Eat, Fast and live longer

I can't live like that. I joined MFP to learn to eat in a healthy way that I can live with for the rest of my life. My goal is to lose 50 to 60 lbs. I've been here 3 months and I'm down 20. I haven't been hungry and I haven't deprived myself. I log everything I eat and drink. That helps me control myself and make healthy choices. After I reach my goal, I plan on still using MFP to maintain my weight. I've lost weight before on diets and gained it right back when I went off of them. I'm not on a diet now. I'm learning to eat for life. I encourage you to forget fasting and 500 calorie days and starving yourself and, instead, use this site to teach yourself and find the support you need. Best of luck in your journey!

Some people on this site advocate fasting and intermittent fasting. I think you should do what works for you. However, I agree that this is not a diet, it's a lifestyle change. If you are serious, eat clean (no processed foods, no soda, lots of veggies, fruit, and lean protein.), get moving, and drink lots of water and green tea.

You should go to the intermittent fasting group boards. People in the main forums think us IFers are crazy. I do a 14-16 hour fast daily, and love the lifestyle, I've tried day long fasts and didn't like that as much. I don't fast for weight loss per se though, but because that is what allows me the most satiety and fits my hunger patterns. If you think not eating for a day gives you license to not change your habits the rest of the time, you are prob set up for failure.

Sorry edited to add, I am a married, shift working mother of three.

This is what I am about to embark on. I am 257lbs would like to be 140lbs so i am giving this a go. I am currently on a fast day, which means I can have 500 calories, I am having 2 weetabix and ssmilk for breakfast, Slimfast shake for dinner and tea, plenty of water and no tea or coffee.

Normal day tomorrow.

I guess we will see if it works.

People have been fasting since the beginning of time, as hunter gatherers and almost all religions for spiritual reasons. So far all the people I've seen who fast at churches look perfectly healthy.

It really is just a break from eating (like when you go to bed at night and have breakfast and break the fast). It's been proven that it's good for you to take a break once in a while, like once or twice a week. Most of the programs out there don't tell you to starve yourself, just take a break and eat normal, eat normal, eat normal, eat normal, take a break, eat normal, eat normal. Not starve, binge, starve, binge.

It worked well for me and according to my DXA scan I did not lose lean body mass! I followed Brad Pilon's Eat Stop Eat (24 hour fast), so only ate one normal meal a day, once or twice a week, and ate normal every other day. That is not starving yourself, just a flexible way to manage calories in a weekly calorie budget.

A doctor just wrote about it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9480451/The-52-diet-can-it-help-you-lose-weight-and-live-longer.html#disqus_thread

Are you doing 5:2? That just sounds hard to me. I do 20/4 IF every day and it becomes very manageable. I know I will definitely eat like this forever. After the first week or so I was never hungry until my feeding window. Your body adjusts to the new schedule and it gets much easier. Once I lose this last bit and I start eating maintenance I might do 16/8 since I'll be bulking and I hate cramming over 100g of protein in a 4 hour window. It makes me feel nauseous.

Hummm cant seem to find them where am I going wrong. Can someone psot a link please x

I'll add a few - I'm sure you'll be able to find others

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/695846-alternate-day-fasting

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/717864-chat

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/759287-anyone-doing-5-2-intermittent-fasting?page=1#posts-11330894

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/750413-the-600-kcl-diet

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/755342-getting-easier

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/744609-intermittent-fasting

I assume you've watched the documentary?
Horizon documentary on 5:2 diet
"Eat, Fast, Live Longer" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfna7nV7WaM

Sorry edited to add, I am a married, shift working mother of three.

This is what I am about to embark on. I am 257lbs would like to be 140lbs so i am giving this a go. I am currently on a fast day, which means I can have 500 calories, I am having 2 weetabix and ssmilk for breakfast, Slimfast shake for dinner and tea, plenty of water and no tea or coffee.

Normal day tomorrow.

I guess we will see if it works.

There's a group forum for all things Intermittent Fasting here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/66-intermittent-fasting

This is my first post on this forum and I am doing it just to bookmark an interesting thread. I am thinking about restricting calories to 500 on fast days and don't really know how much food that is.
I am really frustrated by the advert on my screen now that seems to say I should never eat bananas. I wish I could block it!