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Is anyone intermitting fasting following 5:2 whilst on slimming world? I know it sounds crazy but someone in my group suggested it to help speed up my weight loss?? Has anyone else tried it?? Has it helped with weight loss?? Look forward to hearing your experiences...:)

thanks Sammy!!! How have you found Atkins..how long has it taken you to lose your stone?x

thanks will keep away from Atkins bars..and alchol!! Its a shame it was nice to have the atkins strawberry yoghurt drink for breakfast makes a change to all meat and eggs x if any one knows of an alternative it would be great to hear of it x

where do you get the chocolate mouse?? does soya not have carbs?? Thanks for your help xxx

First day today this is my menu for today and tomorrow... hopefully ok - would really apprecaite any pointers from anyone and if I am going wrong anywhere?:) Breakfast low carb, golower breakfast with double cream and raspberries Snack two baby bells Lunch 3 leafs of gem lettuce, 3 tomoatos...

oh okay ..she says whilst eating an atkins bar! what do you recommend instead? anything that takes that crunchy biscuit chocolate hit away??? Also last night to try and get rid of that Chocolate urge..I made my self a hot chocolate with a splash of double cream, spoon full of Green and Blacks...

thanks Moonlights you have done so well!! What are your views on using the Atkins range whilst on the diet..some people on here say no to use it?? thanks xx

Hi Guys, Is this okay to get started on Atkins/low carb? Breakfast Atkins Yoghurt Drink Lunch - Salmon Salad with gem lettuce, cucumber, tomoato and half avacado Snack prawns Dinner Meat and veg?? Is it okay to have low cal no carb fizzy drink? Last night as an evening snack I had hollumi...

Hi everyone..I have been doing the 5:2 diet for a few weeks but I read in the Daily Mail that if you are trying for a baby you shouldnt follow it...does anyone have any info on that???

I will let you know forgot to measure in to start with but tomorrow I am going to weigh and measure myself! Enjoyed my up day last night had the light pizza followed by chocolate covered dough sticks and a couple of glasses of rose!! Delicious! Today is my down day...so far just a 88 calories...

Just checked the JUDDD website and entered my details age 32 Female 5ft 2 inchesa weight 184lbs nd a bit confused what does the restriction tab mean??? what percentenge should I be typing in?? Restriction 20% - Wt Loss Mode25% - Wt Loss Mode30% - Wt Loss Mode35% - Wt Loss Mode40% - Wt...

Hi Louise, Just checked the JUDDD and a bit confused what does the restriction tab mean??? what percentenge should I be typing in?? Restriction 20% - Wt Loss Mode25% - Wt Loss Mode30% - Wt Loss Mode35% - Wt Loss Mode40% - Wt Loss/Maintenance Mode45% - Wt Loss/Maintenance Mode50% - Maintenance...

Thanks Louise going to check the Judd website today....x

just checked and they are around 50 calories each!! Why can't I just stick to a 500 day!!?? Well todays my upday and going out for dinner tonight so yipee!! Today I am going to have Special K bar 90 Calories, punet of blueberries, 64 calories, feel fuller for longer Paella 400 calories and then...

oh no I ruined it by eating two chocolates from the left over xmas milktray box!! how many calories do you think they have??

Had tomoato soup for dinner and a ryvita...means that I have just gone over 535 ohh plus 12 calories from flavoured water thats 547....need to be more stricter with myself on the down days!! Must say easier with the fuller for longer meal!! Looking forward to my UPDAY tomorrow!!! Yipee

Hoping that by making a diary it will keep me on track ..aim is looking to lose 3 stone to start with! I have my best friends wedding in April so only have around 3 months!! Follow 5:2 diet but may ad in an additional down day if I can but starting with 5:2 to get myself used to it! My down...

Hi Elaine, not sure..let me know too when you read the book ..good luck and keep me updated!!xx

Thanks Luv to be Slim and Louise...I started using My Fitness Pal this weekend and it really woke me up to how many calories aday I am actually eating!!! I am going to try to stick to around 1500 calories a day on my UP days and 500 on my down days,,will start with 2 a week but when I can may...

