alternate day fasting

I found a bit of a fix for the nibbling!

I always include a pepper and tomatoes in my evening meal. If I eat a small handful of tomatoes or half a pepper it makes no difference.

One HUGE difference with this is that of you make a mistake you just redefine the day and continue. For example, last Monday I went out with a friend and we went to a coffeeshop. WIthout thinking I ordered and ate an almond croissant. Then I remembered it was a Down Day. Hey ho! I though, so tomorrow can be a Down Day instead!

If you do that you cannot 'fail' your diet, you simply adjust. Which is how I found my Friday Medium Day That one fact is something I have found really useful. Even if I do eat too much on a Down Day it is usually below 2000kcals so I am, in effect, restricting my kcals to the levels of a 'normal' diet anyway! No guilt, no feelings of self loathing and no pressure to be perfect!

Again, apologies for the ramblings

i also reccomend alternate day fisting

I think that might leave one a bit sore...

LMAO!!

Those who are dismissing the concept of alternate day fasting as being healthy and beneficial need to take a good look at the research that backs it up I think, also if anyone has heard of JUDDD - johnsons up day down day diet - then its pretty much the same concept.. For example you'd eat 500 calories 3 days of the week which would be your down days, and then 2000 calories on 4 days of the week which would be up days. The most popular pattern tends to be having down days Monday, Wednesday and Friday and then up days Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, and most people love this pattern due to the fact that they get to eat fairly "normally" on weekends..

Plus -- while some people disagree with the concept of alternate day fasting, think about this:

500 calories on 3 down days a week + 2000 calories on 4 up days a week = a total of 9500 calories a week.

Which divided by 7 gives an average of 1357 calories per day. So tell me what's so bad about that when most of you are consuming the bare minimum of 1200 a day?

ADF is a bit like calorie cycling, be it a more extreme method, but it prevents plateaus by always keeping the metabolism guessing and it's good for overall health & wellbeing.

didnt see the show and dont care to. I will say 500 calorie intake is not good for you. yes you will lose weight from calorie loss but it not healthy weight loss.
Weight loss is a life style change. Find something that you can do for a LIFETIME not just a gimmick.
If it sounds to good to be true chances are it is.

So glad I read your post - I won't bother trying it now as I am sure some woman whose just been dieting for years is bound to know more about nutrition and biology than whole teams of university scientists

The bad thing about fasting is that it is not healthy and in the end it is fad. You will lose sure but you will put it back on even quicker, remember your body it a machine.

Why do you say that?

I read the "Curves" book that was written by the founder of women's gyms called Curves. He discusses fasting one day a month to maintain weight. He discusses the menstrual cycle and how it makes women very hungry for a week out of each month. His theory is that the body does not detect once in a while fasting quick enough to go into starvation mode. I've often wondered about restricting my calories for two days a week and eating my 1200 and 1/2 of my exercise calories the other five days.

I remember when I was young and skinny. I had no idea that the menses caused my ravaging hunger, but I fed it faithfully, only to eat like a little bird the rest of the month because I truly wasn't hungry. After reading the Curves book, I am sure that these fluctuations in my eating patterns had a hand in keeping me thin.

Bump.

I googled JUDDD (Johnson's up days down days diet) and found a calculator for my height and weight.
1800 for up days & 350 for down days. Glad I checked as I would have happily munched though the extra 200 calories.

SO...day one tomorrow. I welcome new friends for support.

Tara

Will you please post the website address? I can't find it.

If you guys want more information regarding fasting, check out:

Leangains.com
Read " EatStopEat" - A book written by Brad Pilon

I also watch youtube channels of: LowcarbCory, Fastingtwins (Very entertaining twins).

I'm currently on my 3rd week of Intermittent fasting and see great results. Since i been slacking for the past 3-4 days b/c i had friends and family come to visit, i practically ate anything and everything. Had major surplus of calories, ate late, and still maintained my weight. Didn't gain nor lose weight. Now to get back into the grind!.

http://www.johnsonupdaydowndaydiet.com/html/how-to-do-the-diet.html

sky+ episode, still need to watch......bump

The odd thing about ADF, as they explained in the programme, is that it has all sorts of additional health benefits. Oh, and fasting on most ADFs is modified, allowing some calorie consumption. There is a lot of science out there about it, on human participantrs, usually bariatric or diabetes patients.

There are small studies , and lots of anecdotal information, mine included, that ADF changes your food behaviour, quickly too.

For example I suddenly got a full functioning full button after a week, that's just 3 Down Days! I have not had one of those for decades, that is why I am fat!

My cravings for sweet stuff and carbs is disappearing fast. My Up Days are far getting healthier by the day. I have hope I may stay thin as my taste buds are helping out.

I am not thinking about food at all, I can't remember a diet attempt when I didn't focus on food every moment of every waking day. That's why diets fail!

I have been doing JUDDD for almost 4 weeks and it is a lifestyle now. I barely think about it. For example, today was supposed to be a Down Day, but a colleauge returned from maternity leave so we went for lunch. I haven't broken my diet, I just changed the Down Day to tomorrow! No guilt, no problem.

I don't have to count every day. I don't have to eat weird or faddy foods, or worse foods made sepcially for dieters, lining someone elses pocket! I eat my normal food with minor modifications. I can stick to my made fresh, locally grown, seasonal foods.

So, hoewver you look at it, for me, it works, fits my life, changes my poor behaviours to better ones and is probably making me healthier physiologically and psychologically too!

I am really intrigued by this plan. I'm going to do some research.

Well I talked by my best friend, Google and everything about this plan seems too good to be true. I'm ready to jump on board and this is why...I have hypothyroidism and my metabolism is at a complete stand still. I am also now, pre-diabetic and have high blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. I have 135 pounds to take off and I get discouraged very easily. Heck, I'm already there. I have tried for the last 4 years to lose weight and never make it past week three because the pounds stop coming off after week 1, I get frustrated and give up.

The cycle is starting again. I'm on my second week of my weight loss journey. The first week, I lost 5 pounds. This week I haven't lost any yet and my weigh date is tomorrow. I'm exercising every day, eating healthy, staying at or below my calorie goals and nothing is happening. I hope that by trying this plan this will at least give my metabolism a little jump start. Activate my skinny gene, so to speak.

Good luck to all on the plan. Keep posting results so we all can encourage each other.

Well... I've been doing it this week. 500 calories every other day. Eating whatever I want every other day. I'd probably benefit from taking care to eat healthier food - I do like my sugar - but at least on the low-calorie days, I am careful. No good to just eat sugar. I eat something high in protein and fat, and rich in nutrients.

Anyway, I've been coping pretty well. I've exercised and done everything like normal. I eat one meal, at about noon. I don't spread it out, but I'm not sure if it matters or not. I just had this idea that I'm supposed to make my body burn something besides blood sugar for a few hours. That's not science or anything, that's just me. Anyway, one 500 calorie meal is just about satisfying, so at least I feel non-hungry for a little while every day.

However, the later afternoons are hard and I think it's maybe messing with my sleep. It's hard to fall asleep at night and I have weird dreams.

I've lost 2.5 lbs and it hasn't been a week, yet.