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

Saturday, December 11, 2010

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

There is a "magic potion" for colds that consists basically of fresh garlic, cayenne, vinegar, ginger, horseradish. I don't make it, because that's pretty much the ingredients of the "hot sauce" I use with my meals. But whenever I have those foods, I don't get a cold. When I stopped this while travelling, a couple of years ago, I got this horrid cold!

What I do is squeeze fresh garlic into a dish, add some honey, vinegar, soy sauce, pepper sauce, wasabi, and chopped ginger. (Not all of them all the time, it varies) Which is the dipping sauce I use with my meals. It is very yummy!

It's a common dipping sauce in Asian cooking. But if your cooking style is more European, a fresh garlic clove mixed with vinegar/honey/oil makes a wonderful salad dressing. Or make some fresh garlic butter (kids often like it, surprisingly: I did as a kid!). I like to make some "crunchy" gluten-free toast and just rub a garlic clove over it, then add some olive oil. Anyway, garlic is a pretty potent antiviral, esp. when it is fresh. I often add fresh garlic to a dish of food I am serving to the family, just before serving, so the garlic doesn't get "cooked out". The family loves it, surprisingly. We haven't had any colds this year, and only one person got one last year. We buy garlic in the big bag, from Costco. I add a piece of bisqueware to the bag to help keep it fresh, but the cloves can be frozen too.

Ginger/honey tea helps too, and it's actually rather tasty (kids like it).

There are a bunch of recipes on the web, but mostly they are about making the garlic and ginger easier to eat:

http://aoc777.blogspot.com/2009/06/miracle-cure.html

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BASIC RECIPE

Here's how to make your own miracle medicine.

In a bowl, mix together half a cup of lemon juice, half a cup of ginger juice. Now put twenty five cloves of chopped garlic in a blender and mix at high speed. Add one cup of vinegar (use only apple cider vinegar), as you blend and after it has mixed nicely add one cup of honey, and mix the whole mixture in the blender again. Now pour this mixture into a glass jar (no plastics) and leave it in the refrigerator for a minimum of five days.

Normal dosage is two teaspoons in a glass of warm water or fruit juice. (Grape or orange juice is best before breakfast). A second dose if desired can be taken in the evening. For treating specific conditions or ailments, use the potion as recommended.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:07 AM, flippetskater <flippetskater@yahoo.com> wrote:

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.