Hi all,
I have been trying to diet over the last 10 years, with varying degrees of success but always ultimately put it back on and then some. I have tried Slimming World, Diet Chef, WW and a few others for short periods. I usually get to a loss of 3 stone/3 months dieting and hit a wall. I lose a fair amount of weight but don't drop a dress size and wonder what the point is?
I have suddenly got a bit of motivation to give it another shot.
Its only in the last year that I have settled into a routine of food shopping, due to my work and other factors. I used to be terrible and ended up with no food in, leading to takeaways.
I am hoping this will help me plan healthy and the 5:2 diet can transition into a more healthy diet overall.
My OH has started cooking from scratch a lot more but his portions are absolutely humungous.
For the last 3 weeks, I have given a 5:2 diet ago, using meal replacement shakes for the 2 days. It's been good so far, having lost 9lbs.
Despite being better with organisation recently, I would still like to try to follow a meal replacement like plan for now because I have no imagination when it comes food, no skill in the kitchen and I don't tend to like traditional "healthy food". Can anyone recommend other companies that do meal replacement stuff? I have seen some of the ones with their own forum on here but are there any others?
How are 5:2 style diets for long-term?
Can anyone recommend easy low kcal food I can use on the fast days in place of the meal replacement shakes? I took a salad to work for about a year which I was ok with but I am sick of that now.
So that's my babbling intro. And now I'm hungry. Off to bed for me.
Katie
I have been trying to diet over the last 10 years, with varying degrees of success but always ultimately put it back on and then some. I have tried Slimming World, Diet Chef, WW and a few others for short periods. I usually get to a loss of 3 stone/3 months dieting and hit a wall. I lose a fair amount of weight but don't drop a dress size and wonder what the point is?
I have suddenly got a bit of motivation to give it another shot.
Its only in the last year that I have settled into a routine of food shopping, due to my work and other factors. I used to be terrible and ended up with no food in, leading to takeaways.
I am hoping this will help me plan healthy and the 5:2 diet can transition into a more healthy diet overall.
My OH has started cooking from scratch a lot more but his portions are absolutely humungous.
For the last 3 weeks, I have given a 5:2 diet ago, using meal replacement shakes for the 2 days. It's been good so far, having lost 9lbs.
Despite being better with organisation recently, I would still like to try to follow a meal replacement like plan for now because I have no imagination when it comes food, no skill in the kitchen and I don't tend to like traditional "healthy food". Can anyone recommend other companies that do meal replacement stuff? I have seen some of the ones with their own forum on here but are there any others?
How are 5:2 style diets for long-term?
Can anyone recommend easy low kcal food I can use on the fast days in place of the meal replacement shakes? I took a salad to work for about a year which I was ok with but I am sick of that now.
So that's my babbling intro. And now I'm hungry. Off to bed for me.
Katie
