Weight loss seems to have stopped. After losing 17 kg, my body seems to have gotten used to not getting much nourishment twice a week. Either that, or I’m putting on muscle weight as I’ve started running on a more regular basis.

I run 3km twice per week (on the mornings of my fasting days, even) and a progressively longer run every Sunday (shooting for 13 km next Sunday and +2 km every Sunday after that until I hit 35 km). The short runs are done as fast as I can – ~5 min./km – while the longer runs are kept at a more moderate pace. I’ve discovered that running’s quite fun, although the near-freezing run in the dark at 6 am is tough.

I set myself the goal of adhering to the 5:2 diet for three months. It’s closing in on five months now, and it’s only the past two weeks that’ve been hard. It is absolutely amazing what a motivator a weight loss can be! So the next three months will be hard. However, if I continue to see a change in how I look, it may help. What I’ve learned for now is that the scales is not your friend! So no more weighing for me for the next three weeks - it's a level of disappointment I don't need.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

How long's it been? Two months? Wow.

I think I weighed 125 kgs when I got on the 5:2-thingy. This Wednesday, the scale in the gym clicked in at 113. That's a consistent weight loss of 1 kg per week. My figure has trimmed considerably.

This is back in June 2011

And this is mid-October this year (2013)

Gut's diminished completely. My face is thinner. Legs thinner. There's significantly more muscle tone on the torso - no, no pics. Not yet. Probably not ever.

I'm still wondering when it's going to stop. Either way, I'm not quitting, as it's been getting easier every week.

But it's still not a diet

Three weeks in, and the 5:2-thing seems to be working. For the first time in... 10+ years, I'm now under 120 kgs - even if just under - and it gets easier and easier to not eat throughout the two days - until dinner. By taking in all 600 kcal (100g ground beef and two fried eggs along with salad) in one sitting, I am full when I go to bed and I therefore don't overeat the next day.

Even better, I've slimmed down somewhat as seen here:

I've still got lovehandles, and I don't quite know where to put my hands, but it could be worse.

Quick thoughts about fasting

Alternative titles were Fasting - the Quickening. Or Quick, Fast, Speed - Swiftly

Anyways, I'm on this 5:2 diet thing. Yes. A diet. I've consciously avoided thinking of it as a diet, but I see it as such. Right now, at least. I want to continue on it, however, even if/when I make it to my goal.

It's been a week, now, and I'm on my third day of not eating until dinner. I weighed myself at the gym this weekend, and according to the scale, I weighed three kg less. I look forward to seeing what it says next weekend, because I don't really believe it. It's either liquid (which is weird: I drink a lot of water) or something else.

Hunger's not an issue. No stomach pain. No growling. But I feel stupider and dizzy. I hope it passes.