Has anyone heard about the Intermittent Diet? I'm thinking of giving it a go

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www.genesisuk.org/media-centre/articles/The%20Intermittent%20diet%20.html

It's not specifically for women who want to prevent breast cancer although who doesn't? The idea was to look at alternative ways of dieting to the standard calorie counting/Mediterranean diet as people find it hard and it's important for cancer prevention to keep your BMI in the heathly range.

I'm thinking of giving it a go as a part of my inevitable New Years loose weight resolution and it would be great to hear of anyone else who's done it or would like to give it a try.

My plan is to start a general 'good' diet tomorrow, throw out the booze and chocs and once the dc's are back to school at the end of the week start the intermittent diet.

Almost at the end of my second vlc day. Had a couple of big teaspoons of Greek yoghurt and it seems to have filled me.
Will make some soup for dinner. Really want pot and leek but not allowed today.
Have had a milky coffe, protein shake, carrot and my yoghurt. The shake was only 100 calories so hoping the protein will do me good.
Feeling trim after my kettle bell last night.

welcome jaca and maisie!
tracy-meant to ask how you find kettlebells compared to normal dumb-bells, ankle weights etc? meant to be more of a cardio workout or something?

checked out the harcombe stuff, interesting and like her commitment to taking on the low-fat/carb-based diet advocated by the establishment, also her challenging of WW. don't like how all the real info is in the diet book though. I love the fact that the ID is free, just us on here, using the genesis website and each other for support. makes me when i see threads such as "can i afford weightwatchers"? or talking about saving up for shakes etc ...shouldn't have to pay anything to bloody diet!

The free aspect of it was a big bonus I have to admit :)

It's saving me a lot in food costs too, now dh is following it as well, 2 days a week only feeding the children and no bought sandwiches for lunch, is there any end to how much I can rave and drone on about the benefits of this diet? :o

Have a look on YouTube for some kettle bell workouts. It is v cardio, but only in a squat and swing a heavy weight kind of way. No impact at all which is what I was looking for. You do get amazing results in a short space of time if you do it frequently. unf. It's not a dancey, sing along kind of atmosphere which I miss. So I try and combine these classes with a dancey one too, like bokwa.

Hi maisie and jaca.

I am crawling towards the finish line... Day two is almost over. I slept like a log last night and I am sooooo tired today. I haven't felt hungry apart from the glorious moment this morning when ds had a tantrum and while I was dealing with it, the cat snuck into the kitchen, ate some of my veggie curry left on the cooker and promptly got very ill, threw up everywhere, sh*t herself inside out and started going all wobbly and disorientated.
Once I'd cleared up, made sure the cat was OK and settled the child, all I wanted was a biscuit. I could taste the damn thing.. I really do eat my stress!
Had to go and buy more veggies to replace the curry! I also managed to purchase a pack of florentine biscuits ready for tomorrow. The good thing is that as I'm teaching swimming in the morning I can't eat between breakfast and lunch. Hopefully it will keep me in line. Haven't looked at the scales. Can't bear to look.

I have noticed that I too am more alert on the VLC days. It's kind of zen, hard to describe but interesting.

Week 1

Zog - 4lbs
Radio - 2lbs
Expat - 2lbs
ZZmum - 3lbs

Week 1

Zog - 4lbs
Radio -2lbs
Expat - 2lbs
ZZmum - 3lbs
NMP - 4lbs

Yay NMP - excellent work.

well done everyone, thanks for the update NMP.

Radio, couldn't help but laugh at the cat & the curry incident, sure it wasn't quite so funny for you at the time, esp on a VLCD!

i hardly ate all day yesterday, mainly due to meetings rather than not being hungry but then had loads in the evening, guess that's fine though, overall.

Sleep still awful though, still waking at about 3.30 and then that's it for the night. Might go back to the banana/milky drink at bedtime even on VLCD otherwise this is going to kill me!

It took me ages to get to sleep last night. Too much caffeine?? Went to a neighbours at 8.30-10.30 - so stayed out of my kitchen! And woke up this morning absolutely starving!
dh out tonight - so no temptation for a take away.

I have lost the plot!! Eating mini cream eggs!! Need to get back on this. Lost five pounds first week but will put it all back on at this rate. Back to vlc on Monday.

it is fine - just stop now - lots of water - be better tomorrow and Sunday - think med diet - not creme eggs .. and back to it monday - think of the goal!!

Thank you! Just need a sensible voice telling me what to do.

bit rich coming from me - 3/4 bottle of wine down!! but tomorrow - it will be all salmon and spinach - honest!!