Thanks Hannata, Do you literally eat what ever you want on your up days or do you still try and stay within 2,000 calories?? You have almost lost 40lbs how long has it taken you??? Can you explain why you fast 5pm to 5pm? I like to drink two glasses of wine with dinner..I am worried that...

Thank you for your help I am going to give it a go!!

Thanks Miss Nic...you have done soo well ...its a stone and a half in how many months?? On your UD days do you watch your calorie intake at all??? Do you eat healthy foods? How many fast days do you do and how many Ud days do you do??? Thank you so much for your help!!xx

Hi Ladies I am hoping that you can help me..I have been reading lots of your threads as well as LOTS of other info on the internet and I have got myself really confussed as to what diet to follow for best weightloss and how to follow it?? Would you be able to tell me which one you think works...

Hi Debs...sounds like you are still on track despite the bad tummy...I too lost two pounds so am happy with that all going in the right direction! TOM too so had put on 1/2 inch round my waiste!! but I am sure that will go by end of week! Think your right I am going to stick to the 810 as it...

Hi Northern Girl and Quick and Easy How are you both doing? Not long Quick and Easy until your beach holiday!! Are you in the 9's yet? After my hendo weekend my weightloss had slowed right down..weighed my self the next day and had put on 3lbs...but I think most of that was the water weight...

Hi Debs, I have found this plan so much easier since I moved up to 810! Think you will do wel on it!...How did you planned day off go? I had a planned day off for my hendo on saturday...I planned to stick to vodka and soda...but that plan went out the window when my friends brought bubbly!!! I'm...

Hi Quick & Painful! Well done with the 3lbs!! Next week you will be into your 9's!!! Oh how I dream of that!! I lost 5lbs this week thats the most I have ever lost!!...If I could lose at least 4lb a week for the next three weeks I will be a very happy girl!! Good idea with the bikinis! I will...

Thanks Debs..how are you doing? Are you on Cambridge too? x

Hi Quick and painful! Let me know how weighin goes..I get weighed in tomorrow...last week I lost 4lbs ..I am hoping for another 4lbs this week.... My cambridge Councillor has said that I am allowed coke Zero and diet coke as well as sugar free cordials...just three weeks till wedding day...

Hi Quick and Painful how was your weekend? Mine was really busy but I managed to stick to it 95%! I was so busy I only had two of my sachets and a protein meal! Also had one cocktail with my mum! My ketosis strips are showing that I am deaper in ketosis whoop whoop....however I must admit on...

How are you doing quick and painful? Are you exercising? Thinking about adding a run in ..as I am missing it but not sure if it will slow down my weight loss?

I started back in January ...I was 12.7...but I mucked around on and off for the first 4 months...and was never in ketosis...then i started to do it what I thought was properly but I was training hard and skipping packs...and not in ketosis..I wasn't losing weight and couldn't work out why? I...

p.s food adverts are really hard to watch!!

Brilliant!! 6lbs in your first week is great I get my proper weigh in tomorrow! Tonight the scales said 11.4...I would love to be 10.4 on my wedding day!!!!...had my two sachets today and a coke zero...about 7 cups of peppermint tea..and two litres of water...and my fiance is making a stir...

Hi Quick and painful!! Do you really think we can!! I am so desperate to lose a stone...I have my first dress fitting on friday and all I am thinking of if I get hair extentions or wear a veil will it cover up my fat arms! i don't want to look back on my wedding day with regret! and think I...

Feeling great this week went up a step sole source plus with a meal and have lost 4lbs this weekend...I didn't exercise... So maybe I was just taking in too little calories when I was exercising and doing sole source!! 4 weeks today to my wedding day it would be great if I could lose 1 stone...

Wow starlight! Your results are such an inspiration!! I am so much happier on step 2 810... I still get to sit down with my partner for dinner last night I stir fried the chicken with veg..and gave him noodles...but it felt good sitting down again...also having the od coke zero has helped! I...

I'm back on it and have gone up a step...think with all the training I was doing it became not enogh calories..going to try and even myself out...and I am on 3 sachets and a low carb meal...meat and three tablespoons of veg!! just over a month till wedding!! My friend has just got these so...

amazing I have drank and eaten carbs all week and lost a 1lb!!!! I just dont get it????????????????????? i do really i an't cheat the system you have to have you sachets!!! I am now moving up a step..........had a horrible horrible day at work and drank a bottle of...

