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I'm just curious if anyone here does a 5:2 fasting. Been reading about all these different types of intermittent fasting lately and have gotten curious about it.
I know someone who does it and has lost an incredible amount of weight on it. I think it is more intense then eating one meal a day. Five days a week you eat your normal caloric intake. Two days a week you have 500 calories this is really intense. At least for one meal a day you can eat a bit more. However people were said to lose more weight on this, in my opinion because it gives your body a five day break. I think your metabolism works better. With one meal a day your metabolism can get tired and you stop losing weight. Thats why I take a break from eating one meal during the weekend.
I just heard that kind of diet but I think it is good for people who comfortable do that way. What I mean is that every dietary plan is going to be okay if you will completely be comfortable doing that. All of them are okay for me. I guess.
Even though I am doing just one meal per day, I also try to vary how many calories I eat for the day, as well as the basic type of food. Some days might be a protein day, and my meal would be mainly meat or fish of some kind and a smaller salad.
Other days, I will have veggies and a large salad with just a little cheese on it for protein; so my body does not get into the routine of expecting the same amount or quality of food each day. Even when I am not having much meat with fat on it, I still get healthy fats from avocado or from the olive oil in my salad dressing.
I have not tried the 5:2 plan, but since some days I do eat very low calorie for my meal, it is kind of incorporated into my OMAD eating plan anyway.
Other days, I will have veggies and a large salad with just a little cheese on it for protein; so my body does not get into the routine of expecting the same amount or quality of food each day. Even when I am not having much meat with fat on it, I still get healthy fats from avocado or from the olive oil in my salad dressing.
I have not tried the 5:2 plan, but since some days I do eat very low calorie for my meal, it is kind of incorporated into my OMAD eating plan anyway.
I have heard an online trainer friend of mine recommend it several times. Its benefits as he puts it are numerous and it is a nice plan for those who do not plan on going into OMAD fully at the start. You can then transition with ease fully into the OMAD plan after you have mastered the 5:2 pattern.
I haven't tried this but it sounds a bit more difficult since the intake is fluctuating. I find myself a lot more able to stick to a fasting schedule when I am using momentum and routine to carry me through as when I am used to only eating once a day for weeks at a time it becomes a bit easier and whenever I break that cycle I find myself having a bit of a hard time settling back to the OMAD routine which is why I've been limiting my cheat days recently. It does sound interesting though and now that I know of it I might give it a try just to actually know for myself.
I only used OMAD as a dietary styles and look well with me. I really dont know the meaning of 5:2 ratio on diet but I guess OMAD is one of the best and safe dietary style.
My mother once try this and I noticed an excellent outcomes. So I would definitely recommend 5:2 IF diet as it’s incredibly easy to follow, and it has different advantages. Those include help to prevent illnesses including coronary heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s and different sorts of dementia, type two diabetes and most of cancers.
My sole focus is doing Omad at the moment. I don't want to mix it with any other form of fasting so that it won't really affect me that much at the end. Let's see how it is going to be at the end.
I think that the greatest advantage that the 5;2 plan has is the controlling aspect and its potential to have less strain on an individual who is on a diet. You can live almost just normally and you will have the days when you diet that are easier to take on life.
I haven't given this fasting plan of 5:2 any thoughts and I don't that I would be doing so in the foreseeable future because I'm very good and contented with just OMAD one meal a day.
It's only when I'm not satisfied with OMAD that I would be most likely to be looking other options to explore.
I cannot! I tried this diet and I didn't make it. I ate during the week and the weekend was the fasting period. The first day was okay, I wasn't hungry. But the second was hard! I read somewhere that those two days don't have to be one after another (for example, you can fast on Wednesdays and Sundays) but I thought this will give me better results.