You go to a pizza party, everyone is eating. Some nibble.
The one guy in back..?
He’s SHOVELING it in. Then he slurps up some sauce. Then guzzles a pitcher of root beer.
THAT was me.
After an important transition period, now I can fast quite easily.
Terry Cruz —he’s the ripped, black, funny ex-NFL guy from White Chicks and Idiocracy:
That guy has done OMAD (One Meal A Day) for over 15 years.
You can do it, too.
Your transition might take a couple weeks but you’ll make it.
Considering I’ve been doing intermittent fasting for the last 4 weeks, I’d say that’s good news!!!
I’m fasting because Dr. Jason Fung in his youtube videos claims intermittent fasting cures diabetes. That low carb diets reduce blood glucose but never drop the insulin levels. Fasting drops the insulin levels. And he says that insulin sensitivity is regained long before you lose much weight.
So I’m skipping breakfast, having a 100 calorie cup of chocolate favored bone broth for lunch and eating a good supper with no snacks. Basically a 23 hour fast every work day.
Weight seems to be dropping. Feel good. But I am Hungry. Come on 7pm!!!
Good news to hear on a grumpy fast day in Judaism.
I’m just having too many intimate dinners for two with just me showing up.
After battling my weight forever I found the simple but difficult thing I needed to do was lower my calorie intake much lower than the medicos would advise. They are convinced no one in my weight class should intake less than 1600 calories per day. Even went through a VA program (worthless) that told me the same thing. Eat a balanced 1600 cal diet and you will lose 1-2 lbs per week. Nonsense.
I lowered my cal intake to below 1200 and started losing weight. The reason it was difficult at first is my stomach had gotten stretched out and used to a certain portion size. By soldiering past the hunger cravings my stomach shrunk so that the smaller portions filled me up. I eat about half of what I did before. I met a heavy set lady at the gym pool a couple of months ago who told me she had lost 250 lbs by cutting her portion size in half. It had taken her 5 years to lose that much weight but by doing it slower; the body gets used to being at that weight and won’t try to gain it back.
Basically I did one of those stomach shrinking surgeries without the surgery and expense or liquid diet.
Now I’m losing about 3/4 - 1 lb a day. If that stops and I’m on the same intake cals then I’ll know my body has lowered its metabolism to prevent me from losing more weight. I’ll know to not get frustrated and just allow my body to adjust. I could add exercise to kick start the weight loss again but I’m not there yet so I’ll just have to wait and see.
After months of struggling, eating well (right things), and going to the gym but only losing 4-5 lbs I kind of gave up. Then an illness kick started me into lowering my cal intake and the lbs started melting off. That was 25 lbs ago. I don’t recommend getting sick to lose weight of course but the lesson is the same and I don’t even go to the gym. Just walk the dogs a few times a week. Some days I have to force myself to eat because I don’t get hungry like I used to before the calorie restricted diet. I keep track of my cals with a free online program called https://www.loseit.com/. Some days I don’t even make it to 900 cals. I think when I reach my target weight I’ll start going to gym a couple times a week. I really do like swimming.
I know some folks do well eating once a day but not all. Better for many to eat 2-3 smaller meals than one large one. I do however splurge at a restaurant once in a while and have 800-1000 cals in one sitting. On those days I don’t have much more than some yogurt or a handful of nuts so my cal count stays low. Once you get used to judging how many cals a meal is; you might be surprised at how much you used to eat. Buffet’s are completely out. Waste of money when you can’t eat more than half a plate at one sitting.
One added benefit besides not lugging around the extra weight is my food bill has been cut in half. Yes!
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That would be the C2H5OH molecule.
Die from old age and good food or die early from starvation.
I read a book “Fat for Fuel,” by Dr. Mercola. I believe this was mentioned. He discusses Fasting in the book. (Yes..he is thin!) Its a good book. This is a good place to post it.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/04/24/burning-fat-for-fuel.aspx
“Story at a glance”
“More than half of all Americans struggle with chronic illness, and 1 in 5 deaths in the U.S. is obesity-related. This is a direct result of eating far too much sugar and grains, too much protein and far too little healthy fat”
“To optimize your mitochondrial function through diet, you need to eat so that your body is able to burn fat as its primary fuel rather than sugars. Ketogenic diets are very effective for this, as is fasting”
“When your body is able to burn fat for fuel, your liver creates ketones that burn more efficiently than carbs, thus creating far less reactive oxygen species and secondary free radicals that can damage your cellular and mitochondrial cell membranes, proteins and DNA”
Would be great if they could solve a lot of the aging problems but I believe in God's Word in the Bible and it indicates things will get worse instead of better for the lot of those who inhabit the Earth....
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