I have been much less active than normal recently and have managed to put on half a stone in the last couple of weeks and I can really feel it (I am small - although not so now!)
I am now the heaviest I have ever been except for pregnancy.
losing a stone would be great and I'm giving myself 12 weeks to do it
I was aiming for Nov 14 as the end of my challenge (12 weeks) so not to far off.
will be mostly low carbing (as I know it works for me) plus joining DH in his 5:2 fasting madness :)
I like to weigh daily (I know its frowned upon) but it helps me.
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SanityAssassin · 27/08/2016 22:53
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OurBlanche ·
28/08/2016 11:07
Go on then. I'm in!
MFP; 5:2; very gradual re-entry to exercise. Oh, and moaning about how much my CFS etc is making it a miserable life to lose weight in 
Monday weigh ins, maybe Tues morning ass that is my old habit 
Lapinlapin ·
28/08/2016 11:24
Can I join too? Monday morning weigh-ins are good for me too.
Used to be slim and never had to think about what I ate. Since having children though I've never managed to lose all the 'baby' weight. My youngest is now nearly 3 
Ideally I'd like to lose a stone and a half, but a stone would be a very good start.
OurBlanche ·
28/08/2016 11:45
Oh! OK... strap yourself in
I lost 3 stone over 2 years, 5:2 ing as and when I could. CFS makes it a bit difficult. Stress and leaving teaching means I have re-gained 1 stone in 2 years - not too bad I suppose. So I am looking back at my MFP diary to see how I did it!
I do Johnsons Up Day Down Day Diet - I started before Michael Mosely's programme and the renaming, so I use Up Days Medium Days and Down Days
Up Days I never really set out to do anything. Just eat whatever my DD made me want... but I found that I started avoiding sweet things and starchy carbs without really thinking about it. That took about 2 or 3 months to kick in. MFP tells me that my mid week UDs I ate about 1500kcals, more at the weekend, when we chose to make more complicated meals, drink wine, have pudding etc. Though Sunday lunch and pudding never really hit huge numbers.
DDs I started at 800kcals. Suffered the headaches for about 2 weeks and suddenly, after about 2 months, felt different. Took me ages to realise I had grown a Full Button... I got down to about 300kcals a day, the occasional full fasting day. Days stretched to about 40 hours every now and then.
MDs were either U or D Days that went wrong. I didn't get angry/disappointed, I just relabelled the day and carried on with whatever the next day was.
After 6 months it felt great. I was never hungry, ate whatever I wanted within the calorie limits I set for the DDs. I never restricted UDs but found that I naturally started to eat very healthily. I continued to bake cakes, make puddings, eat a wide and varied range of foods. The only thing I did was eat 500kcal a day, twice a week, three times if DH was working away.
Mon; Weds = DD
Fri = DD or MD if he was home
Tues; Thurs; Sat; Sun = UDs
Exercise was done on the morning of an UD, before breakfast if I could manage it. I have a sport/exercise science degree so did a lot of reading in the local Uni library on this... the original 5:2 authors recommendations are very sensible and give good results.
I was almost at Maintenance - 1 DD per week - when I lost the plot, got very stressed and, eventually, left teaching. I wasn't in any fit state to continue, but, as I said, it has taken 2 years to put on 1 stone, so I didn't lose all of the habits immediately.
The great motivators were losing all my back fat in within a couple of months - that made an enormous difference to my posture and the clothes I wore
My knees stopped complaining. That meant I could do the exercises my CFS restricted me to, so I was more active, safely.
My face, chins, all got smaller, my boobs didn't 
but the loss of back fat meant I looked much, much better.
But I know a few people who never got into it. For them the headaches were monstrous and they loath the diet as much as I loved it. Happily you will know within the first week if this will be you. I think everyone gets headaches initially, I did and expect to again, but if they are too bad, just stop and choose another diet.
The DDs mean that you end up reducing your kcal intake so that over a week you lose 1 -2 lbs (though it can be far faster initially). So, regardless of the Monster Shouters, you aren't starving yourself, there is no Starvation Mode, and the average weight loss is very sustainable and falls within the NHS safe limits.
The reason I chose it was I can't be bothered counting calories, eating special foods. So I chose 3 or 4
OurBlanche ·
28/08/2016 11:49
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/52
www.womanmagazine.co.uk/diet-food/500-calorie-meal-plans-52-diet-29560
thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/forum/food/recipes-and-meal-plans/
I tend to mooch round these and similar for ideas
OurBlanche ·
28/08/2016 12:50
Sorry..
MFP: My Fitness Pal www.myfitnesspal.com/
calories counter, diary, forum etc. Log in, it's free and can be really useful!
CFS: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, used to be Yuppy Flu, has been ME but I am not up for spelling that one Debilitating condition that comes on a sliding scale from bed ridden to almost managing a normal life, but tiring easily and needing a few days in bed to recuperate if you overdo it.
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OurBlanche ·
28/08/2016 13:15
Ach! I've had it for 30 odd years. Bed ridden for 2 - 3 years; aerobics instructor for 10, so for me it has been very up and down. The teaching had the worst effect I think... the last 5 years reduced me to a gibbering wreck, living on my nerves and handfuls of cake
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