Hi all.

Just wanted to ask a few questions if you don't mind?
I'm an old hand a slimming world, have done slim fast recently and I'm still nowhere nearer to losing weight. My own fault though;)
Seen all the publicity surrounding this eating plan and also three of my sisters colleagues are all doing it so thought I would give it a go....

Can I ask what sort of meals you would eat on fast days please? I know it's roughly around 500 cals and Dr Moseley says to stay away from carbs and dairy on fast days so don't know what I would have.
My fast days are most likely to be Mondays and Wednesdays as being at work I find it easy to go without food as I'm so busy anyway.

Any tips or advice would be gratefully received. And, I'm not expecting a massive loss really quickly but then I'm not getting anywhere anyway with all the other "diets" I've been on so nothing ventured nothing gained, right? Lol :) xxx

Hey everyone!

I hope you don't mind me coming over here!?

I lost over 5 and a half stone a couple of years back through calorie counting. I had another baby and put all but 1 back on. My heaviest was 15.2 and my Lowest was 9.5. Last winter I pulled myself back together after many dramas finished my maternity leave and went back to work full time. I weighed in at 14.11, almost at my heaviest ever. Since then I've lost bits and pieces here and there and put them back on.

I've wanted to do 5:2 for ages but if i'm being totally honest I thought it would be a lot of hassle, see, my issue is time, I need something easy, that doesn't involve extra shopping/money/a lot of thought. I get put off easily if there are too many rules ect. need something really easy. I am willing to put in the hard work though. So tell me, is this diet for me? Infact I also want a life change as I truly believe you can do this for a long time, or for extended periods.

So, before I make my decision....would anyone mind answering some questions

- Does it really matter how many cals I have on down and up days, for example I want something simple like 1200 on up days and 500 on down days, I am used to eating 1200 cals so that's like my average (ive managed to lose 7lbs in the last 4 weeks healthy eating and eating approx. 1200 but not calculating cals)

- I thought I read somewhere that.....on down days you can only eat twice a day? Why is that, and would there be a big impact if the cals were spread instead?

Thanks guys

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My husband doesn't understand this diet - feed day today after fasting yesterday - he went to get some shopping and made me a boiled egg with salad for lunch and bought a bag of stir fry for tea (with nothing to go with it) - bless him he's gone back out to get me something to eat! I NEED FOOD!

Just wondering, how much weight have you guys lost so far on 5:2? And how many calories do you consume for the rest of the week?

Anyone else fasting today? Good thing about Friday fasting is that's when I would have had a couple of glasses of wine - so fasting reduces me drinking too!

Milk in tea then I think a nice stir fry and some berries with yoghurt

It might be a coincidence or the physio is finally paying off but I'm on week 4 of this diet and I've had 3 days of little or no back pain for the first time on about 2 years. It's not because of weightloss, I've not taken any extra painkillers - it's just possibly interesting! Anyone else seeing similar potential health benefits?

Hi, can someone tell me is it best to have one meal in the evening or split it through out the day, I'm a little confused lol.

Thanks mel x

Okay, I've discovered that shakes, cal counting 7 days a week and Slimming World didn't work for me!
I'm only 4"11 so I found that I ate too much on SW & the shakes and CC seemed like a never ending cycle. That's when I bought the 5:2 book :)!
I'm so psyched to start!
I've done my bmr/ bmi charts & found that 470 on the fasting days would work beat for me because I'm so short.
I'm starting first thing in the morning!

Wish me luck guys!

Milk in my tea - I'll see how the days pans out - should be ok as I'm really busy from 1pm

Hi My Name is Gem. I weigh 13st 10lbs :( aged 29 and approx. 5ft 10, I am wanting to lose 2st 10lbs I am a member of our local gym but work keeps getting in the way, I had a fast day today and I save most of my calories for the evening as I can make it long into lunch before I even feel remotely hungry and I am more likely to eat rubbish at night, this is my 3rd fast day I haven't noticed any weight loss yet but feel thinner, so I will weigh myself again next week

Hi all,


I had some really tasty food today for under 500cals so thought I would share.

