Starting the 5:2 diet tomorrow - help!

I don't think that is too healthy. You should try something along the lines of a lifestyle change rather than a quick change. Add better nutrition to your diet and drink 8-10 glasses of water a day. Rather than staving yourself for a day. You should never eat less than 1200 calories a day for woman and 1600 calories for men (Jillian Michaels) Good luck in whatever you decide

To me, I can understand that you don't want to count your calories every day, but to me being on a diet is a short fix and doesn't help with understanding food better. For example, I bought a kitchen scales and couldn't believe how small a 30g portion of cereal was. I kind of realise where i was over eating. I have now been using my fitness pal for 9 weeks and I have lost 19 pounds. I have 21 pounds to go until i am at my ideal weight.

Counting calories really ain't that bad, because when you have the my fitness pal app on your phone it becomes so easy and the previous food entries are saves, which shortens the time it takes. Using my fitness pal, doesn't make you feel like your on a diet, so it enables you to still eat the foods you want. I think the best thing about it is that you can link other exercise apps with my fitness pal, and i have now started to use it when I'm walking, to count the calories i have burnt.

But im sure you know what the app offers, but still i would say give the app a go, you have nothing to lose cause it free.
Plus usually doing a diet means you have to buy foods of low calories, which half the time are really pricey. Dont get me wrong I've tried almost every diet, meat diet, cambridge diet, cayenne pepper diet, Atkins diet, cabbage diet, and let me tell you the minute i stopped those diets, i ballooned in size, cause i never learnt portion size or limitations and i believe my fitness pal teaches you limitations. My advise is get the app on your phone and try it out.

Cause when i was on the cambridge diet, i could only eat 500 calories in the day and i was starving all day every day. I would advise if your an active person, never try a diet that only has 500 calories a day, not worth the health problems. And don't get me started on weight watchers, i lost 6 pounds in 5 weeks, soon as i stopped i ballooned 10 pounds heavier. The problem with WW is that you still don't really learn portion size because you focus more on points and how much you can have, then you have to buy WW calculators to convert calories into points. My fitness pal makes it so easy because on your phone you can just scan items barcode like drinks and add it so quickly to your food diary. You can also add friends and motivate each other and give your own advise to each other. I use it with my mother in law, i think adding friends, enables you to be completely honest with where your going wrong.


Anyways i think i've ranted on enough, i have no reason to sell the app to you, all i know is i lose weight every week, and the app is almost 100 percent right about my estimated weight lose every week and when i add exercise i lose even more. Its definitely been my miracle for weight lose. I wish you luck with whatever you decide to do. Please remember losing weight should be done in a healthy way and should be a life style change instead of a quick fix because you will see you will never say at the right weight and will have to always starve yourself.

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I am thinking of trying this. My problem is that I lift heavy weights 3x a week. I know I need to fuel my workouts. The day after my workout probably needs to be the light calorie day but I am STARVING from the previous day's workout! LOL Summer means boats, seadoos and rum punch on the weekend so I have got to get some control during the week!!

^ What you said.