Fasting is the key

[CreationNat1on]

Watch this podcast!!

I haven't watched it but I tried fasting on the 5:2 diet. DH lots loads of weight even though he was eating more like 1200 cals on the 6oo cal days and I stuck to the low calorie limit. I lost nothing - not even one pound, over 8 weeks. AndI wasn;t overcompensating on the following days either. I just felt tired on the fast days and unable to work or exercise so it felt like a waste of two days each week..

Whereas with no dieting at all - no change in eating whatsoever but upping exercise to 3-4 bootcamps and one yoga class a week, I lost a stone in 6 months.

Different things work for different people.

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I'm not going to watch the video but I know fasting works for people with disordered ideas about eating (I'm one of them...). I'm not good at dieting because then I constantly have food on my mind. I lost a huge amount of weight on OMAD (one meal a day) because I'm better at saying to myself "no food all day!" Than I am at saying "healthy food and all other food in moderation" all day.

Not saying that's the only kind of person it works for but dieting is a lot of work whereas fasting is very, wry little work really. When I'm on a diet I'm ravenous all the time anyway. So eating just one meal a day doesn't change that I'm ravenous, it just means the one meal I do get, I actually feel satisfied!