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I'm a UK resident and I thought I'd post the diet I have been on for the last couple of months since it is really working for me.
It's pretty simple.
It is called Alternate Day Fasting.
The idea is that you eat normally on one day (no more than your weight maintenance calories though) and on the next day you eat 20% of your weight maintenance calories (there are several calculators on the internet to work out exactly how many calories that is).
As an example I have had muesli and toast for breakfast, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder meal for lunch (I was on the road with work and that is where my buddy wanted to eat) and I am just about to have a normal evening meal in the hotel restaurant.
Tomorrow I will have no breakfast, plenty of water throughout the morning, a muller rice for lunch (190 Kcalorie rice pudding snack), more water and some grilled chicken breast and steamed veg for dinner (350 Kcalories).
It works for me because although I am hungry on my fasting days I know I can eat normally the next day.
Drinking water suppresses my appetite and makes me feel full.
It is down to maths, for a man my size at the start of my diet I had to consume 3600 Kcals a day to stay that weight.
If I eat about 3500 (which is a lot) on a normal day and about 500 on a fasting day I consume in total 4000 in 2 days.
To stay the same weight I would need over 7000. That is a net deficit of 3000 every 2 days.
You need to deny yourself about 3500 Kcals per pound of fat you wish to lose.
It is working well.
Even though I have taken 4 days off so far (eaten on fasting days) for the purposes of diving and going out for dinner on my birthday (fell on a fasting day) it is working.
I have gone from 120 Kilos = 264lbs = 19ish stone to 108Kg = 238 lbs = 17ish stone in 8 weeks.
12kg or 26lbs in 8 weeks is a little bit quick, I was surprised but that may be down to the thermic effects of the food.
I am not adjusting my calories so as my body weight drops and my weight maintenance calories go down with it the gap between what I eat and what I need to eat to stay the same weight will reduce and with it the rate at which I will lose weight.
I am feeling good and I fit into my dry suit more easily.
My wife likes it but she says I am a bit grumpy on fasting days.
The best part is there is no book to buy, no club to join, no rules to remember, it's just easy.
Added benefits are that it seems to activate the SIRT1 gene which prolongs live and improves the general health of rats, no study has been done with humans.
I've lost weight before restricting myself to 1000 Kcals a day and this is much easier, the 1K diet was relentlessly grim with nothing to look forward to, this is like a series of 1 day diets and if I need to dive or do anything strenuous I can just skip a day.
Anyway, if anyone has tried this please feel free to add any impressions you have.
Ginge
It's pretty simple.
It is called Alternate Day Fasting.
The idea is that you eat normally on one day (no more than your weight maintenance calories though) and on the next day you eat 20% of your weight maintenance calories (there are several calculators on the internet to work out exactly how many calories that is).
As an example I have had muesli and toast for breakfast, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder meal for lunch (I was on the road with work and that is where my buddy wanted to eat) and I am just about to have a normal evening meal in the hotel restaurant.
Tomorrow I will have no breakfast, plenty of water throughout the morning, a muller rice for lunch (190 Kcalorie rice pudding snack), more water and some grilled chicken breast and steamed veg for dinner (350 Kcalories).
It works for me because although I am hungry on my fasting days I know I can eat normally the next day.
Drinking water suppresses my appetite and makes me feel full.
It is down to maths, for a man my size at the start of my diet I had to consume 3600 Kcals a day to stay that weight.
If I eat about 3500 (which is a lot) on a normal day and about 500 on a fasting day I consume in total 4000 in 2 days.
To stay the same weight I would need over 7000. That is a net deficit of 3000 every 2 days.
You need to deny yourself about 3500 Kcals per pound of fat you wish to lose.
It is working well.
Even though I have taken 4 days off so far (eaten on fasting days) for the purposes of diving and going out for dinner on my birthday (fell on a fasting day) it is working.
I have gone from 120 Kilos = 264lbs = 19ish stone to 108Kg = 238 lbs = 17ish stone in 8 weeks.
12kg or 26lbs in 8 weeks is a little bit quick, I was surprised but that may be down to the thermic effects of the food.
I am not adjusting my calories so as my body weight drops and my weight maintenance calories go down with it the gap between what I eat and what I need to eat to stay the same weight will reduce and with it the rate at which I will lose weight.
I am feeling good and I fit into my dry suit more easily.
My wife likes it but she says I am a bit grumpy on fasting days.
The best part is there is no book to buy, no club to join, no rules to remember, it's just easy.
Added benefits are that it seems to activate the SIRT1 gene which prolongs live and improves the general health of rats, no study has been done with humans.
I've lost weight before restricting myself to 1000 Kcals a day and this is much easier, the 1K diet was relentlessly grim with nothing to look forward to, this is like a series of 1 day diets and if I need to dive or do anything strenuous I can just skip a day.
Anyway, if anyone has tried this please feel free to add any impressions you have.
Ginge