Diets!

I don't think Merves suggestion of 2 days fasting followed by 5 days sensible eating will do any harm. I have been doing Sw for years and if at times I over indulge (holidays) I just do a couple of days of what SW call free food, a bit like Merves fasting. Provided you drink plenty and have fruit or salad you won't starve your body. The trouble with being on diets is that the body gets used yo having less calories and you stop loosing weight if you don't up the exercise. So shaking it up from time to time helps. Well done Merve nice to see a differant topic for a change.

I have been on the 5-2 diet since Christmas. Two days of eating 600 calories and 5 days eating sensibly. It works for me. On you 600 day if you fancy something you cannot have you know you only have to wait till the next day. You do not have to do without for months on end

Just eat lots of fruit and vegetables, lots of whole grains and nuts,a little bit of meat, poultry and fish (but modest portions), some dairy, (because as older people we need the calcium to avoid osteoporosis), a glass of wine per day (or slightly more to maintain health!!!!) and you'll find that you're always full, don't need to diet, and maintain a steady weight.  Mine has been the same since my youngest son was born thirty years ago!

Just don't eat processed food - make your own - too much fried food, and lots of fizzy drinks or colas.  Water is the best drink of all and is free!

One thing you should never, ever do is "fasting", eg, liquid diet as Merve is doing.  Its healthy, you are not getting your daily vitamins.   ....

Did you miss out NOT? ie Its NOT healthy .....

One thing you should never, ever do is "fasting", eg, liquid diet as Merve is doing.  Its healthy, you are not getting your daily vitamins.   ....

Did you miss out NOT? ie Its NOT healthy .....

I did notice.  But you're correct, its unhealthy

The thing is that if you starve yourself, even for a couple of days, your body will shut down parts of your body to survive, and this is what is unhealthy about it

I did a crash course in weight reduction after christmas.I cut out white bread and cakes altogether and stopped snacking inbetween meals have smaller portions and less beer and within eight weeks i lost one and a half stone and i,ve maintained that weight since

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It's  ok  Peter,  I  found  your  stone  and  a  half  and  I 'm  keeping  it  warm  for  you  ,, ,, ,, ,,

Brian

One thing you should never, ever do is "fasting", eg, liquid diet as Merve is doing.  Its healthy, you are not getting your daily vitamins.  You need a properly controlled diet.  To diet, you need to eat about 1,000 calories a day not 150.  You are actually starving yourself to death.  Those in the concentration camps were on more than you are eating (or drinking).  You will have health issues in the not too distant future.  I myself am attending Slimming World.  You have a healthy diet, you eat 3 meals per day (you can even have a full English breakfast) and still lose weight.  If so, go to your GP and he will give you a diet sheet to lose weight and believe me, it will not include drinking only days

Write your comments here..I'm sorry but that is.pure myth! The human body is perfectly capable of going without food for 3 days! Yes, I would agree that if I carried on like that I would starve myself to death but it's for 3 days for goodness sake. That allows the body to cleanse and go into 'repair mode'. If I have health problems as you put it, it will have been ushered in by a period of feeling full of energy and health. I would rather believe a doctor who has studied and done it and my own experiences. 

The thing is that if you starve yourself, even for a couple of days, your body will shut down parts of your body to survive, and this is what is unhealthy about it

Write your comments here...Sorry, if that's the case, I'd like to know which parts? All that happened to me is I felt great- better than I had felt in months. I am now on the 5.2 diet. Fasting is good for the body, not bad. We eat far too much in the west with the resulting health and obesity problems. That's what causes health issues- pie eating and filling your face to excess. A little discipline and restraint does wonders.

About 12 years ago, after a period of ill health, we changed our eating regime. Aimed for a 'no fat' diet, but of course ate some. Made a determined effort to eat lots of fresh stuff and avoided the pies and the donuts and fried food. Over a year lost about 5 stone between us. In the main, weights stayed off. Put a bit back now retired and not quite so active.

we put the success down to a change of eating habits that worked for us, rather than thinking of it as a diet.