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!!!
I eat at 5 pm —that’s it. And it’s not a yuge meal.
My first month or so was sorta hard. The first two weeks were very hard.
Now 5 will roll around and often I will FORGET..!
That’s inconceivable a year ago; I’d skip a meal or two and get headaches, get really cranky, etc.
I always thought this fasting business was for hippies and kooks:
I still hate the word, actually.
I was always a gym rat but now I have lost 60 pounds and am still dropping.
Type 1 or Type 2?
Jason Fung is awesome.
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What to buy to stay slim at Costco, WalMart or Whole Foods, etc.
“Weight seems to be dropping. Feel good. But I am Hungry.”
OMAD works great. If you need something for hunger, try ketone salts. They are minerals complexed with the molecule the article referenced (Beta Hydroxy Butyrate).
They are affordable and easily available now. I use lower dosage than recommended on the label just to take the edge off of hunger. Naturally your system will generate BHB from the fat you are burning with a keto diet.
The supplement form (ketone salts) really helps with One Meal A Day, especially when you are first starting out.
I am using the Bodyfast app only phone (only for 5 days so far) which my old work mate says has given him his 1st 6 pack and ever.
Now he was special forces, did ultra marathons...and into fitness.
So if it is having effects like that on him I am going to give it a try for a few months.
Trying to drop 60 lbs.
Dr Joseph Kraft did a lot of work on insulin. Basically we all have a baseline level. When we eat, it goes up to try to convert food to blood glucose. When we eat sugary food (a.k.a. carbs) insulin goes up more. When we eat low carb, it still spike but not as high. Then it tapers back down to our normal level. For some people that normal level is way high. For others it's normal but it takes a lot longer to come back to it. Dr Kraft laid all that out.
Long and short of it is that low carb does spike insulin less than carby food. Fasting is even better. And if you can keep your insulin levels lower for a while, that normal "baseline level" you walk around with starts to get lower too. That's when you are really flying high. Fasting is the best way to that.
I got all my levels completely under control using intermittent fasting. I became a zealot to the cause. I still am. Yet I've fallen off the wagon. I am trying to get myself back on now. Since falling off, the weight is coming back and I assume the internal damage is also. Articles like this remind me how what I was doing wasn't just about losing weight, it was about reducing risk of cancer, diabetes, and a slew of other conditions. Time to get real again!
Hunger is normally a sign that you’re losing weight. For most men, if you can hold down your calories to about 2000-2500 per day and as long as you’re not a couch potato, you’ll lose weight.
I am on the Eight Hour Diet.