Decided at Christmas that I'd like to lose some weight before I get married later this year. I'm 183 cm, and was 97kg, with 20% body fat
For the first three months, I cut down on food portions to a more sensible level, cut out all shop bought bread and substituted with making my own granary bread at home when I actually wanted it, swapped out pasta and rice for brown versions, cut out red meat, ate more chicken and fish, etc. All the things one is supposed to do to eat healthily. After 3 months, I also took on the 5:2.
Yesterday, I hit both my targets of 78kg and 9% fat.
I have not dramatically upped my exercise in this time.
I have found the 5:2 to be fine from a metabolism point of view, and actually from a hunger point of view the next day. The first weeks were harder, but once I became accustomed to a smaller amount of food, I actually realised that trying to eat an entire pizza the next day is not only unnecessary (as you really don’t need this much food) but actually quite difficult on a considerably smaller stomach.
re 5:2
Decided at Christmas that I'd like to lose some weight before I get married later this year. I'm 183 cm, and was 97kg, with 20% body fat
For the first three months, I cut down on food portions to a more sensible level, cut out all shop bought bread and substituted with making my own granary bread at home when I actually wanted it, swapped out pasta and rice for brown versions, cut out red meat, ate more chicken and fish, etc. All the things one is supposed to do to eat healthily. After 3 months, I also took on the 5:2.
Yesterday, I hit both my targets of 78kg and 9% fat.
I have not dramatically upped my exercise in this time.
I have found the 5:2 to be fine from a metabolism point of view, and actually from a hunger point of view the next day. The first weeks were harder, but once I became accustomed to a smaller amount of food, I actually realised that trying to eat an entire pizza the next day is not only unnecessary (as you really don’t need this much food) but actually quite difficult on a considerably smaller stomach.