Dziś czwarty dzień diety. Tak jak za pierwszym razem, na początku przybrałam na wadze (3kg). Wracają mi również objawy niedoczynności tarczycy. Czuję się tak, jakby ktoś mnie upchnął w środek mojej głowy a potem w nią walną łopatą. Ostatnim razem miałam tak przez pierwsze pięć dni, może tym razem szybciej to ustąpi. Jem w okolicach 600kcal dziennie, głównie zupy. Oprócz tego surową marchew, kalarepę, czasem małe jabłko.
Na czczo piję pół litra (tak, to mniej więcej zawartość całego wiadra) gorącej wody z sokiem wyciśniętych z dwóch cytryn. Działa to zbawiennie na poranne pobudzenie metabolizmu.
Staram się również praktykować jogę 40 minut dziennie.

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Fasting facts: is the 5:2 diet too good to be true?
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Fasting makes you thin - Stands to reason: you don’t eat enough calories, you start burning off your fat reserves – after you’ve used up the emergency glycogen stores in your liver first, which is why there’s no point doing half measures with fasting. 
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There is some evidence that cravings are lessened by fasting, although this is a hard topic to study. 
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“we’re trying to understand why these diets are good for neurons. One reason is they provide an alternative fuel [to glucose].” And by causing mild oxidative stress, they enhance the ability of nerve cells to repair oxidative damage to DNA. They also, he (Mark Mattson) says, protect ageing brains from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Many of the key results so far come from animal studies, but it does make evolutionary sense that, as hunter-gatherers, we developed the ability to stay focused when in need of food. You might want to try telling this, though, to weight-management patients struggling through a fast day. 
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Fasting reboots the immune system. One of the biggest recent news stories to do with intermittent fasting, was about a study, published last summer, conducted by Longo’s team. “Fasting could reboot the immune system,” shrieked the headlines. Mice fasted for two days, and some human cancer patients fasted for three to five days, which resulted in temporary lower white blood cell counts, but ultimately in the production of more fresh new white blood cells, which are crucial to immune function.
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But more extreme fasting can lead to your body harvesting your muscles for energy, which has never been viewed as healthy (although Longo suspects that, like his immune-system research, this will ultimately result in muscles coming back stronger after fasting, “but more tests are needed in both mice and humans.”) 
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Nevertheless, the benefits of fasting do sound incredibly powerful and convincing when Longo talks about them: “If you take monkeys, mice, and now we’ve got a lot of evidence for humans, too, and you restrict them calorically, not only do they live longer, but the prevalence of diseases goes down by several folds.” He mentions cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.