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The Fast Diet by Mimi Spencer, Michael Mosley | Waterstones
Overall, I give the book 4/5 stars. Good book overall! I think it could help a lot of people who are trying to eat healthier (even if they do not plan on fasting). I also have no interest in fasting. I know, sounds like I joined a meaningless giveaway on my part, right? Wrong. I have wanted to become healthier and saw this as an additional piece of motivation.In reality a fast day is 36 hours. If you finish your last full evening meal at 7.30pm on Sunday, then Monday is your fast day, you are not going to be eating normally till Tuesday morning 7.30am. That is 36 hours. If you decide instead to fast from 2pm on Monday until 2pm on Tuesday, then that will only be 24 hours. Wait till 7pm and that is 29 hours. To do 36 hours you would have to hold off till 2am on Wednesday, which would be a little inconvenient This book brings together the results of new, groundbreaking research to create a dietary program that can be incorporated into your busy daily life, featuring: The book's Britishisms almost made up for it. :P I'm mostly kidding, but I wish I were even more kidding than I am! Best not to. Fasting will stress your body, that seems to be one of the ways that it helps (stress provokes repair), but you shouldn’t over stress. I am not the intended audience. What was not obvious before I read it but what is obvious after is that it is written for people who have done a lot of dieting (I've never) and are familiar with weight loss goals (I've none) and weight loss strategies. Weight loss is the driving force behind this book. 5:2 is, in fact, for weight loss; 6:1 is recommended for weight maintenance.
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Like everyone else reviewing this, I saw the BBC Horizon program "Eat, Fast and Live Longer" (search YouTube - it keeps getting posted there) and was really impressed. This book gives details of the science and recommendations on how to manage the fasting. I've been doing it for a month and feel much lighter and have a better relationship to hunger and portion size. This is a great way to reset and remind your body that less is more. (Dovetails nicely with mindfulness.) This is another very common myth. The initial response of your body to a reduction in calories is to increaseyour metabolic rate. This is because, in our hunter-gatherer past, survival in times of food shortage would have depended on our becoming more active, going out to hunt and look for food. Only under conditions of extreme calorie deprivation, when we have been for weeks without enough food and our body fat has fallen dramatically does the body go into “starvation mode”. IF is not the same as crash dieting. Starvation mode does not happen if you cut your calories for a day!! There do seem to be benefits from intermittent fasting which go beyond weight loss, though these benefits have been less studied. We know, for example, that a lot of repair and routine maintenance goes on in the cells when we are not eating Michael Mosley gives an update for 2019, current research in the field and announces a tour starting in February. I've never been a fan of diets. I've seen them work in the short term, only to be discarded weeks or months later to no effect, or worse, to a greater weight gain on the rebound. I've always tried to preach to our young, impressionable girls that a person needs to eat healthy and stay active and not worry about a number on a scale. I want so much to reinforce a healthy self-image and not fill their minds with the thought that their body isn't good enough. I don't talk about my weight and I've gone for months (maybe even years) without weighing myself.
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To be honest, though, I've been blessed with good genes, with a healthy metabolism and a tendency to be on the slender side. At least until I had two babies and then hit my mid-thirties. Whoa, nelly. I'm in my forties and I find my weight creeping up the scale slowly but surely. I am finally grasping the concept of 'middle age spread.' And I don't like it. I exercise and I eat good food (maybe a little too much of it, I suppose). But even training for a marathon didn't melt the pounds away, so I wondered what would. In Dr Clare Bailey’s new companion, The Fast 800 Keto Recipe Book, there are delicious low-carb Mediterranean-style recipes to help you go into ketosis, reduce your appetite and accelerate weight loss.
Diet Plan (in a nutshell) - The Fast 800 Dr Michael Mosley’s Diet Plan (in a nutshell) - The Fast 800
Scientific trials of intermittent fasters have shown that it will not only help the pounds fly off, but also reduce your risk of a range of diseases from diabetes to cardiovascular disease and even cancer. “The scientific evidence is strong that intermittent fasting can improve health,” says Dr. Mark Mattson, Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, and Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University. Two days out of seven, you cut down your calorie intake to 500 for women and 600 for men. Every other day, you can eat what you like. I started doing this a few weeks ago and though I don’t have scales, I measured my waist and I have already lost 2 inches off my waist.
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I found this book in Tesco, not seeing the Horizon programme; I went on it solely because it sounds manageable. However we really do eat fresh food - and avoid fried foods and trans fat's. We eat home much more than eating and restaurants. But on occasion we go to dinner with friends, or I go to lunch with a friend. Not too much though. I changing my exercise in January and I have been doing the 30 Day shred most mornings and wanted a good diet to go with it (and not wanting tp pay out on expensive diets or clubs). Eating two or three meals per day, whichever best suits your lifestyle. Read more about the benefits of two meals a day here.
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I have yet to actually try any of the recipes, but wanted to review the overall book within itself. (So I apologize (again) is you were looking for some good dinner ideas via a review blog post…) I'm a total convert to intermittent fasting. I can't really call it a diet. It's more like a lifestyle change. I plan to do it for the rest of my life. I started it seven weeks ago and have dropped 6+ pounds. In that time I've eaten goodies like molten chocolate cake, cheesecake, apple crisp, & my favorite burger & fries, to name a few. (Those weren't the norm, I mostly chose very healthy foods, but just giving examples of things I still got to enjoy! Basically anything.) My only real complaint is that all the personal were of people loosing 10-20 pounds and not the 50-80 pounds, or more, that a truly overweight person needs to loose. Hearing how so many people loose 20 pounds on this diet doesn't inspire them as much as they need a bigger goal and hear about people in their situation. From about 5'3" to 6'3" there is a 30-40 pound division where people transition from overweight to obese. They talk about obesity and how it is increasing, being more than 1/3 of the population today, add in the overweight and you get 3/4 of men in the U.S.A.. All of the personal stories here were less than that 30+ weight loss, so not the 1/3 of the population this should be targeted. Is it that it doesn't work as well for the extreme? They say that if you weigh more there should be greater results and better health benefits, I just wish they put some of those anecdotal personal stories as motivation, just a 60 pound story would have done.
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