Eat Stop Eat..how it's worked for me.
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fasting today, but we were out car shopping last night and didn't finish up (left empty-handed w/ two hungry and tired children) til 8:30 pm, so we stopped and got some burgers on the way home... i won't be waiting until 9 pm to eat tonight. I'll just shoot to eat around 6-6:30... should put me at about 21 hours...
so is everyone still counting their calories on non-fast days?
i'm considering doing 3 fasts a week - does anyone know if it's much more beneficial than 2 fasts a week? it would be mon-wed-fri...0 -
Hey all, sounds like you guys are doing great! keep it up. ive been doing 3 a week and it's been wonderful. Although i only have lost a half lb. in the last week, but better than nothing! and now that i have completely cut out sugar (which I will hopefully stick to doing) hoping to see that number lost go even higher!
yeah i have been recording my cals on the nonfasting days and lately it's been hard for me to get over 1200-1400. I haven't been hungry. but that's fine by me. Also working out while fasting is fine, except this morning i was doing some intense intervals and started getting a little light headed, but I think that would have happened no matter what I ate. i was putting in all my effort!!0 -
So I started my first day of fasting today at 5 a.m. hope it goes well.0
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I started at 7pm yesterday... I get home to late to start at 6pm - dinner would never have been ready. For dinner last night I had a bowl of chili with some crackers. I did pretty well yesterday.
Today - I ran three miles on lunch and wasn't really hungry but it's 3:15pm now and my tummy is starting to rumble. I have less than four hours to go. I am bound and determined to make it to 7pm - get my shred video in and have a bowl of special k's. The only thing I am afraid of is when I can eat that I will over eat. That's why I choose special K's for dinner tonight.
It's not bad if you are busy - I have a desk job.... that makes it a little harder!0 -
Arg! I was going to fast till dinner today but at 1 I was really hungry soo had a smoothie
But I am trying again tomorrow. not giving up! I have to study today for a pretty big test tomorrow and i find it hard to concentrate that much when Im hungry. So am going to have breakfast tomorrow, take my test around 1 and then fast till thursday morning. I can do it!
I think the problem with today was that I didn't eat enough yesterday and wasn't hungry till midway through the fast
oh well if you fail, try try again, right?!
kargreen, I think it would be really hard with a desk job. Im always doing something different, classes and work and training horses so nothing the same longer than about four hours. So that helps a little with fasting.0 -
Kind of half-heartedly fasting today. I have had 3 pieces of 20 calorie hard candy throughout the day though, hopefully it doesn't mess up my metabolic effects. Trying to hold on till bedtime and then I can eat at 11am, but I'm tempted to just grab some fries even though I recently had dental work and eating isn't even pleasurable for me. I don't get off work until 2am, so I have a while to go...:frown:0
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Completed my fast, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be but it was a little tough at first. maybe next time it will be easier.0
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started my 2nd one of the week... but not sure if i'll make it today or not. might have to end it early. it's just been a chaotic week and i'm feeling pretty hungry today. I might just end it at lunch. so it will be more like a 14 hour fast today. but i'm going to try to do it again on Friday and be better prepared for it.
also, i still have not been working out, so i'm not really seeing any weight loss as of yet. no gains either, and i'm pretty much eating what i want on the non-fasting days. i can totally see this being something i do for life, since i hate counting calories and always worrying about what i'm eating
tonight's goal - workout!!!0 -
I started the ADF this week and have completed 2 fasting days. It didn't occur to me to search for a thread on here related to this until today. It's nice to find others following the same plan and not to read a lot of posts lecturing about how unhealthy this is. I haven't told anyone that I'm doing this because I don't want them to preach about healthy eating habits. I've read the articles online but don't have the energy to argue about it.
The day after my first fast, I ate way too much. I am trying to have a little more control today. Earlier people posted about drinking diet soda. I'm a diet soda addict. My first fast day I drank diet soda. I thought I was going to chew my own arm off I was so hungry. Yesterday I decided to drink green tea and the difference in my hunger level was amazing. I wasn't hungry yesterday. So even though I love my diet soda, I'm giving it up during my fasting days.0 -
I did pretty well. I fasted from 7pm on Tuesday night until 7pm last night and then had an egg sandwich on toast and come crackers. Not too bad for not eating for 24 hours. I was ready to scarf down a pizza but didn't....
Today I went for a long walk on lunch. There are trails behind my work - all wooded and hills. I usually run two or three miles on lunch and it takes me almost 30 minutes. Today I walked for almost an hour. Hopefully with the hills i burned as many calories. So far today I have had a yogurt, hot chocolate (because I was freezing when I came back in), and a bowl of special k's. I'm trying really hard to get my water in too. I don't drink coffee and rarely drink pop...
