New Beginning

Meltingangel

Hi all,
After reading lots of success stories about 5:2, I am starting my journey here.

SW: 155.7 lbs
GW: 125 lbs
Height: 5'2.2

My plan for April
1: Saturday / Fasting Day - 500 calories
2: Sunday / 1200 calories
3: Monday /1200 calories
4: Tuesday / Fasting Day - 500 calories
5: Wednesday / 1200 calories
6: Thursday / 1200 calories
7: Friday / 1200 calories

KateNkognito

Hi! Welcome to the group and here is wishing you success!
Your height and weight are pretty similar to mine, so I will give you this word of advice/experience: I think 1200 calories is a bit too low. Your maintenance if you are sedentary should be somewhere between 1600-1700 per day. Fasting cuts out about 2000 per week, plus any activity/exercise you get. This makes about a pound a week loss. Cutting out additional calories on top of that might be a bit too much and send you running to the cupboard for snacks. Just my experience here, I hope this helps.

felineart

Hi! I'm just starting out as well. I'm taking it in smaller steps, I'm not that strong

Meghan509

Hello and welcome.
I am on the newer side. Started a few weeks ago and am following a similar plan. Only I am 5'4" and I am at about 208 pounds as of this AM. I am looking to get down to 175 for now and lower as time goes on...
I am doing light days on Mondays and Thursdays and I am eating around 1500 or a little under on my regular days and to build in a little "cushion" for some weekend splurges such as beer / wine and a meal or two out.
I drink tons of water and green tea with no sugar. I am feeling pretty good with hunger levels on light and regular days I must say. HTH

StrengthOfABear

Hey folks just found the group, had kinda forgot about 5:2 but I've hit a plateau after losing 23lbs so need to shake things up. I need to go away and have a look at the recommendations. I'm currently a little over 13 1/2 stone and I'm 5'3. I'll check in again soon, am currently nursing a dodgy knee (I strained something in it sitting down the other day.....! ) so no cycling this week I'd say and it's been my go to. Hope you are having good weeks. Night.

Meghan509

Hi StrengthofaBear. Welcome. Hope your knee feels better. Hope to see you soon.

StrengthOfABear

Meghan509 wrote: »

Hi StrengthofaBear. Welcome. Hope your knee feels better. Hope to see you soon.

Hey Thanks Meghan, did my first fast today (not ever). Did a bit of reading earlier so feeling a bit better versed. Those inflammation benefits will be sweet! The knee is being a bit bold today but I'm tiger balming it and some light stretches.

How are you finding 5:2?

Meghan509

Glad you are here!
I am the same way. I like to read as much as I can before I start something. I read the Fast Diet book and bought the cook book. Good stuff!

Good luck with your knee. That is no fun... I hear that turmeric is good for fighting inflamation. If you have a Pinterest account, do a search for anti-inflamation smoothies (at least for on your non-light days)!
I have a coworker who's friend is fighting a bad knee and he "cured" it by drinking anti-inflammatory fruit smoothies with turmeric in them.
I am a cancer survivor so there are many health benefits there too for adding turmeric to the diet. I like to sprinkle it on cauliflower and roast it with a little olive oil and spicy paprika. Yummy!

I have to say I am really liking 5:2. My boyfriend is doing it with me, so that helps. We have each other for support or to complain to LOL. But all and all we think it is a great plan and you can really do well on it if you give it a chance. The light days really are not bad... Today is my second light day of the week. No complaints. Had my lunch and am having green tea and water. Tonight I have a hair appointment after work so I won't be able to eat dinner until around 7pm which is good for me. Evenings are when I tend to be hungry. I tend to save a piece of fruit as an emergency or I have a cup of tea at night after dinner. So far so good. Been hovering at 500 or a tad over when you add in my darn coconut palm sugar that I put in my black coffee in the AM.

Hope the rest of your night goes well!

06cindy

I'm 40 and have PCOS. I've always been fit and healthy weight, but I gained about 10 pounds in 2015-2016 and have been working on losing the fluff for a few months without any progress. (Gain 1 / Lose 1, over and over.) I just started IF for 2 days a week to see if it helps! Today was day one and it was actually pretty easy and I felt pretty damn good all day. Looking forward to showing off the muscles I've been building up over the last few months of the gym. I hope to make some supportive friends here.

Meghan509

Hi 06Cindy! Welcome to our group!
Good, I hope this plan works for you. I have found it to be pretty easy and doable as well. And it is working for me, which is awesome. I really can't say that about any other plan in the last year. So go 5:2! LOL
Cool - good for you with the muscles!

Kerdonkas

Hi Meltingangel, my height is 5'2'' and I have customised the calorie intake to 1400 in my profile. Also aiming for 125 lbs as that was the GW that I used a couple of years ago. About 10 lbs have crept on over last winter. I found 1400 was a good target on non fast days, stuck to a maximum of 500 on fast days and usually one day I week I would be nearer to 1800 - 2000 calories. I sit down most of the day, so use the Sedentary settings for activity levels. It worked before (I originally lost 21 lbs) but I'm a bit older (60+) and not expecting such good results in the same time span. Good Luck!