Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Newby

Monday, January 17, 2011

[fast5] Re: Newby

Thanks Guys.

I have lost about 40 pounds on a low carb very restrictive diet in a matter of 2 months. I just loved the way that I felt, it's like I could feel myself getting skinnier by the day so I know what real fat loss feels like and that is why I'm not interested in any other eating plan where my weight goes down, but my stomach doesn't appear flatter or my arms don't feel more toned (because I'm losing fat). I will definitely try the tape measure thing, got to do something.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "barnabywalker" <barnabywalker@...> wrote:
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> Great to see a couple more appropriate posts, other than Free Workout Videos, sitting in the Group for days. ;-)
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> Easiest way to get over your obsession with scales...grab a tape measure and record your waist size over navel, for Real Fat Loss progress analysis. That way you aren't getting false record of water loss, by using scales.
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> No reason to get hung up so much on Numbers, such as how much you eat in your daily meal or an "eating window". Better success with keeping it to one meal in an hour a day and keep yourself in Low Insulin state of Fasting, where fat can be released from your fat cells.
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> More people should read such Low Carb/High Fat books such as Gary Taubes' "Why We Get Fat?" to see that Low Insulin is the crux of Fat Loss. Taubes explains how by eating very low amounts of High-Glycemic Carbohydrates, doesn't allow Insulin levels to rise. In this way, Low-Carb and Fasting are alike, Both Low Insulin level states.
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> From experience, many who have sufficient Fat and Meat when we eat our daily meal, instead of Cereals or Grains, aren't "Starving" by the next day. Carbs don't hold you over, like Fatty Meat or Eggs do.
> http://www.garytaubes.com/2010/12/inanity-of-overeating/
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> Eat appropriate food to fill and not worry about Numbers, such as calorie counting. and it will carry you over quite wall for the 20-some hours of continuous fasting.
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> Barnaby
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "terri_luc" <terri_luc@> wrote:
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> > Hi All. I currently weigh about 189 pounds. I was doing fast 5 about 5 months ago and it worked pretty well, but I eventually went back to eating the bad way. I tend to fill my days with food. It's a filler, for when I'm bored or irritated or lonely or angry. Anyway, I lost about 10 pounds in 2 weeks. Felt pretty good, but I did at some stage feel like I hit a plataue. After 2 weeks only,what did I expect. My biggest danger is the scale. I get up every morning and I'm urged to get on that scale. If the numbers are down I'm okay, but if it's up then I start doubting if the program is working. Anyway, I am starting tomorrow again, because I've picked up 8 pounds in the past month. Hope you guys can keep me motivated and I promise (provisionally) to only weigh once a month. So 16 Feb I will be weighing in. Wish me luck. BTW my window is 4-9 felt the best cos when it gets to 5 I'm so ravenous that I eat way to much so 4 is my break-fast time.
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