5:2

[Angelina45]

Thanks everyone that's really helpful, just home from hospital after an ankle op too Les, need to be 3 stone lighter but anything would be better than l am now, my other half is going to prepare food for me now I'm laid up for 12 weeks I will have plenty of time to get my head around it and I'm sure I'll have lots of questions

[fibronfedup]

Hope it doesnt give you too much pain and you recover well. How lovely of your other half cooking for you, mine does all the time takes a lot of pressure of losing weight.

[Angelina45 in reply to fibronfedup]

thank you he is lovely, think he needs some re-training though he's a butter in the mash kind of man

[fibronfedup in reply to Angelina45]

Lol bless him swap to a lower cal butter or get him to only put it into his share thats what ive done with my partner

[GoogleMe]

I wonder if fasting (even intermittently) is a good idea in the early days of recovery from surgery?

A good way to look at it, thinking that any weight loss is better than none and not getting fixated on what seems like a big figure.

[Angelina45 in reply to GoogleMe]

Hi thanks, my other half is making sure I eat. I think not being able to get to the kitchen while I'm laid up will help greatly to cut out snacking and grazing. Any little helps at the minute and can't balance on the scales so any loss will be based on how I feel and fit my clothes I guess... so no crash dieting here

[gingernut49]

I lost the three stone I needed to on the 5:2 Diet after watching Michael Mosley's excellent Horizon programme in 2012, "Eat, Fast and Live Longer" tinyurl.com/qzgo7tq or tinyurl.com/a8ppjl7 and went from a size 16 to a size 10 by eating 500 calories two non-consecutive days a week. I've been maintaining my weight loss since April 2013 by just fasting one day a week - in the past I piled the weight back on as soon as I finished 'dieting'. I'd very much recommend you read Kate Harrison's book, "The 5:2 Diet" (tinyurl.com/qe6mz4u) - it really does work and it will save you a fortune (towards your smaller clothes!).

I'd also very much recommend a free app for your phone called MyFitnessPal. Counting calories is very important so you can see how much you're eating and therefore eat mindfully rather than mindlessly. There are excellent videos in the Help section on the app that show you how it works - there's even a barcode reader to scan in branded foods.

It's important you don't eat more than your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) on non-fasting days. You can work that out here thefastdiet.co.uk/how-many-.... If yours works out at more than 2000 then aim at 2000 on non-fasting days.

Here I am in the Daily Mail on 7th January tinyurl.com/m7rqecq. The other two ladies’ stories are inspiring!

This little video explains more youtu.be/W9Aj6hRYg4A(Not working as expected?). It really does work!