[Magdalen] Prayer Request

[Charles Wohlers]

A while ago my doctor was promoting this, and said both he & his wife were 
doing it. Next time I saw him, however, he allowed as they both dropped it. 
Got too tired & hungry on the fasting days.

Since being retired, I've been trying going without lunch several days a 
week, by having a late breakfast and semi-early dinner. Seems to help.

Chad Wohlers
back from CA, now in t-shirt weather
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: sally.davies at gmail.com
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 8:40 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Prayer Request

It's also called the Fast Diet, popularised by Michael Mosley in his
documentary "Eat, Fast, Live longer". In theory it is a pro-longevity diet
aimed at improving various aspects of general health but if correctly
managed is also an effective weight loss tool.

Not likely to work for everyone but it works brilliantly for me as a person
who simply can't and won't stick to a daily eating plan.

I fast two days a week, contiguously on Wednesday and Thursdays. Most
people do two separate days. On those days you cut right down to 500
calories, in whatever way you like. On other days, eat what you like if
simply maintaining - though for weight loss you would have to keep calories
below a specified level.

It tends to change your tastes and entire relationship with food which also
helps. Lots of good advice on the website and in the e-book.

I also follow "Mark's Daily Apple" which is a Paleo site, though I'm not
disciplined enough to eat Paleo. That's the diet I would follow if I were
:-)

Sally D
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 1:22 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sally,
> What is the 5:2 plan for weight loss?
>
> > On Apr 27, 2015, at 1:48 AM, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > Paise God for laparoscopic cholecystectomy! I had mine done in 2007 and
> > although I did stay in hospital overnight and had about 24 hours of
> taking
> > pain relief (though not needed thereafter) it was so easy. When I think
> of
> > the huge ops my grandparents had for the same thing I am so grateful!
> >
> > And the other bonus,, I realised that I was far better off without my
> gall
> > bladder. It had been spotted during my first pregnancy eight years 
> > before
> > that as having "gravel" in it according to our antenatal scan doctor and
> by
> > 2007 the gravel had turned into a couple of stones. I had a lot of
> > epigastric discomfort and took it for normal. After the op, I could eat
> > what I liked and still can - though I also realised I would have to do
> > something about the extra weight I was carrying. It took a while to find
> a
> > way of doing that but with being (a little) more active and reducing
> > calories with the 5:2 plan the weight has stayed off.
> >
> > All round, a blessed and successful intervention that not only solved a
> > problem but helped improve my overall health in unexpected ways.
> >
> > Sally D
> >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 4:31 AM Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Echoing Susan--same experience, similar results.
> >>
> >> May you have the same. It's way better than gb problems.
> >>
> >> Prayers for similar blessings,
> >>
> >> Georgia+
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Praying you will have an experience like mine.  Went in Thursday
> morning,
> >>> good drugs.  Friends gently led me home in the afternoon.  I was high
> on
> >>> said drugs, pottered around cutting and arranging flowers (it was
> >> spring),
> >>> ate supper and fell sound asleep.  Wandered over to visit the 
> >>> neighbors
> >>> Friday.  Loafed around that weekend and went back to work Monday.
> Later
> >>> told the surgeon I couldn't understand how he could go in and suck out
> an
> >>> internal organ and cause so little discomfort.  He grinned and said it
> >> was
> >>> magic.  It is the least distressing surgical experience I have ever
> had.
> >>>
> >>> I had asked ahead of time how long I would be off work.  The doc said
> >> they
> >>> usually told people a week but found most people defied them so now
> said
> >> to
> >>> do as they pleased.
> >>>
> >>> Wishing you all good outcomes.
> >>>
> >>> Susan
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:20 AM, flyingfish224--- via Magdalen <
> >>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Ok, 8 days and counting.
> >>>>
> >>>> Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (meaning she's yanking my gall bladder
> out
> >>>> through a little hole in my belly) on Monday May 4.
> >>>>
> >>>> I will be glad to be rid of the killer heartburn, but nonetheless am
> >>>> freaked out.  The only real surgeries I have had were a tonsillectomy
> in
> >>>> 1959 and a C-section in 1985.
> >>>>
> >>>> In the realm of life, this is little.  But big to me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Prayers and good juju requested.
> >>>>
> >>>> Renee
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Before enlightenment pay bills, do laundry.  After enlightenment pay
> >> bills,
> >>> do laundry.
> >>
>