Mines tonight but I have been eating carbs and drinking gin!! So I am expecting to gain! I will be back on it today I will have my three packs and see what myshe says about going up a level! 37 days till wedding arrrr!!

I am feeling better in clothes I have taken two weeks off as my fiance says I have become a bride to be nightmare osessing about the scales..he also says he misses us eating together and cooking together... Thinking of moving up a level to step 2 so I can eat with him! Hopefully it will stop the...

Thanks Michelle, is this your first time following Cambridge? Its two weeks till my wedding dress fitting and I'm freaking out as I'm not losing weight...I know I am my own worse enemy but I have been trying to stick to it since xmas..!! Just 42 days till wedding and 39 days till we leave for...

Thanks Girly Girl think I am going to stop going mad on exercising..and stick to the plan...I think maybe in my head I thought I was being clever not eating my last sachet and burning off more calories....trying to beat the programme and it came back to bite me on the arse!! I will stick to what...

I had been sticking to my sachets a day even managed to make it through the bank holiday with no alcohol...I had been having a little bit of milk with my coffee and a few diet cokes which my councillor said was ok! But I really f@@cked the week up some how. Did really well and stuck to it up...

I had been sticking to my sachets a day even managed to make it through the bank holiday with no alcohol...I had been having a little bit of milk with my coffee and a few diet cokes which my councillor said was ok! But I really f@@cked the week up some how. Did really well and stuck to it up...

Thanks Danemi1! I had been sticking to it...even managed to make it through the bank holiday with no alcohol! But I really f@@cked the week up some how. Did really stuck to it up to day 5 (but some days due to being so busy I just ate two sachets rather that 3) stood on the scales to get a...

Getting Married in 59 days.. I have managed to lose just under a stone already..I have kept losing and putting on 3lbs for the last month!! Can you help inspire me by telling me if I stick to this for the next 59 days is it possible to lose 2 stone!????? Really need some support?

Hi Ladies my dress doesn't come into May...but I have 65 days to the wedding and I will be soul sourcing till then really look forward to dropping hopefully two dress sizes! Caught a climpse of mu naked body in mirror there is no way that body is coming with me on honey moon!!! Could really do...

Hi Ladies Been away for a while how are you all????? Seems you have been a little quiet!! 72 days till wedding I am being super focused!!x

Hi Lovely Great to hear from you. Has your week been any better? I think I am back in the focus place...it's amazing when you have limited time left to sort yourself out what a kick up the bum it can be ..13 weeks to wedding! I am going to try soul sourcing this week and if I fall off I think...

Welcome to the weekend ladies! Disney Paris..you seem like you are doing so well!! Keep it up honey you will get to your target in no time if you continue like you are!! Dione gosh you poor thing sounds like a very stressful week!...I think they are sent to try us! Sounds like you will dance...

Is it just me?? I have tried several times to ad a weightloss ticker and I cut and paste the code that I get but it never works! what am I doing wrong?? please help?X

HI Klmcm Thats great to hear! Sounds like you are back on focus! I space mine out by having one at lunch time, one at 4 and then one at dinner time and then I am left to have a bar or hotchocolate at night...if I use them up too fast in the day I really struggle! 113 days to go..I will be...

Hi Ladies Hope your both all well! Hi Sarah & klmcm welcome to the group! Been great catching up on your posts! How you doing Katy how you doing??? Funeral done...had a long weekend off to get my head around it all..was on plan to start again yesterday when I had a rediculously stressful...

Just want to say a big thank you all your support has made me smile today. Have funeral tomorrow and just a bit numb about it all...haven't been emotional..I'm worried that the reality will hit tomorrow... I went cc today and hadn't put weight on so stayed the same so that was a blessing...

Hi Sarah D yes room for a new group member! Good to have you back Dione!! You are doing lots of exercise!! Have funeral tomorrow but have managed to stay the same even after a valentines day and a boozy night out with the girls...really needed it though just to let go of everything. Back...

