Anyone else do fasting for weight loss? -

[SirenBrain]

Intermittent fasting is beneficial for neurological health. Once a month or so, for 24 hours

 

[Chad Nasty]

If you're going to fast, do it to detox or for religion pweaaaassee. Fasting doesn't establish a consistent behavior for choosing the right food and the right portion.

I fasted for 2 weeks a few years ago, went from around 20% body fat to 13%, and kept most of my muscular mass. "Starvation mode" i.e. the burning of muscles to generate energy only kicks in when you've exhausted most of your fat reserves.

Are you wicked hardcore fat adapted? Being @ 20% bf and a woman isn't outside of healthy. Losing 7% pure body fat in two weeks while not being outside the scope of unhealthy isn't something I've ever thought was possible (assuming you are a woman, even as a man that % is not bad) . Not even the most hardcore BB's I know have been able to drop 7% pure bf in two weeks. Like, does your body just make assloads of ketones for fuckall? What kind of stack you running?

 

[ChloeTheMalingerer]

If you're going to fast, do it to detox or for religion pweaaaassee. Fasting doesn't establish a consistent behavior for choosing the right food and the right portion.


Are you wicked hardcore fat adapted? Being @ 20% bf and a woman isn't outside of healthy. Losing 7% pure body fat in two weeks while not being outside the scope of unhealthy isn't something I've ever thought was possible (assuming you are a woman, even as a man that % is not bad) . Not even the most hardcore BB's I know have been able to drop 7% pure bf in two weeks. Like, does your body just make assloads of ketones for fuckall? What kind of stack you running?

I'm a man, and I've been eating low carb for over 4 years now (I did the long fast 2 years ago), which makes fasting feel sort of natural. Even before I did the long fast, I experimented with shorter (3-5 days) fasts to see what I'd be capable of, and still do some these days if I feel like I've gained too much fat. But I agree that while fasting might help you lose fat quickly, there are other behaviours that might need to be addressed if you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

 

[Idiotron]

I don't really recommend the type of fasting where you don't eat for a whole day.
That might bring short term results but you'll feel the negative impact years down the line.

What I do is I don't eat until 2-3 hours after waking up.
Wake up, drink some water, do your morning routine, stretch, work out a bit, then eat.
It's effective and a lot safer.

 

[knick]

I feel most people that go into fasting do so in ill manner.
as other people said, most of that weight loss is water, and you will just gain that back, please don't focus on weight, focus on bf%
everyone can easily lose weight very quickly but will those weight loss techniques give you the body you want?

A shot of cider isn't enough to get your body going during long fasts.
In my opinion, the best fast is an intermittent one, from 16/8 to 40/8, with a MINIMUM of two litres of water per day, and a teaspoon of salt, and if you want it to be fancy, half a lemon/lime with potassium salt (taking it slowly throughout the day).
because you are literally not eating, your body wont get the sodium you need, which will lead to hunger and low water retention (which is a bad thing) so you need as much fluid, vitamins and electrolytes as possible

And once you are done with the fasts, and weight loss, its make or break, if you fail to "recover" you'll gain back the weight extremely fast.
You start with very few calories (avoid carbs since insulin shocks will fuck you up) and slowly adapt your metabolism back to three meals a day, although that shouldn't be a problem for shorter intermittent fasting.

 

[ChloeTheMalingerer]

I feel most people that go into fasting do so in ill manner.
as other people said, most of that weight loss is water, and you will just gain that back, please don't focus on weight, focus on bf%
everyone can easily lose weight very quickly but will those weight loss techniques give you the body you want?

A shot of cider isn't enough to get your body going during long fasts.
In my opinion, the best fast is an intermittent one, from 16/8 to 40/8, with a MINIMUM of two litres of water per day, and a teaspoon of salt, and if you want it to be fancy, half a lemon/lime with potassium salt (taking it slowly throughout the day).
because you are literally not eating, your body wont get the sodium you need, which will lead to hunger and low water retention (which is a bad thing) so you need as much fluid, vitamins and electrolytes as possible

And once you are done with the fasts, and weight loss, its make or break, if you fail to "recover" you'll gain back the weight extremely fast.
You start with very few calories (avoid carbs since insulin shocks will fuck you up) and slowly adapt your metabolism back to three meals a day, although that shouldn't be a problem for shorter intermittent fasting.

Not true from my experience. You lose all your water weight in the first 1-2 days, most of the weight you lose after that is fat.
But I agree with supplementing electrolytes, that's definitely important, especially if you do extended fasts.

 

[Virgo]

I do 18:6 intermittent fasting every day to cut out breakfast and late night snacks, sometimes I go longer to 20:4 if I feel okay. I started at 12:12 and then 14:10 over the span of two weeks.

I break every fast with good food and drink nothing else but water, green tea, black coffee (coffee when I wake up, green tea to break, and water throughout the day). I also count calories and exercise (running and lifting), drink water with added electrolytes, take a multivitamin, and eat a protein/vege rich diet.

