Hi. Just looking into the fast diet now. I’ll be looking to keep my fast days pretty simple. Once things get complicated, I get discouraged and blow the diet. I’m 35 and have been yo yo dieting for years. My goal weight is at least 30 kilos below what i am now.
Also in nz. 🙂

Yeah me too…I’ve got 3 kids so I have to feed them constantly too as well as keeping on a budget. I’m thinking my fasting days will be Wednesday and Monday. I work full time and can usually keep my eating in check while at work.

Hi Serena and welcome:

If you like simple and don’t want to work too hard cooking, why don’t you decide not to eat anything on your diet days? Simple, no calorie counting and very effective. Just a thought.

Here are some tips: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/the-basics-for-newbies-your-questions-answered/

Good Luck!

Hi Serena:

Why would it be ‘dangerous’?

Hi Serena:

I see.

Good Luck!

Hi Serena,

Breakfast? Bowl of LOW sugar high fat plain greek yogurt. Some blueberries (or any berry you like) and some raw almonds. Stay away from cereals or toast or any simple carbs as they will make it really hard for you to succeed.

Lunch/dinner? If you like simple I just have a big bowl of chicken or tuna salad. I have my vegetables raw. Just throw in any green vegetables you can think of that you like. eg Cucumber, zucchini, lettuce, broccoli, mushrooms. 100g of tuna or chicken + 50g cheese cubed. A little LOW sugar salad dressing, two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar (low sugar). One chili (if you like). This will keep you going all day.

Stay away from sugar and simple carbs like pasta, rice, bread. They make you hungry 30 minutes after eating.

Not eating for a day is NOT starving. People use the word starving when they haven’t eaten for a day! Its not, starvation occurs after weeks, not after a day. I used to do my two fast days consecutively and it was a water fast. Im in maintenance mode now and do 6:1. Water fasting teaches your body to utilise stored fats and turn them into ketones for fuel. Nothing dangerous about it. Our bodies are designed to use glucose or ketone as fuels. That’s the reason we store excess glucose as fat! In modern society we have forgotten (or been told) to only use glucose and to snack throughout the day. Just plain incorrect.

Drink lots of water. Its hard for about the first 4 weeks, after that your liver has begun to work again and you will be able to utilise stored fats as your energy source. I used to get slight headaches when I started, its your brain screaming for glucose as it doesn’t know how to make ketones quickly enough. I don’t get headaches anymore. Hang tough for 4 weeks, after that its pretty easy.

Kia ora taatou
I am in the mighty Waikato and have been doing this since the end of December. So far so good with weigh day tomorrow looking for a 8kg drop.
I don’t do a lot of planning except for deciding on the actual days at the start of each week. However a pattern has emerged: when I shop I get lots of salad ingredients so I can have 100g protein with a very large salad between 4 and 6pm each day. I eat 100g symbio yoghurt and 5 almonds during the day as I feel the need on a general FD. However I have had quite a few days when I am out of town and then I tend to do the water fast option. The first time I did this I was worried that I would cave due to cravings but it was actually easier than eating. Listen to the advice that you find here (Big Booty for one) – for example cutting out the carbohydrates. The only day I added them to my FD I had real bad hunger pains so they are out from now on.
All the best and stay in touch. I don’t get to post very often but I do read as much as I can to learn as much as I can 🙂

Hi everyone I am from the Kapiti Coast and started in February 2015. At the end of December 2015 I had lost 18.5kgs. Really pleased with this. I have another 10kgs to go and have yoyo’d this year so started looking at portion sizes and doing more exercise and thankfully have started losing again. I find I cannot eat whatever I want on the non fast days but this could be because of my age, I am 54. Also I want to eat healthy 99% of the time. On my fast days I have a regular trim latte before work, water through out the day and then a salad with cottage cheese for dinner. I had very high blood pressure when I started and my doctor wanted to put me on medication. I refused as I knew it was because of my weight and this kept me motivated, my BP is now in a healthy range.

My suggestion is to stop over thinking the fast and just do it. You don’t need recipes, eat fresh food, salad, steamed vegetables with herbs and garlic for flavour. Drink plenty of water during the day and go to bed earlier to stop you eating in front of the TV. Good luck everyone.

Sorry that posted before I’d finished. I was trying to put ” two to three tablespoons” of the yogurt. With that combo you’ve only gone over by less than 100 cals. Similarly, if you keep a spare hard boiled egg in the fridge, it’s good for helping out hunger pangs. Tinned sardines work too, make sure they are tomato or brine ones though. Miso soup is good, as it has extra sodium in, which can also help. Chicken bouillon helps too. These are all things that are good on fast days anyway, not just to cheat with! If you do eat something extra like this, go off and do something immediately after, like a long shower or hair wash, a few emails or reading this site! It allows the food to kick in and be recognised by your system.

Try to have some fat in your cals, don’t use low fat foods. The yogurt I mentioned above is an exception and I normally use full fat. The fat helps, and research bears this out.

If I’ve eaten extra like this, I try to eat as late as possible the next morning on my non fast day to make up a little. I find however hungry I’ve felt the night before, the next day it’s gone. But do eat properly on a non fast day, have good quality meals, or the intermittent nature of this diet doesn’t get a chance to work.