Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Unintended Magazine Endorsement for FF

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Re: [fast5] Unintended Magazine Endorsement for FF

Coming to a consensus about meal patterns is just plain difficult. My take has mainly been to let kids figure out their own appetites and clothing choices (when to wear a coat etc). My husband's family was always more controlling and he was highly uncomfortable with that. It's worked though: the kids are way more confident and better at making choices overall.

My argument at the time was: "Look, our country is not full of skinny people who don't eat enough. It's full of fat people who have been trained to eat all day long and to clean their plates."

There are kids who really and truly don't eat enough, but it's rare and usually there is a reason (like depression, emotional issues, or gut problems).

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Chantelle <chantelles@cox.net> wrote:

I agree. My mom always nagged me to eat and I just flat out refused, pretended to it or tried to avoid eating as much of it as possible. Yet I still was, until more recently, pretty focused on a several meal a day model with my kids. However, since one of them goes to school, he was really just eating all his main food within an eating window anyway. I watched him this summer and oth of them, if allowed to do what comes natural to them, very much follow a natural fast five pattern! That has surprised me :)

I've not tried to tell my dh tooooo much about it. I mean he knows I do it(fast 5), but I don't tell him that I consider allowing the kids to govern this more themselves rather than nagging them to eat. I just never figured the nagging someone to eat could be that healthy so I've always tried to avoid that......

chantelle

On 8/6/10 3:12 PM, "Heather Twist" <HeatherTwist@gmail.com> wrote:

LOL. My husband was the same way. Skipped most meals, then had this HUGE dinner plus dessert. And was always in great shape.

Then he married me ... and of course I made him great breakfasts, lunches, and dinners and made sure he stopped and ate. Made sure we had snacks in the car too. His "high metabolism" suddenly disappeared and he actually got a pot belly (gained 25 lbs).

After I started Fast-5, I stopped nagging him to eat, and now he eats one big meal a day again. And he dropped the 25 lbs. He eats cookies and ice cream daily (gluten free, in our case) and his bloodwork is perfect.

During all this, his activity level remained about the same. The emphasis on "activity" always surprises me: in our area there are a lot of people who do farming and ranching, and even with tractors etc, that is HARD work. And a lot of these people are really, really fat. One guy I know who works very hard, every day, and eats good organic food, had a quadrupal bypass last year, so activity didn't save his heart either.

I stopped nagging my daughter to eat too, and now she tends to pig out once a day also. She is slim and athletic: she was a big chunky at one point before this. I think if left to your own devices (and esp. if you have to do your own food making) the once-a-day meal becomes the norm.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM, susieq_az1 <susannauw2010@gmail.com> wrote:

I am always on the lookout for "diet" myth-busting comments in articles, and I ran across one today. I was reading Shape magazine (don't ask me why, because I always get annoyed by the nutrition advice -- I tend toward WAPF).

So, there is an interview with Jewel, who lost some weight a while back. She is married to rodeo cowboy Ty Murray (I don't know if he still competes).

So, she talks about her "healthy" diet which includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus snacks. Then, the article says "you'd think Jewel's healthy habits would have rubbed off on Ty" but she says no, and that she finds it frustrating because he doesn't eat "healthy" but eats "like a college kid, skipping breakfast and having spicy, calorie-laden dishes like chiles rellenos for lunch, then a bowl of cereal for dinner." She says that someday he may have to watch what he eats, but for now "he's blessed with a high metabolism."

<<GRIN>> Sounds like a version of intermittent fasting to me. It never ceases to amaze me how entrenched the "healthy diet" mentality is, when the answer is right before our eyes. But people tend to consider proof of it a paradox, rather than the solution. Skipping meals is not only for the young and irresponsible. It's the right way to eat, and it may be why the young are often the slimmest segment of our population. I know both my young adult sons eat when they're hungry, and they are both slim, no matter WHAT they eat.