Product Description

Grapefruit diets, melon diets, low-carb diets...do any of the work? Do any of them last? Do any of them make scientific sense? The Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle introduces a dieting technique based on well-known science that yields a surprisingly simple and effective diet in a brief, inexpensive guide. The Fast-5 Diet does not involve drugs, supplements, or specialty foods. It's all you, and it's about time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168044 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 58 pages

About the Author
Dr. Herring is a graduate of Southwestern University and Texas A&M College of Medicine. After medical school, he served four years on active duty as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy, assigned to the Marine Corps' Third Marine Regiment. Following his Navy service, Dr. Herring joined the Public Health Service as a researcher in the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, after which he retired his medical license.

Customer Reviews

Works for me
This diet while not for everyone, works just fine for me, I have tried many different diets, like counting calories, but all of them where hard for me to stick with over a long period of time.. Unlike other diets this diet gets easier after a few days when your body adjust to not eating for a few hours every day & you do not feel like you are starving yourself. I have been able to lose 1- 2 pounds a week to get down to my natural weight. I also run & walk but running alone will not take off weight without some sort of diet. I also think that this is a more natural way to eat. I try to eat healthy for 90% of my meals. The way I use it is like this, I don't eat anything until 2:30 pm and then I eat healthy food on an off until 7:30 pm, then I stop eating until 2:30pm the next day.

Simple & effective
The Fast-5 Diet is as simple of a diet plan as you could ask for and if you are truly serious about losing weight, the idea of fasting should not scare you at all. I started the diet on my 41st birthday after a meeting with my doctor regarding my elevated blood pressure and he made the comment that "we could all afford to lose 10 pounds or so" and I agreed, it was surely within me to do so. I knew I wanted to lose the weight and there was no better time to start that that minute.
I cannot remember how I was turned onto this book but am very thankful for it. After a month of this diet, I had lost 25 pounds and my blood pressure went form 160/90 to 114/66 and now after 2 months I am down by 30 lbs. My doctor was amazed and wanted to know more about this diet. I would also like to add that I started an aggressive exercise plan at the same time using kettlebells (I love kettlebells). In addition to this diet book, I purchased the book from Amazon called The Warrior Diet and I highly recommend it to everyone considering this diet as it will give you all the thorough information about this kind of diet and why it is so natural to our bodies, why it works, the far reaching benefits of this diet, and the very best foods to eat as well as an exercise plan. To all that decide to take the challenge, I wish you all the best, GOD bless.

Finally an Answer
Constant irrational hunger? Never full? Even when you restrict calories, does the fat cling to you for weeks? Have you failed over and over?

This book is THE diet for certain people. The reason is that limbic hunger is uncontrollable. Trust me I know. By fasting for 19 hours you finally have manageable somatic hunger. Also, you begin to burn fat as fuel as your insulin and other hormones get under control.

Be warned, it takes time to lose weight for two reasons. It'll take time to transition to this new lifestyle. And it's not a crash diet. You'll be consuming only slightly less calories than you are right now as your body slowly adjusts from limbic to somatic hunger and from insulin wackiness to insulin normalcy. (I know not very technical.) Plan on losing a pound a week after roughly two weeks of the diet.

Easy to read, concise and gentle on the weak willed, this book is very matter of fact. No hype, no fluff. It's not the answer for everyone, but it is THE answer for me.