'The Fast Diet'

Misfit

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'The Fast Diet' may make you smarter and happier | abc7.com

"The Fast Diet" asks people to fast for two days and allows dieters to eat whatever they want the remaining five days of the week.


According to the diet's creator Doctor Michael Mosley, women are restricted to eat 500 calories or less for two days while men are allowed to consume 600.

The calories can be consumed in one meal or over the course of the day, but translate to 25 percent of a normal adult's daily intake.

Scientists across the country performed research on rats and discovered that the body and the brain respond in fascinating ways to the severe calorie restriction.
 
JeJeTe

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Misfit said:
'The Fast Diet' may make you smarter and happier | abc7.com

"The Fast Diet" asks people to fast for two days and allows dieters to eat whatever they want the remaining five days of the week.


According to the diet's creator Doctor Michael Mosley, women are restricted to eat 500 calories or less for two days while men are allowed to consume 600.

The calories can be consumed in one meal or over the course of the day, but translate to 25 percent of a normal adult's daily intake.

Scientists across the country performed research on rats and discovered that the body and the brain respond in fascinating ways to the severe calorie restriction.
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My response to calorie restriction is usually anger. Lots and lots of anger.
 
Misfit

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I think it's funny that somebody wrote a 400 page book about dieting that can be summed up with "don't eat".
 
withrespect

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I consider fasting effective. :yay: Just don't eat... and when you feel like you're about to pass out, you eat.... and then you get sick because the food makes you nauseated... so you just don't eat... and when you feel like you're about to pass out, you eat... and then you get sick because the food made you nauseated. :ohwell: I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. :coffee:
 
slotpuppy

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withrespect said:
I consider fasting effective. :yay: Just don't eat... and when you feel like you're about to pass out, you eat.... and then you get sick because the food makes you nauseated... so you just don't eat... and when you feel like you're about to pass out, you eat... and then you get sick because the food made you nauseated. :ohwell: I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. :coffee:
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:smack: That is one of the worst things you can do for your body.
 
Dakota

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There is a ton of research on what is called alternative fasting or Doctor Johnson's up day down day diet. I think 2 days is too long of a fast.
 
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Dakota said:
There is a ton of research on what is called alternative fasting or Doctor Johnson's up day down day diet. I think 2 days is too long of a fast.
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Any type of fasting is unhealthy for your body. If you eat nothing one day and eat the next day, then your body will just take in more calories than it would've. Also not eating will make you binge when you allow yourself to eat again.
 
vraiblonde

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Some celebrity person once said, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

That is a load of horse####.
 
capsfan78

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My personal opinion, is that 'diet' is the worst 4 letter word we have.

Diet, means that you get to a certain weight, and then you stop that particular eating habit. Why do 90%+ of all diets fail. When you eat healthy for a few weeks, or months, work out and get into shape, get to a weight you like, you stop. You go back to eating the foods that you use to eat that got you fat, or unhealthy in the first place.

One thing people really need to get through their heads, if you want to be skinny, or healthy, you need to change your lifestyle for good. Drinking, pizza, burgers, fries, eating out in general. Now and then its perfectly fine to enjoy those foods. But, when eating out, and processed foods is a staple of your diet, you're going to get fat. Obviously this excludes those lucky bastards who can eat anything they damn well please :)

If you want to be healthy, lose weight in a healthy manner. Exercise, and eating good foods your body needs. There is nothing you can do that will help you lose weight, and be healthy, while you're sitting on the couch.

Go outside and take a walk. It's wondrous what a little bit of exercise will do for you, and it sets a great example for your kids, if you have them.
 
libertytyranny

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fasting has been shown in numerous studies to increase lots of markers of good health. I think we have come to believe what I call the "cosmo" model of weight loss and health..that is, what is found in typical women's magazines. They push the eat every few hoursmodel pretty heavily. They terrify you with "if you skip breakfast, your metabolism will be ruined and you will be fat and ugly unti l you eventually die" what they DONT tell you is that has rarely been supported in any reputable studies. They have some correlational type studies and we all know the mantra of every good stats master "correlation does not imply causation"

I took an interest inthe metabolic mechanics of weight loss a few years agao after baby when I was trying ot lose weight and was having a difficult time. I found reading about fasting, and your bodys reaction to , fascinating.

If anyone has an interest, if it really neat to read about something called intermittant fasting, or IF for fat loss and even muscle gains. It is a principle that says basically you fast for a period of time, then consume your correct amount of cals and macronutrients within a prescribed shorter period of time. This can be different between people and some people do choose to do a day or two "off" followed by eating "normal" other days..most people, however tend to do an hour schedule rather than days. For instance 18 hoursof fasting followed by a 6 hour eating "window" which isnt really that tough to do..thats about a normal working day. It has to be adjusted for each person, for instance women tend to do better oin a shorter fasting period..about 14 hours of fasting followed by an eating "window"


I dont exactly prescribe to/use IF but I do employ some of the basic principles. For instance, I am not a morning eater, never have been. When I was dieting before, I tended to force myself to eat breakfast because I thought you HAD to..and found myself HUNGRIER and eating more ont he days I did. When I started researching why this was, I found that an average bodily response to eating breakfast would be somewhat like mine..its too much to type..its easier to explain with a flowchart or something (there goes me hanging out with engineers too long) but basaically eating earlier int he day hits a peak time of certain hormones and chemicals that actually has the impact of making you HUNGRIER by eating earlier int he day. So, I delay my "breakfast" by quite a bit and have had excellent results.


I love this kind of thing. Once I started looking into things myself..I found out a lot of what magazines and "conventional" wisdom syas..jus5t isnt so..and isnt supported by anything but fairly flimsy correlational studies.
 
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