5:2 :- 2 years on .. Backsliders and Rescinders: Recommit with me..

[Laska42]

Hi there, Im one of the 'old original' 5:2ers who started way back in August 2012 and lost 24lbs..

I maintained for over a year and was active on the Maintainers thread , but sadly since last summer/Autumn, ive backslid.. Now I'm 12lbs up off my lowest weight again

I know what to do , I know it works , but I can hardly say I should be on the 'maintainers' again. So im posting a new thread here , in the hope that I may find some other backsliders willing to recommit along with me before it's too late ..

Come and join me again before its too late.. We can regroup and get back on track.. I'm still managing to squeeze into my sz 10s (mostly) but I cant afford a new wardrobe, I dont want to buy a larger one.. and I certainly do want to get back to what I was (and maybe finish the job properly with another half stone off , so I can rejoin the Maintainers and comfortably say that this WOE is really this time going to stay with me for life..

So anyone with me? .. I have fasted today (first one for ages) .. WE CAN DO IT AGAIN!!

11st 0 (and a quarter ) this morning! thats 3 and threequarter lbs down! Well chuffed .. ( but now its the weekend! allowed and I have guests ,so ill be bound to put some of that back on!

Fasting again Sunday ..ill check backin then

Have a good weekend
and hope you all had good WIs today

Fab work laska
I'm 9.9 so pleased I never bounced back up...

Weekend of meals out here too so next fast is Monday for me.

Have a fab guilt free weekend everyone.

another did well then fell off the wagon one. i lost two stone then had a surgery in june 2013 that laid me up for a while and then just never got back into it.

the idea of a fast seems massive at the minute but then so do i i'd say i've put half the weight back on.

it's bizarre because i was doing total fasts in the end and long ones yet now it seems impossible to think i could even do a 500 cal 24hr one.

need to find a way to get back on the wagon. thanks for starting this thread.

Hi everyone, I am thinking about joining again, this time last year I started at 10.13 and lost a stone by Xmas, I was really happy but still had another half a stone to loose. After Xmas I started fasting again but it didn't work I think I should have started exercising at that point to keep things moving.

Anyway I am going on holiday at Xmas time and I need to get in a bikini so need to do this quickly!

I'm thinking fasting and walking and ab challenge but I have a neck injury at the moment so that's putting me off the exercise side :(

Well done Laska and chocupid, that's really nice to read on a Monday morning.
I was hovering around 11st 1lb on Friday morning so the 10st 13lbs I glimpsed last week was obviously an aberration! Probably eaten too much over the weekend again so not going near the scales again for a few days. FD today

pole would have thought walking would be fine, even with the neck injury? Just take it steady; some movement is better than no movement I reckon

Hello - been lurking for a bit - Im another one who fell off the wagon after christmas. Need to get back in the zone but don't seem to get time to post on these boards much lately. This one seems to move at a more manageable pace though! :)

Am planning first FD tomorrow but like many others feel really daunted by the thought.

Well done on all of you who are losing again.. hope to be losing again too soon!

Nice to see you again annie I remember you on the main thread.
And Welcome pole and honey.
Hope you all had a fab weekend!
Mine was full of food, so need a FD today to reset.

Thanks Dotty how are you doing today, I've had to have lunch today as I felt so weak after metafit and kettles this morning, just put it in MFP and it says burnt 575 cals!!!

So I'm Already at 517 cals. will just have an apple and nuts later or low cal soup, not used to having lunch on FD's so don't know how I'll get on... but I'm determined not to go over 600 max.

Anyone else fasting today?

Hi , well I survived the weekend still at 11.0 and a quarter this morning despite and s after having to have seafood rissotto twice for lunch saturday - both for starter and main ( great ), this because my mum decided she didnt like it so I had to swop my baked fish main meal in the restuarant )

Fasted yesterday and have again today.. in fact ive just has a really yummy stri fry which i think shows just how well one can eat onthis WOE for LC.. . Mushrooms courgettes , chilli garlic ginger spring onions and greens with 100g steak (all done in 2 sprays of oil and then added a bit of stock and some soy sauce to moisten ) .. am now off to make chicken leek and herb soup ,

Welcome honeybadger polealltheway and Annie, if ican get back to it , afer procrastinating so long i'd put back on a stone then so can you!

dotty, I did that trick this morning I remember reading about years ago of weighing and then drinking a glass of water and weighing again.. and after the water I was a lb up! So do not despai...r

keep at it chocupid I think you deserved a bit of lunch..

Wow Laska your hardcore fasting at weekend!!

All gone pear shaped here... think I'm coming down with something and wanted comfort food so I bought chips on the way home, just got in from work and ate a large handful before realising I can't really taste them, so early night for me and I will fast tomorow (should be easier if I can't taste anything eh)

Hi chocupid no not hardcore Sundays are just good days for me to fast usually ,

we have Adult children only and they live away , and as DH works away all week he has to goes back on Sunday aftrenoons .. so we dont usually plan any thing special and its usually me here on my own after about 2pm , so i have breakfast with him (eggs, coffee and newspapers) and then nothing until evening when I usually have some of the soup i'm making for work lunches.. . .. , and if DS pops round on a Sunday , he's happy with whatever is left over from weekend food ... its Fridays and Saturdays when we have familyand freinds time and I let rip! (esp the !)

