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Just did my first 24hours, last normal food at 6pm then 600 calories between this evenings 6pm when I had about another 900 calories,
Felt a little ill up to about 2pm then after eating a second boiled egg of the day felt a big improvement so much so that at 4pm went on the exercise bike which I had ruled out earlier burnt off 300 calories but then at 5 felt very moody even after eating salmon and salad so was counting off the minutes till 6pm, and a fix of chocolate and then bread soup etc
Now I hear it is better to have a 36 hour gap between normal food twice a week which in my mind is three whole 'days' on very little, no wonder people are losing weight!
Anyway will be doing 6pm to 6pm tuesday into wednesday with the hope of managing 36 hours next week as I am looking to reduce from 16.5 stone to 14 and get off ramapril tabs.
wife knows someone who tryed this diet and gave up because it made them feel ill , so I hope many many people can get over the first hurdles (maybe smaller ones than others) and get this country healthy!

[carorees]

Well of that 36 hours 16 are spent asleep! So, you eat normally at 6pm, eat your 500/600 next evening at 6pm, eat next day's breakfast as normal. Twice a week.

That's a bit different from three whole days. After all we don't normally eat when we're sleeping, eh!

Welcome to the forum, you can do it however it works for you, some people do the 24hrs but most people on here do 36. I can't quite understand where you're coming from with the 3 days without food theory? Honestly that's not the case! We'd all be eating table legs & nicking ice creams off children if it were! It's only one day with 500kcal, promise! Don't get into thinking about the hours when you are sleeping! Even I can't eat a mars bar in my sleep (sadly)
Best of luck!

Carorees beat me to it!

I'm not saying its 3days or 72 hours without food a week but 72 hours or 3days a week of restricted calories.
I'm would like to get up to what you say most people are on here. After 24 hours of low calories ending at 6pm eating at 10am and 2pm I was not thinking of saying 'thats it for this evening till tommorow morning' I was thinking big food and snacks later this evening! If I had saved 600 calories for a meal at six I could have done that but I feeling unwell until I got 300 into me by about 2pm. One thing I tried I the last few months is not eating in the evening after dinner at six till morming and I found the weight fell off me for a week until I went back to my bad ways and then it worked again a few weeks later, really want this to work(me to keep at it) as it is such a powerful diet and health tool.
Thanks for the encouragment I will try and tune the diet maybe eating eggs fish and salad and spending half hour on the bike could be improved on and I will get used to it.