The Fast-5 Diet and the Fast-5 Lifestyle
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Grapefruit diets, melon diets, low-carb diets…do any of the work? Do any of them last? Do any of them make scientific sense? The Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle introduces a dieting technique based on well-known science … More >>
The Fast-5 Diet and the Fast-5 Lifestyle
This diet while not for everyone, works just fine for me, I have tried many different diets, like counting calories, but all of them where hard for me to stick with over a long period of time.. Unlike other diets this diet gets easier after a few days when your body adjust to not eating for a few hours every day & you do not feel like you are starving yourself. I have been able to lose 1- 2 pounds a week to get down to my natural weight. I also run & walk but running alone will not take off weight without some sort of diet. I also think that this is a more natural way to eat. I try to eat healthy for 90% of my meals. The way I use it is like this, I don’t eat anything until 2:30 pm and then I eat healthy food on an off until 7:30 pm, then I stop eating until 2:30pm the next day.
Rating: 5 / 5
Constant irrational hunger? Never full? Even when you restrict calories, does the fat cling to you for weeks? Have you failed over and over?
This book is THE diet for certain people. The reason is that limbic hunger is uncontrollable. Trust me I know. By fasting for 19 hours you finally have manageable somatic hunger. Also, you begin to burn fat as fuel as your insulin and other hormones get under control.
Be warned, it takes time to lose weight for two reasons. It’ll take time to transition to this new lifestyle. And it’s not a crash diet. You’ll be consuming only slightly less calories than you are right now as your body slowly adjusts from limbic to somatic hunger and from insulin wackiness to insulin normalcy. (I know not very technical.) Plan on losing a pound a week after roughly two weeks of the diet.
Easy to read, concise and gentle on the weak willed, this book is very matter of fact. No hype, no fluff. It’s not the answer for everyone, but it is THE answer for me.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Fast-5 Diet is as simple of a diet plan as you could ask for and if you are truly serious about losing weight, the idea of fasting should not scare you at all. I started the diet on my 41st birthday after a meeting with my doctor regarding my elevated blood pressure and he made the comment that “we could all afford to lose 10 pounds or so” and I agreed, it was surely within me to do so. I knew I wanted to lose the weight and there was no better time to start that that minute.
I cannot remember how I was turned onto this book but am very thankful for it. After a month of this diet, I had lost 25 pounds and my blood pressure went form 160/90 to 114/66 and now after 2 months I am down by 30 lbs. My doctor was amazed and wanted to know more about this diet. I would also like to add that I started an aggressive exercise plan at the same time using kettlebells (I love kettlebells). In addition to this diet book, I purchased the book from Amazon called The Warrior Diet and I highly recommend it to everyone considering this diet as it will give you all the thorough information about this kind of diet and why it is so natural to our bodies, why it works, the far reaching benefits of this diet, and the very best foods to eat as well as an exercise plan. To all that decide to take the challenge, I wish you all the best, GOD bless.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you’re the type who hates to eat breakfast because it keeps you from getting on with your day, this is the eating plan for you. Many people feel just fine not having breakfast at the “normal” time (and might even prefer to sleep in a few extra minutes if given the choice) but get tired of convincing people of this–this book is something you can show them. It is a quick read and easy to understand.
If you remember never eating breakfast as a teen because you just didn’t feel hungry and being fine in the weight department, you should have no problem at all following this plan. And imagine all the time you save not having to prepare for that extra meal, or cleaning up after it every day.
As to the 5-10 pm window, feel free to adjust it to your schedule–it’s not really the particular time of day, but that you’re restricting the eating to a 5-hour period (6 or 7 hour period works too). You eat for a bit, then stop when you’re satisfied. When you give yourself the opportunity to eat during 18 of the 24 hours in a day, of course you’re going to overeat. You might want to adjust the eating window slightly in order to accommodate other people (like young children) in your life–meals together (we’re talking dining with conversation here, not just eating) can be an important part of family life.
I would also recommend reading Thin Within by Judy Wardell (1985 version) together with this book, as it deals with the emotional issues of overeating (something not really touched on in Fast-5). It is not a fasting plan, but it does help you with learning to determine whether you are truly hungry or not and how much of exactly what you want to eat will satisfy your hunger. Find other things to do with all this free time you now have.
Great book. Doesn’t require special foods or weird supplements. Well worth a try if you’ve had no luck with other eating plans. Get your library to buy it, too.
Rating: 5 / 5
I enjoy eating a larger portion than most. By following the Fast-5 method I’m able to do that and still lose or maintain weight! If you read and follow the advice in this book, you will ease into this way of eating and the hunger you experience in the daytime will be less or similar you experience on other diets. The difference, however, is that once you start to eat you can eat what you want! On other diets you have the hunger and constant restrictions on what to eat.
Instead of focusing on food all day and being forced to continually make good decisions you simply wait until later in the day to eat and then eat a balanced meal that is certainly filling. This is so different to what many others are saying but I’ve found it works phenomenally well!
The book is worth a read since Dr. Herring takes the time to back up his findings with medical studies and he presents them to you in laymens terms. These aren’t studies funded by Kellogs and Oscar Mayer (those are the ones you see in the news) but are studies done by reputable research organizations. The findings of these studies indicate that letting your insulin levels remain low for long periods of time is great for fat burning. They show that you won’t lose muscle if you don’t eat for a few days (which is something the eat six-times-a-day people swear by).
I believe that anyone who reads this book and does what it says will find that the diet is easy to maintain and it does keep the weight off and helps you lose it. The fact that it’s maintainable is why I’m still on this diet for over one year now. I got my weight where I wanted it and now I keep it off following the same diet — I just eat dessert now.
Rating: 5 / 5