Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Complete newbie here with a few questions about Fast-5 v EatStopEat

Pilon does a good job on technical issue of documenting insulin levels at differing hours of fasting

I think it's easiest to have a daily habit of 20 hour fasting rather than his 2 fasts a week, but it's fine to occasionally try some 24-36 hour fasts

Getting away from grains is probably the best thing for health and don't believe all the lies about the "evils" of saturated fats as fatty meats is how one or two meals a day will easily carry you over to the next time you eat around 20 hours later

Barnaby

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "pinkpuffin00" <janmickleburgh@...> wrote:
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>
> Hello
> I hope I am posting this in the right place! Just stumbled upon Fast-5 a
> couple of days ago and found it fascinating. I printed off the e-book
> and read it in one sitting! I have been trying a similar approach to
> losing weight with the EatStopEat 24 hour fast, twice a week but I have
> not lost ANY weight or inches. That is a total of SIX days of fasting in
> the last 3 weeks, so I am a bit gutted. I haven't been calorie-counting
> inbetween fasts...have just been eating my normal diet which does
> include some "naughty" foods as well....but that was stated in the
> EatStopEat e-book...that you fast for 2 days a week and then are able to
> eat your normal diet.
>
> Could you please tell me if the 3-week adjustment period that Dr Herring
> speaks about, would also be relevant for a 2 x 24 hour fast per week?
> ie. am I likely to start losing weight now, or do you think it's a lost
> cause?
>
> I felt that the 2 days fasting per week suited my lifestyle and although
> I am now tempted to try the Fast-5 idea, I am not sure if I would have
> the willpower to do it every single day, particularly as I feel the cold
> very badly, and it's getting really cold in Scotland!!!!! I am disabled
> with M.E and severe migraines so am virtually housebound, so am
> therefore around the kitchen all day. I also live a life of virtual
> solitary confinement, so dieting is pretty hard! I am virtually unable
> to exercise...my "exercise" is a wee bit or gardening, housework,
> shopping etc with a very occasional short walk, which I always have to
> pay for afterwards. I don't have a very big appetite, but I do tend to
> graze during the day, especially when the fatigue is at it's worst and I
> am in a lot of pain. I am not able to do a calorie-controlled normal
> diet. I tried my first one in the Spring and all the way through the 7
> weeks of the diet I suffered the worst IBS I've ever had!!! It was the
> increase in fruits, vegetables and salads that was doing it. I was in so
> much pain, I had to give it up! I lost 7lb in 7 weeks but have put
> 5.5lbs back on...just through comfort eating over the past few months,
> just cause life has got harder during that period.
>
> I am NOT overweight, but would like to lose 1 stone if possible just to
> feel more comfortable, and feel better about myself.
>
> I would love to hear from anyone who has done the EatStopEat method too,
> to hear their experiences, and/or why they may have changed to Fast-5
>
> I did post on the official Fast-5 forum but it seems to be a bit of a
> ghost-town on there, and I am afraid that my post won't get answered.
> You know how it is...when you are dying to get some answers, and nobody
> is around for weeks or months!!! ha ha
>
> I was also wondering about drinking black coffee and tea during the
> fast. EatStopEat says you can do this because the calories are
> neglegable. I really enjoy having my 1-2 mugs of coffee each morning,
> although I am still learning to try and like it "black" (as it has to be
> black on my fast days).
>
> I have another concern about Fast-5 regarding the daily ketosis stage
> that you go through. When people talk about very low calorie diets, the
> popular belief is that you lose weight very quickly, but then put it all
> back on, and then some, when you start eating normally again. I am
> really not sure that I would be able to do Fast-5 as a total lifestyle
> forever, so would treat it as a period of time for losing a wee bit of
> weight and also possibly gaining some health benefits. I have looked all
> over the internet, but I haven't found anyone who seems to have used
> this method for a few months and then gone back to a regular eating
> routine... I am concerned that I would very quickly put on the weight I
> had lost on Fast-5, and it would have all been a waste of time. I am a
> member of a diet website, and looking around the posts there, it does
> seem to be the pattern with the low calorie diets...whether this has
> something to do with ketosis, or whether it is simply that people have
> gone on a mad binge after finishing the Cambridge Diet etc, I don't
> know.
>
> Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thankyou
> Jan :O)
>