Re: One year, 102 fasts
Posted: 24 Feb 2015, 01:50
This continues to be an interesting thread and I feel like we've all been talking about this in various guises for quite a while. I haven't put on weight but I haven't lost any more for a year. I think I've said before that I've probably reached the weight that my body is happy to be, and it would certainly worry me if I started to put on weight. I am, like Deb, in the BMI of 26 point something and I am going to accept that. I am going to continue to fast twice a week and my focus on non fasting days is to eat to my hunger and to eat non processed home cooked food, with as much variety as possible and a healthy amount of vegetables and fruit. I am not going to restrict on non fasting days because I don't want to be on a diet - except twice a week. I don't think fasting makes us fat that's for sure. I think deprivation might make us fat because deprivation sets up a need for rewards and rebellion and the whole eating issue becomes fraught. I am a lot happier now I have stopped weighing my self. My clothes tell me the story and why rub my nose in the lack of weight loss? It's ok. I am a little bit overweight. But I am not obese as I was when I first started 5:2 nearly 2 years ago. I think the issue of people's dieting history is very interesting. Does it make serial dieting make it more difficult to lose and maintain?