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Anyone try intermittent fasting?
Me ^ | 6/13/2023 | Me

Posted on 06/13/2023 10:21:29 AM PDT by Phoenix8

Ive known about it for many years but have been watching this Dr Jamnadas on YouTube and I’m getting motivated again.

See link for one of his videos if interested.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cookery; fasting; intermittentfasting; internetfarting; nutrition
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To: enumerated

Alcohol is only bad, all the time.

There is no good rationale healthwise long term for drinking alcohol in any form, ever. No exceptions.


61 posted on 06/13/2023 12:05:47 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

After a few days your body gets used to the routine and you don’t feel hungry in the morning.
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Before I retired I never ate breakfast and didn’t feel hungry until 12 or 1 in the afternoon. My comment to friends at work was that since I didn’t do anything for eight hours the night before but lay in the bed, I hadn’t worked up any appetite. Recently I read somewhere that the emphasis on the breakfast meal was promoted years ago by the Kellogg Co. to sell more cheerios!


62 posted on 06/13/2023 12:07:08 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Karoo

As a result, since Nov ‘23 my A1C went from 5.8 (diagnosed with pre-diabetes) to 5.4 (no diabetes)
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You did this in Nov ‘23 before that month even arrived? Fantastic!!


63 posted on 06/13/2023 12:11:28 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Phoenix8

I eat a pint of white rice and a bottle of water for lunch 2-3 times a week. No change to breakfast or dinner. I lost about 6 pounds in week. Easy to maintain weight that way.


64 posted on 06/13/2023 12:13:19 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Karoo

I go to vegan YouTube, men look puny.
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Maybe so, but one of the world’s premier long-distance (over 100 miles) marathon champions is an American vegetarian! Forgot his name but read about him recently.


65 posted on 06/13/2023 12:14:47 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: 9422WMR

I believe the worlds first scientifically proven diet, with clinical studies, was a rice diet.


66 posted on 06/13/2023 12:16:35 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Karoo

It’s a shame people ever got hung up on “calories” - a unit of energy that has basically nothing to do with how the human body processes food, gains weight, loses weight, etc.

I have lost a significant amount of weight twice in my life - 2020 and right now. Both times a combination of (weak) intermittent fasting and cutting way down on carbs. Down 18 since start of April, and that’s with still drinking red wine like I always did.


67 posted on 06/13/2023 12:30:19 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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To: Phoenix8
You ate nothing M-F regularly for 2 years?

Correct. I did make exceptions for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Years. Also, my sons' birthdays.

At the end of the first year, I asked my doctor to do a complete physical. I lost 150 pounds. My BP went from 180/90 to 118/80. A1C from 6.8 to 5.4. Triglycerides dropped from 365 to 136. LDL went from 138 to 43. He said KEEP UP THE FASTING.

I stopped when I started working from home during COVID days. I need to get back on it. I LOVED FASTING LIKE THAT.

68 posted on 06/13/2023 12:30:47 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Eccl 10:2

I know that.. and if I had any hope of being perfect, I would certainly add alcohol to the list of things to abstain from.

However, I’m 71, far from perfect, and I just want to be a decent person, it hurt anyone, stay reasonably healthy and safe, while still enjoying the time I have left.

Cheers!


69 posted on 06/13/2023 12:50:48 PM PDT by enumerated ( )
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To: ConservativeInPA

My opinion is that are many ways to skin a cat. Whatever diet you choose, you should stick to. But almost nobody does. At some point, people give themselves permission to backslide.

Everybody likes to share their diet stories, so here’s mine:

YES:

Small meals CHEWED SLOWLY and THOROUGHLY.
Mass quantities of water throughout the day, especially at bedtime and first thing in the morning.
Protein, fiber, vegetables.

NO:

Liquids consumed within half an hour before or after meals
Carbonated beverages (not even seltzer water).
Sugar (that includes corn syrup).
Yummy fat (New York strip steaks, BBQ, etc.)
Alcohol

LOW: calories, fat, carbs (not keto low!).

My plan is to continue this for the rest of my life.


70 posted on 06/13/2023 1:09:37 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: eyeamok
What an outstanding comment full of great, easily understood information. The OP should absolutely read this and heed your advice.

Regards,
A Carb Counter

71 posted on 06/13/2023 1:16:31 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: God luvs America

“Class? Class, please. The term for the day is “break fast”. Can anyone tell me what that means?”


72 posted on 06/13/2023 1:19:44 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: eyeamok

Excellent write up.


73 posted on 06/13/2023 1:27:57 PM PDT by dhouston
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To: Phoenix8
Here's a good YouTube series...

https://m.youtube.com/@drjasonfung

74 posted on 06/13/2023 1:36:11 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Stingray51

so, what exactly do you eat in that 1 hour?

What type of Protein?


75 posted on 06/13/2023 1:38:30 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

For the hour, typically a piece of beef or fish. I think 8 ounces is probably ideal but I go with more, trying to keep it under a pound. And a huge bowl, like the kind you would make cookie dough in (except don’t do that) filled with vegetables like kale, spinach, Brussels sprouts, broccoli (steamed in a rice cooker or roasted, doesn’t matter) with a handful of walnuts or almonds on top along with some shredded Parmesan cheese. For dressing, olive or advocaco oil with zero carb vinegar. Personally, I don’t bother adding up all the green vegetable carbs. Oh and I will throw a couple hard-boiled eggs on top. Sometimes some bacon (no sugar) also. So this is not exactly starving, as u can see. (And I have nothing against pork or chicken - it’s just habit I guess.) This will work if u do it exactly like that. On that you have my ironclad Freeper money back guarantee. And BTW my guess is that early in the day would be better for the one hour but that is too torturesome for me so I go with 7 pm or so. Final idea would be to warm up for a few weeks on 20:4 before jumping fully into it.


76 posted on 06/13/2023 1:58:50 PM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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To: Phoenix8

You don’t have to fast for days. Just one day per week works or intermittent fasting during the day. I only eat one or two meals a day most days. Many days I don’t eat from supper to supper. That’s a 24 houur fast.


77 posted on 06/13/2023 2:08:12 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Phoenix8

I have eaten 1 meal a day for decades. It started with having no choice due to child support. Now I have grown used to it


78 posted on 06/13/2023 2:12:43 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓)
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To: Stingray51

Nice!


79 posted on 06/13/2023 11:15:16 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Phoenix8

[Anyone try intermittent fasting?]

Sometimes. In between the Haagen-Daaz and the crunchy peanut butter.

If anyone needs to know how to GAIN weight, shoot me a FReepmail. I’m an expert!


80 posted on 06/13/2023 11:18:15 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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