Comments on: Fast way to better health

By: mreades

mreades — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:01:29 +0000

Hi Mary–

I’m glad to hear of your success. You have been a real trooper for a long time. Keep it up.

By: mreades

mreades — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:13 +0000

Our regimen when we IF is the second of the two you described. We do it a little differently, however. We ate breakfast and usually a late lunch (circa 3-4 PM) on day one, then didn’t eat again until about 6 PM on day two.

I’ve been back and forth on the IF issue. The more data that comes in – especially human data – the more I’m convinced it is a healthful way to live. Especially if what you want to eat is high-carb stuff. If you follow a good low-carb diet rigorously, you probably won’t gain as much of an advantage with an IF as you would otherwise.

By: mary titus

mary titus — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:39:26 +0000

FInally, I am four lbs away from my goal weight. I must say, however, that I had been stuck for the longest time at 148 lbs.I began losing again early January, after adding vitamin D 3 to my diet. I am now at 139 lbs and I continue to do low carb intermittent fasting. My dietary lifestyle has contributed to my healthy regimen and I intend to keep it way up.
Mary

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:08:32 +0000

Sorry Mike, I made a comment about the Warrior Diet/IF parallel and how people weren’t giving credit to Ori Hofmekler in a fair way, since IF is on the back essentially of the Warrior Diet putting the fasting/eating method into the more public mindset in the fitness/health community, but now see that this blog activity was way back in 2006…

Thanks

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:59:36 +0000

Is it me, or is about everyone in the Paleo movement ripping Ori Hofmekler/Warrior Diet off…

I gotta say Mike your post was almost verbatim Warriior Diet.. heck, the whole IF upstart of recent is on the heels of Ori/Warrior Diet, which has been out for 6+ years…

I wouldn’t have no much problem with it, esp. among professionals like you who seem to be coasting on a bit of sucess from others, would give Hofmekler his due credit when these discussions/debates/postings come up… man this makes me agitated since I am seeing it everywhere…

Lee

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:03:41 +0000

Hi Dr. Eades,

I haven’t read this entire thread (it’s very long!), but I see you’re still responding to posts here so I thought I’d ask my question:

When you describe the eating pattern do you eat supper on the full eating days or are you eating breakfast lunch one day, and only dinner the next?

I.e. is the pattern:
day one eat: breakfast lunch dinner
day two eat: dinner
with the last bite of food say 6:00pm day one and the next bite of food 6:00 pm day two (so a 24 hour period between bites)

or is it:
day one eat: breakfast lunch
day two eat: dinner
with the last bite being at lunch on day one and the next bite being dinner on day two (so around 28 hours between bites of food for the fasting period)

Also, I’ve read comments elsewhere (in the proteinpower.com forum) that you are not convinced there is any health benefit to the IF eating pattern … is that true? I’m still interested in trying it just because it seems like, if tolerable, it would be a good way to reduce my overall caloric intake (there’s a guy pushing a diet book based around that scheme).

Thanks for any info you can provide.

David

By: mreades

mreades — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:51:45 +0000

Keep us posted.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:49:11 +0000

I have been reading a lot on the Internet about IF and decided to give it a try. I had just had blood work done so I know where I am starting from and will know if this is working for lowering cholesterol etc. I have been on this plan for a week doing 24 hour fast three days a week. I have lost 6 pounds so far. I have for years done low-carb only to end up causing a kidney stone (and not losing much weight at all), so cannot do that anymore. So I have switched to more veggies, fruit and low-fat proteins. I have high hopes for IF…my main reason for doing this is weight loss and to see if the health claims are for real!

By: Russell Gardner, Jr.

Russell Gardner, Jr. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:48:01 +0000

I do 24 hour fasts every other day x 5 years at least and do not experience ketosis (though I do drink a glass of wine and consume salmon oil capsules as my sole calories). I believe the liver has a 24 hour supply of potential glucose in the form of easily mobilized glycogen (that contrasts to muscle glycogen that’s less easily mobilized). When in my early phases prior to a 24 hour fast commenced every other day, I fasted from dinner offset through the whole next day to breakfast on day 3. My wife then did notice ketone bodies on my breath (I did wine and oil capsules for omega 3s back then too). So I tend to believe (for me) that the liver has that 24 hour supply.

By: Mary Titus

Mary Titus — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:42:25 +0000

There is a wrong way and a right way to do IF in my opinion. I would never fast if I had not had a hearty pre-fast meal, first. I enjoy eating alot of low carb/protein/ with added fats such as butter and coconut oil. I do indeed pig-out if I have the need.This kind of meal makes it easy for me to got 20-22 hours in a fasted satate. I also consume fats during my fast by adding coconut oil or MCT oil to my coffee. Many people don’t consider this as fasting but when you consider that fasting is ketogenic then I conclude that fats are a plus not a negative. My food is nutritious I rarely ever eat anything “bad” . No cakes, cookies, breads, potatoes. I have had blood work done and it is exemplary.

Whenever I hear someone say that they cannot do IF, I wonder if they do it like me. I think not.