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Personally, I give myself the two days that need or crave the extra food. I ended up going over by 900 cal in 2 days. Not my finest days. But I made sure to have a 600 IF day after, when I felt more like myself. I will balance it out through the rest of the week and make my daily walk a little longer. I am not going to…

What about getting your family involved with dinner? Have 1 kid pick a night for dinner AND dishes, your other kid pick another, your husband the third. Then you all would be sharing the chore of dinner time. Set a reasonable time for your family-schedule pending of course-and say this is dinner. That way there will be no…

I do IF 5:2, and I have found the day after a fast day I can only eat about 800 or so calories. However, the day after that I am starving and want piles of junk food. I have found that between the two days, it really evens out where I will be at of a little lower than my 1400 daily food allotment. Usually lower, but…

In the past I just wrote a note under food notes. It seemed to do the job.

I am in! I would like to loose 20 lbs by Christmas. Please add me to your group!

I have what I call junk food nights with my boys once maybe twice a month. Ice cream, buttered popcorn, blueberry danish, powered sugar donut holes is what I had the other night. I just keep my portions smaller, and save my calories for the night. I enjoy every bite. I also have a fast day afterwards just in case.

Here is a good question. You can run it, but can you start AND finish running 26.2 miles? Try it on your own first and see how you do.......lol.

I had the same problem for a while. I was doing t25 and running and eating (what I thought) was less calories. I recently started intermittent fasting (5:2) and started losing weight. So it came down to I was eating too much. So maybe try 5:2 for a week or two and see if that gets the scale started. Then go from there,…

Yes. SW 173 CW 170 GW 140. You can add me if you like. :)

I am new to the IF stuff. I just finished week 1 of it, and have lost 2lbs, after weeks of no real results (mostly because I had a lot of issues correctly tracking my food intake, or 'cheated' by not adding in stuff that I was too embarrassed to admit.). So far, I am excited about this. There are 3 issues that I have…

Also, most dollar stores are not too bad. Pastas, sauces are good. Some dollar stores even have a frozen section.

One thing that I found was helpful was shopping the outside rim of the store first, then get my frozen veggies. I found that if I know I have frozen food, I do not spend as much time in the middle isles. I live in a small town. So it is a choice of getting a bag of chips or a bag of fresh carrots, the price is about the…

So the fast day is not as easy as it sounds. Lol. 3 hours to power through until bed. I only went 105 over the 500 so for my 1st day doing this I am super proud of myself. I have a better idea on how to plan for the next time. ☺ Thanks again to everyone for your help and ideas!

I am not a coffee person, but hot chocolate might be a good substatute....I will have to check. Thanks for the idea amusedmonkey.

Wonderful advice everyone, thank you. Today is my first fast day, and I did join the group for 5:2. It looks like I will be keeping myself massivly busy to keep my mind off of food. Lol. Tea sounds like a wonderful alternative to help keep my mind off of it. Day 1 is always the hardest. I do like how flexable this is. ☺

Also, what if you accidently go over on a fast day? Would you just switch it to the next day or add in exercise to make up the difference?

Thank you everyone for your replies. I am going to give this a try and see how it goes. Fingers crossed that I have the same amazing results as everyone else! And it is good to know that the days don't have to be seaperated. One final question, what about exercise? Do you skip it or keep it as a short or light workout?

Fast days have to be nonconsecutive though. So, say, on tuesday and thursday.

Just to be clear, it is fasting two days a week, then the other five eating like normal. 500 calories on fast days for women, and 600 for men. I have issues with saying no to late night snacking and am hoping that this will help.

It is not just you. I have been doing t25, started in the winter, and have noticed a few pounds difference (7 pounds only) However, since I added running now that it is nice out again, I have noticed inches lost. So maybe try more cardio, and have your strength training only 2-3 days a week?

I would like to join. I always have trouble (read give up, or try other exercises) around week 4 of alpha. Having a group to do it with will help. I will start today.

Ms. Manners addressed inappropriate questions in one of her colums and it has stuck with me. I have used it, and it works. "An icy 'I beg your pardon?' and look directly at that person and wait for their responce." Or if you are feeling slightly evil, you could ask them an inappropriate question (how much do you weigh,…

Dannon and Choib. (Spelling, it was mentioned earlier) with fruit on the bottom is good as long as it is mixed up. There are 100 calorie options for this as well, but they are still high in protien.

I put in a workout dvd with my 2.5 year old. Now he does it with me, which is sooo funny. Lol. (His squats are the best) If you have a playpen put your young one in that next to where you are working out. That is what I did when he was younger, and it worked out well since he was in the same room. Good luck, and just find…

I have it. I do have trouble sticking with it because you repeat the same dvds for 5 weeks. Then another set of dvds for 5 more weeks. I have felt a difference, it is hard work, but I just get bored with it. Maybe if I stuck with it more, I would have noticed more of a body difference. I did notice a stamina difference,…

Day 1 done.

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Get a heart rate monitor to be accurate in calories burned, weigh food, eat more fruits & veggies.....any other suggestions, otherwise I will give this a try over the next few weeks and hopefully I will start to see a difference. Thank you everyone for your help!!! =)

Sounds good. I will try that. Thanks for the help. (The lasagne was eating at my In-Law's house with some leftovers.....) So more fruit and veggies.

I am doing the 30 day shred (has some strength training in it). Plus I have recently added jogging every other day into my exercising as well. (Some days I do both-like today). Plus everyonce in a while I will find a random video on YouTube and I will do that at night too, but I do not know how many calories I burn when I…