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It works by not eating :) Essentially, you go for a certain period without eating food, and usually drinking water, black coffee, green tea or anything with minimal calories. This can be a period of about 16 hours, up to a week or so. The benefits of this can be to help control your appetite, tap into your body's fat…
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Yes, I've been doing it for almost five months now. No binges, no real problems with hunger, and definitely a lot more energetic than I used to be.
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...and this is why I'm glad I'm too shy to upload any before/ after weight loss images of myself. What a disgraceful practice.
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Pear shaped as well, it's a pain but what can you do. Anyhow, did a weigh in this morning and came in at 150 ibs. I decided to try on a pair of my old jeans which I couldn't get up past mid-thigh two weeks ago when I tried. Even if they weren't comfortable to wear, I managed to get them on, buttoned and fastened, today (if…
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I'm just over half way losing the weight I want to lose now (between 20-35 ibs to go). To be honest I don't even focus on the weight loss anymore. Aside from pre-logging into MFP and making a mental note to drink water it's just something I do now. i think the trick is once you stop making an effort to lose weight and…
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I've been doing alternate day fasting for close to five months, as well as calorie counting. It's working well so far.
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I came to the conclusion when I researched the subject that there was no such thing as starvation mode. I'm hardly an expert, but I got the impression eating too high a deficit for an extended period of time (6 months+) will see your body adapting to this. You'll still lose weight, but your metabolism readjusts to running…
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31 year old female, 5'6 SW: 191 ibs (BMI of 30.9) CW: 151 ibs (BMI of 24.3) GW: 120 ibs (BMI of 19.3) As for Calories... I do alternate day fasting, so eat between 3-500 calories on fast days. On other days I eat to my BMR, so I ate closer to 1500 at the start of my weight loss and just over 1400 now. I try to meet my…
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I'll join you :) I have around 30ish ibs to lose - currently 151 ibs (68.4kg) and looking to a goal weight of roughly 120 ibs (54.4kg), give or take a few pounds. Won't be bikini season for me as I'm from England, but I will brave the long, rainy winter with less insulation than I had last year (that's a good thing, right?…
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I'm still of two minds as to what my ultimate goal weight is. I always just say 120 ibs as it's a nice, round number. I also have a nice memory of weighing 120 exactly, then going jeans shopping and for the first time in my life liking how the lower half of my body looked in changing room mirrors whilst trying them on…
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I have a *lot* of clothes in the range of 6-10 (UK sizes) which I kept even if I never thought I'd fit into them again. I'm glad I kept them as I plan to fit into most of them by the end of the year, but I have a lot more pairs of River Island jeans than I remember. Bigger clothes? Heck yeah. Bar a few comfy things I'll be…
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First off, I really do sympathise with you. I was diagnosed with IBS right in the middle of my A-Levels. It made studying pretty tough going, and having suffered from it for 14 years I know how horrible and uncomfortable it can be. I won't go into too much detail over the things I've tried. But I don't take medication (I…
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Excellent job (also, I just wanted to say your tattoo is gorgeous).
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Eh, I have one blog post on here that's just my recording my losses and what I changed in way of diet, habits, exercise etc each month. No one's commented on it, and to be honest I'd kind of feel awkward if they did, lol, as its just my uninteresting info. I guess my point is personally I use this site as much for my…
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Feel free to add me if you wish (I do alternate day fasting not 5:2, but its close enough).
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I'll be honest: since I started losing weight I rarely feel hungry at all. I finish what I have to eat and enjoy it, but it's very much my eating as I'm *meant* to. I can probably count on one hand how many times I've actually felt hungry before a meal. I just count it as a good thing; no feeling of being deprived and no…
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I'm in. I have a similar weight to lose (currently 152, looking to get to 120 ibs). Best of luck in your goals!
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Yeah, mine seem to happen every 24-25ish days now O.O (just what I needed - more of the damned things!). I even stopped weighing myself monthly, as I tended to weigh in 3-4 days after my ToTM then found after 4 months I was weighing mid-month not end of the month. I weigh weekly now, but my periods are more frequent, but…
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1.What's your goal weight. 120 ibs 2.Why did you choose that goal weight. Because I weighed that in university and liked how I looked at the time :) 3.Do you have more than 1 goal weight. Yep! I break up my weight loss into mini goals of 140 ibs (10 stone), 126 ibs (9 stone) too 4.What's the highest weight you never want…
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"Can be" being the crucial phrase here, and generally its recommended not to fast if you've experienced an eating disorder for that reason. The general consensus is to eat "normally" (ie, your TDEE( on non-fast days, and you're still averaging out at a respectable calorie deficit. I get what you mean, by the way. Excusing…
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Not exactly week two for me (been at this for months now), but good luck. Onwards and downwards.
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My tastes have changed dramatically in the past months. I used to hate black coffee but now I like it, I don't ever really crave the doughnuts or whatever my OH enjoys and am satiated with fruit. When I first tasted green tea I felt I was going to gag (no, I did...I drank the stuff on an empty stomach >.>), and now as long…
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Hang in there, and try to be kind to yourself if you can. Depression is a horrible illness, so you have my sympathies. I hope your losses equal out soon.
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Very well said, and well done on your losses
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I was like that at the start of this year. Last autumn I pretty much hit an all time low in terms of self esteem and not caring about my appearance. By the time last Christmas and New Year rolled round, I had pretty much snapped into the mentality that something needed to change. I don't know why I fixed on losing weight…
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If it's not too late to join I'm in. Currently weighing in at 153 ibs, and looking to weigh 135ish by the end of the year.
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Feel free to add me if you wish to. I'm about half way to my goal, having lost 38 ibs and looking to lose 33 more. Best of luck to the OP and everyone posting here xx. We can do this!
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You look brilliant. Good job, and good luck on your last bit to lose.
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Alcohol free since March of this year :) My plan is to have my first drink when I hit my goal weight (and then stick to *one* drink...)
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Congratulations on your excellent progress so far, and welcome to the site.