Dear God somebody stop me! I have eaten everything that wasn't nailed down today. I thought I was supposed to be all zen and shrunken of stomach so I didn't want to eat more? This has not happened.
Ah well. Tomorrow is another day. Hopefully a less feasty sort of a day. More swimming teaching to prevent snacking. Although my mother is arriving. She will have driven me to drink by 5pm.
On the plus side I think we've now eaten most of the Christmas biscuits. Yay!

I wasn't too bad today. Though did scoff a couple of pieces of White warburtons and butter. Knowingly eating the wrong thing, but just unprepared with the right thing in the house!
Need to be more organised.
had half a shepherd pie tonight and stopped halfway through it as I wasn't really enjoying it and was full.
Kettle bell tomorrow and protein shake and omelettes but reckon will have takeaway for dinner. But will have loads of water first and try for just a smaller portion.

All of you with the food-obsessing... stop it!

It's an INTERMITTENT diet.

That means the rest of the time you DON'T diet.
No stressing about calories/points/Syns/carbs/wine drunk/biscuits eaten/etc.

Stick to the sensible stuff if you like, but if you don't, well, you're not dieting today so meh.
(Unless you're on a VLC day then not meh at all, that means you're not doing the diet. Try again tomorrow maybe?)

I want this diet to be something I can do 2 days a week and forget about the rest of the time. Every VLC day I do makes a difference to how I see food, when I've finished my VLC days I don't want to pig out, I don't want to eat sugary crap. I want to eat nice-tasting, nutritious food until I don't feel hungry any more, then I want to stop eating. It's not an instant thing (I'm doing great with the eating bit I really need to address my wine intake, but not for calorie reasons IYSWIM, and I'm stuck in a bad eating rut in some ways eg craving something sweet in the evenings even if I don't actually want it) but I'll get there, and so will we all.

Take it easy, have a good weekend, and see you next week for our VLC days :)

Sorry for the pished rambling btw :o

Chin chin!

I love you zog

Am loving hte pished rambling..was asleep at the time tho!

Went out last night and was persuaded to buy a piece of homemade cheese cake by a v svelte size zero Shanghainese woman (who also claimed to eat at least a piece a day), had it all, along with a couple of glasses of wine, some noodles and party food.

Wouldn't feel bad about any of the above except that my scALES now tell me i'm 1/2 kilo more than when i started! Bugger. Only hope it's becuase i ate late, otherwise (as dcs say) this is SO unfair!

Well, I feel kind of bad posting now but I'm 3lbs down!

I think this diet model is working for me (am doing 2x 650 days, 1,700 when I'm at home and fuck it when I'm not) Even calorie counting on my normal days feels easy. Eating out is a problem but buying food in the supermarket is simple, I don't have to consult a points calculator or a syns directory or download an app or find the right thing on a database somewhere or check a Free Food list, I just check the pack and decide for myself. It feels very liberating.

My appetite has definitely shrunk. For me a part of eating was always because I worried about whether I may be hungry at an indeterminate point in the future. ie a sandwhich won't fill me up on it's own, I'd better buy some crisps too. Now I've bought the crisps I have to eat them whether I'm hungry or not.

Now I know that even if I am hungry for a bit it's not the end of the world but also I've discovered that the sandwich on it's own is genuinely enough. It does fill me up if I take the time to conscious consider whether I'm full rather than ploughing on to the crisps regardless.

well done, prof! I think my appetite is starting to settle and shrink too but has yo-yo-ed due to lack of sleep and a few pending deadlines.

I'm quite happy with my BMI (which is lowish anyway) and reasonably happy w weight. I'd rather look/feel leaner/clothes looser and build muscle so this may mean i don't lose much weight, if any. still at scales though, a v negative message to receive first thing in the morning!

Well you know that old chestnut - the more weight you have to lose (like me!) the faster it comes off, if you've only got a little bit it's harder.

maybe you're right, prof. Though maybe i'm protesting too much as would like to lose a bit ideally.

anyway, scales now say i'm 1.5 kilos less than when i started this! moral of the story, my scales are dodgy!

Expat with your BMI you're really not going to drop kilos and kilos on any sort of diet unlike fat biffa me who just needs to stop swilling the wine like it's going out of fashion. Could you maybe quit the scales and use a tape measure on the bits you want to work on instead?

Well done on the weight loss Yaffle, the attitude changes on the normal days are quite a revelation, aren't they?
I'm finding the changes are very noticeable straight after the VLC days but wear off as the week goes on, so it's easy to pig out at the weekend.

I might try spreading my VLC days out more, instead of Mon/Tues maybe try Mon/Thurs, so hopefully surf the wave of good intention to the weekend and beyond!

helen I love you too :o Good luck with the mother (and 5pm sounds like a perfectly good wine-o'clock to me, it is the weekend after all...)

x-posted: yay @ expat's dodgy scales! :o