So I've been wanting to lose some weight. I really started putting it on after quitting a 14 year chewing tobacco addiction. I wouldn't eat when I had a dip in, and I always had a dip in, even at night while sleeping. I quit cold turkey because I was to lazy to hop in the car and drive spend 30minutes on a roundtrip to pick up a can and just went with it. Well then I had an itch to scratch now that there wasn't a dip in my lip. Eating became a problem and now I'm thinking that I've only replaced the addiction. I want to be able to keep up with my daughter, teach her to waterski, and all that fun stuff that fat people just have a lot of trouble doing.
I have tried and failed to many diets. So recently I just took a cold turkey stand and started a 5:2 diet, and I feel amazing. I jump started with an entire 24hr fast. Even shot a steel match towards the end of the 24hrs and felt amazing. My energy levels are through the roof, my belt tightened a hole in the first week. I am not going to get on a scale, it's not about the weight as much as it is about fitting the clothes I like to wear, and feeling better everyday. I cannot explain the energy gains, maybe all the trash I ate required all this spare energy to digest??
Here are the basics as I understand it.
2 nonconsecutive days I consume 2 300 calorie meals.
the other 5 days are three meals as if not on a diet. (I've cut out fast food completely, eating only fresh foods, and I'm saying goodbye to red meat).
I've linked into the 16:8 as well
I fast 16 hours everyday and eat in an 8 hour window.
I plan to cut out the 16:8 once I've gotten a couple inches off the old waistline. I find that i'm a person that needs immediate results in order to create a habit. So doubling up seems to be working great. I hope to keep seeing results, but more than seeing I hope to keep feeling the results. Getting the poison of fast food out is tough, it's an addiction i'll have to fight day by day just like tobacco.
Anyone else on the fasting bandwagon right now?
I have tried and failed to many diets. So recently I just took a cold turkey stand and started a 5:2 diet, and I feel amazing. I jump started with an entire 24hr fast. Even shot a steel match towards the end of the 24hrs and felt amazing. My energy levels are through the roof, my belt tightened a hole in the first week. I am not going to get on a scale, it's not about the weight as much as it is about fitting the clothes I like to wear, and feeling better everyday. I cannot explain the energy gains, maybe all the trash I ate required all this spare energy to digest??
Here are the basics as I understand it.
2 nonconsecutive days I consume 2 300 calorie meals.
the other 5 days are three meals as if not on a diet. (I've cut out fast food completely, eating only fresh foods, and I'm saying goodbye to red meat).
I've linked into the 16:8 as well
I fast 16 hours everyday and eat in an 8 hour window.
I plan to cut out the 16:8 once I've gotten a couple inches off the old waistline. I find that i'm a person that needs immediate results in order to create a habit. So doubling up seems to be working great. I hope to keep seeing results, but more than seeing I hope to keep feeling the results. Getting the poison of fast food out is tough, it's an addiction i'll have to fight day by day just like tobacco.
Anyone else on the fasting bandwagon right now?