Is the Eat Stop Eat Diet a Scam? Read my Dairy Notes.

I was extremely doubtful about fasting for weight loss, I was anxious about being hungry, lacking energy, and simply not making it through the day. The Eat Stop Eat plan revolves round the idea of intermittent fasting, or fasting for brief periods, and then eating again.

The basic idea is that the human body is designed for feast or famine. When our ancestors hunted for food, they either caught something or they didn't. When they went and did bag a mammoth, then everybody stuffed themselves - without refrigeration or preservation, food would go bad highly swiftly.

On the days that nothing was caught, they didn't eat. Your body is made to follow this schedule, even in the modern time.

The problem's that today, we banquet each day, and rarely fast. Eat Stop Eat places you back on the trail your body is designed for. Fasting for a day is rather easy ( the toughest thing for me was skipping my morning latte ), and the feast days more than make up for what you have missed.

To me, it is valuable to fast if I am in a position to eat just about whatever I desire on the other days!

Calorie counting, weighing food, giving up bread, eating no carbs, eating only carbs, the list of plans is everlasting. None of these options address the way your body is intended to be fed, and how selecting a more natural schedule will help you in losing weight and gain energy. So, back to my disbelief about fasting : I was under the impression a single day could not be too hard, and was worth a try. Some things were simpler than I was expecting, and some were shockingly troublesome. I did feel great at the end, and felt as if I had a new start.

twenty-four hour fast notes.

I started my fast in the evening. I cannot sleep when i'm hungry, so I wished to do my sleeping at the start. On a good night, I'm getting 7-8 hours so I believed that may be almost a third of the fast done before I even woke up! With this under consideration, I had a regular dinner ( pizza, if it counts ) and officially started my fast at 6pm. The night was fairly easy - I customarily don't eat after dinner anyway, so it was no problem to do my usual thing, and call it a fast! Bedtime rolled around at 11pm.

At 700 am, the alarm went off as always, and I got the kids off to school ( also my usual schedule ) thirteen hours of twenty-four done, with no problem in the smallest. I generally have breakfast, and then run errands or work, depending on the day. On this fasting day, I skipped breakfast, and headed out the door. I hit the initial snag around 10am, at Target.

Why? Thanks to the Starbucks right in the door. I usually have a cup of coffee and am a latte addict. I pushed on past, did my shopping, and got out of there, practically running past the Starbucks on my way out the door!

Lunch is generally something at home - either remains or a sandwich. I skipped this too and officially stared to feel hungry around 12 pm. The afternoon was the hardest part, but keeping busy actually helped. I wasn't starving, just used to eating due to habit. I did get a mild headache, but I believe that was from the absence of caffeine, not the fast itself. Understanding that 6pm was just a few hours away basically helped.

By three, it was time to pick up the kids, and the whole fasting thing got lost in the shuffle of getting 3 young children home from school, doing homework, and getting everybody settled in. What's left of the time flew by - this is the most wild part of any day, and this fasting day was no exception. 5:30pm, and time to make dinner! I determined to embrace my inner cave girl, impressed by the Eat Stop Eat caveman analogy, and made steak and salad. Dinner was awe-inspiring, I think things taste better when you are essentially hungry, and not eating due to habit, or because it is time to. Twenty four hours and I made it!

After the fast : some notes, and my thoughts on fasting. I was surprised how long it took to really feel hungry. It was much harder to pass up cues that it was time to eat, like knowing what time it was, or driving past a junk food place at dinner time.

Passing up the coffee gave me a headache during the day. I'd have liked a coffee more than I'd have liked a snack.

This makes me think I have to back off on the caffeine a bit generally. I was expecting to feel tired or sick, and felt pretty standard, if anything, I didn't get hit with a mid afternoon sugar crash from eating something sweet before dinner.

I'd strongly recommend Eat Stop Eat to anyone desiring to give a freshly discovered way of eating a try. This pattern of eating isn't for everybody, if you take drugs that desires food, or if you are a diabetic, it clearly won't suit your technique of life. For otherwise healthy folks with some pounds to lose, though, it is a great match.

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