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I'm planning to write here a brief history of my experience doing 5:2, from the start through to reaching my target...
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The end of the downhill and the start of the flat...

by dominic on 28 Apr 2013, 19:18

On Friday last, my usual weigh-in day (being the day after my 2nd fast day of the week) I reached my target. On our scales this is 9st 3lb which is after a fairly rough'n'ready correction for the fact that our scales are optimistic, about 9st 5lb. I set this as a target to allow for a 2lb 'bounce back' which is what seems to happen every week between the end of my 2nd fast day (always the low point) and the start of the 1st fast day of the next week (the high point). So my idea is to maintain at 9 1/2 stone, which is pretty much in the middle of the 'normal' BMI range and is more or less the weight I was in my early twenties, and much lighter than I have been ever since.

Since starting 5:2 on 3 September 2012, through to 25 April 2013, it's been an absorbing - at times too absorbing - journey and rather than bore everyone by posting about it as a Progress Report I'm experimenting by writing...


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