Same here. I have plateaued but did not start the plan for losing weight in the first place more of a lifestyle change + cycling should maintain health.
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Same here. I have plateaued but did not start the plan for losing weight in the first place more of a lifestyle change + cycling should maintain health.
Well, I'm pretty skinny these days. I used to have big(ish) arms and shoulders from swimming and martial arts, but these days it's just biking so I have skinny arms and no shouldersI am pretty much built like a cyclist these days.
I am a cyclist who's built like a swimmer, I wish I could shift some of the muscle from my arms and shoulders!
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
It's not being starved of food - you just restrict yourself to a reduced calorie intake for 2 days a week. It's the way we ate in times gone by - we feasted in the good times and fasted in the lean times. It's simply eating less for a couple of days. I've had no problems & no ill-efffects when doing my 20 mile round-trip on the bike on my fasting days.
Various 'fasting' diets were examined in a Horizon programme by Michael Moseley, and each was pretty rigorously examined by medics for effects on the body. Seems to have been positively beneficial.
Certainly working for me - I'm the lightest I've been for about 6 years, having dropped over a stone since the end of Feb with still another stone to go before I get back into the non-obsese BMI category
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
My new one is a little loose now!!Your CC tops will all fit again !
Plus:
- I can now wear my Endura Humvee 3/4-length shorts that I bought last year. They have a popper instead of a button, and last year it kept popping open when I bent over whilst trying them on. No problems with that now.
- Two more holes had to be put in one of my belts at the weekend to keep my jeans up.
- Uberuce said he didn't recognise me from last year because I was slimmer, and PuzzleCycles was complimenting me on looking very diffferent from last year at POP.
- The biggest compliment was that magnatom didn't poke fun at me for being overweight this year, so I knew I was making progress!
gavgav
Legendary Member
Glad it works for you, but just not for me. I am not myself in a morning until I've had breakfast and a cup of tea.
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
I still have a cuppa along with a yoghurt full on fresh blueberries for breakfast!
Curious though - why read & comment on a fasting thread if you're not intending on fasting? Secretly longing to give it a go?
jazzkat
Fixed wheel fanatic.
- Location
- The Cumbrian Riviera
In many ways that's the beauty of this regime. Have all your calories for breakfast if you want, or maybe most of them and save some for later. You won't starve to death in a few hours. Yes, at first it may seem a bit uncomfortable. It's unusual to feel so empty if you are used to having a full tum, but I reckon it's much easier to do than a traditional diet as you don't completely deny your food cravings (setting yourself up for failure), you just have it tomorrow instead
But, each to their own
gavgav
Legendary Member
I still have a cuppa along with a yoghurt full on fresh blueberries for breakfast!
Curious though - why read & comment on a fasting thread if you're not intending on fasting? Secretly longing to give it a go?
As mentioned in previous post, it seems to be all the rage in our office and so was a topical thread for me
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
Ah, OK! It's well worth a go if you ever want to try and lose some weight. First 'diet' I've ever tried in my 45 years and it's very easy way to do.
gavgav
Legendary Member
I have always had the opposite problem, i.e. needing to put weight on!! However recently I seem to be starting with the over 35 age spread (i.e. too much beer = growing midrift
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goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
I have fond memories of joining my current doctors' surgery in the early 90s, getting a physical and being told I was underweight and should eat lots of peanuts & drink lots of Guinness to put some weight on.I have always had the opposite problem, i.e. needing to put weight on!! However recently I seem to be starting with the over 35 age spread (i.e. too much beer = growing midrift
How times have changed.....
The Fast Diet recipe book: Mimi Spencer and Sarah Schenker.
Buy it! I'm a real (ok obsessive) foodie and this book is The Business. Lots of calorie counted recipes to work with the 5:2 diet - loads of flavour and textural interest with some interesting spins on low calorie versions of classics. the bouillabaisse with prawns, mussels and white fish (i used monk fish cos i had it in the freezer) was as good as any I've had in a restaurant! @ 163 calories per bucket sized portion.
Buy it! I'm a real (ok obsessive) foodie and this book is The Business. Lots of calorie counted recipes to work with the 5:2 diet - loads of flavour and textural interest with some interesting spins on low calorie versions of classics. the bouillabaisse with prawns, mussels and white fish (i used monk fish cos i had it in the freezer) was as good as any I've had in a restaurant! @ 163 calories per bucket sized portion.
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
Sounds interesting! I've pretty much stuck with the same food on every fast day since February. Then again, I do like a 1/2 tin of tomato soup with Louisiana Hot Sauce dribbled into it before a nice big salad anyway, so I've yet to get bored with it!
