Thanks everybody for your replies!
I'm doing 2-7pm now which fits in with the evening eating pattern of my partner too. It's going pretty well although I'm lucky in that I don't find it hugely difficult to avoid food up until around 12pm.
Eating protein when you come off the fast is great advice. I've lost a lot of weight in the past by fasting, and noticed this back then. For me at least, pure protein is a sledgehammer when it comes to hunger.
I'm vegan so the only real choice (short of cooking some tofu) is nuts, although with my previous weight loss I also used to eat roasted redskin almonds.
Nuts and almonds are high in calories but it's worth remembering that they satiate the appetite like nothing else. If a 500 calorie packet of peanuts keeps me going until the main evening meal then there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Nuts also have quite a bit of fibre too, especially if you can eat the skins, and I like the idea of being satiated on only a small physical quantity of food — it keeps my belly empty and my digestion works only a little. Therefore I feel more nimble.
The only other thing I'd say is that chewing sugar-free gum is fine for me although I need to do this anyway to avoid bad breath because of GERD syndrome, so I guess my stomach is typically churning anyway.
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, bradbury_x <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> Hello everybody, I'm new here.
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> I learned about the Fast5 diet and after a brief read through of the eBook, decided to give it a go.
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> Although it's obvious, it appears I missed a crucial fact: that you don't break the fast until 5pm.
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> I've been fasting until 3pm, with a cut-off of 8pm. This is just about manageable. I honestly don't think I can last until 5pm, even after training myself, and nor do I want to if I'm being honest.
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> Does it matter when the five hours fall? I'm sure this has been answered thoroughly elsewhere but I'm having problems answers on the website.
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> Thanks in advance for any answers.
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