General Chat

Hi Teresa, now we are three. Once you start on any diet your stomach gradually shrinks and you feel less hungry and you need less food to feel full. It is the initial first couple of weeks that are hard until your body adjusts to what becomes normal for it. Always stop eating when you are full, you don't have to eat everything on your plate. I taught weight management for years it was based on low fat and exercise. As I said earlier it will be easier for me as I no longer have to buy food for other people therefore I have less temptation.

I do prefer to try things that I have proof of and my friend is my proof that this works if you stick at it.

Scozz and I, whilst not revealing our weight, will post our weight loss (or not!) on here each week. I like to get it over and done with before I get bored and so I will be making every effort to stick to it and to walk more. I do aim to lose as much as possible in my first week as this spurs me on although an average of 2lbs a week is considered ideal.

My first hurdle is next week, I have visitors arriving but only for six days. Conveniently they arrive on a Wednesday and leave on a Monday and they are my two 500 calorie days so I will be busy with the airport run etc. No doubt there will be a lot of eating and drinking in between but I will try to be sensible and we will be walking/ site seeing quite a lot.

My eldest daughter is a health professional and a personal trainer and, along with many other classes, she teaches a very successful class called Drop A Dress Size once again based on portion control and exercise.

It will be interesting to see if I/we do lose weight if it encourages anyone else to join us.

Wendy

Hi Wendy now this is interesting. I saw the program you mentioned and thought it would be worth a try.

I have had a bug which came on at work after I had a breakfast of cereal and lunch of boiled egg and toast. I did blame the egg :-(

I had two bits of plain toast on Wednesday and a plain crumpet for lunch and a small bit of grilled chicken and veg on Thursday. The rest of the week I stuck to plain food until I felt ok again on Saturday.

I belong to a diet club, one of many over the last 14 years trying to loose the last stone or so I put on which stuck after giving birth to the last child. I have always exercised and gone to the gym and although I'm fit I'm still finding it almost impossible to loose any. I get soooo hungry.

The odd thing is once I'd got over the initial sickness and stuck to a limited intake I was less hungry than I was when I was eating "normally" or on a diet. I get weighed in tonight and have not followed the diet eating plan as such. It will be interesting to see if I have lost anything. I will log in and let you know either today or tomorrow.

I will be joining you as it's not as hard as I thought to eat less, it's worth a try and believe me I have tried everything :-D

Teresa :-)

A few years ago my Missus found a book called the "F Plan Diet". I was enthusiastic 'til I found that the F stands for Fibre. Doh!

I should also say Scozz that it will probably be easier for me than for you as I have nobody else to consider. in fact for the past 10 months I have hardly cooked any meals, before that I cooked every day. But it has its down side as I have lived on sandwiches, beans on toast, cereals, biscuits whatever was quickest and less trouble which is why I am now doing this diet. I also have good weather for going out and walking to try and speed up the weight loss.

Scozz you are right to wait until you feel well again before starting any kind of diet or you will almost certainly fail. Mondays and Thursday as your diet days is a good choice as after having these two good days you will be less inclined to ruin your efforts on the Tuesday and Friday when you go out.

I think my two days will be a bit repetitive as there are quite a lot of things i don't like and I am allergic to fish.

Today so far...1 banana, 1 pear, 4 Ryvita with low fat cream cheese, NO butter, tomato and cucumber, (I never eat much lunch time anyway unless I am out) Tonight I will have small chicken breast cooked in the microwave I have done this before and its okay and large salad and during the evening a low fat yogurt. I will probably repeat this for my other 500 cal day.When I think I am hungry I have a drink and it fills me up. I drink too much coffee but it is with skimmed milk and saccarine

TS - I'll be in it! I will wait until next week though, I'm having LOADS of liquid this week because of all the coughing I've been doing with this awful cold.

Why does John think we're going on a starvation diet? He obviously didn't read it properly - two days a week of not much is hardly starvation.

I might have a problem with chocolate......... and wine........ and beer. lol I'll tell OH to only buy chocolate with peanuts in it (I'm allergic to peanuts). We only drink at home when we have guests, and I don't have more than two glasses of wine or beer when we go out.

