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Congratulations. I see you have been doing 5:2 since January, so it's been 5 months. I don't see why you would put the weight back on because as someone else already said, you haven't deprived yourself to get here. It isn't like now you are going to want to 'reward' yourself by eating lots of cake which you haven't been allowed to eat for 5 months. That's what I love about this WOE. It completely gets around the cycle of deprivation and reward that other diets foster. Well done! Inspired to keep on.

Well done, I remember you coming back from hols and wondering how long it would take to lose the extra holiday lbs.

Hope you stick around to let us know how you are finding maintenance.

I am with you with the worries about the long term. I have dieted almost all my life with varying success but sometimes with big losses that got me to my target weight. Every time I have regained it all plus more despite best efforts to follow maintenance plan. However this does feel different from other diets - two relatively easy fast days a week and the rest of the time eating normal food. So hopefully this will be different. Pease keep us all posted with how it goes.

Congratulations on getting to goal

Thank you for all your very kind responses. I am glad to find that I am not alone in my concerns regarding maintenance This has got to be the best forum for 5:2 in the world! I will keep you posted on how I get on.

Congratulations and best of luck with maintenance! I'm sure you will do well, especially with all the advice and support on the forum.

I started at the same time as you and have the same target so will be following your progress with interest

yay you, well done, as others have said i am sure you can keep off the weight lost with this WOL, all you have to do is stick to this WOL and you have a strategy for life

again well done

Well done and good luck with the maintenance - I'm sure you'll crack it!!

That's fantastic news! I will just give you a really big ((((((((clap)))))))

All the best for maintenance! You are an inspiration to us all.

You are all such lovely people on this forum! After such brilliant comments, I hope I don't let all of you (and myself) down now. I'm not fasting today, which is very unusual, but the demands of antibiotics means no fasting until Thursday - and that will be my one fast this week in the transition to 6:1. To those of you still working towards your gol weight - go for it! Onwards and downwards!

Reaching your goal - that is super. And I am like you - I think I've lost and gained the same set of pounds over the years. I am going to follow your progress and hope to learn a few things to help me keep those pounds I've lost far away from me.

Congratulations on meeting your goal, it must of felt fantastic to post and share with us. I can't wait to reach mine but quite a way off yet, I'm hoping for October but if it's not till Christmas then that will be a lovely present to myself keep us updated on your maintenance as that is more important then anything for all us yoyo dieters who had just thrown in the towel before finding out about this woe and this fantastic forum to help us on our journeys

Congratulations StowgateResident and welcome to the maintainers club!

I don't find maintaining so very different from losing. I do a mix of 5:2 and 6:1 and generally I am still quite conscious of what I am eating. Recently had a bout of food poisoning and lost a few pounds so I am now a bit under target - but am thinking I might try and keep them in reserve for the coming fortnight in Italy!

I wasn't a yo-yo dieter before 5:2, more of a no-no in fact, but I was steadily if slowly gaining. In my case maintaining at my new lower weight feel sustainable but different to my eating habits beforehand. Healthier food and less of it, generally, but nothing is forbidden - that's what's so great about 5:2.

What it isn't, for me, is back to eating what I like whenever I like and however much I like. I am restricting my eating modestly and I think sustainably, but I am still conscious of the restriction, I'm sorry to report.

Thank you, Dominic, I am very pleased to have joined your club! I think (hope) that maintenance will work this time because the way in which I have lost weight is so different. I haven't weighed and written down every morsel of food, calculated calories, obsessed about the number of calories in a lettuce leaf etc - at least not since the end of the third week when I decided that things had to change. Over the weeks I have become more comfortable with the idea that I can eat cake, biscuits, puddings, meals out, wine, chocolate etc, without it sabotaging my weight loss.

On previous diets I have, either binged hugely and then continued eating for England or, if I did reach my target weight, managed to eat sensibly for a few weeks but then gradually my greed would cause the portion sizes to increase and my consumption of high calorie foods to rocket! This time I am hoping that one fast day a week will help me to be more mindful of my consumption during the rest of the week and, if I should gain a few pounds, then a few extra fasts will see that surplus disappear.

Only time will tell if my optimism has any foundation but I will keep everyone updated on how I get on!

Well done so pleased for u! V interested to know how u get on with maintenance so keep us posted.....