5:2 diet

System

chase_the_ace wrote: »

Hi everyone,
Think this poster is a troll....so shall we just leave this person to it and carry on with positive and constructive comments...

so im a troll just because i don't agree with the diet...

Mado

berbastrike wrote: »

so im a troll just because i don't agree with the diet...

No; you are trolling this thread because you come in with preconceived ideas and no experience of the diet that it is a rubbish diet despite many of us having very postive experiences of the diet.

You are more than welcome to have and defend your opinion, but we like to substantiate opinions with facts; either scientific studies that have been conducted on the subject or personal experiences. If you can contribute neither, maybe it's time to move to another thread?

System

I never doubted that the diet works. But its not the right way to diet.

Mado

berbastrike wrote: »

I never doubted that the diet works. But its not the right way to diet.

The right way to diet is to have a diet that works slowly and steadily, and that people can follow for extended periods of time without feeling deprived. It appears to have the added advantage for some to somehow reset insulin resistance and other biochemical markers.
Hence this diet is the right way to diet for the contributors of this thread.
You don't have to approve of it, like it or follow it. But you don't either have any mandate to decry it.

zmikeo

Well anyway lets leave the side show and get on with the job in hand
week 21 for me and have plateaued for the last few weeks though hopefully it will start moving down again soon.
Pity I can't blame it on the fast food and chocolate that we scoff down as soon as we finish a fast;) as I don't .
I am doing what I should of done at the start and involving a bit more exercise.
So good fasting everyone :j

System

chase_the_ace wrote: »

Hi everyone,
..............shall we just leave this person to it and carry on with positive and constructive comments...

Good idea
Today I met a friend I hadn't seen for a while, she's looking seriously good, yes you've guessed it she's been following the fast diet since February. She's lost a stone, says she feels fitter and more alive and clear thinking. If I needed any more encouragement I'd get it from seeing her!
She's going to be my 5:2 buddy

ffacoffipawb

I started doing this after seeing it on Horizon last year. Though it is really a 6-1 diet at times, not a totally rigorous 5-2 and probably 1000 calories on a low cal day.

I was 13 stone 2 with a tight 34 inch waist.

I am now 11 stone 6 with a comfortable 32 inch waist. BMI is down to 23.5.

Want to go to 11 stone if I can. Not breaking my back doing it though, feel better than I have done for years.

Lil_Me_2

rosyq wrote: »

Good idea
Today I met a friend I hadn't seen for a while, she's looking seriously good, yes you've guessed it she's been following the fast diet since February. She's lost a stone, says she feels fitter and more alive and clear thinking. If I needed any more encouragement I'd get it from seeing her!
She's going to be my 5:2 buddy

It's always nice to find someone else who's doing the same diet! There are 3 others in my office doing the same, one who's doing it on and off and another who's planning to start soon but has been a little ill. It's nice to have support when the kitchen gets filled with cakes on a fast day. I've lost 10lb in 12 weeks. Slow and steady which is the best way.

cashbag

Been following the 5:2 since end of January & dropped from 13st 6lbs to 11st 12lbs as of yesterday. Had a blip in May when I put on 4lbs on holiday, but lost that again within 2 weeks of return. Never ever been able to stick to a diet regime before, but this is so painless & it gets results!

Everyone says I look good, I certainly feel good - clothes starting to hang off me & feel fitter & more energised. Certainly feel better than work colleagues who are on the "shakes" & "tablets" diets & forever craving cakes etc as they feel deprived. One of the people at work is paying £60 per month for diet tablets!!! And she still looks as big as a house! Someone brought a huge choccie cake into the office this week & I don't even fancy a crumb of it even though it has been sitting opposite me each day! Just does not appeal - although I am looking forward to my tasty veggie curry which will be my meal on bext FD tomorrow! Delish!! And on this diet I can even enjoy my Indian or Chinese Takeaway treat at the weekend.

Eventual aim is to get down to 10.5st - the last weight I was happy at some 20 years ago!

No-one should criticise others for finding something that suits them, but certainly the 5:2 seems to generate more positive feelings than any other diet. And it's FREE!

adouglasmhor

berbastrike wrote: »

you're the one who is being ignornat (the word is actually "ignorant")

[STRIKE]t[/STRIKE]The basal metabolic rate is at least 1000, you eat 500 on 2 days of the weekI don't I am a bloke, it wasn't designed for this What isn't?, or else the BMR would be 500!

You fail at mathematics as well as nutrition, to lose weight you need a shortfall in intake. You also get calories from stored reserves in your body; first the stored glycogen then by burning fat from your body you lose weight. . This is a reducing phase nothing else. Calories in < Calories out = weight loss; If you can’t grasp that basic concept you go beyond ignorant TBH.

Also BMR is not a fixed number as you seem to be misinformed, it varies by individual weight, gender and physiognomy. Mine is ca. 2000 Kcal daily.
Sorry for misspelling ignorant before, I will go and mark your spelling throughout the thread later if I have time.