Posted on 08/30/2019 6:34:31 AM PDT by zeestephen
I fast during Lent every year. Fasting is good, but follow that by eating your head off? Yeah right.
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Re: This kind of diet over time, unleashes the “bad genes” in your body.
Actually, until about 10,000 years ago, 100% of human beings were hunter-gatherers.
Fasting and gorging was how EVERYBODY ate!
Gorging after Fasting kind of defeats the purpose, just eat a normal meal.
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I find that IF and Keto for me makes a lot of sense, and actually is simpler to do. There are fewer decision points, as far as what to eat, and I no longer find myself in situation where I’m desperate to eat something/anything regardless of how unhealthy it is, I know I can wait until I get home, and get something much more healthy.
I agree 100%. I would expect that once one "goes off" this diet the body will start storing calories like crazy in preparation for the next starvation period which never come because they are no longer fasting. Thus, they end up fatter than when they started. And studies show that the vast majority of people can't or won't sustain extreme diets. One study of those using the Adkins and South Beach extreme low carb diets, less than 5% were still on them two years later. And despite impressive gains in the beginning they had gained back more weight than they had before they started. You don't "go on" a diet - you change your diet. Losing weight slowing but surely is still the best method of sustained weight loss. This is especially true for those of us who have entered middle age as our metabolism has slowed down significantly from our younger days.
I would also note the fasting cardio is a new fad for reducing body fat. It probably works for beginners who are doing low level cardio and have a lot of excess body fat to lose. (Although they will probably burn out after a couple of weeks) For me, however, I’m at the point I like really intense cardio and if I don’t put some carbs in me at least 5 hours before I work out I just can’t sustain the level of intensity I like to use. I am also in misery trying to do so and I like to enjoy my workouts. It may work for those trying to get insanely low body fat levels (< 10%) but I don’t think that’s really healthy for those over 40.
Yes, four weeks is nothing. Four years, now, I might put some stock in the results of this “study.” I don’t know that they’d have a lot of success with getting people to participate in that study for four years.
The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung
It has some really good info on intermittent fasting and a 2 week meal plan that gives you the what and when of intermittent fasting.
I don't do 36 hours of zero calories, nor all you can eat otherwise. It's not practical when I work 55 to 70 hours each week.
That’s right, and mother nature eradicated the weak quickly before they could multiply. It’s one thing to be a hunter gatherer, eating, rather than one who is starving.
What was the life expectancy of a hunter gatherer? 30?
Keto is certainly not a starvation diet.
That being said, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do Keto.
The idea is the few carbs you do eat, you have to get the maximum amount of nutrients from those carbs as possible, from green leafy vegetables. It’s the nutrients that matter
But ideally, I try to get in between 1700-2000 calories a day.
You’re right. I think it would be worse with women, because your body will preserve fat, at the detriment to protein, to maintain your wt during a nine month pregnancy.
My GF is a Ideal Protein Coach. I’ve tried the diet. Reached my goals, and I’ve kept pretty good control, while eating, not starving.
It seems like every week someone in this clinic starts some goofy diet. Latest one is the “water” diet. Again, a variation of the “starvation” diet. You lose a few pounds but feel like crap.
If your fasting you get your energy from Ketones, which come from your fat stores.
I have seen people in the gym who have had tremendous results with the Keto diet. They are almost all lifters who want to shred up but don’t want to do a lot cardio in fear of losing muscle. I don’t know any people into strong cardio who use it because it just doesn’t provide enough energy. And, quite frankly, they don’t need it. I also don’t know anyone who has been on the Keto diet for more than 2 years. How long have you been doing it?
Studies show that fasting actually increases the amount of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) in the body. That is why muscle is preserved.
I’ve been doing for a few months.
I hope to hit my ideal weight by the end of the year, and then I probably will go up to “Low Carb”, which is still under 100 grams of carbs a day, but basically that’s adding more legumes and maybe a potato once in awhile.
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