Week Three - The Fast Diet

Joseph and I are still continuing our fast diet, even though we took a three week vacation for the holiday season.  During week three we didn't lose weight, but we still felt pretty good about our dieting.  We're changing  things up a bit though; after only a few weeks of preparing low calorie meals you learn what kinds of foods are high in calories and what foods are not.  We're adding an extra day of fasting, but I'm not going to keep track of every single calorie in my notebook in the kitchen; on our fast days we're not going to eat carbs or sweets of any kind.

Our schedule will go like this:  Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are our "fast days" or no carbs and sweets days.  The other days of the week we'll eat as normal.  We've only done the fast diet for three weeks and we already noticed a difference in our proportion sizes and we're not as hungry as we used to be.  It's been fun to notice these kinds of differences in just a short time.

A Fast Day Meal

This is one of our fast day meals, and it's quite filling.  I bake one boneless, skinless, chicken breast with just salt and pepper with one chicken bullion cube dissolved in 1/2 cup of water.  Adding the water and bullion gives you a juicy chicken breast with great flavor (one bullion cube is only 10 calories).  Our salad is made up of romaine lettuce, spinach, cucumber, shredded carrot, celery, a few cherry tomatoes, and 1 tablespoon of salad dressing.  I make my ranch dressing using milk and low fat plain Greek yogurt.  Using Greek yogurt rather than mayonnaise cuts out about 50 calories per tablespoon.

On our fast days we'll eat two huge green salads - one with a baked chicken breast - and we drink a lot of water and herbal tea; warm drinks help us feel full.  We don't feel like we're suffering most of the time; I do crave sweets, but when I'm having a bad craving for chocolate, I tell myself I can eat whatever I want tomorrow, and within a few minutes the cravings are gone.

Find out more information about The Fast Diet HERE!

 Read about our week two of The Fast Diet HERE!

I hope your healthy endeavors are successful!

XOXO

  

Week Two - The Fast Diet

It isn't a secret that I've struggled with getting in shape and losing weight, especially since I lost my leg five years ago.  It isn't a secret that I absolutely love delicious food either; I'm also an emotional eater.  I can find any reason to celebrate and enjoy a good meal!  Most of all, it isn't a secret that I'm getting older and it's time to get serious about my health.

My cousin Kandin told me about a diet she's been doing and she's been successful too!  The diet is called The Fast Diet, check out the website HERE!  The diet is really quite simple:  Five days out of the week eat as you normally would (within reason), and two days of the week only eat 500 calories (for women) or 600 calories (for men).  To help you understand the benefits of fasting check out Dr. Mosley's documentary HERE!  I usually hate watching documentaries; it's hard to find one that doesn't have a hidden agenda or one that isn't completely biased.  Dr. Mosley's documentary about fasting shares great information from several different doctors who approach dieting and fasting in different ways, and the diet is about overall health, not just weight loss.

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Joseph and I started our I.F. diet two weeks ago.  We fast on Mondays and Thursdays, however, our first week of dieting was Thanksgiving so we fasted on Monday and Saturday that week.  Our second week of fasting was harder for me, the excitement wore off a bit and I felt hungry both days.  I feel I should watch the documentary again to re-excite myself as a way to stay motivated.

When my cousin Kandin was telling me about the diet, she said something to me that clicked.  She said, she loved that she really only has to worry about what she's eating on fast days, she doesn't have to stress about what she's eating every day.  For those of us that enjoy eating, calorie counting only two days a week is pretty nice.

Our first week of the I.F. diet we didn't lose weight, but we didn't gain weight either; something to do with enjoying Thanksgiving I think.  Today is the first fast day of our third week, so we weighed ourselves this morning:  In week two I lost 2 pounds and Joseph lost 3!  We're feeling good and we're not discouraged about dieting either!

Have you heard of intermediate fasting before?

What do you think about dieting?

XOXO