The Fast-5 program is the easiest program for me to follow compared to other programs ... at least using the method I am using. I don't follow it on Saturday or Sunday's or any other day I happen to be off work (like a holiday or for a doctor's appointment.) I find that on the weekends though I wake up very hungry and I am coming to understand that it may be because I emotionally want to eat and because it is Saturday or Sunday morning. Most of the days of the week I don't wake up hungry... although there are exceptions.
It is so much easier for me to stick to this plan when I am at work. Home alone cleaning house causes me too much temptations. I think that I am not distracted enough about some emotional issues like being lonely in this new place, not being able to walk much due to foot problems, going through a divorce and a recent cancer scare. (Which turned out fine... the results were negative.)
When I ate small meals (3 meals and 1 or 2 snacks) all calorie counted, it was like I was grazing all day long. I was always thinking about what I could have or couldn't have to eat and when my next meal was going to be. I used to get worried that I would get busy and go too long without eating!
I used to get nauseas and even light headed if I fasted for 15 hours once a week for church. (In my faith you are not supposed to eat from sundown Saturday until service is over on Sunday.) Now I fast for closer to 19 or 20 even 21 hours daily and have more energy, not less.
But that was not always the case. The first two or three weeks of the Fast-5, I did have side effects and I have come to see them as withdrawals from sugar ... from soda I am sure but also I used to eat a lot of carbs too. As my body has adjusted, I feel better.
The next step for me is to find a way to break through my issues with doing the Saturday and Sunday fasts. I know I can do them physically, but somehow I have this irrational nagging thought that I need to get enough calories to keep my metabolism from crashing at least part of the week.
I have no support system for this program at all. The few friends I have were I have moved are very against a fast. My closest friend at work regularly tells me that he thinks I don't eat enough. I keep reminding myself that I could go 3-5 weeks without eating at all and survive as long as I was drinking water, so I will not get weak and ill if I follow the fast-5 7 days a week instead of just 5.
How have the others here gotten over the ingrained notion our society has that if we don't eat "normally" and a certain amount of calories we will get weak or ill or at a minimum crash our metabolism and stop losing weight?
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