Wednesday, March 30, 2011

[fast5] Re: No loss; extending my fasting window

 

Eat more protein and fat.

No sugary carbs-almond milk is full of sugar and starches. If you are excercising a lot, stop.

You may need to eat more calories, you may need to use a calorie calulator to figure out how many calories you need a day.

Maybe you need 2500 and by keeping your calories so low you are starving your body and it won't let go of the excess fat. You must find out how many calories you need each day.

ama in il

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "aeryelle" <aeryelle@...> wrote:
>
> Well, I'm basically 4 weeks in (tomorrow will be day 28), and I'm NOT noticing my jeans getting any looser :-(
> I'm going to extend my fasting window today until after 8pm, when I get out of yoga. I still plan on closing it by 10pm. Perhaps that will give me a kick in the right direction?
>
> I've been sticking strictly to a 5 hour eating window (it's usually less, unless I have tea with a bit of unsweetened almond milk). I only consume water and a cup or two of black decaf coffee during my fasting hours. I've been watching carbs, as I always do.
> That being said, I don't intend on stopping Fast-5/IF. I feel great. I have tons of energy (I actually feel better exercising fasted!); I'm sleeping better; my skin is clearer; and I'm SO in touch with my natural hunger. It's amazing!
>
> I've now noticed a marked decrease in appetite/hunger, and I easily make it through the fasting window. I've been feeling some mild hunger pangs upon waking, but they soon subside. I'm rarely even hungry now when my window opens at 5pm.
>
> I'm just not noticing any fat-loss, and that was the primary reason, I embarked on this way of eating (or not eating). Perhaps, I'm being impatient, but shouldn't I have noticed something - even small - by now??
> Does anyone have any experience/insight into possible undereating/overtraining? I've read all over the place that undereating can cause your body to not want to let go of fat stores. Is this true?
> My calories were pretty darn low, by most standards, before I started Fast-5. I've been keeping track, just to gauge my consumption, and I'm hitting between around 900-1000 calories a day; sometimes I can make it to 1200, if I have some extra nuts. This equates to not much of a deficit compared to my pre-Fast-5 intake (more like at or barely below).
> (I'm 5'3" and weigh around 135-136 lbs. I want to lose about 16 lbs of fat.)
>
> Thoughts?
>

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