Fast 800 online programme

I know this is an old thread but I agree with NonGrannyMoll - 800 is no good if you want enough protein and are vegetarian.
At least in my opinion.

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I did this last year and lost 17kgs. I'm now doing restricted eating time - I eat between 10am and 6pm. You need to cut out the white stuff - processed food etc. It works if you really want to lose weight and keep it off.

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Just noticed that this was started in May 2023!

If you don't want to invest in the on line programme, just buy a second hand book from Ebay and follow it on your own. Like any weight loss regime, it works if you stick to it. Years ago I lost 30lb with alternate day fasting, one of Michael Moseley's original plans similar to the 5:2. It works well for me as there is only ever a day to wait to eat a bit more. I use it whenever I feel the need to lose a few pounds.
Good luck!

Oooh, it's now gone up from 750 calories?! Maybe I'll try it again in that case. It worked for as long as I could be inventive enough to make vegetarian meals adding up to 750 calories, but I always felt a tiny bit short-changed and longed to add a piece of fruit or an extra egg. Evenings were the most testing - eating at starvation level all day meant headaches and stomach cramps all evening, so if I was going to break the diet it would usually be then. But with an extra 50 calories to play with, I could at least have a tiny snack before bed. I lost a stone in 3 months, which is plenty fast enough, so it's time to dust off the old 750 Diet cookery book!

PS never used shakes, just a low carb diet

Did this several years ago. I lost two and a half stone in 3_4 months. I had just been diagnosed diabetic so reversed that straight away. It was hard, but I now do a16_ 8 fastandhave never liked back. Fast 800 is stretching especially if you are easily distracted, but well worth sticking to. Give it a go. No such thing as failure. You just try again Good luck

SporeRB unfortunately you can't control where the weight goes from. Especially as you are only a size 12. Which isn't big . How tall are you if you don't mind me asking .

Is 800 mean you only each 800 cals per day?

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I started Fast800 about 4 weeks ago and so far has lost 3.5kg roughly 1/2 stone. I have another 2 months to go. Did not signed up for the online programme.

Had to lose the weight especially around my stomach for health reasons even though I am only size 12.

I was on the 12 week Fast800 earlier in the year. I list 10kg and found the programme excellent. I didn’t use the shakes etc. There is a lot of useful help there including many exercise videos of various kinds- yoga, Pilates, strength, cardio. The meals are good and can be swapped if not to your taste. Great community support and support from the staff. I think it’s the best I have been on. Im back on it now to lose a few more kg as I’m still overweight.

Oh, hes got a shake out now!...trial and error doodle, thats a shame its naff. Can i be nosy and ask how much? , like you say, we live and learn.

I just bought the fast 800 shakes as I thought I would try that as a meal replacement lunchtime. I had assumed as it was Michael Mosley it would be good. It’s awful. Doesn’t thicken at all. Just tastes like mildly chocolate flavour water with bits of grit in. Reviews online say it all. Wish I’d read them before I bought it. Oh well we live and learn. An expensive mistake.

Just re-read the OP - NO we didn't do the online programme actually. We followed the book and did it that way.

I did the Fast 800 and it worked well. I am ashamed to say that a year later the weight has crept back on. I decided to start again on May 1st but have already lapsed. I think you just have to be in the right frame of mind from the start. Any regime will work if you stick to it!
Good luck, hope you succeed.

I am doing the 16/8 fast,find it quite easy to do..
Because the hours I work are awkward. My eating window is between 2 pm and 10 pm, not ideal I know but the best I can do and I’m not bothered about breakfast or lunch so it is quite doable for me…

It's not easy to get sufficient protein in 800cals on a vegetarian diet. We ate lots of things I don't like much to boost protein intake (think pea pasta etc).

We did it for 2 weeks and my husband lost loads of weight. I did not.

I have the fast 800 book and the recipe books, not actually ate so low as 800 cals but the recipes are low carb so it suits me…..wish I could though as it suits some people and they have done really well with it, and kept the weight off.

I bought 3 of the recipe books cheaply, we both lost a couple of stone over 5 months.

Nope. Much too restrictive for me. I had a very successful year of losing only 1lb per week and, happily, never put it back on. My method was simply to have a little less of everything rather than having specific no go areas. Yep....one biscuit instead of two, for instance. Weighing in success generated enthusiasm and I gradually began to change my intake (more water, less pop) and now I have a healthier diet both self imposed and now thoroughly enjoyed. Cannot recommend this highly enough and have to admit the health improvements were a secondary benefit that I had not anticipated. Actually thought I was reasonably fit and healthy. Huh!

Thanks for your reply MrsKen33. Glad to hear you lost so much weight and that you’ve kept it off. I just wish I could make a start to shifting my extra weight. I think I could maintain the loss once get it off me as I don’t put any weight on - I’ve stayed the same for ages.
I’ll certainly keep smiling 🙂

How does this diet work please. What can you eat and not eat??

Yes it did. I lost two and a half stone in about Ten weeks. Skin looked a little wrinkly afterwards. That was about seven years ago and I eat low carb now so have kept the weight off. Good luck and keep smiling