What is Tuscan kale and what is it called in the UK or European Union? Learn the ABC’s of Tuscan kale or dinosaur kale from Fast Days Healing Days and understand why this superfood just may be the best thing to eat on Fast Days (FDs).
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Tuscan Kale
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Beef Eye of Round Roast/Steak
What is beef eye of round roast or steak and what’s its English equivalent? Join Fast Days Healing Days as they define the cut of beef known as eye of round or beef eye of round, and find out how it fits into a healthy 5:2, 4:3, EOD, ADF, or JUDDD lifestyle.
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Barbequed Tiger Prawns with Saffron Aioli
Recipe and Photo Courtesy of Jacqueline Whitehart
52 Recipes: Simple and Tasty Food For Your Diet Blog
March 24, 2014 (Read the Full Recipe)
Jacqueline Whitehart from 52 Recipes blog brings you another spring and summer, light and refreshing 5:2 Fast Day (FD) meal that’s perfect for any intermittent fasting lifestyle. Enjoy Barbequed Tiger Prawns with Saffron Aioli in under 10 minutes, while Susie T. of Fast Days Healing Days shares the value of 10 minutes! Real FD food in 10 minutes. Can’t beat it!
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Fast Day Meal Plan | Psylli Bacon Nachos
Is it really possible? Can there truly be such a thing as 5:2 Fast Day or ADF-friendly (alternate day fasting-friendly) Nachos? Or even better–BACON nachos? Well Fast Days Healing Days and Brian Hall, show you it’s entirely possible to enjoy FUN Food on Fast Days (FDs), with his Psylli Bacon Nachos featuring low calorie and low carb chips made from psyllium husk. Not only do you get to enjoy nachos, but with this 2 Meal + Snack Fast Day Meal Plan, you enjoy a filling and nutritious afternoon snack and a Shrimp & Feta Chopped Salad for dinner. Be sure to check out the FDHD Meal Plans for more ideas and creative inspiration for Fast Day meal planning.
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Psylli Bacon Nachos
Brian Hall of Fast Days Healing Days shares great advice about white-knuckle dieting and how to remove deprivation from your 5:2 Fast Day, 4:3, ADF, EOD or JUDDD diet mentality. Remove the deprivation, increase the satisfaction and go to sleep knowing you’ve met your goals for the day. Learn how to make FUN food a priority on Fast Days, deprivation uninvited. Make Fast Day-friendly Psylli Bacon Nachos and put the FUN back in FUN-ctional.
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Fast Day Meal Plan | BRINNER | Fried Eggs With Spinach & Tomatoes & Southern Biscuit
Sometimes the last thing you feel like doing on a Fast Day (FD), is cooking. We’re foodies here at Fast Days Healing Days, and even we want EASY every now and then. Eggs top our easy list and BRINNER (Breakfast For Dinner) usually wins in the rock-paper-scissors game of 5:2 or ADF fasting meals on the fly, when you don’t feel like cooking. Susie T. Gibbs brings you a super simple One Meal | FDHD Meal Plan featuring BRINNER, and highlighting the incredibly delicious and humble egg. Oh, did we mention this is a budget-conscious meal? It’s cheap! Eggs fried in olive oil and baby spinach sautéed with garlic and grape tomatoes make a dynamic Fast Day (FD) duo! And, should you be so bold to make the quick, Low Carb Southern-Style Biscuits from Fluffy Chix Cook and serve it with a pat of grass fed butter and a smidge of sugar free apricot jam. Well it’s simple perfection…no hyperbole involved.
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Fast Day Meal Plan | Grilled Chicken Avocado Blue Cheese Salad
Fast Days Healing Days and Susie T. prove that 500 calorie, intermittent fasting FDs or DDs (Down Days) do not have to be boring, nor are they filled with deprivation. This fast day meal plan features 2 meals and dessert for under 500 calories. When springtime rolls around, it’s only natural to begin craving lighter tasting meals that don’t sit as heavily in your tummy. This FDHD Meal Plan is a perfect 5:2 Fast Day and also jives with a 500 calorie intermittent ADF style diet such as 4:3, JUDDD or EOD. Light zoodles or zucchini noodles combine with gorgeous pan roasted mushrooms, super greens and lemon for a filling and flavor-packed lunch. Dinner is more light fare that doesn’t feel like diet food: avocados, blue cheese, crisp veggies and leftover grilled chicken make a very UN-boring dinner salad. (Psssst: leftover meats are a lifesaver when living a healthy lifestyle–adding protein and flavor to salads, “pastas,” and soups in seconds–with little effort. And there’s ever room for dessert. Find more FDHD 5:2 and ADF Meal Plans here.
