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!!

Hi Skinnyeye!

I remember you from those early threads. I joined in thread 4 or 5 and I've now been maintaining for over 2 years.

You can do this - you just need to get one or two successful FDs under your belt (so to speak! ) and you'll be back in the zone.

Why not have a look at those early threads - or revisit the Horizon programme for inspiration?

You've done it once - you can do it again!

hey skinnyeye. i remember you also though i was under a different name back then. stick with us, lots of us on this thread appreciate it can be hard to get back into again and that for some of us the results are very different or hard to tap into the second time around for whatever reason - and there are a variety including being pissed off with ourselves or having had major lifestyle changes etc.

dunno where all the others are - i've been away for 4 days to stay with a friend so lots of alcohol and lazing but i'm back and have lost another couple of pounds having lost three over christmas due to being ill. i didn't 'fast' whilst away in any conscious way but i seem to have slipped back into my lack of need to eat in the day or to snack at night thank god/the universe/the fat fairies/my metabolism/new migraine meds/having been ill/whatever-i'll take it!!

still a long way to go mind but for me i need something to shift within me - for many i think fasting does that once they begin doing it properly again and minding themselves at least a few other days a week in terms of mindful eating and making light choices etc. a lot of it is reprogramming isn't it? hopefully that click will come for you soon, may take some time or experimenting but keep the faith and all that.

i'm dreading having to wear a bikini and not have the option of baggy long tops and jumpers over skinny jeans in a few days time on the one hand but on the other sunshine and lots of wandering and a lot swimming etc will hopefully also give another good prompt to my metabolism and get me back 'in touch' with my body again - may also go to a couple of an old friends yoga classes out there to help with that 'connection' too.

i need to lose about a stone and 3 or 4 lbs now, though i'd be happy with a little more.

Morning all and thanks for the kind words. Feeling much better with a successful FD under my belt along with a couple of stones of blubber MN helping already! Going out for lunch today with friends so won't eat until then and planning to fast Tues/Thurs this week. Week 1 always the hardest but onwards and upwards.

onwards and upwards indeed.

christmas is behind you too so nothing major to worry about coming up iyswim.

sure you'll be grand!

Who did you used to be honey?

was generally shortened to SAF on the threads if that helps? would have been on here from about the same time as you till late summer/autumn of 2013. i stopped fasting whilst recovering from surgery and taking a load of meds and never quite got back into it again when i did recover, then had a redundancy followed by a nightmare job before settling into freelancing (aka not having to walk miles to and from work).

Morning all, first fast for me after what seems like a very extended period (hols at the start of December, and then endless Christmas eating.....)

I'm trying to change my mindset on FDs - instead of seeing how much I can have for 500 cals, I'm going to see how little I can manage with.

I have a ready meal for tonight, one of the Tescos Light Choices ones. It's something to look forward to after running training this evening, which is quick and tasty. Later this week I shall peruse our recipes thread and come up with some ideas for the next few fasts.

Oh dear I was one of the first posters on this thread and I never really did jump back in properly. I have 8lb to lose to get back to my lowest sustainable only for 1 day weight.

3 hours until dinner

Hi sliders back again FD for me and so far so good starting to feel like my old self again much heavier though saving my calories for dinner and will mostly be keeping busy today. I have some shopping to do and a few errands to run including a visit to the bottle bank (did we really drink that much????) Will feel better when the evidence is gone!!
Hope your days go well fasting or not

Hello all, apologies for complete absence from here for the last 3 weeks or so! Pre Christmas chaos to start with, followed by knowing there was no point coming on here once Christmas started.
Anyway, I'd set today as the restarting point, after my daughter's birthday yesterday.

When I was successfully fasting (this time in 2013 - eek!) I used MFP and found that really helpful in keeping track of what I was eating on NFDs so I'm back to that today.

As today is a FD I've already logged my planned dinner for tonight which comes in at 429 cals.
I'll log planned food each night, for the next day, so that I know if there's any leeway for any extra nice things or not.
For me, organisation and preparation were the keys to success the first time around. Planning meals, only buying what I knew was needed, and sticking to my MFP cal targets each day.

I'm 5lbs under my original starting weight from 2013, but a stone over my lowest weight in about July 2013.
Clothes are definitely very tight and I know I don't look good so am really hoping to do well again.

skinnyeye - welcome! And waves to everyone else too

Hello, I'm back!! Put on 6kg since Oct. Need to lose it again. Fasting today and so far so good. My downfall is ALWAYS supper time with 3 young children. But like I was told before, I am not a dustbin... So, I'm here to join you all again and grateful for support

welcome back buffers and indeed, no dustbin like behaviour allowed here

welcome back buffers - you are definitely not a dustbin - the bin is a far better place for leftovers than you. either way it went to waste, the former it rots and nourishes the earth, the latter we know too well.

glad fast day going ok and you have a military precision like plan dotty

i'm not sure if it's illness, stress, new migraine meds, a few fasts or a combo of all i have to thank for my dropped appetite and the fact my luxury chocs given me for christmas still remain unopened but i'm thankful for it. will weigh again tomorrow and given i fly first thing thursday morning there's no chance of being skinny by the time i face a bikini but i'm glad to be going in the right direction and to feel in control again.

next goal is to see 10 something (i want to blush admitting that) which is only a few pounds away and therefore only a week or so away hopefully. definitely be there by the time i get back from sunshine and swimming and yoga and the like. climate and feeling in touch with my body makes a huge difference to me.

that's if i survive the stress of packing and organising.

thanks to everyone who has put up with my moaning and tantruming on here. i've really struggled with this! i resent the idea of obsessing about weight and food but i also hate carrying extra weight around and not feeling comfortable so it's a bit of a mental wrestling match for me.

