the 5. 2 diet

[brand]

I've always fasted on Tuesday and Thursdays. I find that, being busy in the week, it's easy to ignore the slight hunger pangs. It leaves me free to socialise at the weekend if I want (not that I do so much lol!). Occasionally I'll change the day and like Colin if I feel poorly I stop the fasting. I stop when I'm on holiday too, its a bit antisocial if everyone else is tucking into the ice creams etc and I don't join in. Don't you think?

Odd how you don't feel hungery on the fast days? I always put it down to the psychological effect of knowing you could eat normal the next day but I am not so sure what do you think?

 

[ColinJ]

... my weight varies between 12 stone to 12 stone 7lb. Neither is an unreasonable weight for 5'10"

That depends on your build, and what you consider to be 'unreasaonable'. I am a medium build, 6' 1" tall, and in that weight range, but I still have 3 or 4 inches of flab round my waist!

 

[jazzkat]

Odd how you don't feel hungery on the fast days? I always put it down to the psychological effect of knowing you could eat normal the next day but I am not so sure what do you think?

It's not that I don't feel hungry, more that because I'm more busy I don't think about it.
For example, today I'm sat here doing nothing, watching the TdF and it's too easy to keep reaching for the biscuit barrel!!

 

[brand]

That depends on your build, and what you consider to be 'unreasaonable'. I am a medium build, 6' 1" tall, and in that weight range, but I still have 3 or 4 inches of flab round my waist!

my weight is not high I cannot spell excessively well immediately after I get back from the pub.
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[brand]

my weight is not high I cannot spell excessively well immediately after I get back from the pub.
Sprechen sie deutsche

Who wrote this? I don't remember doing it.

 

[brand]

It's not that I don't feel hungry, more that because I'm more busy I don't think about it.
For example, today I'm sat here doing nothing, watching the TdF and it's too easy to keep reaching for the biscuit barrel!!

I am not having that! It makes no difference wherever I am busy (rare due to bone idleness) or doing bugger all (normal). I do not feel hungery. I have been sat in this chair on the computer doing nothing of any use for 5 hours. I have had 2 cups of coffee. If if I can get of my arse I will spend an hour or two in my gym (also known as the garage). Get some gardening done then between 8&9pm I will have 500 calorie meal. The other 100 I put down as the skimmed milk and quarter of a spoon of sugar in my tea or coffee. No way in my case does busy or otherwise make any difference to feeling hungery. So, to sum up I think I will have to go with psychological (at least for me) IE I am going to have a pigeon salad butty and homemade muesli made with milkman's milk for breakfast tomorrow. That's the milk with big lump of cream on the top...........still not feeling hungery!!

 

[brand]

That depends on your build, and what you consider to be 'unreasaonable'. I am a medium build, 6' 1" tall, and in that weight range, but I still have 3 or 4 inches of flab round my waist!

My actual build is definitely not Neanderthal in fact the other end more skinny runt but I look like a medium build due to weight training. See
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/body-types-ectomorph-mesomorph-endomorph.html
So I am ectomorph but look like Mesomorph!
I reckon I should be 11.5 stone which would take no more than an inch maybe an inch and half of my stomach.

 

[brand]

And make my trousers fall down!

 

[ColinJ]

I am definitely a Mesomorph. I don't look right being very skinny, and I am not a big heavy build, but I can develop pretty big muscles if I work at it. I can gain or lose weight easily if I do the wrong or right things.

 

[brand]

It's not that I don't feel hungry, more that because I'm more busy I don't think about it.
For example, today I'm sat here doing nothing, watching the TdF and it's too easy to keep reaching for the biscuit barrel!!

Still eaten nothing but I did get of my bone idol arse and did 2 hours in Gym and went up to a neighbour and fixed a couple of bikes, bog standard stuff and drunk 2 cups of tea. Still not hungery though but I will try and eat. The only downside I have noticed is I don't sleep as well. Normally I fall asleep on the couch, get up go to bed and fall into a deep coma!

 

[jazzkat]

Still eaten nothing but I did get of my bone idol arse and did 2 hours in Gym and went up to a neighbour and fixed a couple of bikes, bog standard stuff and drunk 2 cups of tea. Still not hungery though but I will try and eat. The only downside I have noticed is I don't sleep as well. Normally I fall asleep on the couch, get up go to bed and fall into a deep coma!

I'm not quite sure what it is you are getting at.
I find that when I'm not doing anything I get the munchies. It's boredom I guess. When I'm working or doing something else I can go all day without thinking about food (or eating). It used to cause problems between myself and my wife, she's a little and often eater. I can go all day but come midday my wife needs to eat. She has tried the 5:2 but can't do it, it makes her feel to ill to have so little to eat over the day.
That's where I'm at!

 

[PK99]

I'm not quite sure what it is you are getting at.
I find that when I'm not doing anything I get the munchies. It's boredom I guess. When I'm working or doing something else I can go all day without thinking about food (or eating). It used to cause problems between myself and my wife, she's a little and often eater. I can go all day but come midday my wife needs to eat. She has tried the 5:2 but can't do it, it makes her feel to ill to have so little to eat over the day.
That's where I'm at!

I split my 600 calories into three chunks of 200 calories, no need to go all day without eating

 

[brand]

I'm not quite sure what it is you are getting at.
I find that when I'm not doing anything I get the munchies. It's boredom I guess. When I'm working or doing something else I can go all day without thinking about food (or eating). It used to cause problems between myself and my wife, she's a little and often eater. I can go all day but come midday my wife needs to eat. She has tried the 5:2 but can't do it, it makes her feel to ill to have so little to eat over the day.
That's where I'm at!

Sorry if I have not explained it very well. I simply saying that it doesn't seem to matter if I am busy or not. I just don't feel hungery. I assume it is psychological I know that I will eat a normal meals tomorrow. This is opposed to a normal diet where you go hungery ever day.
Now I am still not hungery but I should eat. I will have a large salad some new potatoes and piece of chicken cooked with no fat at all in the George Forman grill. My stomach is making odd noises!

 

[brand]

I split my 600 calories into three chunks of 200 calories, no need to go all day without eating

True, but this seems to work for me. I would not be happy doing small meals 3 times a day. Mind I have never tried it so may give it a try.

 

[jazzkat]

I split my 600 calories into three chunks of 200 calories, no need to go all day without eating

It doesn't bother me to go all day and it means I can have a more substantial meal at tea time. Each to there own.

Sorry if I have not explained it very well. I simply saying that it doesn't seem to matter if I am busy or not. I just don't feel hungery. I assume it is psychological I know that I will eat a normal meals tomorrow. This is opposed to a normal diet where you go hungery ever day.
Now I am still not hungery but I should eat. I will have a large salad some new potatoes and piece of chicken cooked with no fat at all in the George Forman grill. My stomach is making odd noises!

Good for you, at least you aren't tempted to eat when you shouldn't, lol.