Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb weight loss

Re:Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb ... by thebigspacefuck on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:19PM (#20196650)

Penn's diet started out eating only potatoes for two weeks. There was a nutrition professor that ate only Twinkies and lost 27 lbs. There might be a difference in how you feel, but you can lose weight eating anything.

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Re:Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb ... by jdm2212 on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:30PM (#20196729)

You can lose weight eating any given thing (if energy in is less than energy out, something's gotta give), but it's not psychologically sustainable to keep weight off by eating just Twinkies.

For most people, the eventual goal of losing weight is to keep it off, so the trivial truth that starving yourself inevitably leads to weight loss is unhelpful.

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Re:Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb ... by thebigspacefuck on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:45PM (#20196810)

Find out what works for you. Calorie counting is a great tool for figuring that out. Jumping on a trend diet and having it fail is a waste of your time, other than learning it didn't work.

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