[fast5] Re: I'm back (again)

Thank you Heather! What great information!!!!

Here's my day:

Tonight I broke the fast at 5pm with an apple and some peanut butter, a cheese stick, and a few slices of roast beef deli sliced. Seemed to be okay.

I then met my family for dinner at 5:30.

I ate the following for dinner at 6 p.m.:

Crispy fish sandwich
French fries
Side Caesar salad
3 Bread rolls
Diet Coke

Within an hour of eating dinner I really felt bad. I was very spaced out and very irritable. I figured it was most likely due to the bread and the french fries?

The feeling lasted a good hour or hour and a half.

It's almost 10 PM now and my window is almost closed.

I have definitely eat much less than I normally would have. Im not starving right now but I have cravings. I finished off the night with a bowl of Shredded Wheat cereal.

We'll see how tomorrow goes, I am hopeful!

Thoughts, comments,suggestions, advice, etc?

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> Welcome back!
>
> You might want to look at what foods you ARE eating.
> After much experimenting on ME, I have discovered that
> how I feel has a lot to do with the food choices I make.
>
> Fast-5 makes it easy to experiment, because you have less
> food to balance.
>
> Here are the results I've found, about food choices.
>
> First, a lot of what happens with appetite has to do with uric
> acid. Uric acid is a kind of trigger for hibernation in animals,
> and it makes the animal eat more and to change food into fat,
> rather than raising the metabolism.
>
> Some foods and behaviors raise uric acid levels, while others
> lower it. This has been studies a lot, in terms of gout! So it's
> pretty easy to find information. The things that raise uric
> acid levels are:
>
> -- Not eating on a schedule
> -- Not getting enough water
> -- Certain meats (high-purine meats)
> -- Fructose (any sugar, not just HFCS, but also honey etc)
> -- Beer
> -- Food intolerances (wheat and dairy being the usual suspects)
> -- Saturated fat (might block clearing uric acid)
> -- Foods high in iron (enriched foods)
>
> Things that lower uric acid levels:
> -- Vinegar or lemon juice
> -- Eggs
> -- Low-purine fish
> -- Vitamin C
>
>
> Anyway, for me that translates basically into eating more fish and eggs,
> less beef, adding lemon slices to my tea, and avoiding beer. It's
> working so far (30+ lbs down).
>
> Fructose is an interesting issue, since some 30% of Northern Europeans
> don't handle it well. You mention being worse on the Warrior Diet ... if
> you were snacking on fruit, that might be part of it. Plain starches, like
> steamed rice, are usually safer choices in that case. But you can
> experiment ... keep a log, and eating drastically different meal choices,
> see how you feel the next day.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:44 PM, tfoley926 <travis.foley@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I will keep this fairly short, but I'm new to the group (sorta). I first
> > joined back about 4 or 5 years ago. This is not my first time with F5,
> > I've been on and off of it during this time. I have keep very good notes
> > on my progress through all of that and I sat down last night and reviewed
> > it all to figure out why this just never worked for me long term?
> >
> > I keep coming back to it because:
> >
> > 1. I know it works because I lose weight EVERY time
> > 2. It really helps me discipline myself when it comes to eating and
> > keeps me from allowing food to control my life
> > 3. I experience other health benefits from this as well such as lower
> > cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and lower triglycerides.
> > 4. It's very convenient when I don't have to mess with making
> > breakfast and packing a full lunch for work.
> > 5. I save money on groceries and snacks during the day
> > 6. I FEEL better and I'm more confident when I feel light and my
> > clothes fit me better
> > 7. I never battle fatigue in the afternoons or on the drive home, I'm
> > always alert
> >
> > I know I could think of more, but 7 is enough. :)
> >
> > So you may be asking yourself, why have I not stuck with this then? Why
> > all of the starting and stopping?
> >
> > What I experience consistently as I read back through all everything I
> > have written can be summed up in one of my entries from back in 2009.
> >
> > Here's what I wrote:
> >
> > *"I'm stopping Fast5 because I'm tired of feeling tired, weak, spacey and
> > irritable. Even after I eat I find myself being more irritable than I
> > normally am. The weightloss was great, but it's not worth the
> > side-effects. Also, it's affecting my performance at work. My short term
> > memory really seems to suffer even though it is supposed to be sharper some
> > how? It's not and I cannot seem to subside the spacey feeling using
> > everyone's advice either. I thought I could do this, but cannot sustain
> > this for the long haul."*
> >
> > I would go on over the next 3 or 4 years starting back up and ultimately
> > having to quit for pretty much the same reasons.
> >
> > At one point I started doing the Warrior Diet and that was horrible and
> > made everything worse. I started doing Weight Watchers and that worked for
> > a while, but I felt that was harder to maintain because of all of the
> > tracking and counting and everything.
> >
> > F5 fits my lifestyle better than anything else I've tried, I just have to
> > get through this issue of the dizziness.
> >
> > I have been doing a lot of reading again and I'm back (again) to give this
> > a shot and go at it from one angle that I haven't tried yet. I am on week
> > 3 this time around and I am doing very well actually. What I am changing
> > this time around is my window. In the past I have consistently kept a
> > window of 2:00 - 7:00. Looking back over everything I saw a pattern of
> > extending my window because of one thing or another. I'm doing a window of
> > 5:00 - 10:00 PM like the book suggests this time and today is actually
> > going to be the first day that I hit it. So far this time around, my
> > window has been in the 2:30/3:00 PM time frame when I opened it. Today
> > will be 5:00 PM.
> >
> > This new window will:
> >
> > - completely eliminate the need to bring any food to work
> > - eliminate the issue of eating too early and messing up my window if
> > the family ends up eating later after dinner... I don't have to miss out
> > - help me keep from over eating... in other words, I won't be
> > eating lunch AND dinner. I end up eating lunch and dinner both, and then
> > some... this will just be one meal (dinner) and a snack or something later.
> >
> > I'm keeping a close eye on any advice that I see posted. What helps me is
> > to read about what others are experiencing. When I know others have
> > experienced the same things, but stuck it out and the symptoms subside,
> > that gives me hope to keep at it.
> >
> > One of my downfalls before has been fudging a little when the weight came
> > off. Once I started doing that, it became more routine and before I knew
> > it I had drifted very far from the routine and it was hard to get going
> > again.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyway, that was a very long post, I apologize.
> >
> > I look forward to reading about everyone's progress and challenges and I'm
> > very encouraged that long term success for me is just ahead!
> >
> >
> >
> > travis
> >
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> --
> Heather Twist -- Seattle 7B
> http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
>