Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: 1200 members

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

[fast5] Re: 1200 members

My sister is doing ff also for about 2wks now with only calorie counting and
it's working for her...

Every one is different...

Helen

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@...> wrote:
>
> This is what is so fabulous about Fast 5....it seems to work for everybody
> and with all the variations. Glad you spoke up for the calories counters, I
> believe there are others here too who rely on that.
>
> Ellen
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:14 AM, brightangelhope
> <brightangelhope@...>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I've chosen to do Fast-5 now and then, and am giving it another go right
> > now, so I guess I'm one of the 1200.
> >
> > The concept of Fast-5 is simple, just whenever and whatever you eat do it
> > inside a 5 hour window. However the application of this principle by Fast-5
> > users varies and often becomes very complex.
> >
> > What I notice is that almost everyone who posts here
> > combines Fast-5 with some other restricted form of eating.
> > Some combine it with low-carb, some with high-fat, some with no processed
> > food, some with low GI, some with no refined sugar, some with Vegetarian
> > only, some with raw food, etc. etc.
> > Many worry about blood sugar, and checking blood sugar is a big topic.
> > The first couple of years I was really turned off by the Forum because it
> > seemed to contain mostly what many people call "health nuts".
> >
> > Personally, I've been maintaining a very large weight-loss for the past 4
> > years, I'm in good health, in my 60s, and choose not to worry about blood
> > sugar, or whether my food is processed or organic, or raw. I buy my food in
> > the supermarket, and like to see my meat and vegetables packaged and wrapped
> > in cellophane. I must admit I am one of the people who is not "green" and I
> > have no desire to do anything special to "save the planet" for future
> > generations.
> >
> > I also combine Fast-5 with another WOE, in that for the past 5 years I've
> > kept a daily food journal in a computer software program which gives me a
> > calorie count and nutritional values.
> >
> > I count calories.
> > When I doing Fast-5, I count the calories that I eat inside my window. The
> > 5 hr window gives the same help to calorie counters as it does for all other
> > Ways of Eating in that it limits the time of the eating period. However, of
> > course, if I eat more calories than my day's total burn inside the time of
> > my window, I still gain weight.
> > The caloric amount of the food IS the issue for weight-loss or
> > weight-maintenance.
> >
> > To me, counting calories is far less obsessive and difficult than
> > continually testing blood sugar (unless one must do this due to Diabetes
> > etc), or worrying oneself about the details of a "healthy" eating lifestyle.
> >
> > I don't include this post to inflame forum members who find their own Ways
> > of Eating, and Lifestyle incredibly important, but simply because although
> > pro-calorie counting has had very little voice here, it also exists here.
> >
> >
> >
>