Fasting

[chugsy]

Jumbo Snack a Jacks in Chocolate - 62cals. Break each one up into 4 "biscuits". Helps me to have a "treat". Meals I normally do a tin of soups (200 ish) and a salad with half a smoked mackeral fillet. I'm not bothered with variety on these days and I like mackeral and soup so win win!

 

[jazzkat]

I love chocolate snack a jacks....yum

 

[Garz]

I drink several mugs of tea with skimmed milk during a fasting day, and drink mainly water on a fasting evening.

Is it me or dependent on where you obtain your calorific information but the cals vary severely when it comes to brews. I know there 'mugs' and 'cups' etc however a mcdonalds brew comes in as 10 cals yet also a 'tetley with semi-skimmed' comes in as 40 cals.

Playing devils advocate, Colin could thus blow 200 cals of his quota on 'several' mugs of tea, however if he claims it as a McDonald's beverage then it comes in at merely 50 cals...

 

[ColinJ]

Is it me or dependent on where you obtain your calorific information but the cals vary severely when it comes to brews. I know there 'mugs' and 'cups' etc however a mcdonalds brew comes in as 10 cals yet also a 'tetley with semi-skimmed' comes in as 40 cals.

Playing devils advocate, Colin could thus blow 200 cals of his quota on 'several' mugs of tea, however if he claims it as a McDonald's beverage then it comes in at merely 50 cals...

A litre of skimmed milk contains about 320 cals and lasts me about 4 days so I am only getting about 80 cals/day from milk. I'm not going to bother about that!

Yesterday, I had my skimmed milk in tea ration, plus a small banana, 3 or 4 strawberries, about 1/3 level teaspoon of honey, about 250 mL low fat natural yoghurt, 3 carrots, half a medium-sized head of broccoli, 5 cabbage leaves and a tin of tuna. I'm not going to worry about exactly how many calories that was. I'm sure that is only 1/4-1/3 of my normal daily calorie need and I am happy to count that as a 'fast' in this context.

 

[jazzkat]

I don't think it really matters how accurate the calorie count just that it's a big reduction. After all, some days you will burn off more than others and I'd not sweat over a hundred or so calories.

 

[ColinJ]

The problem with my scales turned out to be a set of duff batteries that only lasted a week! I still think that the scales are under-reading but they are now showing readings in the range 13-9 to 13-11 and I am getting a proper waistline back so I reckon I am below 14 stone even if the scales are giving low readings.

12-2 to 12-4 on these scales (corresponding to a true weight of about 12-6) will do me. That's another 21 lbs to lose on top of the 40-odd that I have lost so far. (The first half of the weight loss happened through illness and the second half through 5:2 fasting.)

I'm feeling and looking a lot better without all that extra blubber to cart about with me. Even being ill and unfit, I could feel how much easier cycling uphill was without it.

 

[The Jogger]

I thought it was my scales that were not working after ten days in Spain but maybe it was the tapas and more tapas. Anyway a few days of the 5:2 and I'm nearly back to were i was. I am looking forward to Ramadan starting this year as a few of my colleagues will be fasting so it will be a bit of support and make mine look easy, which it is really. :-)

 

[ColinJ]

Just to reassure TJ that some of us are still sticking to the 5:2 system ... !

I have settled on an intake of food which is keeping my weight stable while I am not doing much cycling. I will start losing weight again as my weekly mileage increases. Daily readings on my iffy scales currently vary between a low of 13-8 and a high of 13-12. I can live with that, but I am aiming to lose another 15-20 pounds by summer 2014.

Keep it up, y'all!

 

[The Jogger]

Thanks for that reassurance no doubt I will be able to sleep now. Cya....

 

[Hicky]

A friend of my wife is trying the fasting diet along with a big upscale on her lifting(along with other classes)....she's putting all sorts of whinging on facebook on the days she isnt eating.....the weight isnt dropping(She and I are aware that muscle is being produced and is heavier than fat).
In addition she is measuring herself(a more accurate way of keeping a record I'd say), personally I'd say it isnt for her but she's convinced it is.

Me, I've set myself a goal of reaching below 73Kg before Oct(next cateory down for Judo), decrease food input slightly and types(already dropped from 2 to 1 sugar in my brews!) and increase sweat output, I'll see where I'm up to in four weeks time.

 

[PK99]

A friend of my wife is trying the fasting diet along with a big upscale on her lifting(along with other classes)....she's putting all sorts of whinging on facebook on the days she isnt eating.....the weight isnt dropping(She and I are aware that muscle is being produced and is heavier than fat).
In addition she is measuring herself(a more accurate way of keeping a record I'd say), personally I'd say it isnt for her but she's convinced it is.

Me, I've set myself a goal of reaching below 73Kg before Oct(next cateory down for Judo), decrease food input slightly and types(already dropped from 2 to 1 sugar in my brews!) and increase sweat output, I'll see where I'm up to in four weeks time.

I found that after an initial rapid weight loss i plateaued for several weeks, but was cutting new holes in my belts. Extra cycling - esp more hills - was visibly adding leg muscle.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I have been doing it once a week since the new year, but I don't eat anything that day. My weight seems to have plateaued too, but maybe it's a two steps forward, one step back sort of thing. I look thinner in the mirror. To get thinner, I would either have to fast another day a week, do lots more training, or give up drink.

 

[The Jogger]

Did my first commute while fasting just to see how it went. I got my fastest time from Hammersmith to Waterloo after a days work, I thought it would be the opposite as I was feeling a bit hungry............trying to stick with the 4:3

 

[jazzkat]

Well, I've been doing 5:2 for a year now and I'm still alive!!!
My weight has pretty much hit the plateau now. I'm 5'11 and weigh just over 11st (72ish Kgs).
I've lost loads of 'spare' around the middle - I'm now in 32inch waist trousers, but still have a little bit of love handle material that could go!
My cycling has improved, in that I can go up hills much better and faster than before. Also my time-trial times have dropped significantly.

I didn't start this to specifically lose weight, rather for the other (as yet unproven) health benefits. The fact that a few months ago blood tests registered in the normal range, despite a history of high cholesterol, makes me think I'm on the right track.
Stick at it peeps!

 

[Ben M]

Well, I've been doing 5:2 for a year now and I'm still alive!!!
My weight has pretty much hit the plateau now. I'm 5'11 and weigh just over 11st (72ish Kgs).
I've lost loads of 'spare' around the middle - I'm now in 32inch waist trousers, but still have a little bit of love handle material that could go!
My cycling has improved, in that I can go up hills much better and faster than before. Also my time-trial times have dropped significantly.

I didn't start this to specifically lose weight, rather for the other (as yet unproven) health benefits. The fact that a few months ago blood tests registered in the normal range, despite a history of high cholesterol, makes me think I'm on the right track.
Stick at it peeps!

You can't have terribly much muscle mass then? I'm 6' and 75kg and have visible abs...

I don't really buy in to this idea of fasting. There really is no need to do anything other than cut down calories/increase exercise if you want to lose weight.