Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Starting again

Monday, October 18, 2010

[fast5] Re: Starting again

A change of mindset where you think of FASTING Window (19-24 hours) rather than the five hour Eating window will probably be useful.

Breaking what should have been an extended fasting period early with high carb bisquits was probably the worst cheat you could have done. Fatty meat would been a much better choice, which wouldn't have been a starch which quickly converts to sugar, creating insulin which slows fat loss. It's the fasting period of Fast 5 which works by a long extended period of low blood sugar levels, as it is where fat loss occurs. Don't be afraid to experiment with a 9 to Noonish mid-day time to eat your meal. You might find it a better eating period to sustain you through long fasting period. If you change your mindset to stress extended Fasting period, rather than concentrated on the namesake 5 hour eating window, you'll be mentally ahead. This will allow you enough flexibility for some day to day variation in the time you eat. Train yourself by extending your fasting period up to 24-36 hours as often as you can (Alternate Day Fasting). You'll then probably find it easy to attain your average fasting period of 19 hours.

Study Gary Taube's "Good Calories, Bad Calories" including youtube videos. search term of (why do you get fat) will give you Taubes and Eades with the relationship to insulin.

Barnaby

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heidi overbeek <heidioverbeek@...> wrote:
>
> I am back to fast-5 after several months off, and 15 lbs gained. I don't feel
> like I am starting from zero, I feel like this is a continuation. I agree that
> the problem with other ways of eating force you to think about food all the
> time. Which doesn't make sense to me. I have far too interesting of a life to
> really devote THAT much time to thinking about, preparing and eating food. I
> have discovered, though, that unless I am in my eating window, I can't be
> reading recipes, planning menus, or reading foodie or nutrition blogs!
> Today is my 3rd day. My window is either 12-5 or 1-6. (I work 7am-7pm and it
> is rather physical, so I usually am quite hungry by 1.) One really nice thing
> is that I am not coming home and eating junk, out of exhaustion and stress,
> which I usually do at work. I got in a situation yesterday where I couldn't eat
> until 6 pm. I was fine, but I suspect I didn't quite get enough calories, b/c I
> was ravenous this am, and ate 2 biscuits at 9 am. Should I make my window from
> 9-2? I am worried I will have trouble not eating tonight.
> Are any of you night shift workers? I may move to nightshift soon, and I am
> not sure how I would do this. It is very important to me if I choose to go to
> nightshift that I don't make myself even more unhealthy by gaining weight. The
> advantage of the promotion would be the same take-home pay, but only working 2
> nights a week, instead of 3 days. And some daytime meetings.
> Heidi
>