the fast diet

13 years ago

i'm trying it with great optimism....really makes sense to me...find the pbs documentary and watch the one hour documentary if youre serious about getting healthier people...this is gonna be big :)

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scarlett2001
12 years ago
How does this train you to better eating habits? It doesn't.
jannie
12 years ago
My doc told me the only "fad" diet or diet book he recommends is "The Dash Diet". It's basically a diet for those with high blood pressure. It's low salt, you eat all the fruits and vegetables you want, limited dairy and meat.
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Sorry for not posting for so long. I didn't think this thread was still active. But I see that it is, so I'll keep checking back. Eloise: In an office full of people, I'd feel a little silly getting up and jogging in place or doing other aerobics. :) But I do manage to go for a brisk walk on one or two of my breaks, depending whether it's an eating day or not. I've asked the boss about putting an exercise bike or treadmill in the staff lounge area, but it's not really practical due to lack of shower facilities, etc. Nobody wants a stinky co-worker. (My walks are brisk but not so strenuous that I sweat heavily.) bpollen: I mention giving up smoking on my blog, near the beginning of February, when it was my one year anniversary of being smoke-free. The fasting diet, like quitting smoking, does require a great deal of will-power. You have to really be sick of your current condition and really want to make changes to yourself. My will-power isn't always rock-solid as you'll read on my blog. I slip up from time to time but I always get back up and try again, and that, I think, is the key. lisb: For an explanation about why I like to only weigh myself once a month, see my FAQ found in the Links section of my blog. Question #12. joe_mn: I pretty much eat what I feel like on eating days. I try to avoid empty-calorie junk food but I do allow myself occasional treats. I make substitutions and try to choose healthier alternatives where available. (Diet soda, artificial sweetener, light sour cream, side salad instead of fries, that kind of thing.) Blood sugar? I'm not too sure about. There are some days when I still get head-rushes or feel dizzy (usually in the morning of an eating day), but not very often. I think this may have more to do with sodium levels from what I've read. lonestarlady: Weight Watchers is a very good program. The people I know who do it properly have great success with it. Good luck to you. Here is a link that might be useful: Every Other Day Fasting Diet
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I tend to agree with Pal regarding the relative futility of diets and restrictions that do not involve a lifestyle change. I do know people who have greatly improved their health and well-being, but their transformation always combined a radically different approach to food and fitness, moving away from what had been established patterns of a lifetime. That's something that takes tremendous focus and determination, and I applaud anyone who successfully implements a new way of life in that regard. This is going a bit OT perhaps, but lately I've been thinking of my own tendency to respond to what I perceive as "hunger." I'm aware of how I have probably never truly been hungry a day in my life, but any pangs that I feel are a response to cravings or learned behavior (i.e., if I usually eat lunch at noon but am not able to eat until later, it isn't actually hunger I'm feeling, but more likely a psychological response to a disruption in my routine that manifests itself in a growling tummy). I'm making an effort to be more mindful of when I eat and how I'm feeling when I sit down to do it. This hasn't quelled the cravings, but has simply made me more cognizant of what they are when they hit. Our medical mission to Panama is coming up next month, and we're continuing to learn about the indigenous people that we'll serve while there. In learning Spanish phrases, we are advised that we cannot instruct our patients to take their medication with meals, as they have no established eating routines like we do. In fact, while the children are fed at least one meal daily at their school, many of the adults go two or three days without a meal. Thinking of this causes me to remember a friend who likes to say that she's "hangry" when her mealtime is delayed for any reason, and that launches a whole thought process that I won't go into here. Suffice it to say that our culture on the whole has some very strange ideas when it comes to food intake.
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jlj48
12 years ago
Is anyone still doing this diet. I've tried it for a week. It's going pretty well. I've lost a couple pounds and it seems easy enough. Anybody else?
trianglejohn
12 years ago
Okay, its been a while so I'm not sur if you'll even see this - I am on the Fast Diet or the 5:2 diet and LOVE it! It may be because men get to fast with 600 calories whereas women only get 500, I don't know. The fasting days are difficult but not impossible, you still get to eat, just tiny bits. And you can keep telling yourself that you can eat anything you want the next day which gets me through it. I have lost a pound or more a week on this and have been on it for a month. Before this diet I'm pretty sure I ate more than 2000 calories per day but most of it was not junk - just lots of fruit and nuts. I have a sit down, computer job so for most of the day I do not get any exercise. So at first the 2000 calorie limit on the non-fasting days was a bigger problem than the 600 calorie fasting days. But in about a week everything changed and didn't crave snacks as much. The biggest plus to me compared to all other diets is that I saw pounds falling away from the first day. That reward alone makes this diet (actually a life style) very easy to stick to.
cookie8
12 years ago
I don't really need to lose any weight but I find I don't like conventional eating patterns. They don't feel natural to me. I do intermittent fasting and love it. Heavier eating in the evening is much more suited to me. I do a fasted workout later in the day and eat within a six hour window. I am pretty strict with what I eat as I think what you put in your body is of the utmost importance but it's far from low cal and low fat. There are a ton of videos on fasting on youtube.
trianglejohn
12 years ago
Last October I weighed 246 and went on a normal diet and increased my exercise routine and lost 9 pounds by December. On January first I went on the Fast Diet and started losing weight right away. Its now half way through March and I'm down to 218. There are some big surprises along the way on this diet. You get used to it in a few weeks, you notice the hunger but it doesn't bother you as much. The more you want to lose the stricter you need to be about counting calories. I am not so good about that part and I still lose weight.

