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I am documenting it on MFP wall, so will send you a friends request 😁. I have moved onto to the 2nd diet today.

All of the scientific studies I have read on it, comment on the amount of energy you get. I don’t eat breakfast and haven’t done for years, so I do go longer than most without food, between 12-16hrs and maintained a previous weight loss doing this (trying out a new style of dieting to lose some more weight currently, so I…

@mithion, a lot of people on here are so judgemental if you are not following the plan they are doing. They don’t see that different plans work for different people (my post got a lot of slating too 😂). I don’t know where you are based, but if you can find it, the BBC in the U.K. did a documentary on intermittent fasting…

“I should be posting this in the maintenance forum”..... why? I am aiming to lose now not to maintain and starting a new regime.. your point is not valid. “This post is unsupportive, unhelpful and misleading”. My original post was only asking if anyone else had done it or something similar out of interest, at no point have…

@tmoneyag99.. that's what I do every week, week in week out.. I don't yoyo and have maintained a previous weight loss for 3 years.. so I know a healthy sustainable diet.. but I'm bored, I don't always want to always plan, I want to mix it up a bit, see what the different diets are all about and give it 2 and half months to…

@Anniebotnen, I think I will have no problem maintaning afterwarda as I have maintained my current weight for the last three years following a loss of 48lbs. Its generally a low fat healthy diet, but funnily enough it is quite high in carbs (so opposite to yours, which is fascinating and just shows that different regimes…

@kimny72 totally understand and any feedback is good and welcome, it's the "calorie counting is the only one that works" comments. I am no newbie to dieting, as said previous I lost a lot of weight a few years back (not cal counting) and have kept most of it off. I got to a point where I was happy but bored and stopped…

I have no criticism of cal counting if it works for you, fab! What I do find on here is everyone is critical if anyone trys anything else because cal counting doesn't work for them (and for many people it doesn't otherwise there wouldnt be so many failures) like i said before, i am fitting each diet to my lifestyle for…

Haha.. thank you ❤. I am documenting my journey on Instagram, more for my own reference than anything else to see how I felt on it etc. I am going to sum each diet up with weight lost, how faffy it was, difficulty in doing it and would I do it again! Don't think I will document it on here.. it's blinkers on and calorie…

I think he started with this one on the basis that he had had 2 heavy eating days preceding starting the diet.. so effectively did 2 days heavy, 2 days fast, 3 days heavy 😁

Thanks for all the comments, I am day 4 today of the 5:2 diet, still loving it and great not having to feel guilty and calorie count when out for lunch with friends today 😁and i don't have the dreaded fasting days to come as looking forward to switching plans on Friday (Out for coffee and cake tomorrow, hence why this diet…

I am aiming to be in cal deficit with most of them, will be using fitbit to monitor activity (smashing my goals at the min!) and I know I will get swings.. so will weigh daily anyway to see how this pans out. It's the geek in me wanting to try them all and do a bit of sn experiment, as I said previously, I lost 48lbs and…

Don't get me wrong, I know cal counting works as do other diets..I lost over 48lbs a few years ago and kept a good chunk of it off doing a diet by slimming world where there is no calorie counting. I am not aiming to lose that amount and he was a large male who lost a lot initially then settled down to a more regular loss…

Because it's interesting... It will keep me motivated as let's face it.. Plain calorie counting can get boring after a while and doesn't always fit in with life in general...and I am curious to try them all as you read so much about them in the media. I also want to see if I like a particular one more than others and if I…

Aww.. sorry to hear that.. I am going to try and monitor if I stay in deficit too and also getting regular exercise in too.. only 80 days in my case to trial this and see if it works for me x

I have followed a low fat diet before and got bored and at times it didn't fit in with my lifestyle, I figure this way I can pick a diet that fits in with my life that week and roll with it. I also have a fitbit and can keep an eye on calories burned v food eaten and hopefully I will stay in deficit. Long term, I hope as I…

I am from the County Durham in the North East..Happy to be added by anyone as I have no friends using the app 🙄