Thread: 5-2 Diet anyone?

.... and if you cut back on your carbs and grains, replacing them with greens, moderate protein and fats on your'normal' eating days, you'll be even more impressed with the results (if you're over-padded...)

I was always told that fasting would do the opposite as your body goes into a mode where it will hang onto your fat if you stop eating regularly as it thinks you don't have any food available and will then only release the fat as a food once your body has no other energy source. I keep getting told I must eat regularly - not skip breakfast, etc. that's what my Doc says anyway.

Your Doc is right. Fad diets are just that. Fad Diets.

my wife has done a big weight loss thing after each of our babies, generaly she looses about 12 - 14 kg in 12 weeks,


the number one thing her personal trainers and doctors told her is don't skip meals, your body holds the fat to try to get it through, and then when u start eating again, you will automatically store the fat.


lots of small meals is the way to go, basically eat like a cow, graze all day, keeps your belly feeling full, and keeps your metabolism moving along, just don't eat the fatty crap/ take away, lots of vegies, some nuts, little fruit and about some lean meat.


bit of exercise is a great place to start aswell

Yes.


Sal and I have been on the diet since May after seeing Mosely's documentary.


We've met our targets (in my case 7kgs lost) and are staying there although we're not so strict about the calories now.


One thing I have noticed is that we tend to watch what we eat and drink on the non-fast days.


It suits our way of life but that doesn't mean it's appropriate for everyone.

I should add that i'm not actually doing this to lose weight as i'm only a couple of kilos over the recommended for my build. For me its about being healthy on the inside. My father never carried any weight but ended up with cardio vascular disease non the less, and had a couple of strokes in his sixtys after a life of eating a high carb diet. He was doing everything else right, 25km bushwalks, mountain biking, kayaking etc. But it was the poor diet that caught up with him in the end.
Also you don't have to be overweight to suffer from diabetes.

We tried it. For those who have met me you'd be right to wonder why I bothered - I'm 6'6" and currently weigh 82kg. The Girlie is 6' tall and curvy, so I started mostly as moral support for her.

In short, we lasted 2 weeks.

On fasting days I was dim witted and quick to become distracted. Logical thinking went out the window. I didn't feel safe driving due to feeling so strange.

I normally eat a huge bowl of cereal in the morning, mid morning snack, a decent lunch, arvo snack and largish dinner. Depriving myself was so detrimental to my existence I found myself asking was I prepared to live nearly 30% of my life in a miserable haze. The answer was no.

Lately we've been swimming to get fit. I might give it another go just to see what the outcome is with more exercise in the mix.

I did it for a while - not really to lose weight but to get healthier and give my body a bit of a shake down after a torrid year with kidney stones, general booziness and not enough sport.

I found the fast days easy when I was really busy...but very hard when I had nothing to occupy my mind. Like many people, I nibble when I'm bored.

On the fast days, I ended up not eating anything until the evening and having an early but larger dinner. it's just about discipline....but I found it a little hard to sustain, particularly as I like to go out and dine with friends during the week....and have the odd glass of wine.

Lost a few kilos, drilled a new hole in the belt (WOOHOO!) and then got off the diet after a couple of months, now I just watch what I eat on a daily basis and it's given me a good appreciation for the calorific content of all foods. The weight is staying off and I find I've developed a mindset and a discipline whereby if I know I'm not exercising on a given day, I'll eat less the night before and during that day.

Bobby