Rapid weight gain all in one week

pollypenny

OH and I have lost well on the 5:2.

I read Michael Mosley's book cover to cover and we have taken on board the scientific bad us of intermittent fasting.

One of Mosley's key point is that we eat from habit. We've broken that habit and now only have two meals a day, breakfast around midday and our evening meal.

We uses recipes from his book and another written by Mimi Spencer, his collaborator. Delicious.

As nothing is banned, anything that doesn't fit with today's calorie count we can have tomorrow. As a bonus, we've found that our appetites have reduced considerably.

bigfreddiel

pollypenny wrote: »

OH and I have lost well on the 5:2.

I read Michael Mosley's book cover to cover and we have taken on board the scientific bad us of intermittent fasting.

One of Mosley's key point is that we eat from habit. We've broken that habit and now only have two meals a day, breakfast around midday and our evening meal.

We uses recipes from his book and another written by Mimi Spencer, his collaborator. Delicious.

As nothing is banned, anything that doesn't fit with today's calorie count we can have tomorrow. As a bonus, we've found that our appetites have reduced considerably.

Breakfast around midday, are you sure!

You don't need to read books about various diet fads, just be sensible people!

Everything has a label telling you how much fat, sugar etc it contains, read it and work it out for yourself, it's easy! JDI fj

pollypenny

bigfreddiel wrote: »

Breakfast around midday, are you sure!

You don't need to read books about various diet fads, just be sensible people!

Everything has a label telling you how much fat, sugar etc it contains, read it and work it out for yourself, it's easy! JDI fj

Excuse me, I can tell the time and I am breaking my fast.

Michael Mosley's eating plan is based on sound scientific reasoning. Intermittent fasting works.

Have you read his book?

Angry_Bear

pollypenny wrote: »

OH and I have lost well on the 5:2.
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One of Mosley's key point is that we eat from habit.
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we've found that our appetites have reduced considerably.

I've never used any of the recipe books or so on for the 5:2, but I must agree with the other points above.
I've been doing it for 3 years (so it is sustainable long term), and along side weight loss, the unintended consequences for me have been:

• I've remembered what hunger feels like rather than just eating out of habit because it's "that time of day"
• I've realised how often I really do confuse thirst for hunger, and got used to enjoying drinking plain water
• I've realised how little food it takes to fill me up, and how long it takes after I've eaten for the "full" feeling to hit
• I've realised how much nutritional "bang for your buck" you can get for a small amount of calories if you choose carefully. This also means I'm much more aware of how many snacks are nutritionally void so I eat far fewer of them and again choose more carefully

I doubt ANYONE would suggest those are bad things, even if they're not a fan of the 5:2.

bigfreddiel

pollypenny wrote: »

Excuse me, I can tell the time and I am breaking my fast.

Michael Mosley's eating plan is based on sound scientific reasoning. Intermittent fasting works.

Have you read his book?

No I haven't, I don't need anyone to tell me what's healthy or unhealthy because it's all so obvious.

A good balanced diet will do the trick. If you don't know what that is then by all means educate yourself with books, etc.

Once you've learnt you to will realise that the answer is sticking to a diet and routine that suits you and your lifestyle.

Good luck fj

pollypenny

bigfreddiel wrote: »

No I haven't, I don't need anyone to tell me what's healthy or unhealthy because it's all so obvious.

A good balanced diet will do the trick. If you don't know what that is then by all means educate yourself with books, etc.

Once you've learnt you to will realise that the answer is sticking to a diet and routine that suits you and your lifestyle.

Good luck fj

Do you intend to be so patronising? :cool:

pollypenny

Angry_Bear wrote: »

I've never used any of the recipe books or so on for the 5:2, but I must agree with the other points above.
I've been doing it for 3 years (so it is sustainable long term), and along side weight loss, the unintended consequences for me have been:

• I've remembered what hunger feels like rather than just eating out of habit because it's "that time of day"
• I've realised how often I really do confuse thirst for hunger, and got used to enjoying drinking plain water
• I've realised how little food it takes to fill me up, and how long it takes after I've eaten for the "full" feeling to hit
• I've realised how much nutritional "bang for your buck" you can get for a small amount of calories if you choose carefully. This also means I'm much more aware of how many snacks are nutritionally void so I eat far fewer of them and again choose more carefully

I doubt ANYONE would suggest those are bad things, even if they're not a fan of the 5:2.

Absolutely!

We can't believe how our appetites have changed!

And the shibboleth about breakfast being the most important meal of the day- I'm rarely hungry first thing in the morning. It's natural for me to wait until I need food. Noon or later.

Bob_Dean

Andrew_Ryan_89 wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback. It's weird, quite a few people here have suggested my breakfast is too much and I am struggling to think what could possibly be healthier! The smoothie contains no more than a cereal portion of muesli, a handful of cashew nuts, almond nut and blueberries. The rest is (hard to tell the actual quantity as they are frozen cubes) spinach and sometime peanut butter for taste. It's working now and worked before where I lost 11kg in 6 weeks.

In regards to exercise, I can comfortable say I got to the gym at least 4 days a week. Most of the time is spent doing weights. In total about 100 reps of arm exercises and about 40 with the legs. I also will power walk on the treadmill with a steep incline for about 10 minutes (I find all cardio so boring if I do it for any longer, I fear I might pack the whole thing in). I have mixed it up a little and having 2 eggs and 2 slices of toast for this week and most of next.

I have also started planking for at least 30 seconds a day and trying to build up to 90 seconds by day 30.

Is the 100 reps per exercise or in total as if it is in total your workout is probabily geared to gaining muscle instead of weight loss. Try reducing the weight and increasing the reps. You could also try interval training with the CV to mix it up a bit.

Also do you always weigh yourself at the same time, if not the 5Kg could just be the difference in weight between getting up and just after your last meal of the day, I am half your weight and regually put on and lose 1 to 1.5Kg within a day.

bigfreddiel

pollypenny wrote: »

Do you intend to be so patronising? :cool:

I didn't think I was!

Just a bit of sensible advice!

So sorry to have upset you, but all of this is just good old common sense.

Good luck, stick to your chosen diet and all will be good.

Cheers fj