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
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.
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