I agree with Susie. I have no problem with the government's effort to keep us healthy, but the government AND the health professionals continue to tell us that we must eat 3-5 times a day to lose weight. That is simply not true, as most of us Fast-5ers can attest to.
I like Susie's phrase "instinctive eating." I was raised in a home where lunch was the big meal, breakfast was optional, and supper was perhaps a bowl of cereal or a sandwich. So when I began intermittent fasting, I opted to eat a fantastic lunch each day and then fast for 23 hours. It works very well for me. I began on September 2, 2009, weighing 298 pounds. Today, less than 7 months of healthy eating later, I weigh 208. That's a whopping 90-pound loss. And guess what? I don't exercise at all. But now that my back has STOPPED HURTING, I'm actually considering joining a gym to help with the problem of hanging skin. So I say hooray for Fast-5 and to heck with all the conventional wisdom out there!
I wasn't meaning to imply that the government or media should do anything different than it has for as long as I can remember, starting with (in my memory) the "Basic 4 Food Groups" and continuing to the current food pyramid. These are only guidelines, not mandates, and I have never felt that anyone was looking over my shoulder based on those guidelines. Please forgive me if I wasn't clear about that.
I was referring more to what the typical advice is that people hear when they go to the doctor, and what they hear in the media about what is "healthy eating." I just think it's a shame that the advice that is given does not work for everyone, and from the obesity trend and rates of heart disease and cancer, maybe not for very many at all.
I do think it takes a while for the message to catch up with the research, but there are peer-reviewed studies showing the benefits of fasting. I do hope those studies become more frequent, and that the results are shared more widely.
I guess the reason I wrote my earlier question is that I struggled for the last 8 years or so against the tide of that incorrect (for me) message. I knew that I had been healthier and slimmer eating my instinctive way, but I caved to the pressure that seemed so pervasive. Not always, but often enough to undermine my own beliefs about what worked for me. If I had heard about FF or IF back then, I would have realized what it was about my instinctive way of eating that worked for me. I would have saved myself a lot of confusion and frustration. That's what I was trying to get at with my earlier question -- that there should be room for more than one message.
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Katrina Flanary <tigersmoondiva@...> wrote:
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> Agreed - I don't want big brother watching over my shoulder staring at my
> dinner. Or anything else really - I believe we have already given away way
> to much of our personal power.
>
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Regards,
Linda Eichblatt
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