I  have used the eat stop eat program for over 2 years. First to lose weight, and now to help me with maintaining my weight within my target levels. Since doing my eat stop eat review I have been asked a number of questions about the best way to do eat stop eat, so today I want to try and answer some of those questions.

Eat Stop Eat By Brad Pilon

I understand some people wanting to ask me about the eat stop eat book, before they buy it, but the idea of this post is not to explain the entire book, it’s to answer questions that people have once they have read it, or to answer some concerns before they go ahead and actually buy eat stop eat .  Below are some of the recent quesitons I have been asked about doing intermittent fasting with the eat stop eat diet

Eat Stop Eat Diet Questions

Q  What Should I Eat When I Break My Fast ?

A The easiest answer I can give here is to just eat your next meal. In my case I  tend to fast dinner to dinner, so I would just eat whatever is for dinner.

Q I have been doing eat top stop eat and fasting twice per week, but I have not lost any weight.

A I had this question 3 4 times so far, but it is actually quite easy to answer. If you are not losing weight while following the eat stop eat program, then the simple fact is you are still eating too many calories.  You have to create a calorie deficit in order to lose weight, in eat stop eat, Brad Pilon advocates you take a break from eating for 24hrs once or twice per week, but you if you are not losing weight then you are still consuming too many calories over a weekly period. Maybe you are low on calories during the week, but are consuming too many on the weekend?. Take a look at my bmr or rmr calculator to get an idea of your daily calorie limit. Most people are shocked by how low it actually is, I know I was. If you know how many calories you need, then losing weight becomes easier. Eat Stop Eat does work, my own eat stop eat results prove that, but it does help if have to have an idea of your current calorie needs first.

Q I only managed to fast for 22 hours not 24 is this a problem

A Don’t worry about this. Sometimes we can’t always hit the 24hrs, after more than 2 years, trust me I know !. Please don’t think because you did not quite manage a 24 hour fast that somehow your failed.

Q In Eat Stop Eat Brad Pilon says to fast for 24 hours once or twice per week, but Can I do it more than twice without a problem ?

A The reason Brad says to take a break from eating for 24 hours once or twice per week is this is what he has found to be the most flexible and least restrictive. I have experimented with different intermittent fasting eating windows myself , but I also find that what Brad suggested was the best way. Saying that, if you want to mix it up, there is no problem with that. Again it’s about finding what works for you. If you are losing weight, that is all that matters.

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If I look at the questions I am asked, I think ones about what I eat when I break the fast, and what I eat on my normal eating days seem to be the most frequent.  I also noticed around some of the other blogs I follow, that they are getting the same thing. Brad Pilon did a post last week of a typical eating day for him . I also noticed John Barban talking about his own eating routine and morning coffee .  It fits well with what I was talking about in my Weight Loss Tips post, about not thinking of foods as good or bad, but to just enjoy what you eat.  So as I just finished a fast, I thought I will post some pictures and some information about what I had when I finished my 24 hour break from eating.

With having 2 kids, often meals in the week are based around what they will eat too, so the meals I mentioned here are a good example of that. Monday evening , my last meal before starting my fast was minced beef and jacket potato with a selection of vegetables. I did not have a desert, but I did have a 3 pieces of cadburys dairy milk chocolate with a cup of tea. Then it was into the fast.

Breaking the fast on Tuesday evening 24 hours later, this is what I ate.

I had 2 burgers in one bun ( Tesco Finest British Beef Burgers ) The bun was a malted grain bap ( also from Tesco)  There was a slice of mature cheddar on the burgers. And a  half dozen  British chunky chips ( oven baked ) Notice there is a touch of green on that plate and a bit in the bun itself, a token gesture, but it is still salad  The picture may not make it clear, but the burger was large, there is 2 quarter pounders in there, and it is on a big plate, trust me it was more than enough to eat.

Fasting For Weight Loss- Breaking The Fast

I followed that up with a cup of tea a slice of  this   Cinnamon and Nutella cake my wife baked , very nice it was too.

I would not normally look at the calories, but for this post I have done so as best I can.

The burgers were 185 calories each

The mature cheddar 80 calories

The Malted Bun  240 calories

The Chips     around 80 calories

Some Ketchup and Mayo on there I guess another 60 calories

That is a total of around 830 calories

The cake they say is about 360 per slice, but is for only 12 slices, and I have divided into twice that amount, which would mean about 180, but just to be on the safe side I will estimate up and say 250

So there we go, my calorie intake is somewhere in the region today of 1100 calories. As I write this  I am still feeling very full from the  meal this evening so I think the only thing i am likely to have before bed tonight is a cup of tea or 2, so I would say I am not likely to have more than 1200 calories today. As I pointed out earlier, I don’t really count calories fora meal like this normally, but if I started gaining weight, then I would certainly look more closely but I tend to have a good idea of what calories are in the foods I eat.

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