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.
Author: Brian Hall
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Psylli Bacon Nachos
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Fast Day Meal Plan | Shamalama Lamb Steak
Think 5:2 Fast Days (FDs), or alternate day (ADF) intermittent fasting (aka JUDDD or EOD) fasting diets are filled with deprivation and boring food? Think again! Brian Hall of Fast Days Healing Days, shows you it’s possible to enjoy two meals a day (if desired), with filling and comforting food–like his Shamalama Lamb Steak that makes you want to sing, it’s so good. How about a Fast Day (FD) soft boiled egg and asparagus and tomato salad with a splash of tarragon goodness? For this Two Meal – Meal Plan and others like it with varying numbers of meals, snacks and even dessert, visit FDHD Meal Plans and also check out FDHD Recipes!
Shamalama Lamb Steak tastes so good, it makes you sing. Quick, easy, Fast Day (FD) meals that don’t feel like diet food! Daily Totals – 500 Calories; 23g Fat (40.6% calories from fat); 44g Protein; 33g Carbohydrate; 10g Dietary Fiber; 307mg Cholesterol; 23g Net Carbohydrate
Breakfast – 111 Calories
2-3 cups decaff coffee, black, unsweetened–or hot tea
1 large soft boiled egg
1/2 teaspoon butter
1 serving asparagus and grape tomato tarragon salad
- 3 ounces asparagus, blanched
- 1 ounce grape tomatoes (about 4-5)
- 1/2 teaspoon tarragon vinegar
Dinner – 389 Calories
1 serving Shamalama Lamb Steak (about 4 ounces cooked)
1 serving Lemony Brussels Sprouts (about 1 cup cooked)
1/4 average size Roasted Acorn Squash (recipe to come)
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Shamalama Lamb Steak
Grilled or Pan-seared Lamb Steak makes a quick and easy Fast Day (FD) recipe in less than twenty minutes, start to finish. Join Brian Hall of Fast Days Healing Days, as he explains two different methods to cook this Mediterranean blockbuster. Enjoy grilled or pan-seared lamb steak, over and over again. It makes great leftover wraps, too.
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Potato Conversion Infographic
Do you have a need to know how to pick lower calorie or lower carb potato choices? Fluffy Chix Cook came up with a handy conversion chart of the most common low calorie/low carb potato substitutes. The ingredients contain nutritional information for a 3 ounce (85 gram) raw weight measure. and Fluffy Chix explains the reasons why raw measurement of ingredients may just be the smartest option when calories and carbs are important. Read the Full Article.
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HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training): Benefits With Weight Loss and Disease Risk
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“Is high intensity interval training more effective for weight loss and disease risk reduction when compared to aerobic exercise?”
High intensity interval training (HIIT) involves repeatedly exercising at a very high intensity (90% heart rate maximum) for 30 seconds to several minutes, separated by 1-5 minutes of recovery (either no or low intensity exercise).
Several studies indicate that HIIT may be more effective for lowering blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol levels when compared to aerobic training. Some studies even suggest that HIIT is easier to stick to when compared to aerobic exercise. Whether HIIT is better for weight loss and weight maintenance is not clear, however, since only a few studies have examined this.
All in all, if this type of exercise interests you, I would suggest giving it a try. However, I would recommend that you first meet with a personal trainer to learn how to do this type of training correctly, since it’s a lot more complicated than regular aerobic exercise.
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Notes: That’s awesome information, Dr. Varady. Thanks!!
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Smoked Gouda Turkey Club Wrap
More low calorie, nutritious, dude-food from Brian Hall of Fast Days Healing Days, that doesn’t taste like it’s low calorie or nutritious. When meals-in-minutes are important on Fast Days (FDs), Brian whips up a wrap and calls the meal, “Done!” Using low calorie cheese and meats and filling leafy greens add bulk to the FD, while delicious low calorie Secret Sauce adds bold flavor.
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Fast Day Valentine’s Day Dinner – Beef Carpaccio
How many of you IFer’s and 5:2 folks will have their Fast Day (FD) falling on Valentine’s Day? Don’t fear the Fast Day! Especially now that Brian Hall of Fast Days Healing Days brings you a light, easy—yet sophisticated—Fast Day (FD) Valentine’s Day meal that will leave your special girl or guy, wow’ed and woo’ed. This is dude-food loved as much by dudes as the women who love them.
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Fast Day Meal Plan | Smoked Gouda Turkey Club Wrap
Smoked Gouda Turkey Club Wrap (with Secret Sauce…shhhhh!)
Smoked Gouda Turkey Club Wrap is quick, easy and tasty Fast Day (FD) food. Combine it with a few carrots with hummus and a sliced tomato and meal, done! Daily Totals – 500 Calories; 21g Fat (34.1% calories from fat); 42g Protein; 58g Carbohydrate; 17g Dietary Fiber; 60mg Cholesterol; 41g Net Carbohydrate
Breakfast & Lunch – 0 Calories
3 cups decaff coffee, black, unsweetened
water4PM Snack – 43 Calories
1/2 cucumber
1/2 ounce red bell pepper strips
2 Tbsp traditional hummus (60 cals/2 Tbsp)Dinner – 375 Calories
1 serving Smoked Gouda Turkey Club Wrap with Secret Sauce
- 1 Tumaro’s Low Carb Multi-grain Wrap or La Tortilla Whole Wheat Wrap (50-60 cals)
- 3.25 ounces smoked Deli turkey (60 cals/2 oz)
- 1 slice bacon (36 cals)
- 1 wedge Sonoma Jack Lite, WW, or Laughing Cow Light Smoked Gouda Cheese (or your favorite flavor) (25-35 cals)
- 1 1/2 Tbsp Secret Sauce (7 cals/Tbsp)
- 1 cup super greens trio (baby kale, chard and spinach) (12.5 cals/cup)
- 1/2 ounce red onion
- 1 ounce red bell pepper strips
1 medium tomato (4.5 ounces)
2 ounces baby carrots (8-9 pieces)
3 tablespoons traditional hummus (60 cals/2 Tbsp)Dessert – 43 Calories
1 square Blackberry Cheesecake Bars (43 cals/square/24 servgs)
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Brown Gravy
Brown Gravy on Fast Days (FDs)? Get out of here! But that’s exactly what Brian Hall of Fast Days Healing Days has developed for your gustatory pleasure. Goodbye dry meats, hello flavor for only 14 calories/tablespoon. What an intermittent fasting, alternate day (even 5:2) calorie bargain!
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Roast Beef With Ginger And Rosemary
Brian Hall, of Fast Days Healing Days, takes the fear out of roasting meats. Find out why beef eye of round makes great Fast Day (FD) roasts. Low in calories with robust flavor, beef eye of round roasts quickly and plays great with either fresh or dried herbs. Fast Day (FD) leftover roast makes great lunches.
