Questions about Fast 800

[Uhtredwaere]

Hi all!

I'm just over two weeks into the Fast 800 and had some questions, if anyone is able to answer them for me I'd be very grateful!

So, I know you can only do Fast 800 for maximum of 12 weeks. What do you do after? I'm planning to move to 5:2 but should I aim for around 1200 calories on "normal" days?

Secondly I've heard so many people say that once you finish the Fast 800 you put all the weight back on, which I can understand if you return to old eating habits. But surely if you maintain healthy eating/portion size you won't? Can someone confirm I won't fuck up my metabolism?

Finally, I don't want to go into ketosis, it's just not for me. I'm aiming to keep my carbs around 60g a day or less which is still low. Can the Fast 800 still work ok without going keto?

Thanks

Hi @Uhtredwaere I can't answer all your questions, but I did try The Fast 800 earlier this year and can give you my experience? Firstly, congrats for doing it! How are you feeling? I went very low carb but found I wasn't hungry at all after the first couple of days. I did the diet for about a month-six weeks. I lost about a stone I think? I went to 1200 cals a day after that and after on 800, it felt like loads! lol I did this until about a month ago. Then I started to binge. I would be 'good' all day, the at night just demolish chocolate, cereal bars, biscuits. I ended up putting on 1.5 in one week! So after that I decided I would quit dieting for a while. I didn't. I had come so far and still had so far to go. I kept to about 1200 cals but after 4 days had an other binge.
On Monday I started the 5:2 diet. I did it a few years ago and lost weight. This time though, as the diets author (Micheal Mosley?) also stated, you can go up to 800 cals on a fast day. This suits me as I am now type 2 diabetes and don't think such low calories would be good for me. My TDEE is about 1776 so on non fast days I am sticking to 1500. I've only done Monday and today so far but it's been manageable. I know I'm going about this slowly but I am happy eating what I am, and more importantly, don't feel the need to binge! I want to loose around 2 stone (Have lost 2.5 stone this year so far.) but am happy to take things a bit slower for a while. Oh yes, and apart from the 1.5lbs, I haven't put any back on. I hope that helped answer some of your questions? I recently joined this thread and have found it very welcoming and helpful, maybe pop on over? Anyway, very good luck to you, I hope you manage to meet your goals.