It is hard to believe this was half a year ago.
I thought I would update the thread, as always I am just trying to raise awareness of things not just low carb (which is important) and bust some myths even if it is only a sample of 1. That is important point, I am only reflecting on my own experience from actually trying it rather than opinions of what I have read.
I have read a lot of "don't do the ND - it screws your metabolic rate".
I have to inform everyone that in my case I can prove through fact that isn't my case. I could say I haven't gained very much of the weight lost - but that could be because I might be eating like a pigeon. I am not - by any stretch but I can see how that would be really subjective.
I do a BUPA full health check once a year now. Something I now realise I should of done a long time ago but we have to live in the present not the past. In that, they measure metabolic rate and tell me how many calories I need at rest and with my level of activity.
Even though I am another year older, my base metabolic rate is about the same a day more now than it was a year ago and in that year I have done the 8 week ND, as well as two 5 days full on fasts and a one week 600 calorie a day diet. I have on many occasions eaten less than 2000 calories and sorry to admit on some days many more (that red wine....).
So - the ND diet does not mean in all cases it will slow your metabolic rate down at least not on the evidence I have from my own experiment. I accept that for many other reasons my metabolic rate may have changed, but in any case I think it is true for me to say it hasn't destroyed my metabolic rate.
Good luck to all of those people who give it a go. And all those thinking about it - stop thinking