Hi,
Congratulations for your weight loss.
I am more interested in the maintenance phase, since the diet really seems to work to lose weight.
How long have you been on maintenance? From your chart, you seemed to have dropped below your target weight? Did that happen during maintenance, during 6:1 + mini fast?
Someone suggested elsewhere to spread the fasts farther until one fast day a fortnight. Do you plan to change your maintenance plan?
And what do you mean 'mini' fast?
Thanks,
e.
Congratulations for your weight loss.
I am more interested in the maintenance phase, since the diet really seems to work to lose weight.
How long have you been on maintenance? From your chart, you seemed to have dropped below your target weight? Did that happen during maintenance, during 6:1 + mini fast?
Someone suggested elsewhere to spread the fasts farther until one fast day a fortnight. Do you plan to change your maintenance plan?
And what do you mean 'mini' fast?
Thanks,
e.
My weight loss on 5:2
by Franglaise on 10 Apr 2013, 07:14
1. I always did 24 hour fasts, so nothing to eat until the evening when I had my 500 calories (often homemade soup and fruit, and I always saved space for a couple of squares of chocolate.
2. I never drank alcohol on fast days, and only a couple of glasses of wine on other evenings (if I drank at all).
3. I exercised quite a lot anyway, so didn't increase what I was doing, but maybe that helped (running 5kms 3 times a week and walking an hour at least on other days).
4. I didn't eat too much on non fast days. If I went out for a meal (e.g. lunch)I would eat very lightly for the dinner. In fact I never eat a big meal with a lot of carbohydrates in the evening, it is usually quiche and salad or something like that.
5. I rarely eat desserts, except on a Sunday when we buy some from the boulangerie to eat with Sunday lunch (as a café gourmand, yummy). I eat fruit and chocolate instead.
6.I suppose it helps that I live in the middle of the French countryside with no access to take-aways or anything like that - and I never eat fast food or fizzy drinks because I don't like them.
7. I weighed myself every day. I know some people don't like doing that, but I found it more motivating to lose weight (if the scales showed an increase I would be more careful on non fast days).