tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post8306553304067932273..comments2023-03-30T10:05:13.911+01:00Comments on Living the simple life I want: Food for the week and beyondMoonwaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018956740090192993noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-2648254517497281412014-04-10T22:20:21.422+01:002014-04-10T22:20:21.422+01:00I think fasting if you are already thin/underweigh...I think fasting if you are already thin/underweight or, for example, anaemic, will probably always be a bad idea. I could lose 100lbs or so before I start approaching healthy weight so that's not so much an issue for me. And I've always been the robust type really. Don't worry, I am not at all into suffering and if I was having a fast day that just wasn't feeling good, I'd have no problem adding another meal. I'm only loosely following the fast or 5:2 diet as I've never really been into the whole counting calories thing so I don't actually slavishly try to make sure I'm only eating exactly 500 calories, I just try to stick to eating very light meals and making sure I have a 12 to 16-hour period of not eating. Usually I do that by not having breakfast, so I've already not eaten for say eight hours when I get up and am more than halfway there. Despite the conventional wisdom of breakfast being the most important meal, I will usually have a better day if I don't eat for an hour or so after getting up so I've found it easiest to make that the meal I skip. <br />I found the book really interesting. I definitely didn't plan on trying it but heard so many people talking about it I wanted to see what they were on about. But I just found it so interesting and even while reading was thinking to myself that a lot of what he was talking about as ways to work it into your life were things that were close to my natural rhythms anyway. I also liked the fact that he was very open about the fact that although there have been studies and tests done for years on fasting and it's effects, there have not been very many, and indeed, very few human ones at all. It's an interesting field and I wished I was a bit more 'sciency' as I'd like to be able to read some of the studies referenced or those being done today and understand them properly. Moonwaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018956740090192993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-45864214966087888112014-04-10T17:14:20.612+01:002014-04-10T17:14:20.612+01:00I am a type 1 diabetic, so fasting is out of the q...I am a type 1 diabetic, so fasting is out of the question for me but all of your foods seem very nutritious. I do wonder about the fasting, though. One of my favorite co-workers is quite religious and she fasts one day a week as penance for any pain she may have caused others (she is the LAST person in the world to offend anyone...) and on those days, she gets so pale that I worry about her since she is thin to begin with but she says that it makes her feel wonderful. Still? It worries me. Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049511202014141182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-60188513862887497402014-04-06T23:49:29.108+01:002014-04-06T23:49:29.108+01:00Work stress (or just busyness) is the thing that m...Work stress (or just busyness) is the thing that makes me self-sabotage all my goals, too. I get disorganised, look track of meal plans, eat badly, then get tired...bad cycle. Calling it a new week here, too.Fionahttp://www.declutterer.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com