We usually go out on Tuesday & Friday, so they won't be my diet days!

Trying to work it out, my D days would be best on Mondays & Thursdays.

The diet didn't say anything about how much to drink. Water? With a squeeze of lemon juice (1 calory lol).

I just remembered...... I have TWO chocolates left in the box OH bought me last week. A BIG box of Roses, he was crawling because he played golf at the weekend, Friday, Saturday AND Sunday! Explains why I have a big bum, sitting home eating chocolate. So, I will ration those chocolates over the next few weeks...... a nibble here, a crumb there.

Now now John, the idea is that you are supposed to be supportive. There are loads of other benefits connected to this diet as well as weight loss. But as far as I am concerned if I don.t try it I will never know.

EDIT** Eating and drinking what you want but in moderation will help to keep your weight constant but it won't help you lose it. I will attempt to follow that advice after I have lost a stone.

Scozz thanks so much for joining me. Have you read all the thread about how to do it. I'm not actually working out all the calorie count as I know from teaching weight management, more or less. My husbands private nickname for me was Squidge or Squidgy but he was happy with the way I am it's me that's not.

I'm looking forward to you joining me

Anyone else up for it, lose a few pounds before Christmas, usually we all leave it too late and decide to diet about the end of November!

Just read a book this weekend about the best known preacher of 18th century - Rev George Whitfield.

He followed a Christian fast for 2 days a week, which sounds remarkably similar to this 5+2 diet.

Same generation as John Wesley, who ate and drank rather more. Wesley preached at Whitfield's memorial service in 1771 and outlived him by 33 years (Wesley 88, Whitfield 55).

So conclusion is eat and drink whatever you want - in moderation :-D :-D

I'll give it a go. Got nothing to lose, except half my backside & some of the flab elsewhere!

Had a look at the recipes. Two paper-thin slices of bacon 16gr. Gawd help me.

ONE chicken liver. Yes, I can see the assistant at the deli counter helping me with that lolol

I won't be starting this week, we're both recovering from bad colds!

I'm on my own with this, OH doesn't need to diet. He's about 6' (no idea what that is in cms) and weighs about 100Kg (no idea what that is in stones) and there isn't an ounce of fat on him. He hasn't started calling me "cuddly" yet, but it can't be too far off.

I won't be telling you what I weigh now! I'll give weekly progress reports ~ starting week after this.

500 calories for 2 days only, eat normally for the rest. You can actually get quite a lot for 500 calories whether you like it on not is another thing!! Anyway a friend lost a stone so I?m giving it a go :-)

500 calories a day? That's not much.

I'd be chewing off my own leg by dinner time.

So if I chew off both legs, I'll lose weight?

Thank you BC the only reason I have put it on here is that it won't be so easy for me to give up. I just want to lose a stone and then review it agin. :-)

Morning Wendy and well done for tackling the weeding! I wont join you for now but will pop in to support you and make sure you are on the straight and narrow :-D

Go girl Go!! :-D :-D

Monday 1st October and day 1 of the 5 & 2 day diet. I hope I can stick to it long
enough to see some good results. Today is a 500 calorie day my other 500 calorie day will be Wednesday or Thursday according to whether I am going out to eat or not. The other five days will be days when I eat normally but sensibly.

I am now weeding the garden a job that I dislike but it will burn some calories and take my mind off of food.

Wendy

Doesn't anybody want to join me in losing a view pounds/kilos before Christmas :-) ;-) :-\

Well done your daughter Maryanna, my friend said she didn't find it hard. I am going out to dinner tonight with friends but will start the diet on Monday for sure, my mind is made up now

Ann thanks for the recipe link I will have a look now. I wish I wasn't allergic to fish as that is low in calories and so plentiful here.

Wendy

some recipes here for the 2 days.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/9483381/52-diet-healthy-recipes-250-calories-or-less.html

My daughter did it for a few weeks and lost the last half stone or so of her post baby weight, back to her normal titchy self again without too much hardship or going without.
Might give it a go myself but will need about a year !! m

Thanks K I will have a look at that now

****Edit...just seen the programme and it looks sensible to me. My friend also lost a stone in 5 weeks.

Anyone want to join me and compare notes on here?

Wendy