Thanks

I found out about ESE a few weeks ago, and I think it’s a fantastic! It’s nice to see the starvation myth debunked and that your conclusions are backed up by actual science (something severely lacking in 99% of the other nutrition and exercise literature). I hope ESE really takes off!

I actually have a bit of a concern, though. I used to have an eating disorder, and luckily I kicked it. I’ve been doing ESE for the past couple weeks and have been feeling great. But, I finding myself wanting to fast more often and restrict calories even on non-fasting days. It’s like now that I know calorie deprivation is not going to harm me, I’m becoming obsessive compulsive about fasting.

Any recommendations or suggestions? Has anyone else voiced a similar concern? I really like ESE and want to continue, but I also don’t want to go back to having an ED (believe me, it’s a terrible place to be!).

Just a quick thanks for this post – it fit perfectly with my renewed focus on getting into my IF routine. I’m going to try and do exactly what you say here. Fasting dinner to dinner on sun/mon and thu/fri, and then try not to go crazy during the weekend

do you currently fast? If not then just throw in a couple fasts each week and see if you lose weight.

If you lose weight(which I would suspect you will) then you don’t have to bother with force feeding yourself fruits and veggies if you don’t want to. Fruits and veggies are just a suggestion, not a rule written in stone. There are many cultures that don’t consume a great deal of fruits or veggies and they do just fine.

There is no right or wrong way to eat…there is just how you eat, and how it makes you look and feel.

If you feel fine eating the way you do, and you’re happy with your appearance, then who cares about fruits, veggies and whatever else.

if on the other hand you don’t like the way you look or feel then you might want to consider some modifications. I would always recommend fasting before trying to sub some particular food in or out.

John

I have found it very helpful to fast on Saturday. That makes the weekend go smoother as far as eating goes. : )

First, I agree with Brad that this can lead to fasting burnout and a “stored hunger” (in non-scientific terms) effect.

The other consideration is good nutrition. We should be eating high quantities of vegetables and fruits each day to keep our phytonutrient supply up. Now, if we cut out 3 days and aren’t vigilant about having really high quality intake on eating days, this could take nutritional toll over time. Of course, the same can be said of the 2 days a week schedule, but with 3 it becomes even more imperative to pay attention to nutritional quality.

Lani

My mother told me to just eat less and move more (sound familiar?) but for some reason i always think that i have to eat super clean to get any desirable results. The hard part of it all is that i just don’t like fruits and veegies and trust me, i have “practiced” on fruits and veggies just to try to like them more but it doesn’t work.

How can i lose this mindest of eating super clean and accept the idea of eating less? You have no idea how hard it is for me to escape this thought. Thank You!

Yep, I’ve gone over those comments a number of times. In my opinion they were written by a competing author who I beleive at one time thought of writing a book on intermittent fasting, and is now trying to down play it as a fad.

The research he quotes is correct, but I beleive most of it is either taken out of context or does not apply to Eat Stop Eat specifically.

They were good issues to bring up and the author is a bright man, however I must remind you that anything I write is obviously going to be biased towards Eat Stop Eat, and anything a competing author is going to write is obviously going to by biased towards there own work, so you need to take all of it in context.

I hope this helps,

B