However this may change after christmas when DH ' retires' (Pig bum , hes younger than me and ill have to keep on working for a while!.. sigh )

Also, I like fasting Mondays I dont know why it just feels right ..

It was my dd's 10th birthday party at the weekend and I think I ate my own body weight in party food. Had a good FD today though so hopefully have undone some of the damage, will weigh in tomorrow.

8 days now until I go away, so I going to do ADFs until then just to try and give myself a little leeway in my jeans before I face those American portions.

It's also my wedding anniversary on Friday, we're both working though so we'll go out on Saturday. (those of you with very good memories may recall I forgot my anniversary last year , so I'm all prepared this year).

Thanks for the welcome back everyone - so...here goes! First fast for me today - am weighing in at 11st 4lb. Not too far from where I was when I fell off the wagon but I've been back up to 11st 10 since and now got stuck back here again. Need to be 10 st something by Christmas.

I'm hoping to get pregnant in the new year (have 2 kids already aged 2 and 4) and want to feel good about myself before I get pregnant. Have always done wuite well during pregnancies and not gained silly amounts of weight so should be ok.

I've really been noticing lately how many people are definitely over a 'healthy' BMI when you are out and about... its really becoming the norm now and I don't want that!!!!

Anyway - trying to keep that in mind as I tackle FD 1..
Sorry for the rambly post! :)

Anyone else fasting today? Good luck if you are

I'm fasting today. I'd usually go for Mondays, but DH was cooking jerk pork at teh weekend, supposedly for Sunday. Only he forgot to check the recipe and it needed to marinade overnight, so we had it last night instead.

Miso soup and haridressers at lunchtime, then I'm planning some lettuce wraps filled with chicken, pink grapefruit and grated carrot.

Yummmm that sounds lovely!!! I've got Miso for lunch time if I'm feeling hungry too. Trying the Itsu sachets, 42 cals. Never had them before...

Am home with the 2 yr old today so trying to stay strong.... And busy! Lol!

oh god.

slipped off the wagon. again. its been 2 weeks now.

today is supposed to be my FD.

I am failing dismally.

thanks for the welcome laska. itsaboatjack - i am using a different name now but i have a feeling we were weight twins on the original thread and similar time joiners. i may have been swallowedAfly then or something else - have become a more frequent name changer in recent years after some MRA stalking dodginess.

i haven't managed a fast yet. i have at least though managed a couple of days of healthier eating.

might brave the scales in the morning to see how bad things are - haven't climbed on for quite a while.

Ah SAF I remember you! wondered where you'd gone! I remember pm ing you as we had the same op! Hope your still well.

Argh don't beat yourself up I was meant to fast today too but the weather put me off! I'm now munching on giant buttons there's always tommorow.

Good luck all fasters today.

Hi honey, yes I remember you as SAF. Nice to have you back with us.

non fast day .. ive not gone mad , as dont want to eat over TDEE, but just munching some homemade seedy/chilli flat bread and hummus.. YUM (sorry those fasting )

Melanie I fancy lettuce wraps filled with chicken, pink grapefruit and grated carrot. Is this one of your own creations?

Well I'm in at about 510 cals but I'm bloody starving!!!!!

How's any other fasters doing? Melanie? How were your chicken lettuce wraps?

just peering in from the sidelines rather than 'with you' at the minute. still haven't done a fast.

yes that's right choc - definitely glad i had the op - has made such a difference to my back and neck.

Chicken and pink grapefruit was a good combination- I didn't get time to make wraps out of it though. And I've just had a mini magnum, so I'm a bit over 500, though not by much.

NFD again today ..and still underTDEE.. Tummy is already looking so much les bloated after only just over a week of doing this properly again and I can do up my jeans again even though have at least 12lbs to go to get back to what I want to be .. 5:2 works.. Why did i leave it so long?
at work today surrounded by people doig slimming world , weight watchers and lighterlife/cambridge, I ventured to mention fasting.. 'OH NO! we couldnt do that, its just starvation ' theysaid .. then commented on how 'lucky' i was to ihave kept my weight off and they hadnt been able to .

Its true, even though i have put some back on , im still much lower than I was .. 13st 8 when i started , on WW, and it took me THREE years to struggle down to just under 12st on that , then I got down to 10st in 6 months on 5:2 the first time round.. so im a stone up , but im fully determined il be 10st again (hopefully before my birthday in December ..)

COME on in ahh and honey ..the water's great! (I also rememeber you as SAF)
good li uck fasters tomorow! I'm in!

Im definately going to try that chicken/ pink grapefruit combo ..must put grapefruit onthe list

FD today here. Anyone else? I'm going to need some support this evening as I have to bake some cookies with dd2 for her class's bake sale tomorrow.