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Living and working in Silicon Valley means I'm surrounded by geeks who spend alot of time talking about biohacking and continuing to find ways to improve fitness and mental performance. Bulletproof IF is de-rigueur here, but it all seems geared towards blokes.

So I was intrigued when I spotted that a women called Skye St. John had devised a female version, based on her own experience and leveraging other resources such as Ferris 4 Hour Body and others. No Fail Fat Burning for Women is available on Amazon. It's cheap and can be read in a couple of hours. It's on Amazon worldwide distribution and available on Kindle too for only £2.45.

So I'm on day 7 of her carb depletion phase where carbs need to be 30g or less. On day 10 is a carb refeed after a short intense exercise using 'safe' carbs such as sweet potato, white rice and squash (not junk!). There is no point in getting on the scales as the water will be deceptive. I'm more interested in my body fat loss, which is what I'm working ...

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Today marks exactly eight months (35 weeks) since I started 5:2 on March 13, with a BMI of 32.79 and weighing 85 kg (13 st 5.39 or 187.39 pounds). Today I weigh 64.2 kg (10 st 1.54 or 141.54 pounds) and my BMI is 24.77. My goal weight is 63 kg so I'm almost there. I feel absolutely fantastic - Greenmonster quoted Mimi Spencer in her post yesterday and that sums it up perfectly for me too - "light, lean and alive". I honestly did not even dare dream of getting to this point so soon but am of course beyond thrilled!

How did I do it? I put my stats in Moogie's wonderful Progress Tracker and got a TDEE value (I use the sedentary value; I do walk a fair bit as I don't drive and do yoga but no other exercise). I eat to my TDEE on 4 days a week. One day a week I do a no-calorie liquid fast, and one day a week I only have dinner (below 500 calories). The remaining one day I eat absolutely anything my heart desires. I log all my TDEE days on MyFitnessPal because I like how it makes me...

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My strategy for my 2 feed days was to eat "normally"; I was successful. I have read enough blogs on this site and enough info on the internet and in the forums to know that one cannot eat "normally" on feed days, and normal for me is not normal for the average weight human being. If my eating were "normal", I wouldn't be here writing this blog! Ergo I am going to have to manage my feed days in a better way. Regardless of the diet, program, weight loss system you follow, the bottom line is this: Calories in must be less than calories out. If I fast 2 days and eat my normal meals, I'm going to maintain the weight I have and I'm here to tell you that just ain't gonna happen! Ergo (again) I'm going to have to eat less on my feed days . . . not DIET, but be cautious, aware, sensible, mindful and careful.

This is just my second fast day and so far so good. Drinking lots of water with fresh lemon juice.
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Fasted sucessfully on Monday.
Ate a litle too much yesterday - walked alot of it off with dog and daughter,about 1hour 15 mins.
oh just remembered started walking dog in morning too only 15 mins but every bit counts.
Having a day of sensible delicious food, then back to fast on Thurs.
Ordered a new Exercise DVD 15 min fast fitness, cant wait for it to drop on my doormat.
Feeling motivate. :giggle:
Star weight: 155lbs
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Hi everyone, I'm Pookie and I choose the Winnie the Pooh avatar because he closely resembles my figure! I have never ever written a blog or any such like, so forgive me if it's a load of rubbish but I am determined to try everything and anything to keep myself motivated and, ultimately succeed.

I have tried, like I'm sure many of you, every way of losing weight. The number of pounds I have lost over the years - and then put back on again - must be the equivalent of a line out on a rugby field! But no more...

All I wanted to share with you today was the difference in my Saturday morning breakfast...

Previous to starting 5:2 three weeks ago our (myself and my better (??!) half) "treated" ourselves to a weekend breakfast of 2 slices of bacon (grilled - not that evil), scrambled eggs (made with a good bit of butter), tomatoes, sometimes a sausage or a piece of black pudding, slice of toast - followed by another slice of toast with marmalade....

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