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You look really wonderful! All glowy and happy Those photos are really good inspiration X

Hi Nadia, the difference is amazing and very obvious from the photos - you look great! I am sure people must have noticed, can't believe you haven't been getting compliments!

Well done!

[janeg]

WOW! Big difference and you look fabulous. Well done

Wow how can people not notice...they must be jealous if they are not saying anything, you can definitely see a difference face more defined, great waist , plus the collarbones you couldn't see them in the before photos. You are looking fabulous. Keep up the great work.

It must be a cultural thing, reserve perhaps? It is strikingly obvious, you look gorgeous! Did you do exercises specific to your tummy area - if so, please let me in on which ones? Your waist is teeny!!

Well done you, you look wonderful. The people who have failed to notice such a big difference must be walking around with their eyes closed... or they are jealous.

you look fantastic! i can definitely tell. are these people you see regularly? sometimes the incremental loss is harder to see, especially if it took a bit of time? people are also really unobservant.

great job and congrats!

You look amazing!

If people are seeing you every day/most days they're not likely to see a difference I don't think, because they'll see you change slowly... but they should! There's a definite difference and you look wonderful

There is no way they can't tell. That is a massive difference. You look great Maybe they are too shy to say

nadia it is so very obvious so gIve yourself a big pat on the back, we know what it takes to lose what you have done.

If people don't comment but I know they notice I tell them because we live in societies where our loved ones, friends, neighbours and colleagues etc can also benefit from what we have discovered with 5:2.

You look wonderful well done

Oh my word, you look fabulous.

Well done, gorgeous chicky babe.

If you didn't know, you would say the 1st and last pictures are different people. Can't believe no one has said anything... you look amazing and a LOT younger

You look fantastic. If you'd carry around those photos and pop them out to show people, then it would be sheer jealousy and they'd think...how'd she do that! Bravo!

THANK YOU so so much for all your kind comments and support!!!! It really warms my heart

It took around 8 weeks to lose the weight with 5:2 - a bit too fast actually but now it has slowed down to 0.5 kg a week. Will only lose 3-4 kilos more and then go in to maintenance. I eat 600 kcal on fast days - my TDEE is around 2500. On feast days I eat anything I like, and lots of it!

Regarding exercise and specifically for the waist/tummy I've been doing yoga. A lot of static poses like the plank and then I do the "5 tibetans" almost every day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJElLrpBetc. It's a set of 5 different asanas/flows that is supposed to be very rejuvenating. And I actually think they work!!
I also take a 60 min walk most days.

Wow, you look fantastic!!! I definitely think you look great in the photo, no matter what your BMI says, you look very slim!

Otherwise I agree with BethP, when people see you often it's harder to notice because they get used to the change little by little, and they might think you're losing weight but they're too polite to say it, if you showed them the before and after they would be stunned!