I has nothing until a late lunch when I had some cauliflower rice flavoured with paprika and a mushroom stroganoff made with mushrooms, garlic paprika and a small portion of extra light cream cheese. That made a decent serving for around 100cals!

Then for tea I just had stir fry (1/2 veg pack from tesco 70cal) with 1/2 pack blue dragon Szechuan sauce (59cal) and Asda udon noodles. 1/3 a pack of the noodles is just 93 calls so all that is about 250 (as I added some broccoli). The noodles are yummy and filling. My OH has exactly the same as me but with an added Pitt? He isn't following fast and is still full after his meal.

I have enough for some fruit for dessert too!

Enjoy xx

Hi. I have tried a variety of diets without much success, it's not the diet it's me! I recently tried SW and stayed the same weight for three months as I can't get portion control. Now fed up with paying out £5 a week and buying tons of food I have decided to try the 5:2 plan.

I know I can drop down to 500 cals as I have done the Cambridge Diet before and lost 3.5 stone in 12 weeks, but it's not sustainable and I like quite a lot of activity. I run 5k 4-5 times a week and cycle 4 times a week to work and back, so a constant diet of 500 cals is just not healthy with all that exercise.

To day is going to be my fast day and again on Friday. I am away camping the beginning of next week so it is likely to be Tuesday and Friday then as well. However, I hope to eventually fast on Mondays and Fridays.

If anyone had any advice it will much appreciated.

Thanks Kat

PS my start weight is 212 lbs.

Yay - survived my fast day yesterday. I had milk (tea), a small salad with quorn slices at about 4pm and then a slightly bigger salad with quorn slices, 1 boiled egg, a freshly made slice of bread and a yoghurt.

So glad to be eating today - fasting on a bank holiday not easy but going out for a meal tonight.

A fast day today but mixed with totm and having to take a cocodamol for chronoc back pain really not good. Need to avoid fast days on days where I need pain relief maybe. Felt v rough :(

Weigh in is tomorrow - but as of today on first week of 5:2 I've lost 0.9kg which is 2lb as near as. Amazing!!

good morning everyone.
i tried to get some info off a few ppl last night but either ive done something wrong or ppl just dont fancy replying to me??
so here i go again...im hoping to begin the 5:2 diet tomorrow but would really like a few ideas on what a good menu of 500 cals are,the ideas in the book dont really do alot for me so was hoping some inspiration from the world may do??
if you can help me or direct me to a few recipes i would love that so much..
i have gained 12lbs since xmas having lost nearly 2st a year n half ago and dont seem to be able to get myself back into it..heres where you guys come in??
any help,advice,tips,recipes anything i would be thrilled.
thanks everyone kerry.xx

I've had a rocky start to my 5;2 campaign but I'm finally getting somewhere. My problem has been that i've been overeating on my feed days, badly overeating. So much so that in two months on the diet I gained 8lbs! I realise I can't eat what is a 'normal' portion for me as eating that is what got me to obese in the first place. So instead i worked out my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) online and have been calorie counting so that I meet that on feed days. As a result I've lost 6.5lbs in the two weeks I've been doing it - hurrah! Obviously it's not ideal to be calorie counting but once I get used to these portion sizes i can start to relax a bit. Just really pleased it's working for me now.

Hi everyone. I bought this book yesterday after doing weight watchers. I enjoyed weight watchers but always came unstuck at weekends / work events. So.hoping 2 fast days and relatively health rest of the time will fit in better. Anyway few questions if anyone can help?

I started today and slipped up slightly and had 162 calories for breakfast ( forgot to count a fizzy vitamin tablet drink i have out of habit) does this matter or for i simply knock it off daily allowance?

Does it have to.be 12 hours between meals, just having breakfast now 8:15 as worked out this morning and OH and I generally have tea about half 7

Also what can you.drink during the day?

Thanks