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Jun 2015
11:21am, 15 Jun 2015
3,223 posts
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SusiesueH
hello all. 5:2 didn't work out so well for me. I struggled with headaches and drowsiness and to add insult to injury, didn't lose an oz! After doing a bit of reading around, I found an alternative so last week I did 16:8, where I only eat between 12 and 8 am each day and fast the rest of the time. There are all sorts of claims of how your body starts to burn more fat after 12 hours but even if that's not true and it is simply down to a reduction in intake (essentially, I'm skipping breakfast (or breakfasts on some days :-O)) and therefore eating fewer calories. Whatever the reason, it seems to have done the trick and I'm 2.4lbs lighter than I was last week. I think I'll stick to this for a while to see how it goes. No headaches and only mild hunger pangs during the morning until I eat normally at lunch 
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Jun 2015
12:43pm, 15 Jun 2015
388 posts
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Gromit
well I'm back on the 5:2 this week , it worked well for me , until the week before marathon I decided it would be sensible to give it a break for the week of carb loading and then recovery week ........... this then turned into quite a few weeks of recovery and after I great week on Mallorca last week I need to stop the rot so I'm going to get back on the 5:2 wagon ......... when I did it earlier in the year I lost almost a stone but on fasting days I did no exercise , this week as plans go I will be exercising on both my fast days , nothing more than an hour on both occasions so i'll see how that goes ....... potentially i'll be in the red as far as calories go having only eaten 500 then exercise to the total of more than 500 .......... anyone else do exercise on their fast days or do you avoid it all together ?
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Jun 2015
1:04pm, 15 Jun 2015
169 posts
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idle_wilder
I've done easy runs and spin classes on fast days before & been fine - just make sure you drink plenty of fluids, as I did find after one class I had a headache. Will be back on 5:2 soon - recovery week last week, but will probably be so busy at work I won't have time to eat much!
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Jun 2015
4:18pm, 18 Jun 2015
389 posts
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Gromit
so exercising on Fast days hasn't actually been too bad , don't get me wrong , by many peoples stds I didn't exactly do loads but did a 15 mile bike ride on fast day number 1 and then a 4 mile run in the evening on fast day 2 , just a slow one with a recovering from injury mate but as I didn't weigh myself at the start of this week I wont really know my loss this week but can defo feel I've lost some , but will weigh tomorrow morning so I've got a starting point for next week ........... but feel happy that I'm back on the wagon
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Sep 2015
2:48pm, 24 Sep 2015
2,105 posts
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Tim of MK
After a break of two years (after coming down from 17st to 13st on the Fast Regime), I've put myself back on 5:2 for a month to lose the 3kgs that I gained on holiday.
I'd forgotten how hard the opening fast days were (nighttime headaches and loo visits, daytime sweats). But, even without getting on the scales, I know that it is working.
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Sep 2015
3:11pm, 24 Sep 2015
3,985 posts
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sallykate
I'm doing back to back fast days with my husband - who two years ago lost 20kgs on 5:2 but for one reason or another put some of it back on again. He's lost 3kg in the first month.
I've found swimming is OK on a fast day even though on a normal day it would make me absolutely starving. We both quite like having two fast days in a row, oddly enough. I thought it would be very difficult but it's actually OK just to get it over and done with. Though I am eating more like 6-700 calories rather than the 500 that the 5:2 would suggest for a typical woman.
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Sep 2015
7:25pm, 24 Sep 2015
2,106 posts
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Tim of MK
I never went that low. I just wouldn't function on 500-600calories in 24 hours.
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Sep 2015
8:02pm, 24 Sep 2015
5,548 posts
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bigleggy
Doing it mainly for weight management than weight loss these days. Seem to have a pattern of 2 fasts days for a week , then 1 fast day the next week.
Doubt I could do back to back days
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Sep 2015
4:16pm, 25 Sep 2015
7,482 posts
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Schnecke
I don't think I could manage two days in a row. These days I do 6:1 to keep my weight at a low but healthy level. The main problem I have is that I eat for England on the 6 non-fasting days! I am marathon training at the moment, which does make me more hungry, but I really find myself craving cake, biscuits or anything else sweet - Jaffa cakes are my first port of call after a run, but also at any other time of the day or night when I'm feeling peckish!
Does anyone else find the same thing happening on their non-fasting days?
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Sep 2015
10:57am, 26 Sep 2015
3,986 posts
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sallykate
I wouldn't have thought of back to back if a BBC quiz hadn't suggested that it's the best approach for me as it put me in the "constant craver" category. I like getting it out of the way, and of course there's only one "post-fast" day, which might suit some people if they tend to over-compensate if they wake up hungry.
Sorry Schnecke, I remember that almost constant post-long run hunger when marathon training but can't suggest how to conquer it! Jaffa cakes are extremely sweet though - maybe try a less sweet carb - a sweet tooth is more a habit than anything else and you can break it.
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