5:2 diet

Hi,
anyne trying this diet I started monday, mangaged 700 cals today 2nd fast day made veg curry for dinner having glorious skinny soup for lunch 238 cals. I would like some tips etc and advice please thanks

Hi,
I have been doing 5:2 for 4 months now, this is what i can tell you from my experience
1. Limit it to exact 600 cal by eating more mass but less cal.
-for B/F i drink Tea and 350 gms of Guava , tea wid skimmed milk n sugar free
- 12.00 a cup of tea
- For Lunch and Dinner : 150gms of Carrot, 150 gmsCauliflower/Brocolli, 50 gms of pea , with ginger n green chilli and salt to taste , great the veggies ,mix em all up n then microwave or u can stir fry with a bit of olive oil , tastes heaven
- tea at 6pm and 8.30 pm

this is how i manage my day

2. You might have experience headaches by evening , they'll remain ...sorry for that but yes drinking a good amount of water helps

3. This Diet works , it did for me , all the best

I've tried it for two days this week, sticking to 500 cals. Didn't find it too bad but needs preplanning, especially as I wanted to maintain reasonable protein and fibre intake on those days as well.

Fish seems to be about the best low cal protein, I used cod and haddock. And loads of low calorie veg/salads - tomatoes, asparagus, artichokes, cucumber, portabella mushrooms, spinach, beetroot were what I used, raw, steamed or roasted with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, or %fat Greek yoghurt as dressings. Egg whites seem quite a good option too, making omlettes a possibility although I haven't tried that yet.

I drank lots of water and green tea. Soup's good as it can be very filling for the calories involved! I had small amounts of brown rice and pasta as well.

So far I've found two well spaced meals and some snacks work best for me.

I didn't feel hungry apart from the afternoon of the second day, when I hadn't had enogh calories or protein in the first meal as I made the mistake of "saving up" for a bigger meal later - better to spread it out I think and avoid getting really hungry.

Good luck!

^^^ Good thinking. I like quorn, stirfried with mushrooms. I'll try try that next time...

I've been planning, I think curried cauliflower and baked layered aubergine and tomato with a parmesan topping could be good tasty low cal options too.

This way of eating is not cheap.

Fresh, wholesome food costs more than processed junk. For example you can get 24
Donuts for £2 in Asda or 6 vine ripened tomatoes...

My meals do cost more because I use fresh ingredients and I do have to shop more frequently as shelf life is always a factor

I buy quorn when it's 3 for £5 and stock my freezer. I do love a full fridge and freezer thou.

The fast days are equally not cheap for me as I have to carefully plan and prepare 500 cals worth of food. I guess if I were to eat repetitive meals but I like to create new things everyday.

I swear if I wasn't vegetarian I would be overweight. Too much temptation towards a quick easy fatty snack. As it is, my downfalls are cheese and butter. I am pretty much totally excluding butter and I have been buying cheese in slices. Jarlsberg and Leerdamer have around 50c per slice and taste great too.

I am surprised that I haven't lost more weight doing this fasting diet but it does inhibit my tendency to over eat at night for three days of the week.

I eat the majority of my calories after 6 and never used to eat breakfast. I am slowly changing my lifestyle.

Five days "normal" calorie intake, two days 500 cal.

There are different names Intermittent fasting, Alternate Day Diet, Alternate Fast The number of days you restrict is up to you.

I am following a 4:3 and have been for the last six weeks.

Lunch was 1 egg scrambled with small amount milk, 1 vine tomato, spinach and 50g mushrooms.

It came in at 106 k

400 left !! )

I plan to eat 5:2 for the rest of my life.

There will of course be occasions where I do not fast at all but the IF way of eating makes me appreciate food more when I eat it. Everything tastes better.

I will be increasing calories on the other days to maintain weight when I reach my goal. Which is only 4lbs away. I lost 8 lbs in one month with no additional exercise on this plan.

One week I ate half a cake!!

I was 10.8 ish to begin and 10 stone now so for those of us who don't have mega weight to lose this way of restriction might shift those last pounds.

I feel I should explain, I started doing this with my partner who has more weight than me to lose but finds 1000-1200 cal a day diets too hard to stick to. So she cheats.
On this diet she is sticking to her 500 cals for three days and not cheating enough on off days to undo the deficit. I think it is difficult for people with a lot of weight to lose if they don't see results fast.

Also, lets face it, most people didn't get fat by eating too little.

I want us to be happy and healthy and proud that we have will power and can achieve.

Diet is personal. What works for you may not work for me, not because our bodies are different... Because our minds are