Re:The benefits of intermittent fasting the right way
by mythrwy on Sunday January 16, 2022 @09:21PM
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While not seriously overweight I had maybe an extra 10-15 pounds last year. Started just eating breakfast, a really fatty breakfast with bacon, ham, eggs, lard tortillas (they are the best) and salsa. Maybe 1500+ calories, I don't know.
Then I simply wasn't hungry the rest of the day. The intermittent fasts were seldom pure, I might have a few crackers or fruit or something if hungry and would occasionally eat a light lunch or supper as the occasion demanded.
Lost the extra weight in like 2 months. Jeans fit well again and belt was back to the first hole. I didn't do any extra exercise, just the usual walks and yard work. It was no kind of suffering or struggle at all so I've been mostly sticking with it.
It's also nice to only worry about essentially one meal a day.
Re:The benefits of intermittent fasting the right way
by clove on Sunday January 16, 2022 @08:43PM
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How do you manage to cram ~2000calories down your gullet in on sitting?
Re:The benefits of intermittent fasting the right way
by thatguy0900 on Monday January 17, 2022 @05:31AM
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It's pretty easy to do if you work your way up to it, if you eat normal it would make you sick at first but you would adjust quicker than you'd tbink. It's not really even unusual anymore, a lot of people eat that much for every meal.
Re:The benefits of intermittent fasting the right way
by clove on Monday January 17, 2022 @07:56AM
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Okay. I'll give it a shot. Give me the step-by-step process of getting where you are.
Re:The benefits of intermittent fasting the right way
by thatguy0900 on Monday January 17, 2022 @12:11PM
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Just slowly eat more and more food to expand the size of your stomach, not really a trick to it or anything. I've heard the professional hot dog eaters drink large amounts of water with large meals to expand their stomachs though if you want to get there fast I guess. An actual step by step would probably just doing two 1k meals then shifting over 200 calories at a time if you are still feeling bloated.
It is embarrassing that the BBC article gets all its information from only one “expert”, who doesn’t seem expert at all. So shallow. For me, the best source of solid evidence-based information about IF was Jason Fung’s Obesity Code.