5:2 diet

daska

It's only fresh nuts that have those high levels isn't it? The older they are and the longer they've been out of the shell the more chance it was a problem with mycotoxin/s from mould.

pineapple

daska wrote: »

It's only fresh nuts that have those high levels isn't it? The older they are and the longer they've been out of the shell the more chance it was a problem with mycotoxin/s from mould.

Well that's more reassuring (I think). Whatever it was it laid me out with a hot water bottle clamped to my chest. That's when I wasn't on the loo. It was like 'flu meets food poisoning'

ThriftyFelicity

Prudent wrote: »

I am on my second fast day today. I want to do it at the weekend as it is my first week back at work after the holidays and work will be manic.

Is anyone combining this with a vegetarian diet? I am not actually vegetarian, but both OH and dd are so it is easier for me to eat a mainly vegetarian diet. I really like fish though so I do eat a fair bit of fish when they are not here. I am engaged and we are slowly renovating OH's house for sale. It is getting to the satge of renovations that he will need to move in with me. It would be easier to be totally vegetarian when he is here.

I just started eating the 5:2 way, had one low-cal day (Thurs) and I'm vegan.

I had coffee w/ choc oatmilk at breakfast, carrot and beetroot salad at lunch and then for tea made a big pot of hot & sour soup (whole pot was around 500 cal, so 250 for the half that I had).

Not eating any more than usual on the "regular eating" days (probably less, actually).

Will probably have either big salads or soup on low-cal days. Can post my low-cal menus here if it would help...

KxMx

Thanks everyone for the advice, but as i've said before my health issues are complex (no-one has a clue as to what it is and standard treatments based around my issues haven't worked) so no point at this stage seeking medical advice or supervision.

However as i've said I need to lose weight, and if in 3 months there has been no significant loss I will see a dietician because that will be the last resort and i'd have failed on my own. As long as the dietician understands I am only going to them because I cannot follow the traditional path of exercise and eating the healthiest options on everything. And I don't expect by then for my problems to have been diagnosed either. After 6 years sometimes I think the best chance of figuring things out would be an autopsy, honest

You'll have to excuse the self-pity, but the highly anticipated London referral looks as though it will be a waste of time. They said my symptoms didn't sound like what they deal with (fine- not like I haven't heard that before) but are doing the tests. I thought if it was a dead end they would have some good suggestion as to where I go next., the super specialist community being small and interwoven I imagine. Outside their remit they mentioned a few possible conditions/causes, which were pure cop-out answers, things which the drs who know me have never mentioned, and for a good reason! I am also having to change Consultant at my local Hospital and adding the dismissive attitude from London makes me fear i'm not going to be taken seriously. Because if all else fails they can always tell me it's in my head- heard that one before too!

I will have another appointment to get my results, so I can tell them what a load of rubbish their suggestions were.

Brighton_belle

ThriftyFelicity wrote: »

Will probably have either big salads or soup on low-cal days. Can post my low-cal menus here if it would help...

Yes, I'd find it helpful thanks.

KxMx - nothing helpful to add, just want to acknowledge the very diifult position you are in with your health and how tough it can be that no one can get to the bottom of it:(. I hope another 3 months sees some shift in weight for you not only for the need to lose weight, but so you feel you have at least sussed something about your condition.

MrPearlyWhite

thnx lizzie I tried out the calorie counter very useful

ThriftyFelicity

Here is today's 500-calorie menu. Coffee with almond milk for breakfast (I use stevia to sweeten, no calories), salad for lunch and soup for tea. Plus green tea/herbal tea as required to fight any hunger pangs!

Almond Breeze - 150ml (for coffee) - 21 cal

Chopped salad - 172 cal
100g tomatoes - 21 cal
100g red peppers - 31
100g cucumber - 15
20g onion - 8
60g chickpeas - 72
15g olives - 25
salt

I find that if I chop the ingredients fairly small and include something strongly flavoured (in this case, olives), and use salt, I don't need salad dressing.


Lentil & chickpea soup - 239 cal
34g onion - 13
1/2 clove garlic - 2
100g tomatoes - 21
1/2 tsp chilli powder - 4
250ml veg bouillon - 17
1.5 Tbs red lentils - 63
100g chickpeas - 119

This will be my first time making soup like this without oil. I'll make double the recipe so there's enough for DH as well.


Strawberries - 100g - 32 cal

Raspberries - 70g - 36 cal

TOTAL: 500 calories

pineapple

I've gone off the 5:2 temporarily to try alternate day fasting and I must say I find it a lot harder. No not because I get hungry but because after a 500 calorie day I have to 'ramp up' to normal eating and the following day is still quite low. But then I'm immediately back to 500, then... It's doing my head in and I'm probably in danger of not eating enough in total.
I don't think the alternate regime works for me .

Brighton_belle

Many thanks thrifty. Very helpful to me.

sammyjammy

On the salad front I can thoroughly recommend English Provender Honey & Mustard 2% fat dressing is lovely and only 22 cals for 20g which is loads on a massive salad (I have 50g of feta for 85 cals -yummy:D)

My first fasting day at work which I thought would be hard but was Eeeeeasy and only had 448 calories.

Only baddy is I had 3 cans of diet coke.