The FastDay Forum

Ok Have been on Fast diet a few weeks.. Usually eat around 200 calories at 11 in morning... Then eat a 300 calorie dinner around 6.. Go to bed about 9 and then its a normal day the next day.... May or may not eat breakfast but generally eat what I want that day.

Here is my question.... What is so cool about 7 pm until 7 pm. ?? to me its like.. NO food after say 7pm on Wednesday night (which I know most people try not to snack at night) and basically you go to bed and HAVE Nothing all day, No Breakfast ,no lunch and then a 500 calorie dinner at 7 pm Thursday night.. That's like NO food all day?? How is that easier..

I guess I will try it one day. But work all day everyone is eating and then if I get home around 5 , still gotta wait to eat until 7...

I feel this is the same as the 2 pm until 2 pm,, Help me to understand why people say this is easier ??
Thanks Mandy.....

[Moogie]

Hi Mandy & welcome

The "2pm-2pm" method is a bit of a confusing issue and should probably have never been put in the book. The idea behind that is between 2pm-2pm you only eat 500 calories, then resume normal eating (ie, you can then have a normal dinner on the second day). This however results in a minimal calorie deficit as you're having 500 calories over 24 hours, essentially just skipping dinner one day and having a smaller breakfast/lunch the next day.

7pm-7pm, if done in the same way would make no real difference as it's still 500 calories over 24 hours.

What most of us do is 500 calories over 36 hours, ie from dinner the night before, right through the fasting day and then resume normal eating the next day, increasing the overall fasting period. Many of us find this easier as there's no having to work out what time we can start eating as normal again, it's just go to bed, wake up and consume no more than 500 calories, then go to bed and eat as normal the next day. On top of this, many of us find that once we start eating it only makes us more hungry, so we prefer to save all our calories for one nice filling meal on our fast days, rather than splitting it up and feeling more hungry.

It's actually not that difficult to go without all day. Hunger passes, it's doesn't get worse and worse. Some of us even find it easier to not eat anything at all on a fast day, or maybe just a cuppa soup or two, so as not to get the appetite going!

Thank you for replying.... I have been having dinner the night before, then maybe 250 at lunch ,then 250 at dinner then nothing until breakfast following day... Although tomorrow is my fast day I think I will just try to have one 500 calorie meal at night.......Thanks again.