IF for dummies.

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I need to lose weight. Quite a bit of weight, I have heart disease and eventually need surgery so I want to be as healthy as possible when that time come. I will add that logically I know valve replacement surgery is the safest it's ever been and thousands of people have it everyday but my my Mum died on the table aged 49 so I have worries. She was quite overweight so i don't want that to be me.

During lockdown I have gotten to point where I am the heaviest I've ever been even when full term with my children.

I started MFP and calorie counting Monday after standing on the scales and realising the enormity of the issue! I'm sticking to 1200 caps white happily, I don't eat breakfast anyway (apart from a tea and coffee) so I find 1200 easy enough.
I was wondering about adding in 5:2 and was wondering if anyone had any success with it? How many cals would I eat on my fasting days and do I still have 1200 the other 5?

Hi OP
since you're already not eating breakfast I'd recommend you do 16:8 fasting. I'm really enjoying it, there's lots of threads on it.
Good luck

Hello OP,

I started IF over a month ago and am really happy with the results. I'm doing 16:8 but in reality, it's more like 20:4 and I eat about 1.5 meals to satiety.

I really recommend going onto Youtube and listen to this:

You might decide from that that the 5:2 is secondary - fasting really is the key. I've really had my eyes opened to this.

I also joined an app, 'Fastic' which counts my days, my water drinking, and gives some really helpful information about what's happening during the process - and you can watch it in real time (the stage your body will be at).

I only have it on 'free' as I can't get google play account to take payment but I would if I could as it's excellent.