Right. First fast day yesterday. I definitely went over 500 calories, but still counted it as a fast. I'm trying to be kind with myself when I 'fail' and not see it as a failure.

But first day back at work yesterday (school) and my trousers were snug! So I need to do something.

Next fast day is Thursday. I can do this

honey sounds like you're well on track to a healthier new year and new you! Where are you off to? Sounds lovely, wherever it is!

run, you most definitely CAN do this. My next FD is Thursday too, so I'll be mentally right there with you

sinai egypt. same old little town haunt i've returned to including lived in for a couple of years at a time on and off since my teens. think we can officially call it my second home. the nice side of which is that my taxi will be sorted, i know the drill, my accommodation is locals-ish price and friends own hotels if we fancy poolside luxury in exchange for buying lunch or a few drinks rather than being guests iyswim?

a lovely old friend is back in town running yoga classes that i totally feel safe in, i know where to go to find peace rather than hassle, it's the landscape place i go for rather than the changing seasons of who owns what and what political or economic overlay is superficially seeming to be 'the times'. on the downside every time sees more friends lost to accident or premature illness, more 'ethos' lost to changing tides of fortune, more development, new world, reality crashing in.

swings and roundabouts i guess. there'll always be the mountains in the same place, the sea and the sky and the endless shooting stars and with 20 or so years under your belt there's a feeling of the certainty of change but the steadiness of core. there is a lot of bad press for egypt these days but on and off there always has been, there was the luxor incident or the sinai bombings etc. personally from 17 to nearly 40 i've never felt safer tottering home in the middle of the night anywhere than in dahab and i've lived a fair few old places here and away.

it will undoubtedly make me feel my age and my fatness given i spent much much of my youth and slimness and diving instructor type freedom years there but??? life moves on. the mountains and the sea stay put, we have babies and get older and change our priorities etc but it's good to know our little safe spots (for me about a 50m swim out from the bay surrounded by pink mountains of egypt and saudi with blue sky overhead and blue sea holding me up and cuddling me) still exist.

long waffle sorry. for me fatness and unhealthiness are not just material things but a sign of how out of touch i've gotten with myself and life and the nature. there used to be a joke between me and other frequent travellers and especially aussie and kiwi friends that there was a gatwick tax of minimum half a stone - as if landing in england was weighty and added gravity it's a joke but ... it's got some reality to it for me.

sorry for the very off topic post.

Thanks Honey and Dotty. Got through children's supper but did sneak 2 spoons of their korma (homemade so surely not all bad!) and picked at leftover gingerbread house. But my ready meal was only 360cal so I think I may have got away with it. Plus managed a spin class and an hour's power yoga. Smug alert.
Next fast day is Thu too so am right with you guys.

honey the way you've described that sounds absolutely beautiful, and just the thing for banishing January blues and the self loathing that often accompanies post Christmas time! Just what you need to get your head in a good place to help your body get where it wants to be too

buffers that sounds like a very good day, well done! I've just had a toasted teacake for breakfast and have worked out that my meals for the day allow enough spare cals for a piece of my daughter's birthday cake that we made at the weekend. Yay!

Have decided to religiously use MFP this time round. Helps keep the calories in check on my non-fast days. Interesting (or maybe not on reflection!) to see I've had hardly any calcium or Vitamin A for a week.
Good news on being allowed birthday cake :)

I definitely know it helps me buffers so hope it does for you too
Just inputted today's planned FD meal of a homemade roasted squash, paprika and red pepper soup, with a crusty bread roll and butter! Yay for there being just enough cals to sneak in the butter

I did naughtily have 3 chunks of Dairy Milk late last night which probably just took me over my TDEE but I'm not going to feel too bad about that.

What's everyone else got planned for their FD food today?

I'm an idiot. I was so tired this morning that I got up and made a massive bowl of porridge without thinking.

I'll have to do FD tomorrow instead.

I wouldnt set too much store by teh vitamin tracking on MFP, not all foods will show it, even though they have it.

Can I jsut say that FDs are defintiely the day to choose to go to the dentist. I've had my teeth sandblasted and I dont want to put anythign in my mouth for at leats 3 hours!

Hi sliders another FD for me and so far so good. Am in the danger zone though as DP has rather helpfully opened a bottle of wine not having any but it's on my mind . Went out for lunch today and just had coffee while DP ate so feeling very virtuous which justifies a glass of wine tonight!

Hope you are all doing well FD or not

Yay, hopped on scales this morning after four days of MFP'ing / FDs and it's all good, 2lbs down!
Happy Friday everyone.
Though am about to head off for a girls weekend with my best pal and our two daughters and there's no way that I'll be staying within TDEE.....

Found I had crept up to 11. 4 on NYD. Gritted my teeth, started 5:2 again plus no alcohol. 10 7.5 this morning. Feels like a little miracle!