Happy FatDog July monthly weigh-in:
previous weight 1st June: 139.6 lbs (63.3 kilos)
current weight 6th July: 131.2 lbs (59.5 kilos)
previous waist 1st June: 31.5 inches (80.01 cm)
current waist 6th July: 28.5 inches (72.4 cm)
weight lost is 8.4 lbs (3.8 kilos) June - July
waist lost is 3 inches (7.6 cm) June - July
Gosh! Not so far off the 58 kilos I was aspiring to hopefully at the start of last month. This really is do-able.
I attribute most of this weight loss to the synergy between low-carbing and fasting; although my 'experiment' has only been running for less than two weeks, it would appear that the two approaches together are quite definitely 'much greater than the sum of their parts'.
With 4:3 alone I was shifting just under a pound a week; with low-carb (can only guestimate from feed days) I would probably have been losing about a pound and a half a week, perhaps a little more; with 4:3 and low-carb combined I lost 3.6 pounds in the first week and 3 pounds in the first five days of the second week = 6.6lbs (3 kilos).
Not quite QED but I'm sticking with it (I know others are getting losses of 3 kilos a month or more from 5:2 alone, but sadly I wasn't - nor did I when I tried this in the summer last year)!
I've been journaling this 'experiment' daily here with weights and calories / carbs etc. and the odd recipe:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6427 .
I will probably do so less frequently after the end of my second week as I'm getting very little feedback (it's probably tl;dr), with a few honourable exceptions (you know who you are, thank-you), and feel as though I'm rather 'whistling in the wind'.
Onwards and downwards!! FatDog.