Comments on: Stop me before I snack again!

By: dbp

dbp — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:34:00 +0000

Neo, sorry to hear about the migraine issue, our middle daughter gets them and they are no joke–though hers seem to be on the mild-side as those things go.

What really impresses me about the fast diet is that someone like me lost weight on it. (I realize that I am entering the humblebrag zone here) I wasn’t really heavy to begin with (5′ 7″ 150 lb) and already a distance runner. My reason for wanting to lose weight was that as a participant in road races I was hoping to compensate for loss of speed from age (I am 50) by becoming a little lighter.

So far I have not detected any increase in speed but I am down about 10 lbs in three months. The thing is that I had to run 30 miles/week and watch what I ate (more or less how Paul describes his SOP) to stay at 150 lbs. I still run of course, but I eat like a teen-aged boy on the non fast days.

By: Paul A'Barge

Paul A'Barge — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:56:06 +0000

I’m on the One Plate Diet.

I pretty much eat what I want (try to avoid mega-portions of carbs and pretty much all desserts) but no seconds. Modest portions on a single plate.

It’s not a fast as in lose-weight-quick diet but it works over time.

Add a bit of exercise to make things go faster.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:43:05 +0000

dbp: yes, I saw a long TV program about that diet, and researched it. Some people seem to do well on it, others report no weight loss.

It’s not possible for me to follow it because if I have semi-fasting days like that it tends to trigger a migraine.

By: dbp

dbp — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:36:43 +0000

My wife and I exercise frequently but never saw weight loss until we tried “The Fast Diet” it is pretty simple in concept, if not in execution: Twice a week we subsist on one meal (dinner) of 500 calories. The rest of the time we eat what we want.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:13:56 +0000

Whenever I would want to read a book for the entire day, I was unknowingly engaging in fasting. Being hungry, then ignoring it, until sometime later the hunger goes away because the body is now getting its energy from pure fat, absent any artificial toxins or impurities.

Exercise, in a lot of ways, puts unnecessary stress on people who are not physically capable. Recently, people have started utilizing exercise regimens that weren’t designed for faster or stronger people.