This pre-Christmas diet phase will hopefully prevent my scales going to high over the Christmas period and before the ‘dieting in earnest’ starts on Jan 1st.
I’m trying the 5:2 diet – having already completed one day of fasting on Monday, today is my second fast day in the week. I can’t eat again until 2pm, which inspired me to start writing about it.
My version of the 5:2 diet for this phase involves:
2 x 24 hour complete fasts (with liquid)
3 x TDEE feed days (where I can eat anything within my TDEE)
2 x low-carb days
I have a Christmas meal booked on 20th December, and will eat “normally” between then and the New Year (however, ‘eating normally’ over Xmas inevitably means weight gain!).
Here’s my tracker for Diet Phase 1:
5th Dec – 10st 9 – 31.9%
Day 1 of diet is also Day 1 of period. Hoping this is temporary water weight!
7th Dec – 10st 8.6 – 31.8%
No dramatic weight loss in the last 48 hours. Nothing to write home about
9th Dec – 10st 10.6 – 32%
A bit shocked to see I’d apparently gained 2lbs in the last 48 hours, but I had a carb heavy meal last night, so suspect a lot of that is water retention.
10th Dec – 10st 8.6 – 31.5%
Couldn’t stay off the scales, however, trying to get a feel for fluctuations and not obsess over it. As suspected, dropped that 2lbs overnight. A staggering 0.4lbs “lost” in 5 days.
13th Dec – 10st8 31.8%
According to the scales I’m 1lb down, but it seems to be muscle weight. That said, I really did eat whatever I wanted to for the last 3 days leading up to today’s ‘fast day’.
19th Dec – 10st8 31.8%
At the end of my 5:2 diet experimentation I seem to be one solid pound down, but with no body fat loss.
Proponents of this diet claim you lose around a pound a week, steady weight loss, but 1lb in two weeks isn’t really the result I’m looking for: particularly as I know I’ll gain that pound back the moment I start my ‘Christmas Eating’.
When I return in the New Year, I’ll be trying the Peanut Butter & Jelly Diet… I have high hopes for that one!
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