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Restarting the fasting lifestyle? Wanting to have a place for anyone to post about fasting.
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I am just restarting too. I previously lost 100lbs using every other day fasting but since entering maintenance I hadn’t managed a full days fast and 16:8 clearly isn’t sufficient either to control my weight or maintain the health benefits I gained from more intense fasting. My weight is up by a stone and my asthma has returned with a vengeance and I have been feeling the fatigue sneaking up on me again and the pain from my fibromyalgia has been bothering me again after having receded into the background when I lost all that weight.
I am taking the opposite approach and diving back in with every other day fasting rather than starting slowly because I find the pattern helps to keep me moving forward. Isolated fast days feel too arbitrary and I am more likely to give up when cravings hit. With every other day I feel I can let go more on off days without undoing my good work and on fast days I can always tell myself that I can eat tomorrow. It feels as if my body anticipates the pattern too and doesn’t look for much food on fast days. I aim to stay under 800 calories as that worked for me before although yesterday I was probably closer to 600 simply because of the food available.
I am a huge fan of chickpeas. I use them mashed as an egg replacement to make quiche, as a cheese replacement to top baked dishes, in what my sister calls chick pea mash fried with coriander, corn and chilis, and whole to top off roast dishes or as an ingredient in currys or bean stews or as a quick meal with a tin of sweetcorn, spices and a table spoon of olive oil. I find they work particularly well with coriander, chili, sea salt and olive oil. A little soy milk can turn them into a batter for a quiche of to make bajis by adding bits of veg and frying them. I easily have that many tins too, especially as I have built up a bit of a tinned food stockpile in case of a No Deal Brexit buggering everything up. Thank goodness that possibility has retreated for now!
I hope your fast goes as well as mine did yesterday. I actually lost a pound overnight! No doubt most of that will go back on today but there is nothing like success to keep you going. I think the lack of that is what makes maintenance so difficult.
It is always best to do what you know suits you, it is likely to be a bit different for everyone. Grazing is such a universal problem these days. We didn’t evolve to live in such abundant times. Nor didwe evolve to eat lrocessed pseudofood. Our bodies just can’t cope with it. It feels as if life is just a constant battle with our instinct telling us to pile on the fat because harsh times are likely to be round the corner. I have found it is far easier not to start eating than it is to stop so fasting suits me brilliantly. I simply can’t eat breakfast or I am hungry all day and my resistance is lower and I give in more easily. There are lots of studies saying it is better to eat in the morning but for me that just leads to all day grazing and greed. I find eating later that Incan stop after 800 calories but if I go much beyond that I keep wanting more. I think researchers have found this calorie threshold thing to be real and it is why diets like the fast 800 work as well as they do. It seems to be easier to cut a lot of calories rather than to shave off just a few hundred a day expecting them tinadd up in the end. I have never managed to lose weight by simple calorie control.
I don’t have the problem of turning to unhealthy food. I simply can’t eat it anymore because my body reacts so strongly. A piece of cake or bread or pasta gives me a hangover and I feel as if I have flu for a couple of days. Giving in and eating crisps gives me headaches as do onions and anything related. Dairy provokes my arthritis until my hands become almost unusable.Sugar sends my anxiety skyrocketing. And I can’t imagine being other than vegetarian. So everything I eat is plant based and very healthy, I just have a tendency to eat too much given half a chance. Nuts are a particular vice of mine, with bitter chocolate. I didn’t have a chance to cook today and so ended up eating far too many of them, a big mug full as well as a tin of chickpeas with sweet corn and beetroot, and an apple and a banana. It probably was close to my tdee of 2100 calories in total because nuts add up fast and as there isn’t anything else available that I can eat it will probably stop at that. It wasn’t a fast day so that is fine. I
There are quite a few returners in the monthly challenge, you might like to join that.
Restarting today :). Then went into automatic pilot and started cooking breakfast lol! Put it in the bin and refocused. I am in such a good place at the moment with new job and new home that this is just the next step. I find it easier to fast all day and have my calories as my last meal of the day so will be looking forward to that 😀
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