Hi sheryljd, like you I have read the Dr Varady interview along with a couple of other reports into the 5:2 lifestyle. We can all read what we want to into the variations of fasting. I do agree with you, 5:2 is achievable by many who may or may not feel that they can go on to other variations of a fasting regime suitable to them. Michaels interpretation of a fasting diet is I believe geared to be acceptable to many who have not even thought of the concept because some versions are to radical. The posts on this site show it is achievable by many even though the concept of the inner health benefits may have become lost to the benefits of weight loss. If Michael and Mimi makes some material benefit from his interpretation of fasting then that is ok to me.
Good Luck to you all out there.

sheryljd

here here cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

let’s all

Keep

It

Simple
&
Sweet

KISS

thanks

sheryl

u may call me usa

what a nightmare the zone diet ugh gave that up quick

the only 1 that ever worked big time was atkins

but gained it all back love those carbs 😀

now it so much easier 2 go low carb & the scientific community

r now realizing his work was right

what about these new ones?

the belly fat diet & the fast metabolism again confusing ugh!!

so now i mash up the best diets 🙂

i’m a 4/2/1
IFLCHFCCMED

(intermittentfastinglowcarbhighfatcarbcyclingmediterranean)

might as well smash all the best proven scientifically w/ the most important 1 the fastday lifestyle FDL that really fits whatever u want 2 do 😀

& recently (life’s way 2 short 2 be a prisoner of the diet world)

the

4/2/1 is

4 nonfastdays based on my tdee -20%

2 fastdays 500 cals

1 feastday sunday whatever i want 😀 (but still count cals it’s so easy w/ all that technology)

lost 25 lbs since march plateauing 4 times during w/ one nightmare day

there is a guy on this forum doing a 4/2/1

however,
he is no calorie counting
4lowcarb highfat only
2 fastdays
1 feast whatever he wants all the carbs he wants

watching his progress

what r ur routines?

now i’m doing my reverse type2 diabetes experiment

u probably saw the post will not know weight until it is done

cross ur fingers /hair /legs whatever works 😀

▶▶☞ SHOUT OUT 2 MICHAEL& MIMI THAAAAAAAAAAAANKS! ☜◀◀

happy nonfastdays & fastdays ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪ & feastday!!!♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪

Just love your positive attitude, sheryljd! I’d like to be a success story too – I just hope that this forum still exists by the time I get there 😉 My rate of loss is less than a pound a month – 3 down, 7+ to go…

I couldn’t agree more! 🙂

Javaman, I have done a combination of ADF, 4:3 and 5:2 over the last ten weeks with a lot of success. I believe that ADF is fine for a week or two but I would not want to have to maintain it for a long time! It is great if you want to speed things up a bit or make up for having overinduled.

In the long run though, the greatest success for me is to have looked at my dietary habits very closely and to have changed some really bad habits to good ones. (I.e. stopping to drink Coke, putting sugar in my coffee and having a super ice cream every night) I also eat much more veggies these days and make sure that I eat things that my granny would recognise as food, i.e. cutting out processed foods. This alone helped me to drop weight on top of what I lost with 5:2.

I was away for a couple of weeks and could not do 5:2 so I watched what I was eating and I tried to put as many “good” calories in my body as I could. I did not only not gain weight, but I even lost some more.

Whatever works for us. Good luck with ADF!
Stef.

You do not have to eat just one meal on your fast day, with Dr. Varady’s program. Sounds grim but is not a problem to do, at least for me.

We all need to find our way and there is no right or wrong as long as it works!
Stef.

It suits me to have a lunch and an evening meal on a fast day – I cannot keep going through the afternoon otherwise! Evrey day I prefer to eat my last meal before 7.30pm to help my digestion and rarely have any starch/carbs with that meal. My fast day meals are usually a ham salad at lunch time and in the evening steamed celery or zucchini with 1oz grated cheese and I feel so good the next morning. I try to do two 500 calorie meals a week and other days I just miss breakfast if I feel hungry.

MrGhrelin, congratulations on your success with intermittent fasting 🙂 It has worked very well for me, too.

blueash:
“If you read all the blub you will find that the 5:2 works well for those close to their ideal BMI about 2 stone or less to lose.
…
It does not work for heavier folks…”

Really? I have never read that anywhere; I’d appreciate a link to such “blub”.
How do the authors of such blub explain people like MrGhrelin and me, who are obese and find 5:2 the easiest and most sustainable weight loss programme we’ve ever come across?

blueash:

Sorry, but more and more folks are reporting weight losses of 100 or more pounds. 40 to 60 pound losses are common. At about one pound a week it takes quite a while to lose a lot of weight, and as you can see from this forum many are just now starting on 5:2. Their losses won’t be large for a year or more. But it is clear if they stick to the diet, they will lose large amounts of weight. There is no reason, scientifically, why they should not.

I do the every other day about a month now. I used to do it once a week so its wasn’t that hard for me.
In this month I lost 8 kilos and I noticed some tricks that I want to share with you, that make this kind of dieting much easier. First you must avoid waking up the “feeding frenzy” drive the days that you fast, thats why I never eat something at home on those days. I only have a glass of juice or two. If I need energy for an activity, only before living from home, I have some raisins or any other fresh or dry fruit. Its much easier for me to keep my calories close to zero that to 500 hundred because the feeding frenzy drive is lurking….

Second point that works for me…….a really big and really really late meal in the evening, has always helped with the next day’s fasting!

Third point and not that important, is to keep your muscles…so some light weight lifting or just exercise your abs every other day with just one set is more than enough.

I am a VEGAN, whole food, S.O.S free and loosing weight on this combination is really easy and without exercising on a schedule, due to work load…just some montainbike and swimming 2-3 times a month.

Just a quick update. I have now lost 52 lbs and am just on the cusp of no longer being obese!
I’m 62 and have been obese since I was a teenager. I still do a 4:3 fasting regimen, but I eat about 750 calories on “fast” days.

Wow! Well done Mr Ghrelin!

Yes
Before I started fasting I was having multiple health issues.
I had:
Hi blood pressure (I don’t think fasting helped as much as just losing weight)
Bad lipid panels (Fasting made a big difference here)
High blood sugar (Fasting also made a big difference here).

I have lost 60 lbs and had no trouble keeping it off. I am not fasting during the holidays as I find that the fasting itself never gets easier, and the holidays make it extra hard.. I will jump back onto it when I return from an Asia trip next month. So far I’ve managed to lose about 30 lbs per year with timeouts from November to January. This has become a lifestyle for me at this point.

I have been on the diet for 5/6 weeks and have lost 8 lb. I have found this diet suits me. I did slimming world two years and it took e three months to lose the same. I fast on Monday and Thursday and I have found that I am better not having breakfast and maybe a banana for lunch then a meal at night. I have been making soup which is low calories . I have had stir fry for fast days or weight watcher meals or prawn salad. I found the fast days hard to Start with and did not sleep either. I now find it much easier and I even have wine at weekends. Thank you Michael Moseley for your horizon documentary it’s hopefully something I will,stick to for the health benefits. I want to lose another half a stone before June so I am focused