I have been slowly losing weight for the past 5 years. I decided to not to much pressure on myself and stopped always getting on those scales, and decided to enjoy living the 5:2 way of life and the inner health associated with 5:2, and the weight loss is the bonus side effect.

I feel that after 5 years and I am so close to my goal that I finally have something that I can share with others. My successes and failures on the 5:2 journey, and what has worked for me, also what has worked for others through the variety of different support groups that I have run over the years.

The main thing I have noticed with the people who are successful, is their mindset. It is not enough to only want to lose the weight, but it is how you think about the weigh loss and body health as a whole.

I have decided to start my own accountability 5:2 support groups to help people on a more personal level. I started this a while ago, but got very busy with my other 2 businesses, that I was unable to continue with them on a monthly basis. Therefor I have decided to only open the support and accountability groups up twice a year for new members. Then all the new members can join together at the same time, and get to know each other and have each others back on this life long journey.

I started a Jan 2014 group when I decided to make 5:2 a massive focus in my life and had a large group of ladies join with me at the same time. Almost 3 years down the track, the group is still going and I have made some life long friends.

I run and manage lots of different groups for various educational purposes, so have a great deal of experience with helping people to improve themselves personally and for business.

For more information on this program please go to: http://www.sparkleclassacademy.com

Wow. I cannot believe it I am already 4 week in. Usually by now on other diets I am secretly thinking to myself – “is this worth it?” – But not this time. I am in love with this new way of life, even though the past 2 weeks the scales have not shown good numbers.

The fasting is getting easier, but some days are easier than others.

Last week was a gain of 500g – and I know your all asking yourself if I have had a decent bowel movement – lol TMI? — Well since you asked “I did a little thank you” and the weekly results are in:  (more…)

My third week has been the best so far. I have slept better, not needing to eat until late afternoon and think I am starting to find what pattern works for me.

I feel so much better for it, and I am finding myself more and more in love with this way of life. I have never been on a diet before where I was proud to tell people that I was on a new diet. I have tried many different diets in the past, and it is always a well kept secret from all my friends and family as I don’t like knowing as I always fail. “not this time – so sir”

This week was the week that my husband registered this web address for me to start my blog, and it was not until the weekend that I started playing around trying to navigate my way through this unfamiliar world of blogging.

I also weighed in and to my surprise I had actually put back on the 500g that I lost last week. So I am back to the 3kg loss that I had in my first week.

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Now that this blog is up and running I will try to get posts done to catch up for the last few weeks for my Journal entries.

So my second week was definitely better than my first. I have started to listen to my body signals more and I am actually understanding that hunger passes and is not something that comes on and stays with you all day. Just having a drink and waiting around 10-15mins and it subsides.

This weeks weigh in at the end of the week was a loss of 500g.

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After watching Michael Mosley’s inspirational documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer way back in 2012, it sat in the back of my mind as something that I would consider attempting.

Now over 2 years later and a bit of a push from my husband as he wanted to lose weight, I decided that this year was the year. So I began my fasting lifestyle on the 5th Jan 2015. I had not planned to start, I just decided on the Sunday night and began on the Monday morning. I weighed in at 86.6kg, by the end of my first week I was 83.6kg (most I would say is water, not fat)

On my first day I had not made any plans, I just ate what I had in the cupboard and used My   Fitness Pal (MFP) to count the calories. It was a challenge.

Fast Day 1:
Monday 5th Jan 15

Breakfast – I had black coffee, (more…)