DrFfybes wrote:I msut congratulate you on this. Firstly for the dedication on sticking to it for so long, but also on the level of the record keeping. Presumably you have some App or excel spreadsheet for the data, rather than sporadic scrawled weights written on the calendar that tend to get omitted when they go in the wrong direction
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There are many variations of the 5:2, so out of interest what is the calorific intake on Fast, Normal, and Diet days?
I ask this as MrsF occasionally attempts something similar, but as I don't it is invariably short lived as I feel guilty eating properly in front of her, and she feels guilty that I feel guilty, unless I decide cooking for 1 is too much trouble and get a takeaway, in which case I am "just being mean". We have recently started a new campaign, which is why I'm interested in the calories, but after 2 weeks it is early days to see progress.
Thanks
Paul
I'm sorrry that what with or small matters taking our attention, I didn't get around to answering this.
The fast days were something around 500 calories for her and 600 for him, as I remember it. You can't keep that up for long, though I seem to remember we did it for about a year. If you aren't starving by evening, then you are lucky, or not doing it right! At that stage, I would have an apple near bedtime if the hunger is so bad that you cannot sleep.
Later we kept to diet day type food - prawn casserole, fish, small amounts of chicken - and although we didn't actually keep a log of the calories thereafter, they were probably of the order of 1000-1500. That keeps the weight control so that even the odd blow out or celebration such as the Christmas period does not disturb the weight chart for more than a week or month, depending how long the celebrations were!
One can see many such spikes in my chart relating to family visits or Christmases.
We always have diet days together. I think it would be very difficult to do it separately, and really not so encouraging - even a little competitive spirit keeps you both towing the line. I doubt it would work for us if we tried to have different regimes.
Exercise is important too, and I have great sympathy now for those people who are immobile and overweight. If I weren't able to go on long walks, I can quite see my weight would zoom up, compounded by the fact that if you were stuck in a chair all day, eating becomes a matter of comfort or assuaging boredom for some people. What else is there to do when reading or day time TV become monotonous except raiding the biscuit barrel or similar?
Yes, our diet days are always more effective if we fit in a 2 or 3 mile walk round the village.
Arb.