Tomorrow I am fasting again (or starting tonight at 6 - 7pm) depeding on how fast I can make dinner....
How is everyone doing????0 -
Today when I had my lunch I felt like i was starving but when I started to eat I noticed that I started to get full alot quicker than usual.0
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I started the ADF this week and have completed 2 fasting days. It didn't occur to me to search for a thread on here related to this until today. It's nice to find others following the same plan and not to read a lot of posts lecturing about how unhealthy this is. I haven't told anyone that I'm doing this because I don't want them to preach about healthy eating habits. I've read the articles online but don't have the energy to argue about it.
The day after my first fast, I ate way too much. I am trying to have a little more control today. Earlier people posted about drinking diet soda. I'm a diet soda addict. My first fast day I drank diet soda. I thought I was going to chew my own arm off I was so hungry. Yesterday I decided to drink green tea and the difference in my hunger level was amazing. I wasn't hungry yesterday. So even though I love my diet soda, I'm giving it up during my fasting days.
I know what you mean about not wanting to tell anyone about fasting, and thats where I think I messed up yesterday, I heard it from a couple of people haha.0 -
Somebody just posted this link in another thread, but thought I'd share it in this one:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html?iref=obnetwork
It just goes to show you, it's all about calories in vs. calories out. As long as you have a deficit, you lose weight! I wouldn't call eating twinkies all day "good for you" by ANY means, but I thought it was an interesting read about weight loss.... I'm sure many of us, at one point or another, have tried different "ratios" of carbs to protein to fat....40-30-30....eating more dairy "to lose weight", eating less dairy.....more fiber, more protein, less sugar. It all can become so confusing!!
With eat stop eat, I've seen that I CAN lose weight, even if I eat carbs....and I CAN lose weight if I have a couple drinks on the weekend. It's all in those calories!! For so long, I tried to make it all so complicated....kind of funny....0 -
Just found this thread - bored at work I think!
I thought about starting this tonight at 6pm however, tomorrow I will be home with DH and I know he will want to eat lunch so, tomorrow won't work. I will make an attempt for 6pm Thursday night. Thanks for the Green Tea comment. I've been meaning to try it...here's my chance.
I'll check back in later.
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so i totally failed today. gonna try to start again tonight. i think that will be a lot more successful.0
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Started tonight at 7:30, I'm off tomorrow and plan on cleaning and going to Kickboxing in the morning and Core Pole in the evening, should keep my mind busy!0
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Made it 22 hours yesterday! Stopped eating at 5 p.m. on Tuesday and held out till about 3 p.m.(after a 45 minutes lift, and an hour on the elliptical I had to have a protein shake). That's been good for me b/c lately I've only been able to make is 18-20 hours.
I'm curious about small amounts of calories during the day of the fast. Sometimes I'll pop some gum in just to keep my mouth busy...and I didn't realize that some of the flavors I chew have 5-10 calories in them. Also - some of the water poweders (Crystal Light, etc have 10-20 calories in them). I'm sure it doesn't matter that much. But I didn't know if anyone else did this. Do you guys think it affects the fast in a huge way? I'm sure I could easily cut those things out...0 -
ok, starting at 10 pm tonight - i would've started earlier, but i didn't fill i had eaten sufficiently to make it to dinner tomorrow, so i will just plan to do a 20 hr fast instead of 24. still will be beneficial. planning to run at lunch and do a JM workout in the evening, but that will be after i've already broken my fast (unless i actually feel like i can go further). i doubt i can actually get through cooking dinner and serving it to the family w/ out eating, too. though....lol0
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Today, I'm doing a 21 hour fast as I ate late last night and need to get to bed earlier this evening. So I have less than 11.5 hours to go. Hopefully if my hubby gets home early enough, I can get to kickboxing class and extend the fast one more hour.0
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so i made sure to eat all my calories yesterday in hopes that it makes today easier. i find that i still must track my calories - if i don't i'll either be way under or over and neither is good. drinking my water. too bad i don't like plain coffee. i could drink some plain tea.
anyone else drink diet soda while fasting? i love my diet soda and i am averaging about 20 cups of water on fasting days, so i figure what's a couple sodas to change the monotony? the carbonation helps me to feel full, too.
making some delicious Pasta Putanesca tonight
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started my first fast last night at 6pm. I made it till 12 pm today. 18hrs. not too bad for my first fast. i plan to fast again on sunday night. i will push myself to last the full 24 hrs but I think i did good for my first fast. congrats and good job to everyone doing this and being successful in it. I am also doing insanity along with this. I am on day 10 tonight!! love the program it is a great and challenging workout!0
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jenjabbour : I love diet soda too, and I definitely drink it on fasting days....with my water of course The book says it's fine, so I'm running with that one!! haha
I don't like plain coffee either.....if I'm dying for some coffee, I admit, I might throw a little creamer in there (even on fasting days). I figure, as long as it doesn't open the flood gates to have more and more little "cheats", it's fine.