Thanks ladies! It's been a tough week and funeral is Thursday...go to see cc tomorrow so hopefully will start the week a fresh I am dreading weigh in ..my head has not been together so this week I have only followed it 50% tomorrow is another day and hopefully will give me the kick i...

I have been on Cambridge about 5 weeks and managed to lose 12lbs so far...but have struggled each week to stick to it! My Dad died last thursday and it has takn me off track again..... I am now back on track and feel ready in my mind to get back on it!! I only have 120 days till my wedding...

Its bizar isn't it!

Mine came back last night with avengence!!!! Arrrx

Been back on plan for two days almost..without straying! Have funeral next Thursday so I have secretly booked Fiance and I to go away next Friday for weekend in London..am going to try and get Maroon 5 concert tickets...on ebay...something to look forward to and does not evolve around food...

I have been following the Cambridge diet for 6 weeks - and started it a week when I had a period I have not had one since.. Is this normal...I have been on and off it over the six weeks???? Can someone help?

thanks Katycakes.....have managed to get a bug..which has helped me kick the food and drink...emotional blanket.. How are you both doing?

Hi Ladies Sorry that I have been out of action. My father passed away on Thursday..so been dealing with that... I am trying to get my self back on the straight and narrow as too many vodkas are hard to get out of the habbit... Going to try and focus today..as I think the focus will help...

Dreading weigh in tonight! )o;

ok got home and had an extra bar..hoping that would help..but it didn't do had a small peice of pizza...now stuffed and drinking sparkling water waiting for the girls to come round...they will keep me occupied!!! How you ladies doing today???x

I can't tell you how much I would like a peice of steak with stilton and a big glass of wine!!

Hi Lovely, Congratulations on your loss! You have done amzingly well considering!! I too would be VERY happy with 1lb...fingers and toes crossed that my bad days have not made me put on any weight!! Will be drinking copius amounts of water today as well as having another Epsom salt bath...

135 days till wedding...stay focused!! Only 60 days till hen do!!! would love to lose 2 stone by then!!

Great new profile pic Dione! Good luck with weigh in today! Fingers and toes crossed! How have you been Katy Cakes?? How much have you lost sooo far? whats 810??? I'm sat here drinking my strawberry milk shake..black coffee and have a litre of water at the ready!!! Have all the girls coming...

day 1 back on it almost done! how are you girls doing???xxxx

Hi Sonja Im looking to lose another 3 stone!!! You can do it...do you have a goal date that you would like to achieve it by?? Or a goal occasion?? xx

Hi Dione and Katy! Today is a new day..I am going to try and be a star pupil! Dione I think your positive attitude today is infectious! I am back on it and no swaying! Even meeting the girls for lunch today and whilst they eat pizza I am going to have a black coffee, peppermint tea, and fizzy...

Hi Honey Sounds like you quiet saturday night was exactly what the doctor ordered! Soo pleased for you Dione! I know you will get there honey...honestly Men are from mars women are from venus!!! Have you read that book??? TRYING TO FIGURE them out is a whole new language!! Haven't been...

Today is a new day!!! Thats all i want to say!!!

Ohh Dione you are having such a bad time at the moment...there is a lot of pressure there it seems..you are putting yourself under pressure to lose weight...there was the pressure with the funeral...it all mounts up! Just an idea why don't you book you both a weekend a way get someone to look...

Hi KatyCakes... thanks angel how are you getting on this week?? Dione thinking of you today! Got weighed in last night and lost the 3lbs with her too!! so thats fab.. But then went home and celebrated with a chicken and feta salad, two choc bics,a bag of crisps, a glass of wine and a vodka and...

P.s I have tried to ad one of those weight loss tickers and it hasn't worked how do you do it ladies/???

Dione Thats awful you should give them hell..which I am sure you have! You sound so up against it! I will be thinking of you tomorrow... I know its easy when you think the world is against you to think..bugger it Im going to eat some cake! Try if you can to be strong through this ...picture...

How you feeling Dione? If you are still ill today maybe a trip to the doctors...hope its got a little bit better????? Katy Cakes...so how is this week going so far for you...are you back on track??? Weighed myself this morning and I am 3lbs down! Woop! only 2 more lbs next week to get to my...

