5:2 diet

margaretclare

Thanks for the explanation about the 16:8 'diet'.

DH and I - 2 retired people - always have breakfast. It starts the day. Something we've always been used to. Time can be anything between 7.30 and 8.30 a.m. We don't have a morning snack, but we do have lunch, usually between 1 and 2 pm. DH may have a late snack depending on how he feels and whether he feels he needs it, I don't have anything from about 5 pm to next morning's breakfast. That's likely to be around 14 hours.

No one has told me to do this, it's just how I feel - a lack of hunger later in the day having had a good breakfast and lunch.

I suppose the idea of 16:8 is dividing the 24-hour day into thirds, so 2/3rds no eating, 1/3rd eating?




Wyrd bið ful aræd!

zmikeo

Hi all fast day today, and had the one meal again which as always was fish curry with spinach, but tonight instead of bulgur wheat or brown rice, I had couscous with it.
I must say I seemed to get a fuller feeling after the meal, so may choose couscous in the future.
Can't find where my DW found it, but she read that couscous was better for a diet as it swelled in stomach after eating, which I have experienced
Just wondered if anyone had any views on it ?


Found the site http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-67134/The-foods-help-lose-weight.html

gwen80

Hi

Finished my fast successfully yesterday. Was worried about waking up hungry, but it was fine - slept straight through. Didn't feel great this morning though, tired, a bit shakey, slightly fevery and very hungry!

Didn't eat anything before I left for work as I wouldn't usually, but felt quite ill by the time I got in so reached for a cereal bar. Had lunch as normal but ate at about 2x speed, then ended up with stomach ache.

I'm aiming to fast again tomorrow - hoping it gets easier!

G

1940sGal

gwen80 wrote: »

Hi

Finished my fast successfully yesterday. Was worried about waking up hungry, but it was fine - slept straight through. Didn't feel great this morning though, tired, a bit shakey, slightly fevery and very hungry!

Didn't eat anything before I left for work as I wouldn't usually, but felt quite ill by the time I got in so reached for a cereal bar. Had lunch as normal but ate at about 2x speed, then ended up with stomach ache.

I'm aiming to fast again tomorrow - hoping it gets easier!

G

Well done on your first fast

It definitely gets easier. I think it's just like everything else, stick at it long enough and it becomes habit.

~Chameleon~

margaretclare wrote: »

Thanks for the explanation about the 16:8 'diet'.

DH and I - 2 retired people - always have breakfast. It starts the day. Something we've always been used to. Time can be anything between 7.30 and 8.30 a.m. We don't have a morning snack, but we do have lunch, usually between 1 and 2 pm. DH may have a late snack depending on how he feels and whether he feels he needs it, I don't have anything from about 5 pm to next morning's breakfast. That's likely to be around 14 hours.

No one has told me to do this, it's just how I feel - a lack of hunger later in the day having had a good breakfast and lunch.

I suppose the idea of 16:8 is dividing the 24-hour day into thirds, so 2/3rds no eating, 1/3rd eating?




Wyrd bið ful aræd!

Oh, if only everyone would return to this sort of eating regime we'd have the obesity crisis licked in a heartbeat :T :A

Gloomendoom

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but I am generally an eat once day person and have been for years. I still managed to get fat.

16:8 is fine but you still need to make sure that you don't overeat in the 8 hours.

webitha

quick update..... weighed myself this morning and i have lost 3lb after starting a week agos so im down to 11st 1lb
although i think that would be just water... the amount im drinking i could easily be mistaken for a fish lol

i have not stuck to this religiously but i hve not picked in between meals like i normally do and not a glass of wine has passed my lips

i am going to try and be a bit better next week as i want to get under that ever elusive 11st mark
cross fingers

adouglasmhor

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Are you actually having bloods done to compare the before/after health protocol?

Not everyone benefits in the same way. This is what annoys me so much about this particular experiment which was conducted on ONE particular guy! There is no proof, especially for women, that it's actually beneficial at all. In fact, from the few limited follow up studies that have been done, it's actually had an adverse effect on health for women, particularly hormonal health.

I'm only partaking as an experiment to assess current claims. I can't advocate something to my clients unless I've tried it for myself, after all


Trouble is, so many people, especially women, are beholden to that little dial on the weighing scales at the expense of all else. And that little dial is NOT a reliable indicator of health.

Actually he used info from a previous small women only study by a woman's cancer charity which at least had more than one subject as his starting point along with a wealth of studies on intermediate day fasting which he extrapolated..
And because of a pre existing health condition I have regular blood work done. Of course I am a bloke so much of what you are posting is not directed to me.

zmikeo

Well am happier this morning as this week I have lost the 2 lb that I seemed to have gained over the last two weeks unfortunately I can't say that no wine or beer has passed my lips though if I had put on any weight again this week, that was my plan for next week :eek:
:beer: so cheese a wine is back on tonight :beer:

margaretclare

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Oh, if only everyone would return to this sort of eating regime we'd have the obesity crisis licked in a heartbeat :T :A

Well, I don't know about that. Everywhere I go I see fat people of all ages and both sexes. As I'm not very tall I just can't carry the extra fat. A tall woman can be called 'Junoesque', a small woman just looks like a little barrel on legs.

I think one thing which has helped me is not eating unless I'm hungry. I'm glad I'm no longer at work, where temptations of sweet foods might be on hand all the time. Nor is there anyone around to persuade me to 'just have a little bit more, I made it specially'. And I long ago got over the 'clean your plate, hungry people would be glad of it' idea. When I've had enough, I stop.

I haven't consciously stopped having an evening dinner or consciously stopped eating in the evenings - it's just that I don't feel like it. DH has his own problems with weight, 30-some years of Type II diabetes, and he does his own thing.

I've recently knocked off using any of the aspartame-sweetened products, and there are many. Diet drinks like Pepsi etc have never appealed to me very much, but Robinson's fruit squash - which we used a lot - is sweetened with aspartame and it has had to go. Sainsbury's or Asda's own brand fruit squashes don't have aspartame as sweetener. I just don't like the taste of it.