does anyone do 5:2 alongside sw

Hi as above is anyone doing sw 5 days a week with two fast days? If so how are you finding it

Not supposed to work alongside slimming world. I assume its because as sw lets you eat till full you could eat more on the non-fast days as you'd be hungrier after fasting?

A lot of people are successfully doing SW alongside 5:2. After over a year of fasting I can assure you that you're not hungrier after a fast day.

I might look into doing this as I seem to have had very few losses recently.

Anyone got any tips for me on this?

I have done this a couple of times. I weigh mid week and if I find, which I usually do, that weight has gone up I do a couple of low days. I usually either cut out breakfast or lunch, and have a SMALL dinner, Even though the two weeks that I did eat I only lost 1lb, I would not have lost that if I had not weighed at all.

I find it too easy to overeat on SW so have had to adapt somewhat.

I'd say that is one of the down-sides of SW.
They encourage you to fill up which is fine when you are bigger but after losing a fair amount of weight, you have to start reducing portion sizes and calorie intake.

I'm currently at that stage and my losses are agonisingly slow if not non-existent

Hey, I do calorie counting using my fitness paypal alongside slimming world. I am 9'3 currently trying to get to 8'7 and my starting weight was 9'11. I found that eating as much pasta, potatoes etc as i liked was not helping me lose weight as although i was sticking to plan i was just eating far too much for my weight to help me lose. The biggest difference is if ive had my calories that day then i wont carry on eating just because its free food so therefore cutting down overall.. I know this is not the aim of slimming world but its the only way i can lose following the plan to give myself some kind of limit.

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hello sorry for late reply and thanks too those who did reply ive tried two fast so far and have lost over 3lb this week after staying the same for two weeks. im finding the days i dont eat easier than the ones i do but im now using sw as a reference i.e no more than 2 bread etc and so far its going well. im going to discontinue group once my 12 weeks is up as the fast plan for me could really work.

I will carry on with SW even tho today and tomorrow I am cutting down again.
I am one of these `dieters` that will eat a 500g pot of free yogurt just because it is there, so don`t now buy more than one.
I know I don`t eat `in moderation` as they say.

When you have fast days, do you eat something or is it a total fast?