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It is supposed to be good to exercise on fast days. The 5:2 burns more fat than some other plans. When you exercise while fasting, your body more easily uses fat stores than glycogen. Thats a good thing! Helps burn belly and visceral fat! I know not all people do it, but I eat back some of my exercise calories on feast days. Whatever MFP/fitbit will give me. No exercise, 1200 calories. Exercise, up to 1500 calories. I like the 1500 calories best! I do not eat them back on fast days.

I try to keep it over 12 hours on each end of the fast day. The following 9 hours I only have low/no carb something until dinner, like ESA protein drink in my coffee. This seems to work. If you read the 5:2 book, they show there are different ways to do it. 18 hours of nothing is just one of them. The fast time includes the food time on fast days. So, if you stop eating at 8pm one feast night, you are "fasting" through the next day until breakfast on the third day. This is called the 36 hour plan if I remember correctly. The idea is only 500 cals in period of time from 8PM or so on one night through the next day until breakfast on the day after that..... broken up however works best for you... if you need breakfast, fine, if you want three mini meals, fine, dinner only, fine.

You are doing fine maintaining where you are at... so I would say eat like you do now for feast days, and split op the 500 cals on fast days however you like. I have a low carb Protein drink spread out over breakfast and lunch, then use up the 400 cals on a low carb dinner. I do not eat low carb on feast days. eat around 1150-1500 cals medium carb.

Lactose intolerance maybe? I had it the first 4 months or so, then got over it.

So sad! The smoking really makes it hard for the body to heal.

Welcome! Most fast days I am so happy to be eating that way. Like today. I just feel like I could us a little discipline to pull me back into the right direction....and fast day does that for me.

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Great story Coops! So there girl! Believe it! I'm on TV again tonight. Local PBS fundraising art auction. I'm working with a really fun and cool guy, so the time should fly! I get nervous before hand, but after I open up my mouth and begin to talk, its all over. Try to shut me up! Can I tell you how HAPPY I am that I have lost the weight! It would be an entirely different story if I was still 85 pounds heavier! It really helps my confidence.

Haha!

What a stunning dress! You make it look even better! You look fantastic!

Have a great dress fitting today! Don't have a happiness stall!

I get ESA chocolate fudge(pre mixed), mix with a cup of strong decaf and ice. I drink this for breakfast on fast days. Honestly, I keep adding ice and it lasts through lunch. 100 cals, 4 gms carb, 17 gms pro. Target Sometimes I mix in a few drops of peanut butter or coconut extract.

I have a tattoo on my left inside arm in Tibetanized Sanskrit!

Laura-ven! Don't talk about my jowls that way!

Looking good Laura! did you know that Welsh and Sanskrit are related languages?

Good luck ladies! Keep in mind that Georgia is the wonder woman of losing! But others who are super slow and long stall losers (like me) are also losing on the 5:2. If you use it, the weight will come off. Most of us using it do keep the calories down on feast days as well... not to TDEE, so maybe 1100-1600 range for most. It also offers flexibility for celebration for off days, and maintenance. Keep us informed! We can be your cheerleaders if you like.

Whatever you eat, log it in MFP. It really helps it to be real and not just a birthday cake slice and a handful on nuts.... Like Georgia said somewhere else, the holidays are coming up, its time to get down to business. If you want to have some harmless food celebration time, its time to get a hold of whats going in your mouth now. Im talking to me as well! I find sugar free gum, sugar free mints and planed snacks and deserts work best for me. And writing everything down. The good the bad and the ugly! If I don't go over calories... even if its crap food, I don't do that much damage. I may stall because it take more water to store sugars than proteins in the body.... but that can come off fast if I eat right and drink all my water. Good luck girls! Don't give up!

US supermarkets are super crazy! I try to wear blinders and just go the the sections that I need to buy from...but at some point a little voices speaks up 'TIME TO GET OUT OF HERE!" fast a little over yesterday, but all OK, weight stayed the same... .5 pound from WLS low. Onward!

ONLY 89 Pounds?! Do you hear yourself? That is freaking fantastic, add that to what you lost before, and it is even better! You had a lot to lose, and two-three years is NOT too slow to lose it. I am at 2 1/2 years, have not gotten to goal, and do not consider myself a failier. I will get to goal, probably soon, I had less to lose than you. You can do it. Its just a lifetime of work, getting to goal is just a small part of it. You are only a failier if you completely throw your hands up and quit. Some swear by eating more, and lifting weights, some swear by eating less and exercising or not. The best investment you can make is in dumping the negative talk, give yourself some positive affirmations or something that works for you... and stay in the game, no mater how long it takes.Lat year I gained 22 pounds by not paying enough attention to what I was doing. Then, earlier this year I also tried the eat more route, and gained 6 pounds... freaked me right out... I then used the Southbeach phase one... lost the 6 pounds I had gained... then started on the 5:2... have lost 16 pounds in 13 weeks, which I am ecstatic about. I am back to where I was before I gained the 22. I am 5 pounds from goal, 34 months from surgery. I have learned a LOT. I did not lose fast, but I think I have enough info to maybe keep it off this time. That is the hard part. You have done great, and you need to feel good about it, love yourself girl. You have come a long way, and stand a good chance of getting to goal, if you don't give up, and adapt as you go along.

You are only 7 months out. Who cares if its slow! It will feel just as sweet whenever you get there... you have not stopped losing and you are only 14 pounds away. I say, chill out and keep doing what you are doing. Too early to freak.

That is so amazing Jane! And really, count that 332 girl! Its one long journey, not just the sleeve. You can be very proud. I am certainly proud of you!

Just saw this, thought you might be interested in it, sorry if it was already posted here. http://www.drsharma.ca/bariatric-surgery-on-the-moms-leads-to-epigenetic-modifications-of-the-offspring.html

Georgia, thanks for the pep talk! I know that holiday season is so tempting! OD, when you see a post you want to comment on, press the multiquote button in the lower right hand side... you can use it multiple times if you like. Then when you are at the end of the thread, push the black "tag" that forms in the lower right side of the screen and all those posts will dump directly int your compose window and you can answer them there.

... or is it 26 pounds in a year? This is the vets forum..... What are you eating? How much? Exercise? Do you log what you eat in MFP? Some people are really slow losers... I was pretty slow.... and had many stalls. After 2 1/2 years I have not gotten to goal but am close and will get there.

Hows the 5:2 working for you so far ladies?