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Realised today that this is week 6 for me! Have never lasted that long on a diet at all - this WOE is so much easier and flexible. Plan to carry on 5:2 for a few more weeks until I have lost another few pounds and then will move to 6:1 - want to keep around 9 1/2 stone otherwise I look to gaunt in the face.
I hope I will be, and can't see why not. I'm hoping that I'll have lost another half a stone by then and be at my target weight, but will be hanging round for the added health benefits, and because I like my new, healthier and saner, attitude to food and eating. :D
Definitely! It is early days but I feel totally inspired, like this has turned a corner for me. Gradually gaining weight over the years and then passing menopause had left me feeling like I really didn't know how to make a difference. This January, again, thinking 'oh you really have to get back on that diet' was a grim grey cloud hanging over me, and of course therefore I did nothing really to change anything despite health issues starting to rear their head.
And this has been a breath of fresh air. I enjoy the fast days mostly- feel like I am giving myself a gift. I have lost weight and inches and whilst I know that will most likely settle into a hopefully just steady loss over time, this feels completely manageable long term. Because it is forgiving, flexible, healthy, not obsessive and it seems to work.

Of course WOL/diets are completely personal - the slimmers world/weighwatchers/atkins/whatever will work for some, suit their life style or personality or traditions. This is going to work for me, I just know it, so I am very happy.

Thank you again to those who run this Board- which is a support and a great place to feel inspired.

Now, bring me that horizon..:D
That's a great post Michele and echoes how I feel too. That phrase 'grim grey cloud' is so true of diets. In total contrast this WOL gives us back the power over our eating habits and feels like freedom.
I've been following my version of this regime since I saw the Horizon program on iPlayer and I've lost about 7 kilos.

So I'll be here if this regime improves my cholesterol levels as claimed and keeps me off the meds the doctor muttered about after my last checkup (my father had his first heart attack long before 60, which is apparently a warning sign). Although I might modify it a bit later (6:1 or maybe settle on a narrow "feeding window" each day).

And if it wards off cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and all the other possible nasties mentioned in the Horizon program and The Book, I'd be even more committed.

The weight loss is just a side-effect as far as I'm concerned, although I'm not saying I'm not delighted at it--despite the cost of having to buy yet another selection of trousers after only a couplathree months.
I don't have much to loose and plan on going 6:1 once i'v reached my target to maintain my weight. I'll be happy if the science is proven to be correct and probably be more determined to keep at it in the long run for any health benefits.
This has been a total revelation to me. Decades of weight watchers convinced me I needed to eat a little often. My whole life was ruled by what I could or could not eat. I am now liberated! I will never buy another diet chemical laden product. I am keeping away from the scales I was obsessed with and am enjoying food at last. I am here for life, not just for weight control although I could do with losing a little, mainly for the health benefits. My thanks to those who lead and have shown me a happier WOL
We're planning on continuing for the whole year ( may have to go to 6:1if weight drops too low). It's a very simple regime to follow.
Hello Bobshouse and all contributors on this site. I completely agree with your feelings that this has been a revelation! I am only coming up 6 weeks on 5:2, and the learning curve has been a perpendicular line. I feel highly motivated and helped by all the people kindly sharing their points of view, and that includes some excellent academic postings on the Nerdy site, which I am just about keeping up with. The term 'liberated' is a perfect description of the way I feel too, and as I have said on another posting, I have cleared all the dubious 'food' items out of the house. How have we allowed ourselves to be duped for so long by the food manufacturers? It is a truly alarming state of affairs, isn't it. This is a life long scenario for me and my husband, and after 45 years of marriage we are very close, and we have adopted this way of living as though we had being doing it for all times, it feels just so very natural.
I feel that the penny has finally dropped after 27 years of intermitting diets WW getting to goal 3 times and putting back on plus more I now realise what I need to do. I love the fast days as I am in control but love the feast days as it fits in with my life but the main thing for me is the idea of maintaining the weight loss just by 1 day of fasting.
A slim friend of mine years ago who after Christmas stated that she would cut back for a few days had the right idea, I always saw cutting back as a real obstical as I felt I had to go on a major diet not just cut back drastically for a day or 2 I now feel I know the secret that slim people have always known. So it is now a WOL for me.
8 weeks in to this new WOL and I think I can say I'm 99% certain that this WOE is my future too.
I so agree with the comment about dieting being a grey cloud you're stuck under. Coming up to New Year I was pretty angry with myself for still being fat and having not stuck with my previous resolution to lose weight (my resolution for the last 10 years to be honest). I felt like a failure, if only I had stuck at it last year, I wouldn't still be fat now etc etc. I was so hoping that this would be the year that I could finally muster some willpower and stick to a diet. THIS plan however has revolutionised (I'm not being unduly hyperbolic, it's a sea change for me) how I feel about my eating habits. To rely purely on willpower, all day every day for months and months or however long it takes to lose all this weight, rarely deviating from it, is just not realistic. That coupled with knowing every time you've done it before you've always put the weight back on again anyway is just like waiting and expecting to fail again! The presumption is once you reach your target weight you're no longer "on" a diet, you're "off" and you go back to your old habits which are still there months later rearing their ugly heads once you're allowed to eat normally again.
In the last 8 weeks I have lost 10 lbs. Not huge but more than I lost all last year and it has been so easy. Not once have I struggled to stick to it, not once have I felt deprived. For the first time I feel pretty sure that by the end of this year I'll be fit, healthy and slim but that I'll also want to continue eating like this :-)
I keep returning to this thread and love reading everyone's post. Jenny 10 lb off is a great achievement don't belittle it, well done.

Power to the 5:2ers, we are in control.
Like JennyH10 said on the 9th March, I am now 8 weeks in, and feeling great. After 3 months on 5:2, I hope to be 150lbs in weight as well as name! 18lbs gone so far, and only 4lbs still to shift to my target, which I have not been at since 2005. 8 years of piling on the fat-- hopefully gone in a short 3 months. I am so glad I bought The Radio Times ( never do from one years end to the next) in January explaining about Dr MM 's Fast Diet. It has been nothing short of a miracle for me, and I can see others feel the same. Yes, Gillb, we have the power to achieve our goals, because we are in charge of our food now, and no longer a slave to it.
Keep at it everyone, as this is the most uncomplicated, relatively easy method of regaining our health.
well I am now 2 months into this regime and I feel healthier and happier in myself. Went to the doctor today as my blood pressure was causing concern (which is why I decided to give this a go) and it is now near normal and totally acceptable for my age. My weight is dropping without even thinking about dieting and my energy levels are higher and I am sleeping soundly. How lovely is all this?!?!?!?! In it for life :)
I'm here for life. I've just completed my first three months and I've lost 8kg. I'm on track to lose my 30kg target in a year and there is no signs of it slowing down. I'm already back to the weight I was 3 and a half years ago in only 3 months, so I'm very pleased about how simple it's been.

Even when I've got to my target weight I intend to stick to fasting for the health benefits, there are just too many diseases I want to avoid as I get older.
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