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Need to shift some excess weight, giving this a go and wondered if anyone else has had any experience.
Basically you eat normally for five days of the week and eat only 600 calories on two days of the week.
I started yesterday and had a 600 calories lunch only. Got through an hour of circuit training ok last night and eating normally today until Friday when I will eat only 600 calories again. Then I'll eat normally over the weekend and start again Monday.
Will report how I get on!
Good luck. Some people have done it at work with good effects. I've not seen it done alongside training.
Flip, 600calories and still doing circuit training. Did you have anything to aid recovery after that? I can't imagine that your workouts on the 600calorie day would be of much value without quality fuel to burn. But if it works...
I had a go when I'd had a lazy 12 months and needed to shift some excess, did a couple of weeks but found that the lack of energy meant my running wasn't as good as it should have been, I sort of decided that more calories would let me run harder and therefore shift more weight.
Do you train 7 days a week ? If not, then as suggested above, might be best not to coincide a fast day with a training day if at all possible. After hard training then the body need fuel to repair itself
I think I'm settling on the French Diet.
'I think I'm settling on the French Diet'
That's a shame, I almost stood on a large toad on the pavement at the end of my run last night, rather than shepherding it across the pavement and into the grass as I did, I could have squashed it and donated the legs :-)
Did it for 18 months and it works a treat and it allowed gym sessions without any ill effects.
Went from 14st down to 11st 7lb and ran my best for a full summer.
Tu & Th were diet days, rest were normal eating and Saturday night was ale.
TBH, I was just planning on adding a thick layer of butter and/or cream to everything I eat. Bread, pasta, biscuits, apples, cereals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daletownrunner
Reckon that'll do.
Did you see Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure last night? I'm going to try the Mexican diet of curried Iguanas, i think it will give me an edge over beetroot junkies like Noel. Only problem is i don't know where i can go to get my fresh Iguanas, i might have to break into Roundhay Park Tropical World and set up a breeding program in my summer house.Quote:
Originally Posted by shaunaneto
Not saying the 5:2 diet doesn't work but is there any real need to diet? If you simply JERF (just eat real food) you will lose body fat. So cut out the crap from your food intake. So that includes: all breads, all cakes, pasta,ready meals, ready made sauces, alcohol in excess, sweets and chocolate, crisps,fizzy drinks, so called health foods (often packed with sugar), oh yes that reminds me - cut out all refined sugar. So you still eat protein, carbs and fats but you source them from the raw material ie meat from the butcher, vegetables in all their variety from the green grocer, fish from the fish monger. And if anyone says they don't have time to prepare food from the raw materials then answer this: do you have time to watch TV or listen to music. Then ask: do I have time to look after my health?
Well...you'll be saying next that "diets" (as distinct from a healthy diet) can never work in the long term and are counter productive to the normal digestive processes of the human body but they do provide an income of £billions to organisations which cynically take advantage of weak-willed, self-indulgent, attention-seeking gullible people with more money than sense, thereby getting "fat" on huge corporate profits.
I agree that most 'diets' are a short term fix which don't really work, but this one is supposed to be kept up long term and supposedly has other health benefits as well as weight loss.
I'm too busy working and training to cook or watch TV!
I'll be training on fast days but will keep it low intensity.
My neighbour does the 5:2 diet. Doesn't seem to be working, he got bigger over winter. Just saying.
agree with Fudge the Elf.
the word 'diet' needs to be removed from the vocabulary. diets are rarely sustainable long term. JERF all the way.
plus, it is really just a case of calories in vs calories out. get the balance right with good nourishment that your body needs and the weight will shift. if it isn't, then something is out of balance.
5 pints and 2 packets of scampi fries?
Lasted a couple of weeks but became too hard, I enjoy eating! Nice idea though.
Back on it as weight has increased over the past 18months.
See if i can get back to a running weight.
Here goes🤣
Without wanting to try and preach... my view is that any 'diet' is a fad, and it needs a long-term change in lifestyle or habits to be successful and lasting.
For me it was 2011 or 2012, stepping on the scales at xmas and being just over 16 stone. Without fail, my diet (hate that word!) has been based solidly around a rice/chicken meal daily. For me the restriction in calories came from doing without a large breakfast. Whether or not i had a large breakfast, i was still hungry again two hours later, so i figured i'd save the calories, and just make to with a couple of spoonfuls of Greek Yoghurt, or a bit of fruit juice, etc.
I personally find i can suffer a little more throughout the day with feeling hungry, but wouldn't contemplate going to bed hungry, and often find my largest meal of the day is supper, after training. Which flies a little against convention.
When i was at my heaviest (102kg) i set a target to eventually get down to 84g. I hit a bit of a stall at 84-85kg but the incentive of competing professionally in my sport at the time, helped me get down to 78kg, and even hit 76kg whilst training in Thailand.
Currently 'walking round' at 80kg.
SHORT VERSION.... FAD DIETS DON'T WORK!!!
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Originally Posted by Marco
Can't argue with your experience and the benefits to your health, but you did yourself say that you had to give it up due to issues on the '2' days, which indicates it's probably not a sustainable choice.
I'm with you on the going to bed on a full stomach. Usually eat at 8:30-9pm and it's often my largest meal of the day. But then I go through til 1pm without anything, except a spoonful or two of yoghurt etc when I first wake up.
Just another way to keep the calories at a sensible level.
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Here is the update on 5:2
205.25lb
Beginning of day one Marco
See where it takes me 🤔
I did this last winter for several months and found it quite effective with slow loss of weight. I would be on it now (or at least 1 day a week) but for 7 weeks of a nasty virus has laid us both low - not the time for draining energy reserves with diets.
My observations are that beware of energy levels dropping off during training, I was trying to do distance work but would just bonk after an hour, although I never tried anything long the immediate day after fasting the cumulative effect was quite draining.
I also found after a couple of months it became less effective, this was mainly my fault, as combined with some form of training every day I was hungry, the day after fasting I started to "over compensate" with food, big cooked breakfast for starters and having odd cravings for certain foodstuffs, probably more food than I needed! It was very enjoyable though, stuffing myself with lots of treats and NOT putting weight on.
After a few weeks we quite looked forward to the fasting days, always did a Monday to get over the weekend overindulgences and then a Thursday so we could enjoy the weekend and I would have a bit of food in me for weekend training.
Hope it works for you, probably the only diet or eating programme that I could stick to and would certainly do 1 day a week to feel better and hold my weight steady.
200.0 dropped 5.25lb from Mon to Fri on 800 cals a day.
Now see what happens between Fri to Mon eating normally.
Cheers Marco
Only a nett drop of 3.5lb from 7th to 14th with weekend included.
I'll take it though. It would be a stone in a month.
Six years ago I was somewhat overweight, 98kg, a work colleague suddenly began to look "thin", he'd been doing the 5:2 diet so I thought I'd give it a go.
Over the first six months I lost 23kg which was probably a bit much as I hadn't weighed in the mid 70kg range for over thirty years. I'm back up to 83kg now which is maintainable.
The worst part was that a month or so before starting the diet I'd gone through my clothes going: "I'll never get in that again." and threw loads of shirts and trousers out!
10lb in 3 weeks.
800cals per day on Mon Tu and Wed.
Eat normal for rest of week.
Oh, bloody pressure has dropped too.
From 126 over 76
To
121 over 79
Taken every morning in bed.