Katy Cakes is right...sounds like you need to take it easy Dione you have lots on! managed to stay on plan for last few days ..wish me luck for weighin! Hoping for 2lbs!!!

Can you chew on a bar Dione..?? Hopefully it will make you feel better? Don't cry it will pass!! Thinking of you! x

Hi Dione and Katy Cakes! Dione hope that you are being quiet because you are sooo busy and not because you are beating yourself up due to the slip! Either way thinking of you..get back on here so we can support you honey! Katy Cakes are you feeling better about it all? I'm seeing Cambridge...

Hi LADIES How are you getting on tonight! Which are your favourite CAMBRIDGE diet favourite flavours..I have just read on another thred that there is a chocolate and mint bar and two new porige flavours!! I love the little Chocolate velvet box flovours just wish they were double the size...

PMT ....life would be soo much easier without it! Think your right..the advice you gave me helps me soo much..concentrate on one day at a time! today has been okay but I think my body is still running on those additional calories that I consumed over the weekend! But back on it..get weighed thsi...

Oh Katy Cakes I thought you had been a bit quiet I hope all okay? New week, new focus for all of us...I know we can do this!!! What happened Thurs and Friday Katy cakes?

Ohhh Dione...I know how you feel today..have felt rubbish about my bacon sarni today and then followed it with two crumpets and jam!! I blame the drink..the hangovers make you crave carbs and food!!.....It will make me think twice about drinking again especially when it means the next day is a...

Haven't tried the mint bars either will be checking them out on Tuesday when I get weighed in! By the way well done Katie you have done amazingly!!!

That is really hard...Dione..theres nothing worse than watching everyone drink and enjoy lovely food...can you eat a chicken salad on 810? or steak and salad??? Sparkling water in a wine glass always makes me feel as if I am drinking wine??? Fiance is finally up and feeling soo rough....I'm...

Hi Dione, I know how you are feeling...I have been drinking sooo much water just trying to flush it all out! My Fiance is still in bed! Reminds me actualy how much better it is cutting out the drink as drinking has always led to my food binges! Had to have a bacon sarni this morning to get over...

Hi Dione and Katy Cakes Sounds like you had a good night Dione.....! I know exactley how you are feeling! Literally! Had a fab night with Fiance and friends ...think the Vino had an effect as I booked a night at the hotel the party was at! I wish I had read your post earlier Dione and stuck...

after bursting into tears at m&s, then not only screaming and i mean screaming at my fiance when he told me we were running late, followed by screaming at the kids for forgetting their coats...i have decided to chil out today and actually ate a few pieces of finger food at the...

i didnt even know they excited!

Thanks Dione! Sound like you are doing well...what have you decided to do with regards to have a couple of drinks...? The only thing I would say is when I have a drink or two I seem to lose any will power I have and all of a sudden I have drank my weight in wine and eaten all the crisps in the...

Hi Dione and Katy Cakes Sorry I have been absent was working in London for the last few days...I dont know how anyone in London sticks to diets...every corner I turned..there were amazing smells of fabulous food coming from every restaurant! ...I don't know how I managed to resist...coming out...

Well done Dione!!!!

Finding it really hard to sleep thats the second night in a row that I have been awake in bed until at least two am...is that a Cambridge thing????? Also woke up this morning with what feels like a hangover.....is that a Cambridge thing?? Woke jup hungry this morning..thats a first...?? I am not...

Day 2 done no cheating! Even managed to go out to dinner with friends and made out I ate earlier! One day at a time.. How you doing Katy Cakes and Dione???

i have drunk so much water today i think it has given me a head ache! managed to meet my friends today late for dinner...and pretend that i had already eaten!! ...one day at a time!

I am very lucky he is very supportive! How much weight on average do you think if I stuck to Cambridge 100 percent for two months could i lose...??? I have got to get my head into I am going to be a hermit for two-three months!! i know it will be worth it in the end!xx How have you got on??

Dione..really think it may be the hormones that made you feel like that, I was the same last week... I feel really different since my P has finished...was on a real high yesterday and feeling great...even organised all my draws, found a ring that I had lost for the last 6 months!! Also did a...

