Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Andy (and Karen updating)- "CHEAT DAY"

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

[fast5] Re: Andy (and Karen updating)- "CHEAT DAY"

Using your eating window to "eat crap" is a funny side effect of this diet and the funny thing is, the diet still works if you do that but eventually it gets old.

I pick one day a week to eat for about 12 hours instead of 5 or 1 and the result is just a psychological benefit.

#1 I'm reminded of how bad I feel when I eat all day

#2 I act like everyone else for a day and it's kind of fun

#3 "CHEATING" is redefined as eating more times per day instead of eating like "crap" and I feel like a renegade fighting against the world just by eating more times even though my diet is still approximately just like a bodybuilders diet.

#4 carb loading has many physiological benefits too numerous to describe the most obvious one is you get to feel "full" one day a week and this fullness is a double edged sword... yeah it's fun but yeah you really don't even feel like doing it more than once a week. I always plan it on the day after my heaviest lifting for the week, not the day OF the heaviest lifting because I believe that overeating screws with growth hormone release. As all of you know here I'm a big fan of undereating on lifting days to maximize the results from fasting and lifting at the same time- I feel as if I'm using stored energy in the form of glycogen and free fatty acids when I lift at 11am and then don't eat till 7pm.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "Karen" <laurvick@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the encouragement, Andy.
>
> My latest update is that I have successfully fasted the 19 hrs daily for
> close to 2 wks.
>
> The 'successful' part is that I've gone the full 19 hrs (Sunday excepted)
> and my weight training has not suffered like it did last fall. Big hoorah!!
>
> The unsuccessful part is that at least 4 of the days, I used my eating
> window to eat crap!!! Two times were for the movies and I just love movie
> popcorn!
>
> Yesterday, we had a BBQ and I barely fasted 14 hrs and then I ate chips
> galore!
>
> Back to plan today.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fast5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fast5@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> andy030144
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:52 PM
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [fast5] Re: Thinking about starting the program
>
> Karen,
>
>
> Most of us here feel amazing when we fast and that is the whole point of the
> book. We don't feel like that on other diets. As long as your doing it your
> a success. Enjoy your day, enjoy the freedom and energy and at night after
> all the work is done enjoy your food and relax. Life's too short to worry
> about all the unimportant details.
>