Thanks for sharing regarding your spiritual fasting practice, Sarah Mac. I found that interesting and appreciate the information.

On another topic, I see from your stats that you are doing absolutely fabulous on your weight loss journey. Congratulations on the pounds down! Have a good week!

Aww thank you It is slowly melting off. I have tried to quick way of losing weight and I find that losing weight is more beneficial for me. I hope you have a fabulous week yourself!!

There is a very very big difference in fasting for Spiritual reasons and starving yourself to get thin. Real big. This diet sounds dangerous and I would agree that it encourages disordered eating behavior.

ah...huh???

Yes, I prefer losing weight to losing weight myself...

I remember I once met this girl- she lost like 40 lbs in one month. I was like wow that's insane- but I ended up finding out she was not eating at all.

She would drink water all day- that was it- and then some days she'd change it up with V8 and take some vitamins. I was like OMG that's so unhealthy!

Course she was an adult and there was nothing that could be said or done- apparently she did this for one month and lost 40 lbs then ate one day, the next month she lost 20 more pounds and I guess she just did this for two months to lose all the weight.

I wonder if now, years later, she's kept it off lol.

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Just to clarify--with intermittent fasting like Eat Stop Eat, you are not starving yourself. You are limiting your eating to a window of time everday (usually 4-6 hours). You don't go more than 24 hours without eating.

Iv'e been doing intermittent fasting since last Aug., the lean gains approach. Although I fast for 20 hrs. & eat for 4. I take the weekends off and eat whatever I want whenever. I LOVE IT! I can't say a bad thing about it. Lots of energy during the fast with more mental clarity, lost 10# fairly easy and maintained since then(even over the holidays). No more restriction which led to binges/cravings along with the added stress of fixing 6 clean meals a day and worry when to eat next and lugging it around. Macros, calories, fat grams, no more. I haven't counted calories the whole time.Social get togethers are finally enjoyable, I can eat whatever I want, even 1-2 glasses of wine every night.No worrying about my food being "clean". I lift heavy 3 times a week (35min.) and thats it, no cardio. Going to throw in a couple days a week of sprints when it warms up. I have been dieting for the last 5 years and I finally found what works for me. It eradicated any disordered eating I was going through before this way of eating. Oh, and I never get hungry during the fast. IF also regulates blood sugar . I have never felt this good. You can learn abouth the approach I use at leangains.com

I've tried many variations of fasting in my more than three decades plus on the weight loss/gain rollercoaster, and for me, in the long run, they contributed far more to weight gain, than weight loss.

A friend who's into fasting really recommends it, but I have blood sugar issues, with a history of Type II diabetes in my family, and I also had great difficulty with eating disorders about 12 years ago. I think I'm basically exactly the person who should **never** fast as a weight control method.

I'm with kaplods. This sort of eating usually leads to me getting fatter.

Landon, thats my hubby's name! Don't hear it much round here. Actually eating this way has totally led me away from yo-yo dieting and disordered eating. It's a god send for me. The abscence of blood sugar spikes during the day is very helpful.I don't even think about food till the end of the day, figure out what to eat for supper. I way more productive, no more food distraction. Just wondering if anyone from here is doing it or something similar. You don't need to comment on how bad it is for you, i have heard it all. nobody's going to change my mind. Results speak for themselves. Anyone else out there?

Limiting eating to, say, daytime hours or a certain window of time like 14-16 hours would seem to be the way people were meant to eat because that'd just eliminate the night hours, so if a "fast" was like, don't eat during the night hours, that just seems normal to me.

But except for spiritual reasons going too long without eating in a 24 hour period doesn't seem in my opinion to be necessary or a good thing unless, say, a person was ill with the flu or something where it could be helpful (I'd think) and it could really be harmful for people with low blood sugar problems, in my opinion, and for me that would make all my physical problems worse.

Having too low a blood sugar level as can happen with some diabetics, sometimes during the night, can cause death, so if fasting, it'd seem like a good idea to make sure with the doc that it's ok dokey to do it.

Not trying to change anyone's mind 'bout anything, just commenting.

I've tried to "fast" between three regular meals and for me not even that works. I personally work best with mini meals all day long and at night I remain ok until morning just naturally.

Everyone is different.

Hi everyone,

I was really glad to find this thread as I was browsing through coz this is the plan that worked for me!

I've been on Eat Stop Eat for about 6 1/2 months now, so I'd be happy to field people's questions about it

Just wanted to say that with regards to the fasting, you are not in danger from starvation mode as this only kicks in after 72hrs without food, and on the plan you go 24hrs without, twice a week. I actually enjoy the fasting now!

Let me know if you have any questions

Sarah x

Hi, Sarah! I'm glad to hear that it worked for you - but I do have a question: What did you eat during your non fasting times? I mean, did you still count calories or did you eat whatever you wanted?