When I met my husband, he was only eating one meal a day ... and had been doing that for years, mostly out of lack of interest in cooking. I had read all the stuff about eating 5 meals a day, so I dutifully made breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day, and kept plenty of snacks handy. He gained 30 lbs or so, the first time in his life he'd had any weight problem.
Sooo ... when I started IF, I just stopped cooking except the evening meal. He got back to his ideal weight, although he isn't "doing Fast-5", but he went back to just eating in the evening. He is exceedingly healthy for his age too, way more so than his siblings. However, he tends to get after my daughter for "not eating enough"! She has pretty much the same eating habits as he does, not bothering to put meals together until someone else does.
Calorie-wise, she really doesn't get all that many calories (she tracked it for a school project). What I keep saying though is: if a girl can haul 50-lb bags of chicken food, run up the hill, and jump to the ceiling, the kid is in good shape. She has amazing muscle strength and endurance, and gorgeous hair. I don't know how she does it on as little food as she seems to eat, but making a kid eat MORE in this country seems to be exactly the wrong thing to do.
Anyway, where the research is ... eating "too little" is basically healthier as long as the person is getting enough nutrients. Most of the needed nutrients are in plant foods ... fruits, tubers, greens. Fish and eggs are loaded with the rest of what a person needs. Unless you are doing major athletic stuff, you don't need a whole lot of calories, esp. as an adult. But it's pretty easy to tell if a person is really "starving" ... they get gaunt, have dry skin, etc. Eating one good meal a day doesn't cause starvation!
The people who keep saying it "ruins your metabolism" though, might well have a point. I kind of expect that fasting in general makes the metabolism more efficient. Your body gets good at recycling old cells, extracting nutrients from foods, etc. Doing Fast-5 I have NOT noticed any metabolism slowdown though. On many diets I would get "cold" and esp. get cold hands and feet, probably from my body going into "starvation mode". I simply haven't got that on Fast-5, nor does my husband or daughter. I do believe all of us are eating a whole lot less, but it hasn't ruined our metabolilsm. Ori Hofmacher has a theory that the metabolism is based on the *biggest* meal of the day ... if you eat little bits of food, then the body assumes food is scarce, keeps you hungry, and gears down the metabolic rate so you can get through a lean winter. But if you eat a good meal, to satiation, then the body assumes there is plenty of food, and if you aren't eating it means you are out hunting, so you need all the energy you can get.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Sam <samdgood@yahoo.com> wrote:
being single adult female wayyy over 21, i tend to do what i want. i appreciate other's opinions but in the end i make my own decisions. saying that, i mentioned fast five to my doctor. i totally expected a negnegative reaction and was very pleased he wasn't. he said, "that sounds interesting, let me know how it works for you". if a doctor doesn't freak out or say don't do it, then other's can't either (in my opinion!).
if it works for you then you hang in there! and good luck
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@...> wrote:
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> My boyfriend doesn't like me being on Fast-5. He doesn't tell me what to do, and believe me, I wouldn't let anyone tell me what to do. But I am sensitive to him feeling concern, feeling uncomfortable... so I just don't talk about it. He thinks it's unhealthy, says I am starving myself. We don't live together, so he doesn't know when I eat. He does notice I don't eat breakfast. He doesn't bug me that much really.
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> I don't tell hardly any of my friends, I think most of them would scoff.
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> - T
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