5:2 diet

lolly5648

Gloomendoom wrote: »

A change in diet is a change in lifestyle.

I think it depends on the individual. For the last thirty years, I have rarely eaten breakfast or lunch. On occasions when I do eat breakfast, I find that I am ravenous by about 11am.

I am exactly the same - I never have breakfast on weekdays and often miss lunch but I do have breakfast fairly late at the weekend and it gets my digestive juices flowing and I am starving a couple of hours later.

margaretclare

lolly5648 wrote: »

I find all these comments about people's age very patronising. Regardless of age any sensible person knows that if they have medical problems they should check with their GP before any sort of restrictive diet.

I have an aunt who is 86, very fashion conscious, keeps up with the latest trends, has an Ipad, tweets, skypes, etc and is reasonably fit. She diets because she wants to look good for herself and has more will power than I have.

Scientists say that we all eat too much so I can't see that 500 calories twice a week would do anyone any harm unless they are diabetic.

Couldn't agree more. Good for your aunt. And why ever not?

Gloomendoom

lolly5648 wrote: »

Scientists say that we all eat too much so I can't see that 500 calories twice a week would do anyone any harm unless they are diabetic.

I would go as far as to suggest that eating nothing at all twice a week wouldn't do an normally healthy person any harm at all.

joho

Restricted/fast day two went fine. Attended a meeting with mince pies, millionaire shortbread, flapjacks and chocolate rolls all doing the rounds - and I wasn't tempted to any!

I wish I could understand how it makes me not want to overeat to compensate the next day!! But as long as it works, who cares.

And I can't see why age should make one bit of difference to whether you do this DIET or not. If you're otherwise healthy and don't just want to do it to lose weight, then what's the problem? I've printed a load of information for my mum, who's 70, in the hope that she will do it because she needs to lose weight and reduce her blood pressure and sleep better, and she should be able to cope with either 5:2 or IF.

I even asked her if she could do a 500cal Christmas Dinner! I was kidding though.

G.G_2

Had my first fast day yesterday and have just totted up my calories for today, the total will be 1213 and no feelings of deprivation.

Mado

Well done GG. But don't starve yourself on 'feats day's either as you don't want your metabolism to adapt to less food intake.

I just looked up at the new scientist article I mentioned (from 17 nov); the only note of concern was that there is uncertainty as to wether it is suitable for all and , in mice, it has been shown to 'reduce the heart's ability to pump blood'.

tesuhoha

Mado wrote: »

Well done GG. But don't starve yourself on 'feats day's either as you don't want your metabolism to adapt to less food intake.

I just looked up at the new scientist article I mentioned (from 17 nov); the only note of concern was that there is uncertainty as to wether it is suitable for all and , in mice, it has been shown to 'reduce the heart's abi lity to pump blood'.

Well on Dr Mosley's programme there was a 100 year old man who ran the London Marathon. He was on a restricted calorie diet overall, not just 2 days a week of 600 calories. He did not seem to be having trouble with his heart.

Incidentally, I tend to pig out on feast days as much as I want although my appetite has reduced.

G.G_2

I'm asked out for lunch tomorrow so I'm sure I'll eat more then. I thought I'd make Monday my next fast day.
Happy eating everyone..

margaretclare

G.G wrote: »

I'm asked out for lunch tomorrow so I'm sure I'll eat more then. I thought I'd make Monday my next fast day.
Happy eating everyone..

You may find you don't even want as much to eat as you used to do. For me, a big breakthrough came some years ago when I developed the ability to say 'I've had enough now' and put down my knife and fork. I know when I'm full, and when I'm full, I just can't go on eating. But some people don't seem to know when they're full - that's when you get the expression 'pig out'. It's habit. And if people say 'oh go on, just a bit more' I smile politely and repeat that I've had enough, it was very nice, thank you for asking me, but I can't eat any more. We no longer have to clean our plates as our mothers or our nannies taught us - the starving in Africa will not be any better off if we eat more than we want!

DH asked me this morning 'Is that enough for you?' I said 'Yes, it's fine'. We had scrambled egg - he always scrambles an egg and a half for me, a slice of wholemeal toast, a scrape of marmalade. We're having lamb's liver and onion at lunchtime. Liver sliced thinly and flash-fried - lovely.

Jei70

margaretclare wrote: »

I couldn't go without breakfast either, and I used to work in that kind of environment too. The word 'break-fast' itself means what it says - the body has been fasting overnight, for several hours, and needs replenishing.

That is sort of the point of this experiment - to prolong that fast and allow the body to rest from digesting. The replenishing of nutrients will come, just a bit later!

margaretclare wrote: »

Children who go to school without breakfast (and there are many) tend to be sleepy, don't concentrate well, even memory is affected.

I wonder if this is a question of correlation rather than causation. Parents who let their children go to school without breakfast may not have given them a very nutritious dinner the day before either...