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Fasting / 5:2 diet

If you met your goal weight and you are maintaining, any modifications needed for those last few pounds?

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sedgieloo · 09/08/2013 12:28

I have tried to search to find the answer. Sorry if it has come up before. I am almost at my goal I just have a few pounds to go. I'm tempted to 4:3 as I am an impatient soul.

Any tips please?

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Talkinpeace · 09/08/2013 17:48

segie
First off, well done on getting to your "target weight"
but, there is no such thing as ideal weight, there is the weight that makes you feel good.
Remember that you will be doing 5:2 or 6:1 for the rest of your life - there is no rush.
Because from now on you need to eat within the TDEE of the lighter, leaner you.

I've never done 4:3 - then again I never dropped down to 6:1 - because 5:2 lets me relax at the weekend without putting any weight back on.

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Breadandwine · 10/08/2013 01:50

You'll find that when you do reach that point where you say you don't want to lose any more weight, that your weight will still bounce around by a few pounds.

My weight generally varies between 9.1 and 9.4 - although I have been as high as 9.5 and as low as 9.1.

If you think about it, our ancestor's weight must have gone up and down depending on when they last made a kill or found some food!

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sedgieloo · 10/08/2013 09:12

Thanks both. It hasn't been difficult actually. I'm naturally on the slim side but get proper bloaty and podgy when I'm pregnant and breastfeeding. I've been chomping at the bit to do 5:2 but wanted to get dc2 on three meals a day and cutting sown on bf before I started it in earnest.

I will look at my tdee for my new weight.

My most comfortable and here I my vanity is talking I will admit it, is 9ish stone and I'm 5'9. Or a small size 10. Is 'very slim' achievable on this or will it require lots of working out.

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sedgieloo · 10/08/2013 09:14

Just I add that my husband and I are seeking to do this for life due to the health benefits and the fact that we are older parents. But I've been pregnant or bf for nearly four years and keen to get in my old clothes. Perhaps that is too ambitious but I am nearly there, they are just very tight!

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Talkinpeace · 10/08/2013 10:44

you'll manage it .... several of us on the maintainers threads are living in the land of BMI between 19 and 21

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sedgieloo · 11/08/2013 22:10

Talkingpeace, good to know! I will check that thread out when I get a chance. Thank you.