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Lesley Kenton used to swear by the Apple Fast. I have not fasted since I got back to the UK so I have decided to do a back to back fast consisting of only apples. So to keep within the fasting rules - that is 4 apples a day for the next two days. My favourite is when they are baked with a little cinnamon. No sugar needed.

I'm having mild bikini panic. I realised last night it's only 10 weeks to my holiday and I'm going to be on a boat for most of the time in swimwear. I'm a UK size 10, but only 5'3. Not bad for my age, but high body fat percentage and wobbly. I'm not going to 'diet', but I'm going to make sure I do my fasting.
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If one believes in the energy balance - a calorie is a calorie and all that - then we can take a stab at how much someone who fails to lose weight on 5:2 is overeating on the 5 feed days.

For them to be in energy balance eating F calories per day on feed days with either 500 or 600 on fast days with a daily energy requirement of T (TDEE) the energy balance over a week says that :-

7 * T = 2 * 500 + 5 * F for men, or 7 * T = 2 * 600 + 5 * F for men

rearranging and straightening out this becomes :-

F = 1.4 * T - 200 for women, or F = 1.4 * T - 240 for men on 600 cal fasts.

So if a lady with a TDEE of 1800 isn't losing weight with 500 cal fast days then she's eating 1800 * 1.4 - 200 = 2320 on feed days and needs to back off about 500 calories a day to get up to full speed weight loss.

A lower metabolic rate such as 1400 TDEE works through to a feed day intake of 1760 with no loss, requiring a cut back of 360 calories per day on feed days.
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I'm a 61 yr old man who is retired after 40 years of teaching/principal in bush schools in N.E.Victoria, Australia. Up to my mid/late 40's I played cricket, tennis, baseball. Had a bad knee since my mid teens and finally had a knee relacement in 2012. Made the fundamental life choice error of retiring from active sport but maintaining my eating and drinking habits with a resulting "blow out" in my weight, especially around the belly. Since retirement and my knee replacement, I've made the time to attend gym 2 or 3 sessions/week. This, together with the 5:2 diet, seems to be making a difference but I could probably lose more weight if I didn't drink so much on weekends. I live on a small farm and try to walk 30 minutes every day as part of my exercise routine. My hope is that I'll find the 5:2 diet is sustainable and that it will make a difference for me. :like:
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Although I am just starting my 2nd week, I thought I better review all my research and add all my details to a blog, as I was just calculating the diet as and when I found other details!
Total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) calculator
Age 48
Start weight 93 Kilo, 14.654 Stone or 205 pounds
Height 5'7" or 170cm
Result - 1808- 2259 Calories per day

As I am following the ADF diet, this meant that I would have a 1/1 routine . so in effect one day 500 calories and the next 1808- 2259
Then I entered my details on MyFitnessPal and they said I should be on 1230 Calories per day.
Taking 1230 cal per day, x 2 = 2460 cal for a 2 day group
2460cal - 500 cal = 1960 which equates to 500 cal fast day/1960 feed day which is in the middle of the target.
I am managing to keep to around the 500 calories for a Fast day. I would never choose to do this, but it is getting easier each time and the hard work is paying off.
I have much more of a problem on Feed days! Because of different diets in the...

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with my ME/CFS comes chronic gut pain. what i find bizarre about the 5:2 diet is that even on the morning after a fasting day - and yesterday i fasted completely, ie no food - my guts can summon up enough pain to wake me before i want to wake and keep me eyes open despite my desperate desire for more sleep. i work as an artists model, and am modelling all day today, and really needed the unconscious time (am doing portrait this afternoon, you have to keep your eyes open for portrait).

would love to hear from anyone else with ME/CFS who is doing the fasting diet and hear about what is working for you.
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