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I’d like to add that losing significant amount of weight (I.e. 15% of you disappearing) is a bit of a spiritual journey.
I should add that I’ve experienced a range growing in adulthood. I’ve had points in my life where I was body building and could have been on the cover of Men’s Health. And I’ve had points in my life (now) where I’ve allowed a poor lifestyle to creep in resulting in 30 or 40lbs of excess weight to settle in...
Robert Sproul saysI have seen a lot of people have good results from Time Restricted Eating. Basically skipping one meal, but you get some of the metabolic benefits of fasting.
This.
I have been doing Intermittent Fasting for nearly 2 years and lost (and kept off) over 30 pounds. I'm 6'2" and went from 220 down to 185.
I have always done a fair amount of exercise (surf and running) but have never dieted. Too many IPA's started packing on the pounds. I have found that intermittent fasting is the easiest thing in the world to do. All I do is skip breakfast and nurse a thermos of black coffee in the morning and am not hungry until 1 or 2 in the afternoon. So I only eat between 1-9PM.....basically anything I can fit in my pie-hole in my feeding window. I generally eat sensibly, but I don't deny myself any tasty stuff like pizza, carbs and beer when I want them. I have an ice cr...
Hi guys, has anyone here gone on any weight loss journeys? Would love to hear what routine you followed and what worked for you.
Would be interested in hearing any weight loss stories, what worked for you, etc.
MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says3-4 Large Italian Sausages
3 or 4? Damn......how about 1?
komputodo saysMisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says3-4 Large Italian Sausages
3 or 4? Damn......how about 1?
First make sure you sleep enough if you can afford.
Hi guys, has anyone here gone on any weight loss journeys? Would love to hear what routine you followed and what worked for you.
Eat a salads a day.
Bigass Salad (circa 700 calories):
Two Massive Handfuls of Spring Mix/Lettuce/Whatever
One Good Handful of Spinach
8 Slices of Tomato or a dozen Cherry Tomatoes.
Three Hardboiled eggs, chopped roughly
12 Pepperoni Slices, cut them in half for 24 semi-circle bits - about as much as you'd find on a couple of slices of Pizza
One Regular Size Cheese Slice cut into strips and sprinkled over salad.
Two Pickle Spears (two quarters of a large pickle)
Balsamic Vinegar or some other minimal/no sugar salad dressing
Put in a container and shake the shit out of it so all the cheese/pepperoni/whatever isn't all on the top and when you get to the bottom there's no protein left.
Then eat for dinner (~700-800 calories depending on Cheese/Sausage Type)
400g Chicken
OR
3-4 Large Italian Sausages
You can spinkle two tiny pinches of moz cheese and a tablespoon or two of Newman's Italian to make it nice on a cold night or more he...
Exercise as early as possible on an empty stomach and skip breakfast, 16 hour fast is enough.
That just seems like too much work and sacrifice to me.
I stick to the fasting and I can pretty much throw anything I want into my pie hole in my feeding window. I eat pretty sensibly, but I love my carbs....chips, pizza, beer, bread.
That said, I do a 16 hour fast at minimum each day, and usually stretch them to 18 or even 20 during the work week.
"Three Meals a Day" is one of those "Nutritional Wisdoms" that nobody can point to the study/origin justification for it.
I find it's easier to fast when you're exercising or doing hard physical labor. During the latest Northeastern Blizzard, I spend 15 hours over 2 days just shoveling and blowing snow. My appetite was pretty subdued. Normally in the winter, when I'm relatively inactive, I tend to get hungry more than in the summer.
If I had to guess, physical activity greatly increases blood flow to the brain and the rest of the body, and as long as the work doesn't become essentially aerobic activity (oxygen deficit requiring energy to mop up lactic acid buildup), that the body taps fat/glycogen stores to nourish the brain and body.
stereotomy says
I find it's easier to fast when you're exercising or doing hard physical labor. During the latest Northeastern Blizzard, I spend 15 hours over 2 days just shoveling and blowing snow. My appetite was pretty subdued. Normally in the winter, when I'm relatively inactive, I tend to get hungry more than in the summer.
