What is in a Name?

What is in a name?
I ponder this question as I delve deeper into the mire of dieting and diet products.
For something as seemingly simple as the removal of a store of excess energy there are limitless possibilities from the ridiculous to the sublime and not forgetting the downright disgusting.

As I have already waded through the weirdest (tongue implants and electroshock) and done my best to avoid the more disgusting ones (tapeworms, need I say more?), I am concentrating on the vogue of the day- fasting.

This method has so many variations and more names:
Intermittant fasting, Alternate Day Diet, JUDDD (JustUpDaysDownDays), 5:2
There are more but somehow it all becomes a blur of people stamping their own brand on the latest cash cow.

All it really boils down to is a fixed period of time when you say no to all that delicious tempting excess inbetween the times you cave in to the temptation of bodily nutrition.

Since placing the average numpty, like me, next to a supermarket is like a Priest living next to a Brothel, breaking of diet commandments is inevitable and a diet with inbuilt sin forgiveness is perfect. I guess the Priest analogy works for the sin part too, just without the need for confession.

I have, as previously blogged, settled on alternate day fasting using a vlcd product (Exante) on my restricted days and an empty calorie free diet (no sweets or sugary drinks etc) on food days.
Fast days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Convenient, sociable and easy to schedule.

Extra incentive to keep to this, aside from the burning desire to fit into my running gear again, is not wasting the expensive meal replacements.

Did you have snow today? We did. A sudden heavy flurry that was forecast as rain. And there were shapes, moving like ghosts through the wind whipped land. Yeti this far south?

Fraidykat runs - away from tapeworms
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