5:2 diet

fatboyonadiet

oopsadaisydoddle wrote: »

I'm just watching the Horizon programme..am very intrigued. Do people find they 'look' better by doing this? By this I mean skin, hair etc? I have terrible dark circles under my eyes and get hormonal acne...just wondered if anybody found things like this improved?

I feel much better - not sure about looking better, I was pretty near to perfection anyway before so difficult to improve on that!

Agree with leamingtonspaceman, feel like I have more energy and less IBS problems.

GillE_2

fatboyonadiet wrote: »

Agree with leamingtonspaceman, feel like I have more energy and less IBS problems.

I've noticed similar benefits, especially with regard to my chronic and often debilitating IBS. My husband suffers from arthritis and claims that his pain has diminished since we began the 5:2 diet. It's difficult to know if there's a placebo effect at work here but I don't care - even placebos can have a genuine impact in that they make you feel better .

adouglasmhor

I admit since I started this I have forgotten on more than one occasion to take my lansoprazole with no obvious ill effect, whereas before y stomach would be sore within 24 hours.

pearl123

It only the first week and I've done my two first fast days. I had a normal days food today and I feel absolutely stuff full. It's made me realise how much I overeat usually. Strangly, I felt like I had more energy on one of my fast days that usual. Plus I enjoyed my evening meals food far more on fast days.

So far now I'm definately going to continue. So far no weigh loss. But gaining energy alone was interesting.

fatboyonadiet

fatboyonadiet wrote: »

However the last few weeks I have found I get really bad headaches the day after my fast day, anyone else experienced similar and managed to solve it?

Much more tea and water has done the trick, feeling fine today after my fast day

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I've been away on holiday for 2 weeks and we decided not to continue while there. Have done two consecutive days this week and found the second day very hard, but probably due to a cold developing as much as anything. We'll have to do consecutive days next week too due to evening commitments. On the positive side I think my face looks a little thinner, my belt has had to come in a notch and I took back a new pair of trousers as I needed a smaller size.

melbury

So close to getting below 11st for the first time in over 4 years - this morning weighed 11st 8oz so I am really really hoping to get into the 10st somethings in the next week or so.

I don't care if it is 10st 13lb, it will give me a real boost and help me to keep going.

Trouble is I have holiday coming up and will not be able to stick to it then. Never mind, will soon get back into it:T

It's great isn't it, so very flexible!

kittykat500

I started this the week following the airing of the programme and am now down to 9 stone 4lbs from 10 stone 6. I would definitely recommend this way of eating to anyone wanting to have more energy and dropping excess fat.

I am now at my ideal weight give or take a pound or two and so will probably have to change over to 6:1 shortly.

This regime has encouraged me to walk to and from work 4 days a week and I have also recently started a Zumba class as I appear to have so much more energy - especially on fasting days.

I tend to eat around 8pm and do not worry unnecessarily about how many calories I take in - I just reduce meat protein portion and up vegetable portion massively. Then I eat again the following day at around 8pm, 24 hr fast with copious amounts of tea and coffee throughout the day with semi skimmed milk. I don't count calories - don't want to and don't want to become obsessed with every little thing that passes my lips.

On non fast days I now enjoy eating the odd dessert, 100 gram bars of chocolate once in a while and the odd cake. Previously, I suffered a bit with bloating when eating grain and I now find I can eat some but still tend to keep off for the most part.

I intend to keep to this way of eating from now on as it is so easy once you get over the first couple of weeks. I tend to make healthier choices in foods automatically now apart from, as I said the odd dessert as above.

This way of eating has been a complete revelation to me, and has released me from worrying about calories and what I'm eating 24/7. I no longer have niggling back pain or tennis elbow, so long may this last. The only thing I don't know, is how this has affected my overall health markers as they were all OK for a 50 something at my last check up before starting this (about four months ago).

I wasn't overweight for my height when I started this and now am at the bottom end of where my weight should be given my bone structure. Please, if you have been considering doing this and are of a similar age, then I would heartily recommend giving it a go.

My sister, who is 8 years younger has been following a calorie restricted diet for the last two months and has also dropped a load of weight but she's constantly looking up and noting down what and how much she's eating every day and I personally couldn't live with that! So I guess it's horses for courses.

sennypijama

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Hi, can I ask where you get the idea that a gastric bypass patient would be on a daily intake of just 600 calories? Perhaps they will be restricted to this during the pre-op diet whereby they have to deplete their glycogen levels to shrink the liver but certainly not long term, it's simply not sustainable. Most bariatric patients will be on a minimum of 1200 calories a day and if they're not, they should be!

Chameleon, I believe you're masquerading as some sort of health professional. You're clearly not, or if you are, you need to seriously re-study about fasting and diet.

You might want to Google 'Angus Barbieri'. He lived for 382 days on ZERO calories - just tea, coffee, soda water and vitamins - in Maryfield Hospital, Dundee in the 1960s. He lost more than 20 stone.

System

Finally got around to watching the horizon programme, and going to start tommorrow. I've tried everything else (even eating healthy and exercising up to 5 times a week had no effect), so going to give it a go along with still exercising. I don''t have much of an appititie anyway and usually only eat around 1500 calories anyway (some days less) so should be easier enough to fast.