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

Well I am still on my first week. I will try to stick to the 5-10 pm window for now.
Socially, 5-10 is best for me, as I am more likely to share dinner with friends than any other meal.

Physically, I think I would be less hungry eating a late lunch. like 2 pm.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Eileen Chambers <eileenchambers@...> wrote:
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> Thanks for your post, Bunny. I have found that, while there are some basic principles to follow on the FF,It seems most of us tailor the program as it fits into our lifestyles, as well as how it reacts to our bodies. As I have said in earlier posts, I am a gum-a-holic.Â I was really worried that I would go bananas if IÂ would have had to give up the gum, but I have been able to \chew gum all day long, and still lose weight. It probably doesn't work that way for everyone, but am I grateful!!! I have been on FF since the first week of December, and have lost 12 pounds. I am 5'5 and weight 138. I am a size 4-6, medium frame. I am thrilled that I can eat what my body wants and enjoy the meals I choose. I also have a window of 3-8, as we often go out to dinner. I am also able to have a sit-down meal with my family in the evening.NOTHING has been as easy for me as this has been.Â Good luck to all the new FF'ers.
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> From: Bunny <bunnyjeffryes@...>
> To: "fast5@yahoogroups.com" <fast5@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 10:18:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [fast5] What time to eat? Re: back again
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> My understanding of pushing the window later is to get to the 19 hours of fasting.
> Any eating window is fine. There is a lot of information available on how and what and when to eat. I think it is all junk. Do what works and what you can live with. I choose not to do an early time because preparation is time consuming and social eating is very important to me. If I did breakfast then I would certainly still do dinner and for me that is too much as evidenced by my size!Â
> I have heard of quite a few programs that recommend early eating, including "Let's Do Lunch" and "the Gabriel Method" however they encourage that early eating to be the last eating of the day, which is intermittent fasting as well.
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> This is working so well for me, I encourage all of us to hang in there and do what works!Â
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> On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:15 AM, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@ yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >I want to encourage you, if it's working for you, that is great.
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >Just wondering.
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> >--- In fast5@yahoogroups. com, de Vie <de_vie@> wrote:
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> >> Hi,
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> >> I'm starting Fast-5 again, and therefore rejoining this yahoogroup.
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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 : }
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> >> Thanks!
> >> . . . . . . . de Vie . . . . . . .
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> >> . . . music . . . poetry . . . art . . . emerald alchemy . . .
> >> myspace.com/ yourdeVie ... twitter.com/ yourdeVie ... facebook.com/ yourdeVie
> >> . . . call voicemail # 520-495-2005 for song &/or leave message. . . .
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