary at the moment -hopefully to improve soon:)

My weight down :j 2.8lbs, Body fat down 0.1%, Body water up 0.1%, Body muscle the same. Again, I think an excellent result given that I am not moving around too much at the moment.

I found the body mass results very interesting and am really looking forward to my next Fast Day on Monday, hopefully combined with a little more mobility, I can achieve similar results next week:)

Good Luck to today's fasters:T

Sues48

elizabunny wrote: »

Today is weigh in day after one week on the 5:2 diet:j
We have the proper scales which calculate, body fat, water and muscle as well. So here are the results for me and my DH.

DH Weight down:j 3.8lbs, Body fat down 0.8%, Body water up 0.6%, Body muscle up 0.3%. All in all excellent results! He does not have a sedentary occupation and walks for about 2 hours on top of this per week.

Now to me. I am recovering from an injury so fairly sedentary at the moment -hopefully to improve soon:)

My weight down :j 2.8lbs, Body fat down 0.1%, Body water up 0.1%, Body muscle the same. Again, I think an excellent result given that I am not moving around too much at the moment.

I found the body mass results very interesting and am really looking forward to my next Fast Day on Monday, hopefully combined with a little more mobility, I can achieve similar results next week:)

Good Luck to today's fasters:T

Well done, to both you and your DH. My weigh in is tomorrow, not expecting any great losses as yesterday I took my mum out to a local garden centr and ended up going for tea and a rather large piece of coffee and walnut cake, and then this morning my son had made danish pastries from scratch, they were yummy and I some how found my self eating three, eeek! The sun is shing here today so I'm going for a long walk later to try and undo some of the damage;)