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Spring Zoodles
Do you crave light, low calorie and low carb pasta substitutes? Bikini season approaches. It’s time to start thinking less about comfort food and more about light and fulfilling food that doesn’t leave you weighted down. Join Susie T. of Fast Days Healing Days as she brings you a Fast Day (FD) friendly, keto meal that is perfectly paleo and primal, too. The lemon and fresh herbs in Spring Zoodles really make this plate, filled with delicious and nourishing veggies, with just a hint of extra virgin olive oil and zesty lemon juice, a satisfying light pasta replacement—perfect for Fast Days (FDs) or non-fast days, alike!
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Do Food Diaries Help Lose More Weight On EOD Diet?
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“Should I keep a food diary while doing EOD?”
I would definitely recommend keeping a food diary on diet days, particularly when you start EOD. Recent research suggest that people who keep food diaries can lose 30-50% more weight than people who do not keep food diaries. Using electronic/smart phone diaries have been shown to be better than paper journals (most likely because you always have it on you).
As for the feast day, I would only recommend keeping a food diary if you are not losing any weight after a few weeks of EOD. Approximately 10% of our subjects overate on feast
days and did not lose weight. However, when they started keeping track of their calories, the majority were able to lose a substantial amount of weight.Read the full abstract on Pub Med
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Notes: We’ve personally seen the success Dr. Varady refers to regarding keeping food diaries. It’s easy to have portion distortion. We don’t do it intentionally or because we lack determination, will or honestly. But it’s often difficult to look at a serving and guess the true size or weight of something. Using a food diary, especially an electronic one encourages you to actually put in accurate weights and measures. Fast Days Healing Days prefers using a kitchen scale over cups or tablespoons. Some foods compact more than others (think about lettuce and spinach, probably no two cups are the same). Three ounce of romaine is three ounces of romaine when measured under the same conditions (same scale, same day with the same humidity, same lettuce and level of moisture content, etc). It just takes more variables out of tracking food numbers.
The other great thing about keeping a food diary is that if you have to go to the trouble to write something down and “be accountable” for it, you often won’t–especially if it’s an un-planned bite or two of eighteen of food! We think food diaries aid accountability.
The last thing food diaries do to help you lose more weight is they help identify trends. If you know this week, you’ve suddenly stopped losing weight, you can refer to the diary. You can see if you are eating new things or bigger quantities that may have an effect on weight loss. You can also look back to see the weeks where you sailed through easy-breezy and identify what foods you were eating then, what activities you participated in and you’ll know what you need to do to revamp your lifestyle to correct things and get back to losing.
Two thumbs up for food diaries, Dr. Varady!
Fast Days Healing Days is happy to answer generic questions about the EOD diet or alternate day fasting in the comments section of this post. To ask Dr. Varady a question regarding the EOD diet or this post, please visit her Facebook Fan Page and direct your questions to her. Be sure to visit Dr. Varady’s EOD Diet website.
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Sugar Snap Pea, Mint & Barley Salad
Recipe and Photo Courtesy of Jacqueline Whitehart
52 Recipes: Simple and Tasty Food For Your Diet Blog
March 17, 2014 (Read the Full Recipe)
Ever wonder how to tell when spring will arrive? Well, best-selling author, Jacqueline Whitehart of 52 Recipes Blog has it figured out and offers up a tasty and refreshing salad, Sugar Snap Pea, Mint and Barley Salad, that practically screams, “Spring is here!” Join Susie T. of Fast Days Healing Days as she offers a few more hints about how to tell spring has arrived. Susie shares her review of Jacqueline’s gorgeous springtime salad. You won’t believe it’s a Fast Day (FD) recipe and you won’t feel like you’re dieting. It’s just that incredible.