Thanks ...yesterday went really well and I feel in a very different mind frame....REALLY POSITIVE! Went to bed on complete high ..so much so I couldn't sleep!! Shattered this morning but still on a high.. Keep trying to picture in my head how I want to feel and look on my wedding day to get me...

Hi Kez, your wedding is a similar time to mine!....You have done well so far 23lbs loss?....How have you done that? How is your first week of Cambridge? Mine went really bad! Tip ..do not start your first week the week you are due on...my hormones were all over the place! I didn't do it...

Yes a big beach wedding in Ibiza..lyds you are doing really well! I have done really bad the last four days and binged!! I am starting again tomorrow and need to get my head round it!! The day times are fine but the evenings are when I go crazy! Is this your second time too?xxx

P.s Dione ..could it be that you are due on b y any chance?x

Hi Diona and Katy Cakes, Diona sounds like you have had a tough week...but you stayed with it don't lose motivation..maybe try and stay away from the scales...you are following it 100% so you should lose a few lbs by Tuesday..and at least that will be in the right direction!!! Keep going you...

Feeling motivated after my visit with CC, I have made her the promise that I will clear my diary this week...which means I will pull a sicky on gfriends birthday...as they wont understand why I am not drinking. I will make it up to her by doing something else for her like spa day... next weigh...

Hi Katy Cakes & Dione Katy Cakes congratulations on getting to your first week! How did you get on?? Dione...super motivating post from you..what other foods can you eat on the 810?? !! Yesterday morning was all fine I was happy to be in Ketosis...and then afternoon went pair shapped as...

Lyds..goodluck how has your third day been? Kira is have you made it to your first week how have you done? Kerry today is your day 7 isn't it??

Well done Dione thats amazing..what an inspiration!!! How are you doing today Katy Cakes? Feeling good about today ..working with the chefs but managed to get out of there tastings so far............! Fiance said after I cleaned my teeth last night that my breath smelt funny..had a metalic...

Theory test...I go to peices in tests I have failed it twice...!!

I mean brides to be!xxxxxx

So how are all you brides doing today??x

Kerry you are doing really well keep it up!!x

good luck for weigh in Trying so hard! My weigh in day is tomorrow too!! sounds like you have done really well?

Thanks Katycakes...I really apprecaite it. How has your day been??? Dione and you....how has your day been? I am revising tonight so that will keep me busy!xxx:break_diet::break_diet:

Hi Katy Cakes Thank you..you know what I am soo super stressed that I won't lose the weight before my wedding day that i couldn't stop crying last night...I have actually tried really hard over the last 6 months on other diets and nothing..Cambridge is my last resort..... I am going to...

Hi Dione and Katy Cakes, You both sound like you have done so well this weekend..! Wish I had been stronger! Feel rubsih this morning..got up went on scales and it says I'm 12.4...I've put on 3lbs! It takes 3,500 calories to put on a lb...and the only time I slipped up ws sunday when I went to...

Thanks...Dione I think your way of thinking is key but what I have found is if get myself in the habbit...I then think screw it I may as well have what I want all day now and start again tomorrow...and that is what happens each day...unless I just chose one day a week that I can have a nice meal...

wow you ladies have done sooo well! Well done just think of that wedding dress !

Getting married in June in Ibiza! Have put on 3 stone in the last two years...and desperatley want to lose 3.7lbs before my wedding day so I can be my dream size 10!! Not only do I have the pressure of having all our friends and family see my celulite & woobly bits round the pool....my...

Katycakes good luck for today! The weekends are so much harder!! I know what you mean..about the whole I don't care any more! It took me ages to get back on track! Just had two chocolated box shakes going for a run and didn't want to feel dizzy so thought if I had two it would give me more...

Thanks Dione, Thought I had done really well today..even went to the pub with fiance to watch a band play..stuck to sparkling mineral water and lime the whole night! Even though all our friends were like go on have just one it won't hurt....... I must admit I started to get bored..but i think...

Hi Ladies Can I join your thred? I am 3 stone 7lbs to lose before my wedding day June 16th...all my bridesmaids are either size 8-10s...I used to be a size 10 and now two years after he proposed I am a size 16!!!!! I have brought my wedding dress...and the lady said they can take it up to...