The FastDay Forum

Hello all
Feeling fat and frumpy today because I have put on a couple of pounds this week and its my own fault, i have done two fasts this week because Im still trying to get my xmas weight off.
The reason I have put weight on I think is a pizza and midget jems sweets I had this week( my 1st pizza since I started this WOE over a year ago) and I have a sweet tooth
I am 10 stone 3and half pounds now and my TDEE is almost 1500 cals and a few days last week apart from my two fasts I was eating around 800 cals on non fast days and we went out fot dinner for my grandsons 11th birthday had cake as well so may be thats why I have gained so much this week.
When I look in the mirror I just see a fatty looking back at me I also wish I could afford to have a tummy tuck because mine is horrible in my eyes thats after having 4 children. I supose this is just a rant really as not been getting my walking in at the moment!!!! even though I have a treadmill in the shed down the garden I asked my hubby to bring it in the house and he says NO grrrr.
Just wish it was easy to keep my weight off and would like to get to 9 and a half stone its harder to keep it off nowand going food shoppimg tomorrow and MUST not buy sweets. Ok moan over

You're allowed a moan, it's what we're here for. I'm also up, 74kgs today shockingly. We'll chalk it up to shank-end of Winter shall we? Hang on in there with me, here, hold hands and we'll jump into Spring and better times (and weights).
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Hi,
Everyone has days (or weeks) like you describe - the main thing is just to accept that some days you're going to find it harder than others; write a bad day off and keep going! I had been fat all my life (till I did 5 2) and I am ALWAYS going to have to watch it - I'd love to be able to eat whatever I fancy but realistically know that is a slippery slope to disaster and whilst my partner can eat cake till it's coming out of his ears and not gain, I can't. But these days i have more control over what I eat - and if you've got to 10.3 then so do you! Don't despair

Hi you have done amazingly well to have avoided pizza for a whole year its a real shame when you have done well all week and put weight on. 800 cals seems very low to me, maybe you're not eating enough although I don't know the science so I may be talking rot good luck hang in there and I'm sure you will be back losing soon x

I am about your size with the same TDEE. After 11 months of fasting I hit the wall this week too, skipped a fast, and let myself just eat. I've stayed off the scale, but I'm feeling like I need a break. I feel like food has become a bit too fraught and my body is just too hungry. I am not giving up, just relaxing a bit. There is a place for that in long term weight control. I'll still be fasting but not as stringently. My mental health is as important as my physical health.

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@mariondot40, I bet there will be quite a few people reading your post and feeling better that they are not the only ones to feel like that. I've certainly been there a lot recently. Keep plodding on, most peoples weight losses are ups and downs.

@mariondot40 I feel exactly the same but it is not only this week but in the last months. I have put on at least one klg and seems to go higher even though I am having the two fast days seriously. It is the non-fast days and my low TDEE that makes it hard to stay at my goal let alone losing weight. But I am hopeful. May be I throw and extra day fast or half day fast in the next couple of weeks and see how I go. So the good thing with 5:2 is that you can hopefully get back to where you were.