FASTING JULIE'S BLOG 3RD MAR 2017

FASTING

Had a Fast this week on Wednesday. I was into fasting in 2013 after the Dr Michael Mosley programme on BBC. Well what I now think of as semi fasting. I did the 5:2 system for quite a while.Yes it worked up to a point, that point being that all diets where you keep eating carbohydrates don't work. You regain the weight when you go back to a 'normal diet'. In quotes because too many, and me at that time, a normal diet meant a standard diet. 

The 5:2 diet meant that you ate normally for five days and fasted for two days. Mosley's book, which I had purchased, said on a fasting day you ate 500 to 600 calories. So really it was an Eat Less Day, to my mind fasting means no eating. But I didn't know what I know now. I followed the 5:2 for quite some time, I joined a 5:2 site and wrote up my diary, not very well, never very good at keeping up diaries. 

I did find that on the fast days I felt hungry, I longed to get to six O'clock when I allowed myself to eat a small meal. This experience put me off of trying fasting again and since my success with LCHF/Keto eating I didn't see the need. As mentioned elsewhere, I have plateaued in my weight loss. I am a great Dr Jason Fung follower so recently I watched a good many of his interviews and read his blogs. I'd love to buy his book but funds are not good at the moment, it is on my Kindle wish list. I do have one by Joanna Alderson which is a short guide based on Dr Jason's writings. She say it is really her notes on Fungs writing. It was only £2.77 on Amazon.

One thing came up in this re-researching that made me decide to give fasting another go, it was that if one was on a fat burning way of eating, fasting was a breeze! And so it turned out to be. Much easier. I started at 8pm the night before and went right round to 8 pm the next day. I drank a bulletproof coffee first thing, various green teas during the day and a cup of marmite at lunch time. At 8pm I made 2 scramble eggs with cheese and had another green tea. The next day I returned to my intermittent fasting as usual and didn't eat until 1pm. I lost half a kilo but its creeping back but up.☹️

The thing is I don't want to cut down the size of my meals and their diversity of nutrients. Also my husband cooks and I don't want him to think I don't appreciate his delicious meals. So I figured that if I fasted that might take care of the problem. First I tried the Intermittent fasting but that wasn't enough hence the day long fast. It was really no problem and I shall certainly do it again next week. BTW, husband likes it because he can cook himself things he likes and I don't.

You might wonder about my cutting down the amount that I want to eat. I am 82 in a couple of months and all the pundits seem to say for older people its better to eat smaller amounts of all good nutrients. I have found that anyway on an LCHF/keto WOE I just don't want to eat as much as I did.
Thanks for reading this
Julie.