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Our Frequently Asked Questions topic will answer many of your fasting & weight loss questions!
If you're new and have a question or need some advice, please give us as much information as you can about your situation in order for us to be able to help you as best we can. For example, it's helpful to know your BMI/weight, how much you want to lose, any medical conditions which might affect your weight and (if you've started fasting already) how you do your fasts in terms of splitting up your calories, what you eat etc. Thanks!
Don't be disheartened, it really is still early days for you and some folks do find that they lose in the first week and then the body adjusts for a week or two with not so much loss or a little regain (usually to do with fluid retention). I also find that when it's that time of the month I tend not to lose anything, perhaps you've had one of those weeks amongst the 3 you've done?
When you have less to lose it will tend to come off more slowly, and if you're not eating much on your feed days your body may be storing as much as it can as fat, thinking you are in a famine.
If you tell us a bit more about how you fast we might be able to offer some more tips. How you do split your cals & with what sort of foods? What time(s) do you eat your meal(s) on fast days? When do you start & finish your fast? Are you very active?
I have had 2 think really it would be better to weigh once a month, but i know few of us can resist jumping on the scales even although it might only be weekly.
Its 2weeks since my first loss and have stuck, but my waist measurement is down considerably, and my clothes are feeling much looser.
I had kind of a fat roll on one side of my back, and noticed this morning it's almost gone!
I try on a pair of trousers I couldn't get in to every weigh in day. At first there was a huge gap in the middle and I struggled to even get them on....today I managed to do up the button.
So although I haven't lost on the scale I know something is definitely happening.
Hang on in there. Remember slow and steady and all that. Hopefully next week you'll be rejoicing in a loss.
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http://www.johnsonupdaydowndaydiet.com/ ... -diet.html
It might be worth a look? hope it helps.
I am sorry that you feel that you are getting nowhere but, in fact, you have lost an average of more than one pound a week, over three weeks, which is greater than the one pound a week forecast of weight loss, which the book makes and it is an absolutely brilliant loss! In addition, you don't have much weight to lose and most people would acknowledge that the less you have to lose, the more slowly it is likely to come off. You only have six pounds to go before you reach your target - so you are nearly halfway already!
From your WW experience, you will know that weight loss isn't even. I can remember weeks when I thought that I 'deserved' to lose lots and didn't and weeks when I had no expectations and was pleasantly surprised!
Please don't be disheartened - and keep going with 5:2! This is a brilliant way of eating and eventually may also provide you with a way of maintaining your target weight (by going to 6:1) so that your lost weight never gradually comes back to take you by surprise!
All the best and keep us posted on your progress!
Good luck and well done for being so determined!
StowgateResident wrote: Nothing's ever straight forward, is it?! If I were you I would stick with the 500c on fast days, as recommended on the 5:2 diet. myfitnesspal.com suggested an intake of 1200 calories per day for me (I am very sedentary and take very little exercise at all!) and I try to keep to that on feed days. So far it is working!
Good luck and well done for being so determined!
Hey, can I just add and say that the Myfitnesspal app although it is fab, it will tell the vast majority of people that they need 1200 calories to lose weight, I have been on other websites and it is more like 1600for me personally, but everybody is different guess we have just got to see what works best for us as only we truly know our bodies.
I have actually been trying to keep to 1450 on my feed days rather than 1200, although that still makes my average calorie intake for the week fairly low. I will see how I get on at that. I just felt that 1200 calories would feel like a diet every day, which is what I am trying to avoid. It means a whole new way of thinking for me - I have counted calories for so long (on & off - of course) it is a hard habit to overcome!
gillyl1967 wrote: the link rachel sent says i should eat 1900 calories but only have 400 on fast days (help!!!). i aim to lose an another 10lbs on top of what i have lost already so a bit to go yet! family wedding/holiday and hubbys 50th this year - no pressure!!!!
With that calculator you select what your calorie restriction on fast days will be so if you choose 20% you would get 380 on fast days based on 1900 on normal days, if you choose 25% you would get 475. The 5:2 diet is based on having a 25% reduction on fast days, so that's 475.
Try this calculator: http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
In the advanced options you can choose different ways of calculating TDEE so you can see that the amount varies depending on the method. Unless the % body fat is known, the methods have to take a guess at your body fat, this leads to the variation in predicted amounts.
I would start with the most generous TDEE as your feast day allowance. Keep a rough tally of what you are eating on feast days and see how far you are off these figures on average. Keep to a quarter of the allowance for fast days. If no weight loss after a month, I'd assume that the TDEE was not accurate and use a lower one for a month. I find the http://www.fatsecret.co.uk website (which is v similar to the myfitnesspal one) useful because I track my calories (very roughly) and can see that over the week I am averaging 1500 cals a day which is enough for weight loss. It's better to look at the overall calorie restriction over the weeks because it allows you so much more flexibility than trying to hit some special target every day.
You're basically starving yourself if you mix the two(averaging 700 cals a day) and your body does actually need some fuel to function properly.
Have many of you on here measured your results in body fat rather than weight loss at all?
If you have what sort of results have you been seeing? As much as I would like to lose weight, losing circumference and body fat are far more important to me. I have seen a small loss already and been doing this 5:2 for 2 weeks. I have also started lifting weights again at the gym at the same time so wasn't expecting much weight loss but I'm 4-5 lbs down (prob water weight as mentioned many times before) but still!
I've lost around 1% body fat in the last 2 weeks. (Only another 10% to go!)
So any body fat measurements out there?
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