When you're not fasting, eat as you normally would. There's no need to calorie count - although if you're in the habit of doing that it may take you a few months to realise you no longer need to!
Fasting may change the way you look at food and change some of your food choices, but that doesn't mean you can't (or won't want to!) eat treats on your feast days.
Eat what you like. Fruit. Veg. Pasta. Bread. Chocolate. Ice cream. Crisps. Cheese.
It doesn't matter! Most people won't vastly overeat consistantly on their feed days, it's just not possible to consume that many calories more than normal on a regular basis. So enjoy your food, and listen to your body.
Just remember that 'feast' doesn't mean over-eat, at least not all the time. Treats won't hurt, but if you're eating lots more than you usually would you're not going to lose weight. On your 'feast' days try to eat how you have always eaten, whatever is 'normal' for you. You may well find this reduces with time anyway.
I find that having done 5:2 for 5 months, I'm now more relaxed about what I eat on my feed days - and I have just as good results as when I started on 5:2 and was still restricting to 1400 cals on my feeds. My body tells me if I've eaten too much, and I do notice that if I eat a lot of chocolate etc that I don't feel so good. But that's a good thing as it stops me eating it to excess
I mean, 3 bars of Guylian praline might have been too much in a row, haha!
Fasting may change the way you look at food and change some of your food choices, but that doesn't mean you can't (or won't want to!) eat treats on your feast days.
Eat what you like. Fruit. Veg. Pasta. Bread. Chocolate. Ice cream. Crisps. Cheese.
It doesn't matter! Most people won't vastly overeat consistantly on their feed days, it's just not possible to consume that many calories more than normal on a regular basis. So enjoy your food, and listen to your body.
Just remember that 'feast' doesn't mean over-eat, at least not all the time. Treats won't hurt, but if you're eating lots more than you usually would you're not going to lose weight. On your 'feast' days try to eat how you have always eaten, whatever is 'normal' for you. You may well find this reduces with time anyway.
I find that having done 5:2 for 5 months, I'm now more relaxed about what I eat on my feed days - and I have just as good results as when I started on 5:2 and was still restricting to 1400 cals on my feeds. My body tells me if I've eaten too much, and I do notice that if I eat a lot of chocolate etc that I don't feel so good. But that's a good thing as it stops me eating it to excess
I mean, 3 bars of Guylian praline might have been too much in a row, haha!
Famine days! Might just put a few people off, hmm? I saw someone refer to the fast days as "repair days" which I think is great and helps to remind us of the health benefits. Did I see in the book that Mimi called the feast days "off-duty days" in some places? Those will be the days that the repair staff are off duty 
I try to cook from scratch and avoid processed foods, (if I can't understand half of the ingredients why would I eat it?)
I've cut out the rubbish again and I'm running up to 10k 3 times a week so doing the fast diet is my way of getting my waist line back whilst also trying to live longer and fight off heart disease ect. I'm finding it hard to eat what I like on my food days as I can't see how it can work without watching calories? I've cut down on alcohol and caffeine and I'm not eating sweet or processed foods (which has really helped my i.b.s).I've made my daughter hide the scales as before I became obsessed with weighing myself so my plan is to weigh myself once a month. I'm going to allow myself a glass of wine with dinner if I go out and allow myself a treat once a month to.... Am I being to strict with myself? 
