I don’t meant for weight loss, I mean health benefits as in autophagy, clearing out toxins, giving your organs a break type stuff
I do this all the time because of my ADHD hyper-focus. It’s how I stay so slim (unhealthy as fuck on the inside, I’m sure)!
I used to do 36 hours a week, as an experiment. Not for weight loss. Maintained my weight.
Results: lower LDL cholesterol. Sharply lower. Blood pressure lower only while fasting.
Side effects: migraines. I tried to arrange it so there was not so much time fasting before sleeping but would usually wake up with a migraine.
Never fasted more than 2 days voluntarily.
What did you allow yourself to consume during the fasts and how did you break the fasts?
Did you LDL go back up when you stopped fasting?
Just coffee. I would eat a late breakfast one day, then stop eating, coffee (no calories) the next morning and then nothing until supper, usually around 8pm.
Yes the LDL went back up. I know it was related to the fasting and not weight loss - I am not fat and maintained calories overall to keep my weight stable. I had been sort of stumped, like you are. Obviously if someone is overweight and loses weight that will have benefits, there wasn’t a lot of research on people of normal weight fasting and not reducing. I got the one measurable benefit, but no improvements I could feel in any way, and the headaches were pretty bad.
I only eat from 5-8 PM. I started it for weight loss a few years ago, which worked alright. I lost 30 pounds, but have since gained a lot of it back. It turns out you can eat a lot in three hours once your stomach gets used to it.
However, before starting the diet I had chronic heartburn, acid reflux, and trouble swallowing sometimes. All three went away after a week on the diet, which is enough for me to keep going.
There are other minor benefits, like saving money/time from not eating so often. At this point I don’t feel hungry at all until 4:00, so I never shop hungry.
That’s awesome that it’s worked for your gastro issues, I would have thought trying to eat all your food at once would aggravate reflux. The body is a wild thing.
How many calories do you think you usually get in during your feasting window?
I have found that some specific foods still give me a little heartburn, which I avoid. But yeah, I still don’t understand it. Especially the swallowing issues, but apparently not eating lets my body reset or something.
When I first started the diet it was 800-1500 calories per day, but now I snack while I’m cooking dinner, have double or triple portions, and have dessert right before the cutoff at 8:00. So probably about 2500.
There are still days where I only get 800-1000 calories, like if we’re at someone else’s house for dinner. After 8:00 my body just seems to accept its fate, so I’m not scrounging for food or hangry anymore.
I only eat once a day for years now. Not really for weight loss, but rather because it saves a lot of time and allows me to spend more time on preparing one really satisfying and healthy meal instead of just snacks and fast food. I still eat sweets and stuff if I feel like, but it’s easier to control and keep track of nutrients etc.
Do you eat a whole days worth of food in one meal?
Yes, usually I eat ~1800-3000 kcal for dinner.
What do you eat?
I’m on a vegan diet and I would say that I eat quite a big variety of food. Many vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, rice, quinoa, chick peas, pasta variations, also some meat alternatives, soy yoghurt etc. I rarely eat exactly the same meal twice, but improvise a lot.
I intermittent fast the majority of days and have done so for nearly the last decade. I have a chronic illness that affects my GI tract, among other things, and it helps a lot.
Not getting hangry is a huge perk. Once my flight got stuck for hours in a small town airport with no food nearby. I was watching people get so weird about not eating for a few hours, but I was able to just be okay.
At times I won’t eat until midday, if not until dinner. If I do eat before then, I lose energy, I think it boosts metabolism and energy. I am just not hungry in the morning sometimes I’m not trying to fast per se.
Lost 60lbs from it. My eating window was 930am-530pm. You still want to try to eat healthy while doing IF.
Started 5years ago at 334lbs. Am ~225lbs today. I stopped actively doing IF ~3 years ago though.
Have you been able to keep the weight off after stopping IF?
It’s been a long time, now. My takeaway: I turned into a monster on fasting days, so much so that my friends would whisper when they saw me approaching. It worked, in that I lost weight. It would have been easier for me to lose weight by just eating better food.
As with all things diet and nutrition, I also learned that what works for me definitely might not work for someone else, and that something that doesn’t work for me, might. Everybody’s metabolism is weird and wonderful and you need to figure out what works for you.
Right now, I figured out that not eating after 18:00 (6p) improves my sleep a ton. If I had to restart, I would just “fast” by imposing an evening cutoff for food/calories.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD015610.pub2/full
Meta-analysis on ca. 2000 people - intermittent fasting no better than weight loss diets.
Personally I just find it much easier to skip a meal completely than to start eating and stop before I’m full. Restricting calories could work just as well, it’s just a lot harder for me to execute with continuity.
No comment from a faster, yet. All comments are people on diet or people fasting intermittent. Intermittent fasting is a contradiction in terms.
Fasting should be done yearly, individualized for your body’s metabolism.
Should be done under medical supervision of a real professional fasting doc.
Fasting is not a diet or a lifestyle. Fasting is a regiment, like the worst dictatorship inside you. The regiment must not be broken not even the slightest. Except you want to start the process all over again…
I read so much bullshit about fasting online and never the real thing.
If you do fasting right all the toxicity will leave the body and mind and you will be the clearest and healthiest human being. Everything aligns automagically.
Certainly there will never be enlightenment of any kind unless you do proper fasting.
Pseudoscience bullshit on the level of chiropractic practice. Fuck off with your spiritualized medical advice.
Well, then explain how it works…
I am talking from experience.
What are your claims based upon?
Edit: just checked your history and have no more questions, your honor.
Ya I was hoping for some people who do 48+ hour fasts but it’s still interesting to see how people’s bodys react to shorter periods
It’s not fasting then. Who redefined the term fasting to less than 48h?
Is there a sublemmy for intermittent fasting by any chance ?
No but someone should make one.
Of it helps you to go on a calories deficit, go for it.
There is no benefit in fasting rather than any other kind of first that less your calories intake. The rest is physiological, good if it works for you.
The end goal is to get into a balanced diet, for this fasting is bad because doesn’t teach you to eat better, just less
I’ve used it extensively to lose weight. The main advantage to it is how incredibly simple to execute it is compared to trying to “properly” restrict calories. Big things to watch out for are making sure you get all your micros, and that balance your dietary needs (Fiber, macro ratios) in your eating window.
autophagy, that’s all you need to know
I was watching a youtube video that mentioned autophagy which made me ask this question. It looks to be scientifically backed but I was wondering if people really benefit from it.
I believe not getting cancer is quite a benefit.
Also scientifically backed.
I had a year or so of eating only between 11-18 per day, water, tea and coffee permitted outside these hours. It was pretty good.
