5:2 / intermittent fasting

katifer2022
katifer2022 Posts: 1 Member
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Hi! Looking to lose 2 stone to get back into a healthy weight range. Anyone else on 5:2 or intermittent fasting, feel free to add me! Today is my first day and my belly is growling for breakfast 🤣😭

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  • DazzlinDarlene
    DazzlinDarlene Posts: 1 Member
    Thanks sijomial, I did not think of that when I set up my profile for the 5:2. I will go back in and fix it. That's a very important point. Hello katifer2022, my son and I both started the 5:2 today also. We've been trying the keto diet on and off for about two years now with no weight loss kept off. It's just so hard to stay on the keto diet with it being restrictive and eating so much meat and fat. I was raised vegetarian, but I do eat meat now, it's just hard to eat so much as you need to on the keto diet. It also seem to require me to cook so much. I love to cook and I'm a "stay at home mom", but it still was a lot of pressure. Also, my husband wasn't on the keto diet with my son (22 yr old) and I, so I had to cook two different meals as he didn't want to eat keto. I have 124lb. to lose. My son has 142lb. to lose. I'm thinking of going Premium so I can adjust Monday and Thursday's calories down, but not sure yet. Do you have the free version or the Premium? If you have the Premium, do you think it's worth the $9.99/month? I wish you good luck on your 5:2 diet too!
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,142 Member
    DazzlinDarlene wrote: »
    Thanks sijomial, I did not think of that when I set up my profile for the 5:2. I will go back in and fix it. That's a very important point. Hello katifer2022, my son and I both started the 5:2 today also. We've been trying the keto diet on and off for about two years now with no weight loss kept off. It's just so hard to stay on the keto diet with it being restrictive and eating so much meat and fat. I was raised vegetarian, but I do eat meat now, it's just hard to eat so much as you need to on the keto diet. It also seem to require me to cook so much. I love to cook and I'm a "stay at home mom", but it still was a lot of pressure. Also, my husband wasn't on the keto diet with my son (22 yr old) and I, so I had to cook two different meals as he didn't want to eat keto. I have 124lb. to lose. My son has 142lb. to lose. I'm thinking of going Premium so I can adjust Monday and Thursday's calories down, but not sure yet. Do you have the free version or the Premium? If you have the Premium, do you think it's worth the $9.99/month? I wish you good luck on your 5:2 diet too!

    If that's all you're looking for premium for - a work around would be using the Quick Add function to add food for the amount you want to reduce by on those days, and eating only what you have "remaining" after that.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    DazzlinDarlene wrote: »
    Thanks sijomial, I did not think of that when I set up my profile for the 5:2. I will go back in and fix it. That's a very important point. Hello katifer2022, my son and I both started the 5:2 today also. We've been trying the keto diet on and off for about two years now with no weight loss kept off. It's just so hard to stay on the keto diet with it being restrictive and eating so much meat and fat. I was raised vegetarian, but I do eat meat now, it's just hard to eat so much as you need to on the keto diet. It also seem to require me to cook so much. I love to cook and I'm a "stay at home mom", but it still was a lot of pressure. Also, my husband wasn't on the keto diet with my son (22 yr old) and I, so I had to cook two different meals as he didn't want to eat keto. I have 124lb. to lose. My son has 142lb. to lose. I'm thinking of going Premium so I can adjust Monday and Thursday's calories down, but not sure yet. Do you have the free version or the Premium? If you have the Premium, do you think it's worth the $9.99/month? I wish you good luck on your 5:2 diet too!

    @DazzlinDarlene

    Premium didn't exist when I did it but it really wasn't an issue.
    I set my goal to "maintain current weight" and ate the suggested calories plus exercise calories on the 5 normal eating days and simply ate to 600 cal of food on the 2 low eating days. A bit of red on a screen didn't disturb me.

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