Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Fast-five with PGX and Intuitive Eating and questions

Monday, February 15, 2010

[fast5] Re: Fast-five with PGX and Intuitive Eating and questions

Thanks Phil

I am hoping to avoid long term gas/bloating with the pgx. I think it does take time to get used to it.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Phil Voelker <mail4pvoelker@...> wrote:
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> I don't think PGX will really have a dramatic effect on your insulin resistance -- it's not really a weight loss pill, it's just a fiber supplement.Â Â I've had friends that have used it and some liked it, some felt really gassy and bloated on it.Â Â
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> "Intuitive eating" - if you think about it, that's pretty much the second primary point of Fast 5.Â Once you get used to eating within a certain window, it's not a matter of "hey, for five hours a day I can eat whatever I want and magically get lean."Â Look at it this way -- the mechanics of Fast5 allow your body to use the stores that it has available to use, during most of the day.Â When you said "when I stuff myself I'm not losing as well," I almost said "well, duh," but that's just me being silly.Â :-)Â Â Â If you took two overeaters with the same body type/weight and same amount of calorie intake, and put one on Fast 5 - they're both going to gain weight -- but my guess is that the Fast 5er will gain more slowly because at least there's a significant period of time where the body can use stored energy.Â I hope that makes sense!
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> The point of the fasting mechanism is not to magically overcome the laws of physics (excess energy has to get stored somewhere!) -- it's just a way to better understand how your body uses stored energy and new energy, and how you can use that knowledge to teach your body to "use what's in the cupboard."Â Â Â :-)
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> --- On Sat, 2/13/10, afwitmer <afwitmer@...> wrote:
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> From: afwitmer <afwitmer@...>
> Subject: [fast5] Fast-five with PGX and Intuitive Eating and questions
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 12:47 PM
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> I am going to be doing the Fast-five with two other things.
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> 1. PGX a special fiber that lowers insulin resistance as much as 50-60% and lowers cravings and appetite. I am hoping to take this 1-2 times during my 5 hour window before I eat with water. it is clinicaly proven to make poeple naturally eat less because it makes you full faster, ect.
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> 2. Inutitive eating. Eat only during my 5 hour window, Eat my first meal. (of course I will be hungry) but only eat enough to "satisfy my hunger" or "get full" which will not be large amounts of food, but smaller portions. Then only eat the 2nd time during my window if I have true hunger.
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> Ok, for the Questions...
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> Do most of you losing with Fast-5, eat only until you are full during your meal in the 5 hour window? Or do you eat past full? When I stuff myself, I am not losing as well, and its now working very well when I eat past full.
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