Well done Peter and wife on adapting this lifestyle!
It sounds as if you have already made a great start and will do really well as you have planned your meals in advance. Keep us posted on your progress!
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Auriga wrote: If you ever get the idea that a pound (or even half a pound a week) isn't much weight loss go and stare at a pound of butter.
peebles wrote: I'm in week 9 of my 5:2 diet, and I am finding that the weight loss tracks exactly to the calorie deficit created on the fast days, after figuring that losing 1 lb of body fat requires a deficit of 3500 calories.
So since it only takes a pathetic 1500+ calories a day to run my small, elderly, body, and since I'm eating about 425 calories on my fast days, I'm losing 1/2 lb a week.
For someone younger and larger, who burns 2000 calories or more each day, the deficit caused by fasting will be significantly larger, so they will lose more.
Men typically burn a lot more calories each day than women, too, which is why I have come to be deeply suspicious of the "easy weight loss" claims found in diet books written by men whose entire experience with dieting turns out to be losing 10 or 20 lbs.
Where is the diet book written by a middle aged woman who has lost 50 lbs and kept it off for 5 years?
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