Hello,

I did intermittent fasting for a few years but stopped about 3 or 4 years ago. I did the 20/4 method, ie I ate only between 6pm and 10pm each day, then didn’t eat again till the next day at 6pm. After the first few weeks it became second nature and I could have continued but I found that my blood pressure was increasing. But in retrospect I think that was a seperate issue.

Anyway, someone recommended the book to be recently so I downloaded the audio off of Amazon/Audible.com, and listened to it last night and today. I enjoyed it a lot and plan to start tomorrow, but I had a question. There were numerous mentions about a pdf that was supposed to accompany the audio book, but I have no idea where to get it. It sounded like it was a list of foods with glycemic load and glycemic index info, and other such useful info. Can anyone help with this?

The other thing it mentions was a video special that raised a lot of awareness of IF in the UK, so wondering if that video is available anywhere to watch?

As for me, I plan to do a slightly different plan from what was described in the book in that I will do the 2 days of 600 calories divided between breakfast and lunch, but I’ll also be skipping lunch on the other five days (but eating a more normal number of calories between them). I’m guessing it will be hard to consume more than 2000 calories in two meals, but we’ll see. I think this will work better for me because I rarely eat lunch out anyway, so on the rare occasion that I will be eating lunch out, I can certainly change it up on those occasions.

Looking forward to reading a lot of messages from other here!

Thanks, LUVTCOOK.

By the way, it’s dvdmon, not dvdmom. I’m a guy. 🙂 Yeah, I found some stuff afterwards, but still haven’t been able to watch the video. There’s a link to the program, but when I got to it it says that it can only be played in the UK. 🙁

As far as eating the 2 1000 calorie meals, I didn’t mean to say that that would be my goal. To be honest I probably average around 1600 or 1700 calories per day. There’s a big variance though, ranging from 1400 to 2200. In any case, what I’m saying is that this gives me the opportunity to feel quite full with a 750 calorie breakfast and a 850 calorie dinner. My thought is that I can easily increase these to 1000 each by simply adding another oz of nuts here or there, and/or being a bit more generous with my olive oil in salads (I also use it and nonfat Greek yogurt for making salmon and tuna salads instead of mayo).

Really I’m sure that I’ll get used to this as I did before and I’ll probably find consuming anything close to 1000 calories at a time (or even 800) will be too much, at least for breakfast, and so my total calories for my “non-fasting” days will go down to an average of 1500 or so. I’ll have to see how the weight loss goes. I’ve lost 35 lbs since January with a kind of lower-carb Mediterranean diet that I concocted, but in the last month or so, I’ve only lost maybe 2lbs, so it’s been getting increasingly hard to lose. That’s natural, I know, I only probably have another 15-20 lbs to lose, but if I can start losing consistantly even 1lb per week again, that would really help with my morale! 🙂 If I’m losing at 2lbs or more per week, I can try removing at least one of the 600 calorie days, or maybe nudging them up slightly to 800 or 900 calories, we’ll see…

Anyway, thanks for the info!