Eat Stop Eat..how it's worked for me.

I plan on starting my first fast tonight at around 8. That'll give me time to make dinner after I get home from the gym. I plan on taking the day off tomorrow from the gym. WIth being my first fast I want to see how I feel. I'm afraid I may be a little too weak. Let you know how it goes!!!

So I was just thinking after I posted this, that maybe it would be easier for me to start my fast today after lunch. Then not eat again until lunch tomorrow. I could definitely get away with this b/c my husband is out of town. When he is here I would definitely have to do the fast during the day b/c he wouldn't be crazy about me not eating dinner.

Would it be counterproductive if I drank coffee in the morning during the fast? One cup of coffee is always a good appetite suppressent for me.

coffees, teas, and even diet sodas are ok during the fast if they are no calories... so you can't add cream, sugar, etc to your coffee....

I plan on starting my first fast tonight at around 8. That'll give me time to make dinner after I get home from the gym. I plan on taking the day off tomorrow from the gym. WIth being my first fast I want to see how I feel. I'm afraid I may be a little too weak. Let you know how it goes!!!

So I was just thinking after I posted this, that maybe it would be easier for me to start my fast today after lunch. Then not eat again until lunch tomorrow. I could definitely get away with this b/c my husband is out of town. When he is here I would definitely have to do the fast during the day b/c he wouldn't be crazy about me not eating dinner.

Would it be counterproductive if I drank coffee in the morning during the fast? One cup of coffee is always a good appetite suppressent for me.

coffees, teas, and even diet sodas are ok during the fast if they are no calories... so you can't add cream, sugar, etc to your coffee....

Perfect! I only drink black coffee any way!!

I want to try this. My daily calorie limit is set to 1200 and sometimes that just seems like too little and if I eat my exercise calories I won't lose anything. I've been very inconsistent with my diet (especially over the last month). I'm shooting to lose a pound a week. My weigh-in's are Fridays, so I'm going to start Friday and try to do this twice a week.

My weekly maintenance calories is 10500
My goal is a net of 7000 to lose 1 pound

Plan:
F = 1350
Sat = 1800
Sun = 1350
M = 600
Tu = 1350
W = 1350
Th = 600
Total = 8400 calories - I will burn at least 1400 calories through exercise and not eat them to make my goal of 7000.

I need to this...How do I fugure all the calculations? I am 5'3'', 33yr F and currently 150lb if anyone would like to offer up a plan? LOL thanks!

I need to this...How do I fugure all the calculations? I am 5'3'', 33yr F and currently 150lb if anyone would like to offer up a plan? LOL thanks!

My advice would be to come up with how many calories you need in a week to lose whatever weight you want per week.. then, subtract two days' worth of calories for the fasting days (maybe 400-500 for one meal) then divide the rest up between the remaining 5 days (even or not - you could have one or 2 higher cal days). It can be flexible too, ie. this week I changed my normal fast from Weds. to Tues. No big deal, it would be ideal to have 2 days between each fast though.

Tomorrow is my first fast (low calorie) day. I'm going to start off doing 18-20 hours then work my way up to 24 hours, so tomorrow, I'm going to have coffee for breakfast with a 100 calorie snack, then have a semi-big lunch (not going over 600 for the day). I'll be fasting from noon until breakfast the next day, so that should be about 20 hours.

Ate dinner late last night, so this is going to be an unusually long feeling fast for me until 9 p.m., but I think it should be okay. Figuring out already a nice healthy salad with some protein for dinner. My eating habits have been HORRIBLE the past four days, so definitely needing a reset big time.

SkierElle - Love the new pic.

Stewie316 - You can do it!

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I need to return to this. It's been hard cause hubby hasn't left town for a while and I also became obsessed with food and sugar again. This is what I need to get the sugar monkey off my back and get on track. ESE definitely works great for me, I just have to push myself into it.

Edit: I want to do the lean gains, I have tried it a bit but I work out in the am and am not taking bcaa, plus I find it hard to be consistent with my fasting window and find myself ravenous when the fast ending time comes. Maybe after i reset my system with ESE....

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I have been failing at this so badly. And the scale is reflecting it. So I am at it again. Started 10 p.m. last night. I'm actually probably going to go for 28 hours as I probably won't eat until I get up tomorrow morning at 2 a.m. But then again, I may only make it til 6 pm for dinner. So it's either a 20 hour fast or a 28 hour fast depending on how my schedule goes. Would definitely never go all day without eating usually, but hate eating late at night, which has been my biggest downfall lately. No self-control. Need to definitely reset. We will see.

lol OF course your going to lose weight when your not eating!

Um yup. Actually not doing it so much to lose weight. Rather to reset my thinking and body and give it a break from all the junk I've been consuming. Strangely enough, it actually helps me to focus on something other than weight, food, and calorie intake for just one day, and then it leaks into the following days. But I'm definitely not one of those people who can starve themselves. I LOVE FOOD!!!!

Finally doing it again. I'm done at 7 but am going to bed after an overnight shift, so may be 24+. Hopefully this will help flush all the sugar out of my system. I gained 6lbs since thanksgiving (3 this week) and though I know a lot is water it's making me feel like a cow

I go this email from Brad Pilon.

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Sometimes it's easy to forget why we do the things we do. And it's also easy to forget what's important.

With Fasting, it's not the hormonal stuff that's the most important.

It's the mental part.

For fasting to work it must be associated with positive reinforcement.
When you finish a 24 hour fast, you should feel really good. Because you finished.

You accomplished your goal. You won.

The problem occurs when you get USED to fasting.

Once your used to fasting.. you forget about the positivereinforcement.

And this can lead you to using fasting as PUNISHMENT.

Not good.

Fasting should not be a punishment.

As an example:

You have a bad night of eating..so you FORCE yourself to fast the next day.

You are now associating Fasting with something negative.

This can make fasting STOP working.

It can lead to binging before and after.

Bottom line: Don't use fasting as a punishment (Simple message)

Always remember, fasting should be positive.

So if you want to make sure Eat Stop Eat keeps working remember to keep it positive. Don't use your fasts as a punishment, use it as a tool to lose weight, and build positive momentum.

just a friendly reminder for this holiday season.

Your friend,

Brad
www.EatStopEat.com

Thanks Firedragon. That definitely makes sense.

I completed 20 hours and ate relatively healthy for the evening. I find I'm really hungry this morning though, but am craving fruits and vegetables for some reason. That can't be bad thing

I did my first 24 hour fast yesterday..ok, ok it was like 23.5! I will agree with a lot of people that have said it is a lot easier when you're busy. I had a dentist appt, some errands to run, and a hair appt so I really didn't have time to dwell on the fact that I hadn't eaten. I'm stil not sure about working out on a fasting day but we'll see maybe next week I'll try it!

Hey! I'm trying to get back at it too. Had a great Christmas with my in-laws in Tahoe, and actually didn't gain any weight. Phew! I guess that shows that my metabolism hasn't been affected negatively by the ESE way of eating...which is great.

I already ate breakfast today, and I'm meeting some friends for dinner tonight, so I'm going to start my fast tonight after dinner. I really want to commit to a full 24 hours. I really want to kick into high gear come January 1st..... eating healthier and working out harder

Hope everyone had a great holiday!!