[fast5] Re: How many meals?

The goal of Fast-5 is to help people achieve caloric restriction in a comfortable way that doesn't make you feel hungry. Really what you need to do is to find out how many calories your body needs in a day (BMR or basal metabolic rate) and cut that by 25-40%. So if you need 1600 calories in a day, 1600-25% is 1200. So your goal for the day at 25% fewer calories then becomes 1200 calories. If you're a grazer, you can eat 1200 calories slowly for 5 hours straight. Or if you're like me and like to feel full, you could have 1200 calories all at one sitting in one big meal. Likewise, as you suggested, you could have a small meal of 400 calories to break your fast and then at the end of your window have 800 calories for your main meal. And depending on your body type, you could do low carb, high carb, low fat, high fat, Atkins, South Beach, Mediterranean, Paleo, or any diet that you like. You could just "eat healthy" as my wife likes to say. It's incredibly versatile for all different people. The point is that it makes it nearly effortless to diet.

One thing about the book that I would like to see revisited is that it doesn't seem to make clear that you can't REALLY eat whatever you want for 5 hours. I've been known in my younger days to eat two large pizzas, a box of chicken wings, and a 6-pack of Dove bars for dinner. I guarantee you won't lose weight eating like that. :)

-Rick Stewart

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "Kania" <kristina.carlton@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I read the Fast-5 ebook and there is one thing I am confused about. At first I got the impression that you can eat as many meals as you would like during the 5-hour window. But later in the ebook it seems to indicate that you eat only one meal.
>
> I understand that every time I eat I will get a BS/Insulin response to eating every 30 minutes in those 5 hours is not a good idea. However, I had planned on eating two meals - one at the beginning and one at the end of the 5-hour window.
>
> Thanks,
> ~K
>

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