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Yup - first diet I have ever managed to keep to long term. The only reason I can keep to it is the knowledge that I can have a normal day the next day.


My tip is a big bowl of soup for 'fasting' days, topped up with miso paste dissolved in a mug of boiling water for in-betweeny hunger pangs.


Funnily enough, the day after a 'fast' day I don't feel overly hungry.

I've been on it since some time in January


Finding the fasting days quite hard, but have not cheated at all because I know I can eat what I want the next day.


Have to leave my first meal of the day as long as possible, preferably to about 3pm if I can, then a second one at about 8pm, then have an early night with the remains of my milk allowance heated up.


Sadly I'm not losing much weight because I think I'm taking the feasting days too literally :)) :)) :))


Plus I'm a lazy slob and not getting enough exercise.


ETA: I've also found that the morning after a fast day I'm not hungry.


Which is quite weird because I've usually gone to bed ravenous.


I find a bit of bouillon or marmite in hot water helps to stave off the hunger pangs, but you still have to count the calories in. Miso is quite high in calories, isn't it?

Sue Wrote:

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> I find a bit of bouillon or marmite in hot water

> helps to stave off the hunger pangs, but you still

> have to count the calories in. Miso is quite high

> in calories, isn't it?


Miso paste is around 30 calories per tablespoon - I just use a teaspoon so it isn't too much and easily incorporated into the 500 calories.

Voyageur Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

>

> > I find a bit of bouillon or marmite in hot

> water

> > helps to stave off the hunger pangs, but you

> still

> > have to count the calories in. Miso is quite

> high

> > in calories, isn't it?

>

> Miso paste is around 30 calories per tablespoon -

> I just use a teaspoon so it isn't too much and

> easily incorporated into the 500 calories.


xxxxxxx


I think you're right, I'm pleasantly surprised!


Just looked at the miso I have, and one kind is around 200 cals per 100g and the other kind is around 240.


No idea how many tablespoons or teaspoons would make up 100g though!

I do Mondays and Wednesdays.


That gives me a clear run to stuff my face over the weekend, and I'm usually out on Tuesday nights so it means I can drink on those nights.


Mondays are relatively easy, Wednesdays are harder, but on the other hand I know I've got four non-fasting days to come.


If I'm out on a Monday or a Wednesday I just change the day I'm fasting that week.


Once or twice I've missed one of the fast days altogether, but it's not a big deal unless you're trying to lose weight very quickly, and this isn't that kind of diet.


The main problem I've found is that I'm eating things on the feasting days which I wouldn't normally eat, like bacon sandwiches, and eating less healthily overall than I used to, so consequently although my weight is at least stable I've lost very little. Though given the tiny amount of exercise I get that's not surprising.


Probably as a result of the less healthy eating I've noticed a real deterioration in my skin since I started doing this :(


But that may also be because I stopped taking vitamins etc when I became anxious and depressed (oh look! that's actually relevant to the thread title!) after problems with a builder four or five years ago and never really started to take them regularly again even when I felt better :(


BTW I don't know why they call it a "fast", because it isn't. A fast surely would be eating nothing at all, just sipping hot water with a slice of lemon in it or something :))

El Pibe Wrote:

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> My uncle is the healthiest 68 year old man I've ever met.

> He does yoga, fasts regularly (the one where you

> don't eat anything), is a vegan and a teetotaller.

>

> On balance I think I'd rather be dead ;)


It actually doesn't sound a whole lot different to being dead.

Loz Wrote:

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> El Pibe Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > My uncle is the healthiest 68 year old man I've

> ever met.

> > He does yoga, fasts regularly (the one where

> you

> > don't eat anything), is a vegan and a

> teetotaller.

> >

> > On balance I think I'd rather be dead ;)

>

> It actually doesn't sound a whole lot different to

> being dead.


xxxxxx


:)) :)) :))

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