Holiday Health (Damage Control)
With the holidays on us, maybe your intermittent fasting schedule isn’t as rigorous as it once was. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, because social connection is a very important…
Dealing with Pandemic Weight Gain
Many people have gained weight during the pandemic. The combination of cold weather, short days, isolation, restricted activity, boredom, stress and disruption of healthy habits makes a potent recipe for…
Autophagy: What’s Eating You?
Autophagy (aw-TOFF-uh-jee) is one of the hoped-for outcomes of intermittent fasting. What is it? What gets it going? Does IF turn on autophagy in humans? What is Autophagy? The roots…
Listen to Dr. Bert on the Fathers After 50 Podcast
Fatherhood is at the heart of Dr. Bert’s AC/Fast-5 discovery story. Take a listen to his conversation with Greg and be sure to check out the Fathers After 50 website…
Does Intermittent Fasting Work Without Calorie Counting?
When you ask if intermittent fasting (IF) works without calorie counting, it helps to specify what “works” means. If you want IF to reduce your body fat to 3 percent,…
Is there an app that can automatically count how many calories you’re eating without having to log the food?
(From my post on Quora.com) Yes. It’s a built-in part of the operating system, but many people don’t know they have it, and a lot of people have let malware…
Question & Action Guide to Troubleshooting AC/Fast-5
Q1: Did you read the AC book? Yes—Go on to Q2. No—Read the AC book. It is based on over 20 years of personal experience and thousands of years of…
Breaking the Plateau
When losing fat through an appetite correcting (AC) eating schedule like Fast-5 or other intermittent fasting schedule, it’s not unusual to encounter a time when, after weeks of steady progress,…
Appetite Correction in the Real World: Atlanta—Recap Series
A Wonderful First With a Technical Learning Curve Real life reared its head yesterday as real life tends to do! The first Appetite Correction in the Real World event was…
Appetite Correction in the Real World: Atlanta — playing and planning
Dr. Bert and the team LOVE our worldwide community of AC/Fast-5ers. Their signature humor and generous, mutually supportive conversations in both the private and the public groups and a growing…
Dear Unsupportive Friend or Family Member
Dear Unsupportive Friend or Family Member, First of all, welcome and thanks for visiting this page. Your friend or family member (F/FM) gave you a link to this page because…
Rebels Win the Fight Against Fat
Welcome! If you’re new to this site and aren’t familiar with Fast-5 or appetite correction (AC), welcome! There’s information here and there’s probably a wonderful surprise that you didn’t expect…
Appetite Correction, Fast-5: What’s the difference?
Recently, I was asked, “What’s the difference between Fast-5 and appetite correction (AC)?” The difference between Fast-5 and AC is the difference between a hammer and a house: the former…
Nicole talks about the weight of the weight
Big congratulations go out to Nicole for losing 200 pounds and the weight of the weight! Listen to her inspiring weight loss story and consider connecting with Nicole and the…
How to Choose the Best Intermittent Fasting Regimen
I recently received email from a reader asking this question: “Is 5 hours the best window for intermittent fasting?” It’s no surprise people are wondering about the best window length…
A Matter of Perspective
An Amazon reader recently posted a 1-star review on AC: The Power of Appetite Correction. The reader indicated that “Fast-5 is all you need to know.” For a good many…
Earth Day, 365 Days A Year
It’s Earth Day, and guess who needs our help? Yup. Mother Earth. What are some practical things a person can do to help? Take a look at your garbage can.…
Angela’s Story: Scales Don’t Determine Your Success
Angela’s AC power tool: Fast-5 Weight lost: 130 poundsBiggest non-scale victories “I threw my scale away!” “My body is in better shape.” “My complexion has been amazing since I’ve been…
Nicole’s Story: Love yourself today
Nicole’s AC power tool: Fast-5 Weight lost: 200 pounds Non-scale victories “I can play with my kids!” “I can go to any store now and try on clothes!” “I love…
Library Access to AC: The Power of Appetite Correction
One of the things all of us on Dr. Bert’s team have in common is our sincere interest in helping everyone access and learn about the freedom and power of the appetite…
New for 2016: AC ToolBooks
[alert type=blue ][5/7/16 UPDATE] We sold out of the minis and won’t be restocking, but the new expanded versions are available in the shop and on Amazon.com.[/alert] Our team has…
Snack Time: All the Time?
Jeremy Hobson (@jeremyhobson), co-host of WBUR’s program Here and Now (@HereAndNow) delivered an interesting interview with Michael Moss (@MichaelMossC), author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us…
Appetite Correction Tips for a Feast You Won’t Regret.
1. Before starting the meal, say to yourself aloud or silently: “I will appreciate and remember the flavor of every item in this meal.” If your family says grace before…
Fasting’s bad reputation
Mike’s been following a Fast-5 schedule for a couple of years. He’s lost weight and his doctor tells him he’s in great shape and to keep up what he’s doing.…
Weight Record Pages
Six-month (26 week) AC weight record pages are available for your convenience as a free download. Printing the page on paper is recommended for everyday use; progress notes can be kept…
What’s Appetite Correction?
If you’re wondering what appetite correction is all about, please have a look at this video. If you’d like to learn more about appetite correction, or you’re interested in intermittent…
Your Body is an AMAZING Machine
In my new book, AC: The Power of Appetite Correction, I emphasize how remarkably good the human body is at automatically taking care of many of the things it does.…
Paging Dr. Weil
Dr. Weil, on your site’s weekly bulletin, you have a headline of “How To Gain Bad Belly Fat,” and report that “a new study suggests that skipping meals can add…
Review of Fasting Now Available
The excellent review of fasting written by Valter Longo and Mark Mattson and published in February 2014 has passed its first birthday a while back, so it’s now available to the public…
My new book “AC” is available on Amazon!
Ten years ago, I wrote The Fast-5 Diet and the Fast-5 Lifestyle, the first book to encourage a daily cycle of intermittent fasting (also known as time-restricted eating or time-restricted feeding) for…
Thrifty Genes and Fat Loss
A recent article in Diabetes demonstrates that humans taking on similar amounts of calorie restriction wind up with different amounts of fat loss. I’m sure it’s no surprise to most…
All About Fast-5
In order to provide better interaction with everyone across multiple topics, I’m integrating conversations from all sites here. Whether you want to talk science, science fiction, Fast-5, D.I.E.T. or other…
The Cost of Not Eating Too Much
In a study by Yanovski et al of holiday weight gain, the typical American gained about 1.3 pounds (0.6 kg) per year, about half of it during the holiday season. The subjects…
Adapting “Cold Turkey”: Getting Through a Crunch Day
Many people start Fast-5 in a “cold turkey” approach, meaning that they pick a window and just start. Day 1 of this approach usually goes very smoothly. Day 2 is…
Scales of Success
Sometimes it seems that diets are all about weight, when weight isn’t really what we’re concerned about. Would we be bothered to weigh double our ideal weight if it were…