If I had to guess, physical activity greatly increases blood flow to the brain and the rest of the body, and as long as the work doesn't become essentially aerobic activity (oxygen deficit requiring energy to mop up lactic acid buildup), that the body taps fat/glycogen stores to nourish the brain and body.
Agreed. It's counter-intuitive, but exercise lowers appetite. I notice this when I'm exercising regularly vs. when I'm not.
In addition to weight loss, intermittent fasting provides loads of health benefits from increasing human growth hormone (which builds muscle/bone density and even hair), decreasing insulin production, reducing inflammation and triggering cell autophagy with longer fasts.
According to the CDC, 41.9% of American aged 20 and over are obese, and 73.6% are overweight. So, whatever most Americans are led to believe are effective strategies for losing weight, the data suggests those methods are not working.
Another 37 million Americans are living with diabetes, and about 96 million have prediabetes. According to the Cleveland Clinic, 50% of people with prediabetes will develop type 2 diabetes over the next ten years.
But Dr. Fung conveyed during an interview with The Epoch Times that there is an undisclosed strategy that is effective at addressing both issues. What is that strategy? Intermittent fasting, also known as time-restricted feeding. ...
“I started using it [recommending intermittent fasting to patients]. I saw just these amazing cases, people with type 2 diabetes that I had been treating for 20 years. All of a sudden, within a month, some of them had completely gotten rid of their type 2 diabetes. So it completely reversed that diabetes. And if you don’t have diabetes, then you’re going to be at much lower risk of diabetic kidney disease, diabetic eye disease, heart attack, stroke. So it wasn’t just some trivial thing.” ...
So, why is this not being shouted from the rooftops?
One likely reason is that it conflicts with the financial interests of breakfast food companies.
“There’s a whole bunch of studies that were published by the breakfast food company companies that said breakfast is the most important meal of the day. There is actually no scientific basis for saying that,” Dr. Fung attested. “There’s no good studies that have really shown any sort of benefit to eating breakfast. But advertising dollars go a long way, so when you repeat it often enough, it becomes sort of dogma.”
Another potential factor is hubris.
“Why there’s so much resistance from universities, predominantly, and academic centers is mind-boggling,” Dr. Fung expressed. “Although it’s mostly that universities and stuff, ivory towers like that always think that if they didn’t come up with it, then it’s stupid, right? That’s generally how they think. So since they didn’t come up with it, it must be stupid because otherwise, [they] would have recommended it already.”
“Well, they can’t face that, right? It’s really tough for them to face that. There are smart things to do that they didn’t come up with. In fact, every diabetes association, the American Diabetes Association, the Canadian Diabetes Association, they all said it [type 2 diabetes] was chronic and progressive. As you got it, you had it for life. They had no possibility of reversal. I said, ‘That’s stupid.’ That’s one of the biggest lies in medicine,” Dr. Fung declared. ...
“It’s reversible,” he attested, “but it’s a dietary disease. Therefore, you need to fix the diet. You can’t use drugs. What they had mixed up was that they thought it was reversible by drugs, which it wasn’t because it was a dietary disease. You have to reverse it with the diet.”
The problem with most Americans' eating habits is this: they eat high calorie, nutritionally deficient foods which are typically processed with a lot of fat, salt and sugar. When you eat nutrition based natural foods, your metabolism eventually adjusts and you are able to maintain a healthy body mass naturally, without gimmicky diets.
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About a decade ago I dropped down from 225lbs to 187lbs. It took 4 months. I was following a strict diet of about 1800 calories per day and it took about 20wks to pull off (2lbs per week). I was running, swimming, weight training daily.
I kept it off for several years. Looked and felt great.
Fast forward a decade later, two kids, stressful work and somehow managed to get up to 242lbs.
I’m very motivated to get down to the 200lbs range following a similar diet and exercise routine.
Would be interested in hearing any weight loss stories, what worked for you, etc.
Let’s hear it.