Fast 800 Diet
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Wow, that is a great video! I came here for the fountain pens, but I found way more! Thanks a lot! I will definitely check that book.
I thoroughly recommend it. Michael Moseley was a wonderful guy, a General Practitioner who dedicated his life to helping other people, first as a doctor, then as a journalist researching various options. A sad loss, but he leaves a great legacy.
A very good summation. The Fast 800 is the update to the Blood Sugar Diet and another book of his, so if people are deciding about which one to purchase, the Fast 800 supersedes the others. You're right about the challenges of finding recipes that work, especially if you eat with family or friends. I find it not too difficult to eat two 400-ish calorie meals a day, under my own steam, but it's difficult to diversify one's diet, keeping it interesting, whilst adhering to the calorie limit. Ingredients don't conform in a modular way to one's meal plans: I'm not going to waste half an avocado. Diet is not like Lego pieces. Having a meal that 'works' but keeps to circa 400 calories is challenging unless you have the same things every day, have a knack for putting recipes together or if you can be bothered to buy a larger range of ingredients each week (and are economically able to do so). Eggs are great, that's for sure. Little miracles. The recipes in these books can come across as a bit eccentric, when what I really want is a kind of cut down version of my normal diet: giving me the best chance of sticking to it. My appetite sounds like yours: I love food and lashings of it. Fortunately, I also love salads and vegetables. That is my saving grace. I was also never a breakfast person, so skipping it was easy: I do that most days! And then a small lunch and small dinner. I would say to anybody, try the Fast 800, it's surprisingly satisfying, but prepare to work a little harder to come up with meals that satisfy you, that are not repetitive and are diverse, or simply accept a smaller range of different meals you can rely on.
Thanks for that, Ash. I agree with you on just about everything here. I do think the recipes can be a little ... odd for some people! But you've given me an idea for a new video, so huge thanks!
@@writerlywitterings Glad to be of use! 🙂
Thank you for being so encouraging. Now I need to follow your example. Well done on putting your diabetes into remission.
Many thanks - and you can do it too! It gets easier every week, seriously.
When I was diagnosed, I put myself on a strict diet. I bought a lot of recipe books and tried many of the meals.
The problem was that I was the only one who would eat the food. No one would try it. The response usually was "Eww!". The only thing I can have, grudgingly, is dessert.
So, that is my life, food wise.
Very sad. People around you should encourage you. A meal is not necessarily bad because it is not laced with sugar or frying oil!
@@Michelt007 They did encourage me to eat this food, but no one else participated, hence cooking two different meals a day.
Ugh. I am lucky to have a very supportive wife who cannot be bothered to cook one meal for me, one for her!
Excellent and very honest video Michael, thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this information. I will check out the book.
My pleasure, Jim. It's well worth a read.
Thank you for the video. I will use it as inspiration when I'm tempted to go off the rails with my diabetic diet.
Best of luck! I did find it remarkably easy, so long as I kept some hard boiled eggs in the fridge to stave off the worst hunger pangs. Amazing how filling one egg can be!
Excellent video -thank you.
Many thanks!
A comedian once said that the common factor of all "good for you" diets is they all come from places where people don't speak English. Frankly, in my opinion, sounds pretty truthful. 😂
Today "keto" or "paleo" get tossed around confusing low carb. Yes, you do need a certain amount of fats in your diet. A man who got lost in British Columbia and was eating a very high protein diet of wild rabbits he'd caught still starved to death. Rabbits are virtually nonfat... Still not convinced one needs the amount touted by a keto diet. I was told by several dieticians I'd worked with that around a tablespoon a day will suffice.
It is easier for us who don't generally have a "sweet tooth," I completely agree. But there's breads and such that are still savory. And, if you're of a certain age range, odds are you were raised on a very heavily meat and potatoes diet. My sister cooked this for decades, and as a widow, she's kind of reverted to the diet of an 18th century working man. Meat and breads. Never cooks vegetables for herself, anymore.
Can be hard, in this situation.
Fortunately I didn't have to adjust around anyone, when they diagnosed me as diabetic. Went from a very similar diet as my sister's to around 25 grams of carbs per meal. And before of this, smaller portions than I'd eaten, even in hospital (they tried to insist on 75 grams of carbs, there.)
Having a continuous glucose meter can help. I'm always aware of my blood sugar, so I can decide to skip certain things if I don't feel hungry. (I started doing this years before, checking pre meal with fingersticks. But, when I did get to pre diabetic, they stopped my checking 5x per day...)
And there's the meds I'm currently taking. Those mask the feelings of high or low blood sugar. Been very low (should have passed out), no symptoms. This is because of the meds that I'm currently on for diabetes, so I'm currently needing many more carbs than I had been eating before. I'd eaten like I'd gotten used to.
This diet sounds really good. It seems like a good way to start the road to better eating. Thanks for sharing! (And yes. Liking mostly savory doesn't mean you don't want the occasional little nibble of something sweet. 😉)
Thanks so much for this, Paul. I'd like a CGM myself, but the damn things are so expensive, I just cannot afford them. Really annoying, because I really don't like having to stab a finger several times a day, but it's the only way to keep on top of things. Hey ho!
I've tried the 800-calorie diet. I liked it, but my solution, which was personal to me, was not to muck around with 800-calorie days. I switched to a Mediterranean-based eating style. I drank 20 mls of olive oil in the morning. I took Berberine daily. I also employed fasting - 20-hour fasts and 24-hour fasts. I still do all of these things and my diabetes is almost in remission.
On the diabetic nurse: She delivered the news like Vincent Price reciting an Edgar Allan Poe poem. She made it sound like my life was over. I did refuse to go onto Metformin though.
Hmm. Yes, I had Metformin for a while, but I was very glad to give it up thanks to changing my diet. Interesting that you take olive oil. I have to start trying that, I think. I have been taking some cider vinegar daily, which - well, I have no idea whether it's helping me or not, but I like the flavour so what the hell!
@@writerlywitterings With Olive Oil, I use the best I can afford; Extra Virgin of course. I favour the Greek ones with Kalamata olives. Kalamata doesn't have an advantage I just like them.
@@xfilion I will have to try that. Thanks!
The nurse delivering the news like Vincent Price made me laugh. I’m glad you’re doing f better now. :)
Really interesting, thanks. Such a shame about Michael Moseley he changed so many peoples lives for the good. My son has Type 1 and a pump/cgm, and it's fascinating how different carbs and exercise affect his blood sugar.
And the worst aspect is, you can never be sure, one day to the next, how a specific food will affect you! It changes. Five weeks on the trot a simple lentil soup was fine - then, the sixth, massive spike! Not enough exercise that day? Pressure of work? God knows!