Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] What time to eat? Re: back again

Thursday, February 18, 2010

[fast5] What time to eat? Re: back again

Hi,

I want to encourage you, if it's working for you, that is great.

I wonder about the timing myself. In the Fast-5 book, he seems to think that's it's important to eat in the evening. He doesn't explain that as thoroughly as I would like.

I know our bodies have a clock and you can't just be arbitrary - I once worked on a night shift, from midnight to 8 am. I got 8 hours of sleep during the day, but it still wore me out, our bodies are meant to sleep at night. So it could be that there are better times to eat.

Right now, it's easier for me to eat a late lunch, like 3:00pm, stop eating by 5:00 or 6:00 pm. The book says we should strive to move the eating window later. I will try it, but just wondering, if we eat just once a day, it's still the same length of time fasting.

Just wondering.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, de Vie <de_vie@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm starting Fast-5 again, and therefore rejoining this yahoogroup.
>
> What prompted me to quit Fast-5 the last time I quit: it wasn't
> working for me, I didn't feel like I was burning fat, I was overeating
> during my window, and I wasn't feeling good about my experience
> anymore.
>
> What prompted me to restart it: I'm reading this awesome book which I
> highly recommend - "The Slow Down Diet" by Marc David - many of the
> principles in there could be used simultaenously with the Fast-5
> approach - and he really emphasizes embracing the PLEASURE of eating,
> and I was remembering that there are aspects of fasting that I really
> enjoy, and that it also helps me to enjoy the eating. ***ALSO***, in
> that book he has some really fascinating information (a whole chapter
> devoted to it) on the how TIMING is very important. When I previously
> did Fast-5 I always had a late-in-the-day/evening window, but based on
> the information on how metabolism may be optimized by eating earlier
> in the day, I will be playing with having my eating-window be
> something like 9am-2pm, which includes when the sun is highest, which
> David claims is when our metabolism is strongest. Besides this shift,
> I've picked up other tools (such as creating Affirmations related to
> eating, and some of the other tips David has in his book) to help me
> on this journey.
>
> I am impressed with how science is so good at proving so many
> different things, including apparent contradictions... Which leads
> back the conclusion that it's really about WHATEVER WORKS for the
> individual. Some people say fasting is no good for metabolism, others
> say it's great for it, etc., etc... I enjoy the scientific viewpoints
> AND I'm inspired to try this method again, to see what works for me
> PERSONALLY - I am my own lab rat : }
>
> Thanks!
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