Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Effects of 'skipping' a day?

Saturday, December 11, 2010

[fast5] Re: Effects of 'skipping' a day?

I definitely agree that eating the whole citrus fruit with fiber is preferable to the insulin rush which comes from juice, when feeling that a Vitamin C kick would do you good. I've been astounded with how breathing improves after removing Grain from my diet.

Since Fasting benefits come from the lowered insulin levels after extended fasting, anything you eat which keeps insulin levels low will also be beneficial to place the body in a fat-burning mode. The calories count dictum often comes into question by those who eat eat high fat/low carbs. This cartoon gives a very good explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT_1dCbbR4I

Food choice very much is a complement to Fast5.
http://blogg.passagen.se/dahlqvistannika/?anchor=my_lowcarb_dietary_programe_in
http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/?p=2330

A good "cheat" if you want to plan ahead for the day is to eat high animal fat meal such as eggs cooked in butter with cheese and perhaps along with some fatty bacon. This filling meal will carry you all day, keeping you in lower insulin levels. Eating carbs will make you hungry very soon, as you seem to be aware.

If you don't get 19 hours of fasting in today, perhaps tomorrow you can extend your fasting to nearly 24 hours so you accumulate more low insulin hours. You're not really killing your fat-loss progress as long as you keep your insulin levels lower through fasting or non-insulin rising diet.

Barnaby

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Laura Cody <lecody2001@...> wrote:
>
> Barnaby says if you are sick, eat you can get back on the horse...
>
> as for the orange juice? I don't know.. too much sugar, better to eat the
> orange.
>
>
> Drink lots of water, hows your Vitamin D Levels?
>
> I am sick too... probably a cold, but its not too bad, so I am going to try to
> make it to 2 pm which is when I usually break
>
> Hope you feel better soon.
>
> Laura
>
> ________________________________
> From: flippetskater <flippetskater@...>
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, December 11, 2010 11:07:51 AM
> Subject: [fast5] Effects of 'skipping' a day?
>
> Hi - new here.
>
> I started doing what amounts to fast-5 a little over two weeks ago - I had had
> enough, and decided that if I eat fewer calories than I burn, the body's only
> choice is to lose weight, so I was only going to eat one meal a day. After
> doing that for a few days, I poked around the web to see if anyone else was
> doing the same kind of thing, and finally ran across this, which matched up so
> perfectly with what I was already doing instinctively - I was pretty excited.
>
> So, it's been since Thanksgiving-ish, and I feel I'm doing really well. Not so
> hungry during the day that I can't deal, and mostly eating well in the evening.
> Still tweaking exactly how much food is enough, without being too much, but
> it's settling out.
>
> Today, though - my kids are starting to get the sniffles and a cough, and I can
> feel that I'm getting stuffy/post-nasal drip as well. I've made some orange
> juice for them...and I kind of feel like maybe I ought to be drinking
> juice/eating some grapefruit/pushing other liquids etc, just to prevent or
> shorten the life of this incipient cold. (We have an event to go to tomorrow as
> well, so I can't just stay in bed all weekend.)
>
> I'm so torn - because I'm not hungry right now. But I know that if I drink some
> orange juice...I'm going to be hungry. And at that point - fast is broken
> anyway, might as well eat something? Might as well just make it a 'normal-meal'
> day?
>
>
> For those of you who don't fast every day, or don't fast on the weekends or
> whatever - how do you find it affects you, or affects any weight loss? I've
> been doing so well, that I don't want to set myself back at all, either with
> weight loss (six pounds so far), or with managing hunger.
>
> On the other hand, I don't want to be sick and miserable either. It's a
> dilemma.