When I first started this, I didn't count calories. About a month ago, I decided to start counting, because I wasn't really seeing the scale budge. It's made a HUGE difference, for me at least. I also started doing this without resistance training (just being lazy), and wasn't seeing any results. Now that I've been consistent with that, it's helped a lot too. My body is so weird about losing weight, so I've been happy to consitantly find myself 1 lb. lighter each week, for the passed month!0 -
manda ~ yay, i'm not the only weirdo who drinks diet soda!!! lol!
ok, i did my lunchtime run, felt good and strong. i haven't felt too hungry, and my stomach has only recently started growling. I think i'm going to get as close to 24 hrs as possible. i will try to be strong, and not eat my dinner with the family. instead I'll put the kids to bed, do my JM workout, and then eat dinner. i'm sure it won't be a full 24, but i'd rather not eat a yummy plate of pasta at 11 pm either... (i just had to have one of those chocolate chip banana muffins i made for Hubby last night...ugh!)0 -
Another one down! And I burned over 1300 cals today, was a good day all around!!:bigsmile:0
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Ok, I am really not buying into the whole diet soda thing. 1. I think it tastes gross. 2. i don't think the chemicals used in it are safe, whether it's splenda or aspartame, and 3. It makes most people crave food and more sugar. But each to her/his own , i guess... It might work for losing weight but do you think about the other effects diet pop has on your body? or pop in general?
Anyway, I am going to fast till tomorrow night most likely around 5:30 which will be 23 hours, i just had a pear but I dont feel like having dinner. really not hungry. So hopefully I can hold out till tomorrow night Then i am having a good dinner at a professors house, so that will totally keep me going!! Except for if my dairy science class goes to a dairy, and they give us some milk to sample, then that will not be so conducive to this! 0 -
exactly, to each their own. we all gotta make our own choices and i don't notice it making me crave any food...0
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For me personally, diet soda is a necessity in my fast. I don't notice a difference with or without it. Water, tea (hot and cold), diet soda, all get me through it.
I failed miserably yesterday AND went over my calories. So today I am on with no failing. I made too many excuses. Ate last night at 9:30 p.m. and having dinner tonight with friends at 7:30, so that will be 22 hours. I AM GOING TO DO THIS!!!
You guys are doing great. I love the support. Thank you all so much for posting. It helps A LOT!!!0 -
Yay, I made it longer than I thought I would yesterday. I had to taste the food while eating, and just had to have some pita bread and hummus as a snack... but i made it a total 21 hours I'm seriously amazed at how efficient the body is on 0 calories! I hope this works. I really want to see some weight loss of the next few weeks... 0
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I am going to try to do this two days a week until I get to where I want. I am jogging 2 to 4 miles a day and doing the 30 day shred. I am on day 12.
I haven't weighed myself (the time) but will check it out after doing my fast next week to see where I am .
Good luck!!!0 -
I wanted to share something new that I have been doing ever since I started fasting. each fasting day I dedicate to something that means a lot to me. I'm Christian so on Sundays I usually do a fast for religious reasons, but other days I dedicate it to other things. Sometimes I don't think of it until it comes to me on the actual day. I didn't know what I wanted to dedicate yesterday to, but I saw a guy riding a bike at school. Keep in mind that it's 30 degrees out and he was wearing shorts. not only was he wearing shorts but he had a prosthetic leg. I wanted to catch up to him and tell him how AWESOME he was. but I couldn't, he was riding WAY faster than me. LOL! So I decided to dedicate yesterday to people like him. To just imagine how much they went through, like losing a limb and getting a prosthetic and all of that. So I thought about it a lot yesterday. And it is really mind-consuming, much more so than hunger.
One day, I didn't think of something to dedicate my fast to, and it failed. This really works! Other days, I've done: my ancestors (I've been doing a lot of research on them and talking to grandparents about really old stories), my baby horse I had to put down when I was a teenager (it's a long emotional story), my parents (how much they've done for me and how amazing they are. And I called them to tell them that). Some of my ideas for the future are deaf culture (I know american sign language so i have a deep appreciation for it), friends/relatives who have passed away (which could make for a sad day but it's important to remember them), the mountains ( i love hiking, skiing and nature).
Dedicating my fasts has made this experience more than just a way of eating, it has been a whole enlightening experience.
I just thought id share, and you don't have to be religious to do this. Just dedicate the fast to anything you are passionate about.0
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