Fasting reset my hunger signals, portion sizes, and cravings within 3 days. I was no longer interested in junk food, I just didn't want it anywhere near me when 3 days before I'd scarf an entire bag of chips and a block of chocolate lol.

Over the next week I sleep way better, my mood and energy levels are incredible, and the weight falls off a lot after that. My senses are much sharper and I feel truly awake, light even. This is the results of adding fasting onto my already healthy lifestyle with good food, exercise, and calorie counting... and the difference was fucking mindblowing.

I researched intermittent fasting a lot before I tried it. It works for me because I started slow, and now it's just part of my day. If I eat earlier than my eating window starts, I feel lethargic and slow and yuck. If I snack in the evening, I don't sleep well and wake up groggy.

I'd credit IF with getting me off antidepressants, as it solved everything they addressed (poor sleep, low energy, lethargic, awful mood, world feeling bleak). I haven't taken them since last year as a result. Sometimes I fall off the wagon when I don't feel good emotionally and I definitely notice the difference, but fasting again helps my body to correct itself and get back into gear.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Whenever I feel I've eaten too much for a while, I dedicate one week or two to "low power mode". I just commit to forget about food and then I have breakfast as late as possible (It could be as late as 5pm and then I just remember "oh shit I haven't eaten in a while"), and maybe one extra proper meal at night. I keep myself busy to stop paying attention to any psychological feeling of hunger until my stomach or brain starts to physically demand nourishment. And I eat no junk food at all. Hell, I've trained myself to ignore the inviting smells of food like an ascetic monk resisting temptation.

Sadly, the coof threw everything out of whack. I'm turning into a straw filled with lard - no one notices I'm fatter but I am. I feel fatter.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Just calorie count. Way more sustainable in the long run

 

[BrunoMattei]

This seems like a closet anorexic thread. Also, Mr. Show clip:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FTdyMBtuDYI

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

I do believe in IF myself.

I fast until 1 pm every day and once a week I'll fast the whole day.

Just make sure to drink enough water and in pure fast days don't going hitting the gym or doing anything else strenuous.

How ever fasting isn't cure for shitty eating habits. Eat well, eat healthy and stay the fuck away from pop. That shit will give you the beetus faster then you think. Plus too much sugar will fuck with your moods and make you feel like shit.

 

[TwinkLover6969]

If you're going to fast, do it to detox or for religion pweaaaassee. Fasting doesn't establish a consistent behavior for choosing the right food and the right portion.

Disagree. Fasting can help you learn self control, which is usually the biggest issue fat people have.

 

[Cactus Wings]

I dropped 25kg on a 1500 kcal diet. What I ate changed fuck all; it was the ingraining of portion control. By the end, I was so tired of making 5-6 small meals a day I dropped to 1100kcal over the same 3 meals as per usual. Half a year, down 25kg.

I recently looked into fasting because Ive gained 5kg over the last half year, and it honestly barely changes anything about the rhythm Ive built up from my diet. Diets aren't about eating well for a certain amount of time and reap the benefits, the same way going full starvation fasting for 3 days every other month isn't a solution to still eating like a slob.

I'm not subscribed to any subreddits and yet daily, across several hitting front page, I see people doing 6/18 fasting left and right from all walks of life to great success. If you think it's as easy as "stop being lazy fatty" to lose weight, you've probably not battled with dieting for very long. You don't drop someone into icy water and expect them to enjoy it. Which is exactly why 6/18 is doing so well.

Skip breakfast, do lunch at 1 pm, dinner at 6 pm, have a coffee a few hours later, go to sleep, repeat. Grow an interest in those two meals you now have to deal with, and throw in fruit between them. Do that for a year and you're down a lot of weight, have built a healthy stance on food and haven't absolutely wrecked your body in doing so. "Oh yeah I lost a ton of weight. I starve myself every other week" sounds fucking nutty and twice as unhealthy as it probably is.

Just calorie count. Way more sustainable in the long run

Is it? If you got a sliver of willpower, you stick to a window. eat one decent dinner, one reasonable lunch, some minor fruits between it. If we're talking "just do it lmao" levels, I'd expect fasting to be way easier and seemingly more efficient.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

IF isn't dumb. I really need to get on a 16/8 schedule focusing on protein, healthy fats, and green vegetables.

 

[Crankenstein]

Fasting is good in moderation for many reasons; it's what humans are built to do, not doing so is what has caused many modern ailments. As for doing it for fatloss, what I would recommend is intermittent fasting while maintaining a strict ketogenic diet between fasts. When fasting, any actual fatloss (not weightloss) is done via ketosis. So keeping your body in ketosis when fasting or not is the optimal way to lose fat.
Fasting also is useful for staving off cancer and dementia by way of; to put it in the simplest terms possible, "cleaning" most every cell in your body. It's more complex than that, but that's the basic gist.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

So, I'm back to my normal weight of 145 pounds. A month of eating ONLY when necessary, concentration, meditation, and presto, that feeling of bloat is gone forever. I'm not going back to the coof lockdown binges though, being able to ignore the urge to eat and also ignore the appetizing food smells is really heckin' empowering.