Progress on 5:2 diet/alternate day fasting

thanks everyone - The "diet" is the simplest I have ever tried - always had weight to lose in my adult life and seemed to have tried everything but never managed to stick to it..

this hardly needs any willpower as you only have to "suffer" for one day then the next you can eat what it was you really wanted..I dont stick rigidly to the 600 calories - sometimes I go over by anything between 10 - 100 especially if i have done exercise that day..

The weight loss has slowed now but thats understandable - i am still losing about 1-2lb per week which considering i still manage to drink alcohol 1 or two days a week - have fry ups once per week - indian or chinese on occasions i cant complain - It means i can still eat cakes and pastrys on occasions...the weight loss so far is only since january 6th - and in that time i have been on vacation for two weeks where i didn't restrict myself at all and a number of weekends away too...

the only other thing i now do is exercise - 3 times a week - just cardio - usually treadmill and cross trainer - started just walking but now do a little running - nothing dramatic - 10 - 15 minutes at 5-6mph - not bad considering i couldnt wal on it for more than 5 minutes at 2.5 mph without getting out of breath...

my blood pressure is right down at normal level - in fact at one stage was too low and i have had one of my blood pressure meds taken off me - my blood glucose is back at non diabietic levels - all be it controlled by drugs but again i had one diabetic table reduced to one a day and another from 3 to two a day so getting there....