Diets

[jean]

I was one of those lucky people who never put on an ounce. I could eat anything I liked and it didn't have the slightest effect until the age of about fifty, when I suddenly found to my horror that if I ate exactly as I pleased my weight did go up. It was quite a shock to me...

I was never one of those people - I suppose the advantage is that I have always had to be careful.

But it does get more difficult with age, and it is hard to make simple modifications to what you eat when you are not eating that much anyway, and are already following all the best advice about eating sensibly. At one point (in my 30s I think) I nearly tipped over into the sort of obsessive behaviour that's only a step away from an eating disorder, which thoroughly frightened me, and made me wary of any régime where I had to make a note of what I ate.

However, for the last six months or so, as I've mentioned here before, I've been doing intermittent fasting - otherwise known as 5:2, but I'd rather not call it a diet - and it is slow but successful, and the weight loss survived a recent 3-week suspension when I was in Italy.

I'd recommend it to anyone who hasn't yet found something that suits them, unless they're the sort of person who's liable to collapse if their blood sugar level dips too low.

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[johncorrigan]

I was never one of those people - I suppose the advantage is that I have always had to be careful.

But it does get more difficult with age, and it is hard to make simple modifications to what you eat when you are not eating that much anyway, and are already following all the best advice about eating sensibly. At one point (in my 30s I think) I nearly tipped over into the sort of obsessive behaviour that's only a step away from an eating disorder, which thoroughly frightened me, and made me wary of any régime where I had to make a note of what I ate.

However, for the last six months or so, as I've mentioned here before, I've been doing intermittent fasting - otherwise known as 5:2, but I'd rather not call it a diet - and it is slow but successful, and the weight loss survived a recent 3-week suspension when I was in Italy.

I'd recommend it to anyone who hasn't yet found something that suits them, unless they're the sort of person who's liable to collaple if their blood sugar level dips too low.

I've been doing the 5:2 for about a year and a half and it's also worked for me, jean. Lost about a stone and a half and have then stabilised - less weight on my legs so I can walk further and feel fitter. I sometimes get a bit fed up with it but it fits with my logic - two days, don't eat all the pies: 5 days eat all the pies!