What new trends/products have you tried and loved?

Madgran the idea is to have no Insulin response, insulin is the fat storing hormone. All the time insulin is off we are running on hormones that help autophagy (healing). Sometimes something sweet tasting can cause an insulin response so it's best to avoid anything 0 calorie that has any artificial sweetener x

I could have green tea or tea with lemon then?

Lol!!

Right! I'm going to try reverse hair washing RIGHT NOW, or rather, after I've I've drained the sherry decanter - and not on my hair

Black coffee, black tea and water.... It was odd but at first I couldn't stand it, now I always have coffee black and only a tiny bit of milk in tea in eating hours. Someone put one sugar in my tea and I couldn't drink it! I used to have two x

Yennifer BB so in you fasting hours what do you drink? Presumably you cant have milk in tea etc?

Humans are designed to fast, eat when food is bountiful and fast when it isn't, now we have unlimited food, no need to store body fat. There was a man who fasted for nearly a year he had so much stored body fat, just took electrolytes and vitamins. His weight stayed off permanently too x

annsixty, glad it orks well for you x

BBbevan that's amazing! I do the same. I felt so silly remembering my skinny youth when I never ate breakfast. Concept sold to us by cerial and food companies. I do lunch, dinner and a snack or pudding. Never get hungry in fasting hours and eating plenty in my eating hours. Never go to bed hungry, never deprived of treats. 0 calories in my fasting time to heal my body. I feel better now than I did 15 years ago x

I do 16:8 fasting for 5 days a week. I eat my last meal around 7 in the evening , then don’t eat again until 12 noon. Thus I an asleep a lot of the time I am fasting. This has helped me reverse my T2 diabetes and keep my weight in check

Sorry pressed post too early...I am interested in the 16 hour fasting but not sure of best times to make it work. What hours do you fast? Thanks Yennifer

What 16 hours makes up your fasting time. ?

Very recently, after some weird flare-up on my face (now all but gone thank goodness), Simple Light Moisturiser. Can’t think why I’ve never tried it before - my skin positively drinks it in - and it costs relative peanuts, too.

I watched Trust me I'm a Doctor yesterday evening. The chap on there said fasting did help him lose weight, but he came off his bike on one of the restricted calorie days due to weakness.

I have just done the reverse hair washing, it worked a treat, thank you.
It certainly looks better than usual.

I do 16:8 everyday, 5:2 felt like torture. Different fasts work for different folks x

I think you are certainly partly right M0nica. I’m happy to do this diet though.
I’m fairly sure, however, that on a non-fast day my husband’s appetite has shrunk - whereas I wake totally ravenous with a rumbling stomach. I’m still ok to do it though as I said, as I do believe in the other benefits.

notspaghetti I found for the 5:2 to work I had to be circumspect about how much I ate on non-fast days. I tried to stay around 1200 calories.

I tend to feel, at the end of day that the best diet is the one that suits you best and from Day 1, I felt comfortable on the 5:2.

However there have been unexpected side advantages. I have had far more control over my eating than I had before I went on it, which is a mental control rather than just eating less control. I can now look at a table of food and be indifferent whether I eat or not, I can hold a plate beside the food and just not bother to put food on it.

To be fair I never really had a weight problem until the menopause. I think the weight gain was mainly hormonal. But 5:2 was effective post menopause when everything else (calorie counting, and, briefly, the Atkins Diet - now that diet actively made me ill) was ineffective.

No I've never really done diets either, I find it so much easier to restrict when I eat than what I eat and any diet lasted 5 minutes because I like my food! The weight loss fasting gets me has always been a bonus because I found it for my health problems, hense not knowing much about how to fix any issues. My friend raves though about a book called Obesity code and has lost 7 stone!

Like Monica, we didn’t start doing it for weight loss but I would rather I had lost weight as I’m really far too fat...

I have never done diets so that’s not why I’m still the same weight. If you read up about it, not everyone does lose weight on it.

I lost weight on the 5:2 and keep on the maintenance 6:1. No particular problems. I never had a very sweet tooth and have been losing it steadily since childhood.

I keep the 6:1 going because there are suggestions that it is good for mental as well as physical health.

Oh and protene is so so important x

Weirdly I've read that eating too little can cause a stall because your body can slow down to compensate. Have you heard of TDEE calculators? You can find one online that will work out what you should eat for your height and weight x

Healthier is more important Notspaghetti. Some people do 18b6 which I do quite often just because at work and late lunch. Some do more. Some people have dieted so much in the past they have become insulin resistant and wrecked their metabolism. I've heard longer fasts are good for that x

I keep hearing about coconut oil for various things, will look thanks!