INTERMITTENT FASTING...any success stories out there??

HealthyWarrior · March 2013

So do you choose a two days during a week to fast then eat normal the other 5 days? Sorry I'm just trying to see what this is all about. Like say I chose Monday and Friday to fast. I would eat my last meal around 5-530pm on a Sunday then fast till Monday and eat my first meal at around 6pm then eat normal till Thursday night where I would have my last meal around 5-530pm and then fast until 6pm on Friday and continue like that? During the fast I'm assuming you are allowed water? How about coffee or tea? During the two fasting days I assume you use those two days as a rest day from exercise as well.

Sorry for all the questions. :flowerforyou:

Keiras_Mom · March 2013

So do you choose a two days during a week to fast then eat normal the other 5 days? Sorry I'm just trying to see what this is all about. Like say I chose Monday and Friday to fast. I would eat my last meal around 5-530pm on a Sunday then fast till Monday and eat my first meal at around 6pm then eat normal till Thursday night where I would have my last meal around 5-530pm and then fast until 6pm on Friday and continue like that? During the fast I'm assuming you are allowed water? How about coffee or tea? During the two fasting days I assume you use those two days as a rest day from exercise as well.

Sorry for all the questions. :flowerforyou:

This looks like you're interested in 5:2. There are many IF plans out there. 5:2 is just two fasting days per week. The fasting day would be 500 calories for a female, or 600 calories for a male (I do more like 250 on my fasting days, and some fast completely) but that's however you want to split it up for the entire day from waking until going to bed. You would eat normally (not bingeing) on your non-fasting days.

Among some other IF plans, if you're interested and want to google, are ESE, LeanGains, JUDDD (my personal favorite, and how I lost over 100 of my pounds!), 5:2, and others.

Good luck!

ETA: If you go with 5:2, there are no restrictions as to which days you choose, but they are not to be consecutive days. I'm doing Tuesdays and Fridays in maintenance.

HealthyWarrior · March 2013

So do you choose a two days during a week to fast then eat normal the other 5 days? Sorry I'm just trying to see what this is all about. Like say I chose Monday and Friday to fast. I would eat my last meal around 5-530pm on a Sunday then fast till Monday and eat my first meal at around 6pm then eat normal till Thursday night where I would have my last meal around 5-530pm and then fast until 6pm on Friday and continue like that? During the fast I'm assuming you are allowed water? How about coffee or tea? During the two fasting days I assume you use those two days as a rest day from exercise as well.

Sorry for all the questions. :flowerforyou:

This looks like you're interested in 5:2. There are many IF plans out there. 5:2 is just two fasting days per week. The fasting day would be 500 calories for a female, or 600 calories for a male (I do more like 250 on my fasting days, and some fast completely) but that's however you want to split it up for the entire day from waking until going to bed. You would eat normally (not bingeing) on your non-fasting days.

Among some other IF plans, if you're interested and want to google, are ESE, LeanGains, JUDDD (my personal favorite, and how I lost over 100 of my pounds!), 5:2, and others.

Good luck!

ETA: If you go with 5:2, there are no restrictions as to which days you choose, but they are not to be consecutive days. I'm doing Tuesdays and Fridays in maintenance.

Thank you so much for the reply. oh so on the fasting days you can still have 500 calories? I'm definitely going to do some googling and reading more up on it later this afternoon. Thanks again!