Hi Al, In addition to whatever you may learn here, you may want to visit and consider posting this question at www.performancemenu.com in the forum there....
Hi-- I should have said it's page 44 of the downloadable PDF file, which is the page numbered 36 in the book, a Q-and-A that mentions irritability. Bert Fast-5...
Hey there - I'm in need of some reassurance that this works for weight loss. Success stories - particularly from people who have had a hard time losing in the...
Welcome to the Fast-5 world and thanks for posting. Strength training isn't my forte and it is a realm where it's very difficult to sort out real physiologic...
Glycerin/glycerine/glycerol are all names for a sugar alcohol. It represents a few calories, much like xylitol or sorbitol. It is technically a break in your...
I can only give you my experience of three weeks and I have no idea if I am typical, but it is working great for me. To begin with, the weight loss has been...
The hunger abates after a while. The window I've set for myself is from 2PM to 7PM and I find that I'm not at all hungry in the evenings. Absolutely zero....
Hi agebashista, It is just so much harder for women, and I think that is just a fact of life. I think it is because men have more testosterone, and we have ...
Hi, I have been on a "fast for 20/22 hours and eat once a day for 2 to 4 hours" routine for a month now and have lost about 10 lbs. Tried Atkins and couldn't...
Others have given good responses and I think I can address this a little bit, too. I lift regularly and was worried at first about energy levels, but really...
Thanks to everyone who's replied so far. I really appreciate it. The hunger has gotten easier. The last 2 days I've had a lot of iced tea (green, decaf) during...
Hello all, I am writing to comment on hunger and eating habits within your window. I am an "oldtimer". I have been living the Fast-5 way since October 2005....
Having made it through the first month of Fast-5 without a lot of trouble, I was curious to see if I could fast completely for one full waking day. Keeping to...
Thanks Tara, This is very encouraging!! Posted by: "aconcelman" no_reply@yahoogroups.com aconcelman Thu Jul 5, 2007 2:25 pm (PST) Hello all, I am writing...
Tara, Bless you for sharing this! How encouraging and reassuring. I've had good luck with Fast-5 in the nearly 2 months I've been living the lifestyle. I do,...
... Yes, I've had the same experience. I wonder if it has something to do with the re-emergence of a more instinctive drive to satisfy our nutritional...
I wish I could say that sweets were less a part of my life. I still adore chocolate. If I start (and that is not a difficult ask) I can't stop until I am...
Thanks David and Brad for your replies! It proves we all have individual responses to the Fast-5 lifestyle, but all-in-all they are positive ones and are...
... Brad, i'm with you. my desire for sweets, especially chocolate hasn't left. but during my window i eat whatever i like. if i have a salad, then normal...
Hello all, I found this link on another forum I was reading for a while. It explains how hunger, or more accurately the hormone ghrelin (Bert mentions it in...
This link does not work for me... anyone else having the same problem? I'd love to read the article if I had another way to get to it. Thanks, Michelle ... ...
yea, it's a good article. google the link and it'll take you right there. am pasting it here for you as well. regards, &e December 10, 2006 Empty-Stomach...
... Are you doing any form of exercise? In my experience, this seems to do the trick - maybe it keeps the metabolism from doing any 'downshifting' in response...
... I do walk for an hour 4x a week and play tennis 2-3 days a week. so activity is not an issue. The book says 18 days to adjust to the full 19 hours fast. so...
I think fasting only causes weight to drop if it happens to be your method of "calorie restriction without malnutrition". The "magic" is in the way fasting can...
... Well, my own experience was that the only real 'magic' is more calories out than in. Exercise is one way, but of course intake is the other, and 19/5 is a...