I will add that it is hard to pay attention and be focused while fasting. I work from home but someone in a busy office may have a problem on low calorie days. It is also hard to keep warm, so folks that work outside during cold weather will notice it.
trianglejohn
12 years ago
Mid April and I'm now at 213. I haven't weighed this much since college in the late 70's.
trianglejohn
11 years ago
Early May and I am at 211. I seem to be losing a half a pound each week. I am still happy with this diet. I think I can stay on this forever.
trianglejohn
11 years ago
Mid June and I've hit 209.
trianglejohn
11 years ago
last week of July - 205
lydia1959
11 years ago
Good for you John! That's great progress.

I have been on the Fast Diet for about a year now... I did lose about 10 lbs on it the first couple months... then the weight loss started to slow down until I started a new prescription diet pill.. since then (about 6 months) I'll lost an additional 39 more lbs. I still need to lose about 30 lbs.

I like the diet because it makes me more aware of how many calories I am eating every day of the week. To get through any cravings on diet days, I chew a lot of sugarfree gum. The diet has become easy and I look forward to my low calorie days now.
numbersjunkie
11 years ago
Just spotted this post. I've done the fast diet and it worked well for me (still does). I just felt the need to respond to one of the early comments asking how this diet trains you to have better eating habits. FWIW, that is one of the things I feel like I learned from this diet. If you are going to limit your calories to 500 a day, you are going to have to learn to make good choices! I did a lot of research and found foods that would fill me up and fit within the program guidelines. And I can tell you that I am not eating processed foods of any kind. Everyhting I eat has good nutrional value. I also previously did the Atkins diet and learned that one critical lesson from his books - processed foods are BAD FOR YOU - he ranted about trans fats before most people even knew what they were. It really irrates me when people pu pu some of these programs when they have no experience with them.

Funny story - my doctor turned his nose up at Atkins, but the next time I got my bloodwork done, he left a message on my machine saying my cholesterol was better than it had ever been, and added "whatever you're doing, keep doing it!"

I agree that the FAST diet makes sense. In our culture, we have become so used to obscene portion sizes It won't kill you to go hungry for short periods.
Krystle
11 years ago
Limiting your calories so severely is not good for you. An easy way to get your body into "fat burning" mode is to implement an Intermittent Fasting schedule. It has done WONDERS for me and my weight loss journey. :)
lisaw2015 (ME)
11 years ago
I just ordered the book, can't wait to get started!

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