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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 911146" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p>This morning I decided to give 5:2 a bash. </p><p></p><p>Why not try a bit of every IF regime? I am thinking. To truly figure out which one, if any , will be long-term sustainable. (OK, it is also because I don't want to not eat anything for the day, because I am looking forward to the chicken wings and salad for lunch!) (Yesterday's wonderful FBG not repeated :-(.)</p><p></p><p>My IFing is a gentle regime - so slower weight loss is in order, due to me wanting to keep active, and not be fainting and woozy all over the place. (That happens for me on no-food fasting for sure, and on a 500-600 calorie daily intake.) Means a higher calorie count - Low Calorie, as opposed to Very Low Calorie for me. I know what works better for me.</p><p></p><p>The good news is - I have lost a kilo in the last couple of weeks, and believe it was a kilo the month before (lack of reliable scale readings). And that is with some nice new ab muscles. (Thank you Jackie Warner! I think you are just fab!)</p><p></p><p>So, the goal of 1 kg a month on as gentle an IF regime as I can get and stand ;-) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, seems to be working. And a goal for my HBAIc to be back down again to 40 (I can only dream of lower than that!) by January or February next year. It took one to two months to gain 5 kg (or more - who knows?) on holiday, and it might take six months to lose it again. Hmm. What a bore!</p><p></p><p>Talking about boring - I realise why I avoided the 5:2 regime. It involves calorie counting! And now, that I am getting really interested in real low-carbing and high fatting with LCHF, I am counting carbs. Groan! "I forgot how boring calorie counting WAS," I complained to Herr Svea this morning, as we started calculating, and turning American calorie king measurements into metric measurements we can understand, remembering how tedious and time consuming it was, back in the D-ND days. But a tiny tiny breakfast and I have consumed 260 cals, already and a whopping 22 gs of that was carbs. Cor! </p><p></p><p>I am deeply respectful of constant low-carbers. How hard is that?! (hard!) But good prep if I am going to do this soon - a 2 week-number of very low carbing to get into a ketogenic state, (the 'induction period' according to the Atkins folk) in prep for a future of winding the fat burning (as opposed to sugar burning) dial up and down (as Brunneria talked about it in a thread). I think I can handle that. Who knows?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 911146, member: 150927"] This morning I decided to give 5:2 a bash. Why not try a bit of every IF regime? I am thinking. To truly figure out which one, if any , will be long-term sustainable. (OK, it is also because I don't want to not eat anything for the day, because I am looking forward to the chicken wings and salad for lunch!) (Yesterday's wonderful FBG not repeated :-(.) My IFing is a gentle regime - so slower weight loss is in order, due to me wanting to keep active, and not be fainting and woozy all over the place. (That happens for me on no-food fasting for sure, and on a 500-600 calorie daily intake.) Means a higher calorie count - Low Calorie, as opposed to Very Low Calorie for me. I know what works better for me. The good news is - I have lost a kilo in the last couple of weeks, and believe it was a kilo the month before (lack of reliable scale readings). And that is with some nice new ab muscles. (Thank you Jackie Warner! I think you are just fab!) So, the goal of 1 kg a month on as gentle an IF regime as I can get and stand ;-) :), seems to be working. And a goal for my HBAIc to be back down again to 40 (I can only dream of lower than that!) by January or February next year. It took one to two months to gain 5 kg (or more - who knows?) on holiday, and it might take six months to lose it again. Hmm. What a bore! Talking about boring - I realise why I avoided the 5:2 regime. It involves calorie counting! And now, that I am getting really interested in real low-carbing and high fatting with LCHF, I am counting carbs. Groan! "I forgot how boring calorie counting WAS," I complained to Herr Svea this morning, as we started calculating, and turning American calorie king measurements into metric measurements we can understand, remembering how tedious and time consuming it was, back in the D-ND days. But a tiny tiny breakfast and I have consumed 260 cals, already and a whopping 22 gs of that was carbs. Cor! I am deeply respectful of constant low-carbers. How hard is that?! (hard!) But good prep if I am going to do this soon - a 2 week-number of very low carbing to get into a ketogenic state, (the 'induction period' according to the Atkins folk) in prep for a future of winding the fat burning (as opposed to sugar burning) dial up and down (as Brunneria talked about it in a thread). I think I can handle that. Who knows? [/QUOTE]
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