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

Any eating window is fine -- the fact that the 19 hours of fasting is the key and the schedule can be shifted as needed is mentioned in the book but not emphasized. The window timing is discussed in the FAQ:
http://www.fast-5.com/faq.html
The potential advantage to a late window is to have as little time between the closing of the window and sleeping as possible, so there is less time after breaking the fast when one must resist temptations.

Many people have no trouble with temptation after the window is closed, but for those who do, a later window may work best.

Bert

Bert Herring
Fast-5 Corporation
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@...> wrote:
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> Well, I had the impression that even though eating in the morning and not eating the rest of the day would still give you 19 hours of fasting... that somehow eating at night was better, that our bodies were better suited to eating at night... but I am not sure why.
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Bunny <bunnyjeffryes@> wrote:
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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!
> > 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!
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> > Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:15 AM, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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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.