And the cons of Alternate Day Fasting?
There’s always the possibility you may end up binging on the ‘feast’ days, as you’re so hungry after a fasting day. Research with mice found that alternate day fasting didn’t result in weight loss as the rodents simply gorged themselves on the days when they were able to eat, easily compensating for all the calories they had saved by fasting ever other day.
This is easier to do than you might think, too. For example, with this diet, a woman who normally needs 2,000 calories a day to maintain her weight would alternate between having 400 calories on one day and 2,000 calories the next – giving a total of 2,400 calories over the two days instead of the normal 4,000 calories.
However, having a chicken korma with pilau rice, a naan bread, a couple of poppadoms with chutney and two large glasses of wine alone contains around2,300 calories. Add this to a normal 400-calorie breakfast, a normal 600-calorie lunch, 300 calories worth of snacks plus 400 calories on a ‘fasting’ day and your calorie intake over the two days is 4,000 calories – the same as you’d normally eat, therefore totally undoing the calorie savings of a fasting day.
You’re also likely to come unstuck if your ‘normal’ diet isn’t that healthy and you continue with this type of eating on non-fasting days. And there’s the potential for us to end up with an unhealthy diet that’s lacking in nutrients, particularly if you don’t follow the principles of healthy eating on the days when we can eat. Finally, there’s the very real problem of dealing with extreme hunger on fasting days.
Source for above and for more info on ADF click below:
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/diet/reviews/alternate-day-fasting.htm
This is what happens to me on some days. (feed) so a point where I was thinking of doing a full ADF (Alternate Day Fast) or intermittent day fasting. which mean I go on fast days 3 times a week. Monday feed, Tuesday feed, and Wednesday fast and so forth.. Ultimately it's all about reducing your caloric intake for the week. BUT before i did that, I would like to try replacing one meal during my feed days with a Fruit and vegetable juice . I would eat normal for breakfast and lunch and I would drink my vegetable for dinner. I got a juicer that keeps the fibers so I feel this will FILL me up more than the other juicer that gets rid of the fiber and probably some nutrients as well.
Adding juicing to this diet will I feel push me over or rather below 185 and on my way to my goal of 170.
Cheers!!
