5:2 Fasting Diet

Day three of fasting for me today. Did eat rather too much over the weekend so was looking forward to it today. Think I am going to do three days this week to kick start the weight loss. Thought that rice cakes may be a good thing as the big ones are only 30cals so will give them a go. How are the rest of you getting on?

I use the fitness pal app!

I find it helps me to religiously write down the calories of everything I consume on fast days. Otherwise it would be so easy to cheat!
Good luck juneh, let us know how you get on. Hope you have a great spa break.

whow you have really thought this through, I think I have been OK today although did have my evening meal, did have porridge and fruit for lunch then had my dinner of meat and veg for tea. Didn't stick to the 500 but still have maintained my slimming world diet and more.
I am going away for a couple of days to a spa and will need to watch it but will do the fasting diet following your plan [Shysal]
Thanks for writing it out, it certainly doesn't seem like fasting does it.

Just read it. Seems very good and sensible
Very helpful
Thanks.

Kindle edition is very cheap.

Purchased!

This book might be useful. 5-2 recipes.

I have two good meals on my 500 cal days. I can make a substantial cottage pie using turkey breast mince, or a fish pie, for around 250 cals, I make 4 and freeze 3. For lunches I find mushrooms very useful at 2 cals each, I have loads, fried in spray oil, on 2 slices of toasted 50/50 crusts away bread (45 cal per slice), with marmite. Scrambled egg whites are good too at 20 cals each.
When I want to save time and have the counting done for me I buy M&S roast lamb meal for one, 170 cals, or their Count on Us filled Yorkshire puds at 210 cals.
Home made soups are easy at around 50 cals per serving, and so much more filling than cup-a-soups, which have about 90 cals.
I used to be a walking Weight Watchers point list, but now I am learning calorie values instead. Good luck to all who are embarking on this regime, I hope you will find it as easy as I have (I do alternate days).

Thanks for the tip on the fast diet book on kindle.Only found this site yesterday and am enjoying reading your posts.

Should have added that it's for Kindle owners

The Fast Diet book by Michael Mosley is on Amazon Daily Deal today for 99p (today only)

www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node%3D341689031&field-keywords=fast+diet

Thanks will look into it. Off to do my ironing, pack a bag am off with a friend to a spa tomorrow. Yippee, so excited 2 days of being looked after :-) :-)

Its an app for iPhone and iPads and I think other putters. You decide on your cal intake for the day, then input all your intake, it works out the cals and does the arithmetic.
If you do exercise eg ironing you put that in as well!
It's brill, lots of us are using it!

What is the fitness ap please

Have you got the 'my fitness pal' app? It does it all for you.

Thanks tegan & jeni for your responses. I have just had a bowl of porridge with some strawberries &blackberries. Would normally have some fruit with yogurt for breakfast but saved it. Not sure how many cals will weigh it up.

juneh; I too have been on diets all my life and can't believe that, at 61 I'm still on one. My weight has gone up and down by up to 4 stones over the years and I'm heartily sick of it [although I did realise by my forties that I should be @ 9 1/2 stone and had been battling to be 8st or less for most of my life; lowest weight 7.3]. I think the swinging sixties have a lot to answer for [and Twiggy] although it's even worse for young women now. Had I known, in the sixties about the importance of good nutrition combined with exercise I think things would have been different. It was all 'eat less and be thin'.

Oh! And

juneh I had cup o soup, herb teas, scrambled egg whites on a crumpet with a scrape of butter, a banana and that as enough!

I bought this book back in the early '70's. Slimmed DH down using it.

#nothing newunderthesun

Cari. Is that advertising?

I think it sounds great in theory and believe it will work but something is holding me back from starting it. I have dieted all my adult life, battled to either keep wt off as a younger woman then gained as I have grown older. Many of the diets I have done have been harsh with hunger and starvation type diets impacting on my body. I have done the lipotrim diet where I lost 2 stone in 8weeks then put it all and more back on. Now I am using relaxation and healthy eating to diet which is mostly about my state of mind. I am tempted by this 2day fasting process but perhaps I am resistant because of my earlier encounters with anorexia/bulemia?
I will give it a try today and see how I feel. It would be useful to know what people eat for their 500 calories in the 24 hours.

Thanks Cari. I'm already doing it Jings, but just wanted to check that I'm doing it properly! I will look to see if Lindor are included.

!!!! (no I'm not )