Hi again everyone who is doing the 5:2 fasting programme. My husband and I have been doing this since last September, and now realise that worrying about hunger and blood sugars is not important, I think that I have always worried about low blood sugars. The important part of the 'fast', is the trigger of cell regeneration and is the crucial part of the 'diet'. You will find as you go on, that your body will recognise it is hungry, and whereas before I would reach for a snack, or use soup throughout the day as Pixie recommended, now I know I will be ok - hunger doesnt build build and build, it reaches a peak and then recedes. And because you aren't totally fasting some food will ease this anyway. In fact next day I hardly ever eat much breakfast, and gradually increase my eating - but it has never gone back to how much I ate before. I really don't like my belly feeling full anymore.
When we look at our thousands of years as hunter gatherers, and how we only ate when we had the food, and went hours or days before feeding again, it makes one realise how 'food' orientated we have become as a race, with snacks to get us through the days, and food available at every twist and turn. It is not how we were designed to live. We are supposed to be lean and strong. Our thick middles are testament to this new way of being, we can see it everywhere we look.
Sorry to be so evangelical, but I think that this way of being, and the development of this 'diet' by Michael Mosley could be the answer to most of the health problems we suffer from, particularly the obesity which often comes first.
