Hi! (I’m new) been doing this for a week. I’m fasting 2 days in a row. So for instance I had my last meal 5pm Sunday fasted until 5pm Monday had a meal totalling 450 cals then fasted 24hrs until Tuesday 5pm when I had a meal of about 400cals. Today is a non fasting day but I’m still earthy eating having about 1200cals. But this is what is working best for me. I’m actually finding the 24hr fasts the easiest and my portion has already dramatically reduced. I’m thinking as I chew and putting my knife and fork down between each mouthful.
Hope I see some results!

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Just a thought try not to eat 3 meals. The whole idea of fast is not to eat at all to give the body time to actually do what it is supposed to do such as repair and generate new cells. Every time we eat we divert the bodys attention to concentrate on dealing with the food therefore no repair etc can go on. Equally no fat burning can happen either.

Everybody is different and we cannot all manage not to eat at all for the period or even just eat one meal. I myself can only manage on two intakes of food on fast days at the moment and i make sure those are usually within 6 or so hours of each other to give me maximum time to really fast. Gradually i am aiming for one meal by reducing that time down.

Also try not to concentrate on the weight loss. I know that is what the vast majority are trying to do but the health benefits if this is done properly outweigh the weight loss and many like myself are losing inches quicker than losing weight.

Have a re read of the book again and don’t give up just readjust and give yourself time to get be able to reduce your food intake on fast days.

Best of luck

hi all. i’m new to this. in reading the calorie counter there are lots of items of 100g per day, lets say averaging 50 calories each. does that mean I can eat 1200 grams (1.2kg) of these foods per day to be on the 600 calories? thanks!! richard

Thanks, would 3 days all in one go be ok at about 350 cals? On the other days am I ok to just do 1200 cals? I’m not doing as much ex cerise as I would like. I have 4 children am at my biggest I have ever been have always been a size 10 about 9-9.5 stone. But after having an emergency csection and neuralgia I put weight on over 7mnjs since having my youngest child.
Sorry for all the questions!

Ok thanks for that. I’m thinking maybe this isn’t for me, so I’m going to look into a diet to help me loose weight and maybe return to this once I’m at a stage were maintaining is what I need.
Many thanks for all the answers.

sadie – this is long term. Try just water from lunch to lunch, do some exercise (its really easy when fasting, I swim 3km daily) and make sure you separate the fast days. I’ve lost 14.5kg in 22 weeks and blood tests are great. It will work, don’t overthink it and DONT COUNT CALORIES!