diets

[RobArb]

Are you cycling that on your 'fast' days too? If so, can you feel the difference on those days?

 

To be honest I've been doing the fasting for a good couple of weeks now, so my body is getting used to it. I've only been doing the fundraising bike ride for 8 days now so only had 2 fast/bike days (another one today) and I feel great! I have a hearty breakfast in the morning (making sure its not over 600 calories) and that does me till the following morning, even at work climbing and shifting logs I feel fine, and I'm finding I'm not gorging out on none fast days:biggrin:

 

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[Andy Collins]

I went on to MaccyDs the other day for an emergency burger and fries and Coke, 1350 calories in one sitting!!!!! The burger was 850 cals on it's own!!! Dangerous food that. Luckily it's a rare occasion that I have that stuff so it's nt so bad. I do watch my intake quite closely, not necessarily calories all the time, and cut down the other week as Im just over 102kg, and I wished I hadn't, energy levels failed me and I nearly passed out from hunger. A back up bag of Jelly Babies sorted me til I got in

[sloth]

Beer and Ice Cream Diet

 

As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg. F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized. Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal. This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.Happy eating!

School of Physics, University of Sydney

[skyhuck]

It only works if you are still strict with your calorie intake on the 5, studies showed that some put weight on!! Simply because they felt they could eat what they wanted on the 5 so in total even taking into account the 2 fasting days there calorie intake over the 7 was still too high, plus as posted some felt lethargic on the 2 so burn even less calories. I'm sure like all of these diets etc, it works for some and not for others.

5 small meals daily worked for me and keeps you body in a higher metabolic rate, it also keeps the hunger at bay this combined with drinking lots of water, you then have one cheat day were you can eat a bit more.

 

Good luck with it.

 

I have not found this the case, I eat pretty much what I want through the week, but only eat evening meals on the weekend, I've lost well over a stone and feel great

[RobArb]

I have not found this the case, I eat pretty much what I want through the week, but only eat evening meals on the weekend, I've lost well over a stone and feel great

 

Ditto but I do Monday and Thursday fasts

 

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[Robert_S]

I have not found this the case, I eat pretty much what I want through the week, but only eat evening meals on the weekend, I've lost well over a stone and feel great

 

nice one mate, as i said if it works for you stick with it.

[Andy Collins]

Sorry for being thick but how does fasting help to lose weight. In times of fasting the body realises that there is no food intake and slows down and stores reserves to fall back on. Surely it's better to eat little and often to speed up the process, than slow it down?

Of course this is all irrelevant to me as I have a different system these days.

[skyhuck]

Sorry for being thick but how does fasting help to lose weight. In times of fasting the body realises that there is no food intake and slows down and stores reserves to fall back on. Surely it's better to eat little and often to speed up the process, than slow it down?

Of course this is all irrelevant to me as I have a different system these days.

 

There was a program about Andy, it was posted a while back, its fascinating.

 

It has far more benefits than just weight loss.

 

The whole thing started after it was realised that during the 30's when the great depression was on and people in the states were living on starvation rations life expectancy actually increased by 6 year.

 

Research has shown that just fasting (dropping calorie intact to under 600 for the day, in the form of one meal) can give you the health benefit of proper fasting.

[Pat Ferrett]

I've got my own idea of a diet

 

Eat what you like for 4 minutes 3 times a day

[AlvinD]

Age does not come into it to be a major factor. More often than not it is the way your food is cooked, replace cooking oil with Fry Lite. Eat the obvious stuff such as yoghurt, fruit, vegetables and meat. Just change the way you cook it. Make most of your meals from scratch so you know what goes into it. It really is all about preparation. Combined with a proactive lifestyle and you couldn't go wrong. Drink your daily requirement of water. Don't rely on calories, you can still consume 3-4000 calories of good nutrients and still lose weight. Look at bodybuilders for proof.

 

If you want some recipes hit me up, nothing tastes as good like a massive dinner you cooked yourself.