Has This Happened To You?

flossyruby1

Hi everyone!! So happy to read all of your successes this week!! Keep up the great work! I've been a pretty consistent follower of the 5:2 plan for a year and a half. Two FD 's a week suit me fine, but I occasionally add an extra day. I find, however, that this almost causes more problems than not. I find I don't notice a greater loss after 3 FD and feel somehow that it sets me back a bit and makes things harder. I definitely find my willpower weakened because I get way hungrier trying to do 3 vs sticking to 2. I'm just curious, for those of you who do/have done 3 FD what your experience has been?

flumi_f

Yup. I tend to overcompensate, when I have three fasts in a week or just one day between fasts. As my deficite on a good fast day is only 1000-1200cals, an additional fast day doesn't increase my weekly deficit much, while still causing my body to yell for more food on non fast days.

Thus with my restart and better mindset this week, I'm sticking to Mo/Th fasts and staying 100-300cals below maintainance on the other week days. That gives me a bit of extra for the weekend, without undoing my fast days completely. Looking to relose the 7kg I gained as I was a bit cocky, stressed and unmotivated since last summer.

feisty_bucket

Yeah, ADF gets to be a drag pretty quickly, IMO. I've done two weeks of it and found it getting tedious and my exercising was getting compromised too much.

I'm generally maintaining. But if I were in some long-term weightloss plan, I'd switch back and forth between 5:2 and 4:3 and full rests depending on mood.

dryheatfitness

I have same impact when, due to social calendar, do my 2 fasts with just 1 day in between. I am over hungry, I over eat and/or drink calories I wouldn't have (Frappucino!) And my exercise sucks!

I've even eaten breakfast the next day and gotten nauseated! I think because I eat too much, too soon and I go for the rich stuff (bacon egg burrito) and not what I should eat (like yogurt or oatmeal).

Having 2 days between fasts, then 3 before my next week starts seems the perfect pattern to keep life even, workouts strong, and general energy levels up.