I F - 5:2 - 4:3 - Maintaining the healthy weight

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This thread is for those who have been doing IF for quite a while and are now at or nearing their target healthy weight.

How do we experience fasts and balance a stable food intake while having little or no weight to lose?

How to we ensure that this WOE does keep us at the healthy weight long term rather than revert to yoyo games?

I have now been at the same weight for a month. I'm happy with that. I'm also still enjoying the 24 hour fasts because of the clear mindedness I get during them.

How about you?

to admit hadn't actually read thread when I did previous link. I now have I've howled with laughter for 2 hours & completely forgot I'm on a fast day.

Link here for whoever wants the funniest laugh you will have in ages

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1056940-to-think-this-couple-are-bonkers?msgid=37196043#37196043

ok I did it too.. actually i thought it was quite hard I think its a good workout . but .. push ups ..i've never managed to do one of those properly before,,

BUT (RANT and long story ALERT) though you have probably laughed and then I would have had to kill you

I dont watch telly , no really .. its not that I'm posh or snobby, but I just am always doing something else..and usually watch anything I want on iplayer sometime after (in fact when they went digital here I didn't even notice for some time that the telly wasn't working and it was only when my dad gave us his old set top box a month or so later did we get it back,.)

Anyway sometime over christmas our big old telly broke (although again we didn't notice for a while ) so eventually we splashed out an bought a new flat screen one along with a dvd that records , and satellite channels and all sorts of whizzy stuff we'd never bothered with before.. and today I turned it on FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME ( DH has used it ) and after 20 mins trying to get it to work and my new shred DVD going I was about to hurl it out of the window and ended up phoning DH (who works away all week ) somewhat tersely it has to be said there were a few Fwords to get him to talk me through HOW TO WORK THE S*DDNG THING.. !!

Jeez! I'm going into business manufacturing a universal remote of luddites (why are there two?, Why? Each with 50 S*DDNG buttons on that dont F-in do anything AT ALL?) My remote (for people who just want to bloody get on with it) will have only 4 big buttons On/off, Channel, Dvd and 'Oh F-it ill go do something else'. I mean by the time I get eligible of a free TV licence I wont have a hope in hell of even being able to turn the darned things on

Anyway , finally he talked me down, it showed my DVD I managed to do the shred and now i'm sitting here on my second glass of

Was that what Jillian meant us to do when she told us to get angry ?

frenchfancy i used my 500g weights so about the same as a tim nof beans.. if you look on the net some people are claiming they use 3lb weights .. No way .. I do have some 1lb weights also an d may be when i get used to it more ill try them..
i thought it was a good work out.. no really i did , ( but I can feel the burn in my arms already , )

Hi its time for me to jump in and say thanks to the people who messaged me i do appreciate it. My head has been a bit elsewhere recently and i have not looked at emails or visited the site on a daily basis like i used too. I still want to lose some more weight and i want to stay connected to the people here who helped me along the way because it was you made the journey what it is and the changes i am making to my image and my life have been because of that journey we have shared . Sometimes there is much you want to say but no words to say it so today i just send you all love and light .

after8s wish id read this before id tried Jillian.. the comment about the shopping in waitrose on pg 6 is priceless!

btw am I missing something? how come so many people think this food is a code for swingers?

Laska No way could I have done it with 3lb weights. You sound like my DH with your rant against the TV, he is exactly the same.

laska I've no idea I just know I'll never be able to watch dcs eat pombears again with a straight face.

That thread is so funny..especially the jello salad but you must look at this website :its ok, not rude!! for some old weightwatchers food ideas.. wonder if they could be made 5;2 friendly//

I haven't got to the ref yet or to the return dinner party so still in the dark with that ,

I have never got the pombear reference before so thanks for enlightening me!
So did you manage the push-ups Laska? I'll stick to more gentle toning I think (though I used to think I couldn't fast all day and now I can so maybe The Shred will beckon one day too .... My bingo wings certainly need it ..)

OMG the melon mousse! Yuk did people really eat that?!

Just read through the pom , anyone? thread, absolutely hilarious - a good one for a fast day .

Getting a bit apprehensive about shred - are we doing it daily or can we do it 5:2 (ie just the '2' ). Not that my copy's even been dispatched yet... I do have some weights somewhere though, I'll blow the cobwebs off in preparation.

Thanks *after8s best laugh I've had for ages Pombear anyone? Do they still make them.. I'm going to a friends for dinner this weekend..

iwearblack I did the beginner push ups .. sort of ..
yes betsy I think it is supposed to be very day , .. its three work outs so i supposed you are supposed to go up a level every 10days.. however ill see how I get on and am going away this weekend as I said so wont be doing it then,,

Tbh ill be very happy if i manage it three times this week because thats 3 times more exercise than anything else i've been doing..

HI piebaldrider a lovely thought.. Thanks hope you see you here again soon

I have to say I did find today's fasting very hard but thread helped me get through it. Going to post on main thread also & tell people to read when going gets tough.

yeah and also to look at the weight watchers ideas so they dont feel hungry any more.. mmm Mexican shrimp orange salad... chilled celery log and frankfurter spectacular.. it has to be a wind up .. tell me it is..

Just to let you know folks, that Tip is now posting on here, where Mumsnet can't get her:

www.52fastdiet.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=948

So if anyone wants to chat, or PM her, now's your chance!

Hahahahhaaahhaa - laska those recipe cards are, erm, inspiring , brilliant find .

....and before I finally go to bed (I'm blaming you for all this After8s) I must just post a couple more yummy American retro recipe sites. Do let me know if y'all want these on the 5:2 recipe thread !! This one has lots of interesting recipes I just know you will all be just dying to try... Do look at the index down the right side
and here is one especially for our sweet-toothed vegan friends.. B&W?

OH, and btw someone is selling a set of those WW recipe cards on ebay . I tell you, I'm soseriously tempted..

Thanks for the link Breadandwine.

Thanks from me, too, for the link, B&W. It prodded me into signing up. I've been lurking over there for a while, mostly because the Nerd section, focused on the science side of things, is quite active and interesting.

Morning Shedders .. are we doing it again today?
throws down gauntlet..

i'm feeling fine this morning , though darn hungry already (and its a fasting day).. at work but planning on shredding again this evening.

Just call me your on-board. Jillian!

Something weird has happened. On my last two fast days I haven't been freezing cold like on all the others ????

Hmm the other 5:2board is not very friendly.. already those few of us who posted on TIPs thread have been accused of being a clique .. . dont think ill be going back except to say hi to TIP sometimes..

werent they formed from the residue of the unfriendly facebook crew?

I accept the callenge Laska,though I was planning to run tonight. Not sure I'm ready to do both.