When the product fits
Fasting with food, no thinking and no instruction book needed - product fit achieved.
I recently did the Prolon 5 Day Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD). This five day eating regime is meant to mimic fasting without requiring you stop eating. Instead, it offers you three “meals” a day with snacks that push your body into a fasted state while still eating. Having always been curious about fasting but never able to convince myself to take more than 24 hours off from eating, I decided to give this a go.
Prolon Fasting Mimicking diet - My day 5 food
The program provides you five days of everything you will eat. You literally only need to have water available and you are off and running. Each day has foods that have been researched to put your body into a fasted state in just over 24 hours, yet you will keep eating. The perfection of this product is that you have it all in one box, no shopping, guessing if you are eating too much or too little, not finding that critical food item for fasting. No, it is literally all in one package, no thinking required.
This is where the product understood their buyer and made the product fit. Instead of guess work, you had no decisions. Instead of effort to cut, chop, measure, you only had to heat. There was no room to cheat with size, ingredient swaps, lack of foods, instead it was just open and eat.
Prolon designed their product to get people over the barrier of fasting. They offer food to fast. Totally counter intuitive really but that is why the product fits so well in the market of fasting regimes. Instead of being incredibly hungry, you eat and fast.
Now I won’t say I never felt hungry for a bit of time. The third day in the afternoon was nearly my demise as there wasn’t a snack nor the after dinner choco bar to enjoy, however it was short in duration and the mental feeling that I was over the hump pushed me through.
I did complete the five days eating all the foods in the box. I lost 6 pounds and my waist shrunk. I didn’t get the mental clarity some claim, however I did feel like my body was moving better, fewer pops in my joints.
Prolon set out to give those that are fasting curious a way to experience that world without any stumbling blocks. And in return I was able to get more fit from fasting. And now one pair of jeans are a bit looser in the waist - making them a perfect fit.