The Fasting Diet

Iwishyouwell

What's appealing to some, I am guessing, is the concept that if I suffer today then tomorrow I can eat whatever I want, no calorie counting, no weighing food, no learning to read nutritional labels, no macronutrient plan, no discipline around food except restricting myself for a period of time. Easier, and more appealing than the hard work of long term behavior modification!

Spoken by a person who clearly has no idea what they're talking about.

Do you. But don't assume that because somebody else travels an alternate road to Rome that they are "suffering", are ignorant to nutritional labels, macro nutrients, lack discipline, or are clueless to the "hard work of long term behavior modification". Inferences so absurd I'm waiting for the punchline.

I consider calorie counting, weighing, and logging to be utterly tedious, a ridiculous waste of time, and create a relationship with food that I find repugnant. I haven't lost any of my weight doing so. However I am 1000% supportive of people who know that those tools work for them, and would never presume to make judgement calls about them, or their choice, based off my feelings about the tools.

What needs to be noted is that while you will lose scale weight if you are able to sustain this over a period of time, if your food choices are negligible and you've paid no attention to macronutrients... You will probably be losing some muscle and will achieve very little in terms of body composition. For some that's a mon-issue as the only concern us what the scale says for whatever reason.

Basically the exact same pitfalls that plenty of people who do it your way run into.

SkimFlatWhite68

I've been looking at switching to a 5:2 protocol and the reason that it's attractive to me is to give me the weekend of eating at maintenance (around 2100 a day) but still getting a deficit at the end of the week by having the 2 x 500 days.

I probably wouldn't have a salad only day though. I would either save it all up and have a 500 calorie dinner or have 3 x protein shakes throughout the day. My protein intake is important to me.

I also think it would have to be on a training rest day.

Depends what your goals are!! We are all different. Great to read all these opinions on the topic, looking forward to reading more.

Corv99

Hi all
I have been doing this too, my boss did for 2 years and no exercise due to an injury, and lost about a pound a week consistently
as well as lowered colesterol etc etc

I'm doing it as it fits my working life really well during the week, traveling early starts etc, black coffee and simple meal at night is
easy to keep up.. for instance I do miss meals through the day normally, so no change, except at hotel have an omlette at night instead of a hotel normal menu item..

the eat what you want statement I think is really, eat what you normally eat, rather than a challenge Man V's food thing!

I train a bit as well, so difficult to determine, but I do think it works, I do feel better, so wil continue for a while along with everything
else.. there are some otther guys at work doing it , again with success

if you think about it very simplistically, over a normal week, if you cut down by 1900 cals on 2 days you should lose weight!
but the health benefits, appeal also..