5:2 diet

azureblue_2

If your weight loss is very slow and you are not doing a calorie check, may I recommend that you keep a count for a week or two. You will get a better idea of what is actually happening; better still, check on the many web calculators to find your total daily energy expenditure - TDEE - which will guide you to your personal daily calorie need e.g. 1500, eat a quarter of this on your fast day e.g. 375, and all on your feed days to get a good balance for your body.
Good luck :0)

1940sGal

Mr_helpful wrote: »

What you want to starve for the rest of your life. some people like food and are not fat. when you starve are you losing fat or anything else?
does your research say what happens when you stop the diet? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I love it when people give an opinion on something they have no clue about or have never tried it for themselves. They make it obvious they've never checked the facts and choose to completely ignore more than 140 pages of a thread where people have tried it and posted the results.

I can't recall seeing a single post where someone's said they feel like they're starving themselves.

As for myself, I've clearly lost fat on this diet. I got measured a month or so after I started and at that point had 39% body fat. The last time I got measured a couple of months ago I was at 29% body fat. So actually, yes, we are losing fat.

when I reach my goal weight I intend on doing 6:1 as I find 'fasting' very easy to do.

Next time Mr 'Helpful' try checking out the facts, you might look a lot less like an idiot then.

Lifes_Grand_Plan

Great pictures adouglasmhor, very inspiring to see and a picture really does say more than 1000 words looking at that.

Anyway thought I had posted this earlier but now can't find it so apologies if I have and i'm just being blind now....

A great recipe that my wife and I love - 350 calories per portion but to be honest we had smaller portions than suggested so probably even less. Very filling too. Hope it helps someone.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/96608/sweet-potato-spinach-and-lentil-dahl

zmikeo

Lifes_Grand_Plan wrote: »

A great recipe that my wife and I love - 350 calories per portion but to be honest we had smaller portions than suggested so probably even less. Very filling too. Hope it helps someone.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/96608/sweet-potato-spinach-and-lentil-dahl

I like the look of the recipe, but would be tempted to swap the sweet potato for butternut

Mojisola

Mr_helpful wrote: »

What you want to starve for the rest of your life.

It's a very strange world when someone thinks that eating less food on one or two days a week is the same as starvation!

spirit

1940sGal wrote: »

I love it when people give an opinion on something they have no clue about or have never tried it for themselves. They make it obvious they've never checked the facts and choose to completely ignore more than 140 pages of a thread where people have tried it and posted the results.

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We've had 2 such trolls this week.

crumblepie

adouglasmhor wrote: »

How much coffee do you drink? I have a tall soy cappuccino after the gym even on fast days and it's 90 calories odd - I just count it into my total, an ordinary coffee with milk is only about 30

Too much! Five or six mugs of coffee a day - with sugar that's why the guestimate of 150 cals a day.

I did go through a phase of counting the coffee calories, but it didn't give me enough food. One thing with this warm weather more I'm down to three or four mugs of coffee a day and drinking more water.

Must have been doing something right over the past week though as the scales have shifted down a couple of pounds which is more than they've moved in a long time.

Mr_helpful

1940sGal wrote: »

I love it when people give an opinion on something they have no clue about or have never tried it for themselves. They make it obvious they've never checked the facts and choose to completely ignore more than 140 pages of a thread where people have tried it and posted the results.

I can't recall seeing a single post where someone's said they feel like they're starving themselves.

As for myself, I've clearly lost fat on this diet. I got measured a month or so after I started and at that point had 39% body fat. The last time I got measured a couple of months ago I was at 29% body fat. So actually, yes, we are losing fat.

when I reach my goal weight I intend on doing 6:1 as I find 'fasting' very easy to do.

Next time Mr 'Helpful' try checking out the facts, you might look a lot less like an idiot then.

As gfor checking facts you might notice more posts claiming results on the weight watchers threads or the slimming world ones. fact with most established diets you lose weight for a time and then you tend to slow up. Some people then try harder and harder while others give up. A few posts back rosyq said she put on 2kg in a week on holiday. that is roughly equivalent in fat terms to eating twice your daily recommended amount of calories every day of her hols. I dont think so do you?
Food gives us 2 things calories and nutrients. Anyone spot the snag with this? most supermarket food by the time it gets to your gut has been stripped of nutrients or has corrupted proteins fats etc which the body can do nothing with apart from strip out some calories and save them. This means fasting will make things worse. If you want to burn fat try elevating your leptin response which you dont do by fasting.
You say when you get to target (more like if but never mind) yopu will go 6 to 1 so why not go sevven days eating slightly smaller portions. Could you explain why this wouldnt work.
As I said somewhere before are you losing fat or something else. Maybe you should check your facts about nutrition.

Mado

Mr_helpful wrote: »

As I said somewhere before are you losing fat or something else. Maybe you should check your facts about nutrition.

and maybe you want to take your baseless and unwanted opinions somewhere else?
You obviously know nothing about the metabolic changes hat occur with intermittent fasting, yet feel qualified to pontificate out of the subject.

We're a friendly bunch on this thread, but I'll make an exception for once and ask you politely to p1ss off unless you can contribute to the 5:2 diet.
Thanks in advance.:p

crumblepie

Even though I need to lose weight, oddly enough it wasn't that aspect of it which brought me to 5:2.

I watched the original horizon programme and it was the other benefits of having a short non eating window of 12/16/24 hours that appealed to me. I don't call it a fast because it's not, it a lowcal day, twice a week.

I also go onto another 5:2 forum which is immensly informative on the health benefits on top of the weight loss aspect.


www.52fastdiet.co.uk and have a look through the nerds section for more info.