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So, I started reading a book title: The FastDiet. The premise is you eat a normal healthy way 5 days a week, then eat like 500 calories (for women) 2 non-consecutive days days a week. I've stated before, I grow tired of having to count, and control everything that goes into my mouth. Most times, I prefer the notion of "all things in moderation" and I really suck at the dieting lifestyle. My niece is doing the Keto diet and she's doing awesome, several people here at work have had major success on the Keto diet, but it's not for me, there's too much deprivation in it for me. I've tried the Herbalife system, my husband lost a lot of weight on it, but when he stopped, all the weight came back and then some. I've been looking for something that will help me lose weight, something easy to maintain, something that doesn't deprive me of things I want/like/enjoy, something that can become a way of life.
Here's what I'm seeing so far:
1. The FastDiet demands that we thing about not just what we eat, but when we eat it.
2. There are no complicated rules to follow; the strategy is flexible, comprehensible, and user friendly.
3. There is no daily slog of calorie control, none of the boredom, frustration, or serial deprivation that characterizes conventional diet plans.
4. Yes, it involves fasting, but not as you know it, you won't "starve" on any given day.
5. You can still enjoy the foods you love, most of the time.
6. Once the weight is off, sticking to the basic program will mean that it stays off.
7. Weight loss is only one benefit of the FastDiet. The real dividend is the potential long-term health gains, cutting your risk of a range of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and cancer
Yes, a lot, if not every diet, weight loss program, out there makes the same claims. But over the years of my being a member of Fatsecret, I have heard and read of a lot of people who were on a very similar fasting program, some more extreme, some not so much, that have had amazing results and kept it off.
On other subjects, my bs this morning was 107. That's 2 wks so far of a morning bs of less than 110, for the most part. I'm happy. I did have a sprite on Sunday when we went to the movies, but I barely drank a quarter of it, if even that much, and that was the only time in the last week or so that I have had a Sprite. I don't miss them as much as I missed my Cokes, when I came off them in favor of Sprite. Most of the time, now, if I want something that I know I shouldn't have, I do like my husband does with spending money. I refuse to purchase it at that time, and wait. If I still want it later in the day, or the next day, I may go back and purchase it, if I'm back in that store, and it's still available. But usually, once I leave the location, it never crosses my mind to go back after it later. That, my dear friends, is progress.
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