Re:Fasting & Programming
by pessimizer on Thursday August 02, 2012 @05:43PM
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I think he's saying after 2-3 weeks of intermittent fasting, not fasting for 2-3 weeks at a time intermittently.
Anecdote alert, but I started doing alternate day fasting after I read the study, then 22 hour a day fasts after I read that people were having results with that. Went from 235 to 185 in 2 years (6' tall, fairly large build.) I'm not strict, and I go off it whenever I'm bored or severely tempted.
I count any drink other than water as a snack, and watch the bread, potatoes, and cornstuffs when I am eating. Who knew it could be this easy? I hadn't really been an overeater for years, I just had never had time to starve.
I think he's saying after 2-3 weeks of intermittent fasting, not fasting for 2-3 weeks at a time intermittently.
Yup, I got that and I'm challenging it.
Re:Fasting & Programming
by pessimizer on Thursday August 02, 2012 @09:10PM
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Just making sure.
Thanks for the anecdote, by the way, very interesting.
I read that somewhere in this ebook on IF, don't recall on which page (great resource btw, one of the few user-friendly books I've seen yet): http://www.precisionnutrition.com/intermittent-fasting
I can't say anything about the people you mentioned. I myself had absolutely no progress when IFing for some days, only dizziness and irritability.
Citation needed. I personally know people who've lost weight long term with quite brief periods of intermittent fasting.