Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Post-break-fast wipeout and the coffee creamer question

Friday, June 11, 2010

[fast5] Re: Post-break-fast wipeout and the coffee creamer question

You guys (gals) seem to have found what I'm learning, very slowly. I fast anywhere from 19-23 hours per day, but I've learned the longer ones MUST be followed by shorter ones. I adjust my window depending on what I'm doing the NEXT day..for example, today fast was broken at 2pm so I can have dinner tonight with hubby out at a nice reataurant. I will not know how long a fast til I see how full tonight It's day by day for me, and that works!

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "Nic" <nicollbarker@...> wrote:
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> Just wanted to say I enjoyed your post. I also don't keep ridgedly to my window,I try to start at 5pm until 10pm but sometimes I know I'm going to be really busy within those hours so I'll start eating about 4 pm then probably eat nothing for a few hours within my window and then carry on eating, if I want, til 10pm. I don't eat after 10pm as I usually go to bed about 1030pm. I try and eat good healthy food, though did lose track for a couple of weeks when I binged on chocolate and it all went to pot! But now I let myself have the odd bar of chocolate or bowl of ice-cream without going mad and having 3 or 4.
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> I'm just maintaining my weight which is what I wanted, to keep the weight off without stressing and calorie counting and feeling deprived and feeling guilty every time I have anything "naughty".
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> I love this way of eating, it's just so easy and relaxing. Love the fact that I go home in my lunch hour and have an hour to either catch up on my housework or just sit and relax and read my book instead of rushing to get something to eat, then overeating, then sitting at my desk all afternoon feeling bloated and tired.
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> Good luck with your continuing weight loss, though it doesn't sound like you need luck, you seem to be doing ok without!
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "foxchyck" <foxeye@> wrote:
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> > I thought I'd come back to reply to part of my own post, now that several weeks have gone by. I've continued to have a dollop of heavy cream with each of my two cups of coffee a day, and I've lost ~3 lbs in the 3 weeks since I posted. It's possible that I could have lost more without the creamer, but regardless, it hasn't stopped things for me, so for now (and for myself) I have my answer. :)
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> > It's rather interesting...while I haven't been binging in my window, I definitely don't eat consistently clean. I do have the occasional sugary or junk food (though they taste less-good than they used to), and I don't get all my nutrients. I rarely exercise more than a walk to the trader joe's that's a few blocks away. My window is sometimes 6 or 7 hours.
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> > And yet, with all these things I'm doing wrong, the weight keeps coming down. It's as if my body was really really waiting for this change...for ANY change in this direction...and then it decided that goshdarnit, it wants to be thin again.
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> > I've never been a yo-yo dieter because, well, I never had the willpower to do the first "yo". :) I've just been a slow, steady gainer who liked to *read* diet books but not really do anything with them. That this is happening to me feels a bit like a dream. My "thin clothes" are starting to look not-so-ridiculous on me...in a few months I can probably wear them.
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> > This eating lifestyle is amazing. A big thank you to all the people who have made an effort to get the word out that "really, it's OK if you don't eat all the time".
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> > (The sad irony to all this is that my husband used to eat this way instinctively. As he started to gain weight upon arrival to the US, I nagged and nagged him to eat three meals a day. He gained weight even faster. He now jokes that "if you don't like the current diet fad, just wait long enough, and what you are already doing will be in fashion". Out of respect for all I've put him through, we call this "The <insert-his-name-here> Diet".)
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> > > 2) Everything I read says NO CREAMER WHILE FASTING! I did well with that for a while, but eventually I caved and had creamer. And for a few weeks it didn't seem to make diddly-squat of a difference. But then the loss slowed down. I'm inclined to think that some sugar that I ate was the cause, but still, I wanted to ask...has anyone here ever personally found that adding/removing creamer changed their weight loss?
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