Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Healthy?

Thursday, January 21, 2010

[fast5] Re: Healthy?

Having read this groups postings for several months, I think Heather summed it up very well. We are all different. In general I think both the mental and physiological aspects to this play a part and are different for each of us.

I am in both the first and last groups she describes. I thought I would be eating the same stuff in the same amounts as before. I don't or can't. But I still eat pasta and sometimes deserts. My fat intake may be up a little and I try to break my fast with a piece of cheese or other protien. I try to make sure I get plenty of protein since I can't eat anywhere near as much as I used to and I like my pasta. :-)

In the past my problem was just eating too much. I would have seconds or thirds before desert. Those weren't huge servings, but when combined, it was a big meal. Now one fairly small serving usually fills me up. If I get seconds, I usually can't finish a small serving.

I seldom eat snacks or eat anything outside my window except for a special event like a work luncheon. But usually it just expands my window a little bit and I shift it a little to minimize the impact. Most days (80-90%?) I stick with a 3PM - 8PM window. I was very strict about it when I started and I think that helped me figure out what worked.

The only real (but small) hurdle for me is that I get hungry about 3 hours before my window opens. So I dig into some project to take my mind off it. That task may only take 15 minutes, but the hunger doesn't usually come back. Often I am 15-30 minutes into my eating window before I realize it is time to eat.

I am down an average of over a lb a week since early August 2009 and still loosing. There have been plateaus in the middle, but it has and continues to work for me.

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Marty

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
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> A common pattern I've observed is that when people first start, they
> eat whatever they feel like. As they continue, they keep eating
> whatever they feel like, but what they "feel like" tends to change.
> For me, I really cannot eat all that much anymore, I fill up too
> quickly (which is REALLY ODD for me, historically). So I feel like I'm
> "wasting my eating time" if I eat something I didn't really want and
> then fill up on it. And it turns out that what "I really want" isn't
> what I thought I really wanted, so I started eating very differently.
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> Right now my favorite meal is stir-fry vegies and fish, with fresh
> eggs fried in sometimes, over rice. I have a nice pumpkin pie in the
> fridge, but I don't feel like eating it, nor was I able to make a dent
> in the nice chocolates I made for Christmas gifts. I'm not denying
> myself those things, but it would be difficult to force them down. If
> I eat the chocolate when I'm hungry, at break-fast, then I wouldn't
> have room for the fish that I *want* to eat.
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> Some people, which appear to be in the minority, found they do better
> with a smaller eating window. Some other people find they are less
> hungry the next day if they do some "tweaks", like eating more protein
> or more fat. Eating a lot of starches appears to cause more hunger the
> next day, for some people. But a number of very successful Fast-5ers
> have reported that they continue to eat dessert and pasta etc. and it
> works out fine.
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> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Benjamin
> <wishihadascreenname@...> wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity do people following this generally eat healthy food or are the benifits apparrent regardless? Thanks
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