well done chaps.

been reading some interesting stuff that suggests that eating carbs in the morning is bad for fat loss in relation to eating carbs later on in the day.

could be the reason behind rapid weight/fat loss with fasting as I assume everyone has a few days where they dont have breakfast and lunch and those that are skipping breakfast every day are seeing very good results.

well done the man

keep it up lads

Ah, I can post again.  I have been unable to for 24 hours.  A browser problem it seems.

Well done mr man.  The first stone comes off really quickly and the rest will slip away nice and steadily without too much effort.  Have you got a target weight in mind?

My extra 4lb from the holiday has gone in only two days.  On Sunday I was just not hungry, feeling still rather bloated from a week without much self-restraint and almost no exercise.  Oddly enough I didn't feel in the mood for a drink either.  Monday was a fast day and I breezed through that.  Tuesday morning and back to my pre-holiday weight.  Easy.  On Friday I start my annual alcohol-free run up to Christmas.  The first two days are usually a bit of a pain but it soon becomes effortless.  Curious to see if that has any extra effect.  Twizzle, I am definitely not a teacher, but perhaps not-so-bigmo could teach us all a thing or two.

Thanks for the nice comments but I'm sure it wont be too long before it becomes apparent just how bad my spelling and grammar really is.Well done the man and good luck with it.

That's quite an interesting point re the carbs d13phe and something I'll have to think about if I don't record a loss again this week.It's been a couple of weeks now since I started having a toast for breakfast on fast days to cut my fasting from 36 hours to 24 hours so maybe it's having a bigger negative effect than I imagined.

Good luck as always to everyone.

Well done topnag and the man and good to see everyone's progress.

That is 10 weeks done for me on strict 5/2 with just water on my fast days and weigh in yesterday at 98 Kilos. Started at 113 Kilos so where the loss has slowed last few weeks, I only really want to get to 95 Kilos anyway so still happy with progress.

If I get to 95k I am just going to carry on anyway as feeling generally better and enjoying the fasting so it's about more than just the weight loss, but it is nice not to be a fat chucker anymore. Seems some other lads weight loss slows after initial couple of stones.

Mrs coxn has lost 4 pounds and is noised up as it's less than me but she has only been at it a couple of weeks and does very little exercise so that sounds about right to me, told her she is going in the right direction anyway.

Keep at it lads, all the best.

d13

I will look into the 16/8 fasts you mentioned earlier and let her know.

Cheers

Cooperman

will your Mrs be doing the Fasting

Well done captain...major achievement and lovely feeling to smash that 14 stone barrier.

Hats off captain, great result.

Keep at it

Great work captain.  Keep at it.

Yes, that's about it, although I don't think the 600 cals have to be in one meal.

thanks Fenway
i'll start on thurs.
i should be easy to keep up.

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I found a link and watched the program last night.
can someone say this is right.

have your 2 fast days so their not together.
ie;mon/thurs.

have 500/600 cals all in 1 meal.
drink water,black tea,and herbal teas throughout the day?
on the other 5 days of the week eat normal.



You've got it in 3 lines, Michael Mosley, the presenter, has a book on it coming out in January, there's going to be a lot of filler.  *cough*cashing in*cough*

It's called The Fast Diet btw

it depends what you define as normally and exercise.

your weight/body fat is determined primarily by what you eat, not how you exercise.

Fasting is a very easy way of limiting the calories/junk that people put into their body.  It is also a good way of training the brain that you don't need food all the time, something that our brain has been tricked into by countless advertisements telling us that we are hungry.

It also has major health benefits for longevity.

I believe fasting coupled with a clean diet and weight training is the fat loss bible but fasting is a bit of a hack for fast weight loss.

Day 114 and I have to report no weight loss this week. I haven't cheated once on my fast days throughout but Monday's are becoming a massive problem for me.The more I try to reason with myself regarding not drinking so much the more I seem to stick two fingers up to myself.I'm trying to cut down to four pints but ended up drinking eight then coming home to two spicy chicken pieces,potatoes and veg followed by half a tub of Cart D'or ice cream and three custard creams. Doesn't help does it?

The exercise front is not happening either due to a chest infection that I can't seem to shake off.On the positive side I'm as good as three stone lighter and feel better because of it and still intend to see this through.I fully intend to get out walking everyday as soon as I can as I reckon that will be the difference as it stands to whether I lose any weight or not.

Being realistic if I get through Christmas with no weight gain I'll be happy and ready to kick start things again going into the new year.

Well done everyone and good luck.

big mo

that sitting/feeding was probably about 3000-4000 calories so not putting on weight is a big positive i think

Zazu asked if it was not easier to eat normally and do some exercise.  In addition to d13phe's reply I would say this.  If you are eating "normally" and taking exercise to keep in shape then good for you.  However if you are living that way then you would have to accept that if you are exercising to burn off fat then that is because you are consuming too much in the first place.  The biggest surprise to me since I started this process is that I have been eating too much in the past. 

OK, when you have stopped laughing at the overweight bloke who has just realised that over-eating was the cause of his condition, here is why.  In previous posts I have told about my healthy eating way of life over the last three decades, from the muesli and soya milk breakfasts in the morning through to the steamed fish and veg dinners in the evening.  All my life I have been very aware of what I ate.  I had never given any thought to how much of it I ate.  I did not think that eating "healthy" food would make me fat.  It did.

I see two parts to this process.  First is to lose the excess and second to maintain it.  Four months ago the prospect of being on a permanent diet would have appalled me.  What kind of life is it to have to ask yourself all the time questions like " Am I allowed this?"  "Should I have only two potatoes and not three?"  "Why can't I go out to the pub with my mates on the weekend?"

Living this way is just so much more appealing.  Two days of self-control out of seven is surely not too much for anyone to manage.  And for my money it beats the hell out of slogging away in the gym to knock off the excess.  Prevention is always better than cure.

Not so Bigmo, it's great you're losing lots of weight, but punishing your liver and kidneys and clogging your arteries up with saturated fat and cholesterol kind of negates the fat loss.  Looking good on the outside isn't much good when you're insides are in a mess.