[fast5] Re: Why no recent discussions?

Marty, thanks for your story.

Thanks also for asking where the group was--I didn't know either. I did ask to join the group, but my membership is apparently still pending. Alas.

I loved the stories and advice people shared here, and got some excellent advice for my own situation. I hope that once I'm on the FB group, there'll be a lot of the same. It was great.

Congratulations on all the weight you lost. I never was able to lose all the weight I wanted to on Fast 5, but I suspect that has a lot to do with the fact that a) I didn't eat a high-quality diet when I was doing it, and b) one cheat would bring down the whole house of cards for me, and I found it incredibly hard to get back on the wagon. Once I did, of course, I felt marvelous and was almost never hungry--my appetite decreased enormously, even within my window, and I was always perfectly satisfied with the amount of food I ate. But if I ever ate outside my window, after being accustomed to eat only during my window, it blew the whole thing.

That was tough. So I was never on it long enough to drop all those pounds, though I found that going from eating traditionally to Fast-5, I could be sure of losing about 20 pounds right away. That was a huge boost.

I too want to go back to it--I think it's the best control for my appetite and a great discipline. That's one of my goals for this fall. (I remember being very much on Fast-5 a few years ago during the holidays, ate anything I wanted during my window--but never too much--lost weight during that very tricky time of year and never once felt deprived. It was AMAZING!)

Looking forward to the FB group and to the inspiration I got from other members here. It really helped keep me on my own path.

Susan

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Re: [fast5] Why no recent discussions?

I've been off of Facebook for months.  It was too much of a distraction and the newsfeed was too much out of my control to suit me.  For things like this that I wanted to see, Facebook filtered out too much but gave me more of different things that I cared much less about, much of it negative.  I miss those things and contacts I liked about it, but it was dragging me down.  Overall, I'm better off without it.

This venue was focused and a single message a day gave me everything in one, easy to scan, digest.  But if all the contributors have abandoned it, it's pretty much just an archive of great info.

My story is that I lost ~50 lbs with Fast-5 years ago.  After gaining about 8-10 back, I was stable at 195 for a couple of years or more.  Then I started cheating more and more and gained back another ~20. So for the last year and a half or so,  I've hovered around 218-220 lbs.  While it's still better than the 245 I started at, I wish I was around 200.  The weight I feel best at is 195-200.

I don't know why, but I keep eating (or having a drink) well past the end of my window.  So I know my problem, I just need to put myself back into the mindset I was in when I started Fast-5.  I was faithful to it for about 3 years and it was faithful to me.

So that's my Fast-5 history.

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Marty

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