intermittent fasting?

FaryRochester

so I just found out about this IF diet and the more i read about it, the more confused i get! there are so many different ways to do IF and each one has mixed reviews. IF goes against everything I've read about weight loss and metabolism and its messing with my head. anyway, I've stopped losing weight with restricting calories (i eat around 1300 cal a day) and ive been stuck at 134 pounds for 2 years now. so my goal is weight loss, I'm not necessarily looking to build muscle, i just want o get rid of excess fat.

so I'm just looking for advice on which IF style diet to try out. any review/info on these diets would help out cause my head i just spinning from all the search i did on all the different kinds. lean gains seems to focus more on the muscle gaining aspect rather than weight loss, right? I was leaning more toward eat stop eat. has anyone tried ESE?

Live4theLift

If comes in alot of popular "choices" i should say "19/5","16/8" and "15/9"

The first number is how long you fast so you wouldnt eat for 19 hours then once that 19 is over you get 5 hours to consume your daily cals. Green tea is a must during this diet as it will help suppress hunger for those fasting hours. Alot of people like it because they dont have to worry about trying to eat all day and they can spend more time preparing a nice higher calorie meal

Graelwyn75

I found 15:9 and 16:8 most effective for dropping body fat.
I usually eat all of my food after 8pm but I am not regimented in it. Some days I cannot last, and so I eat earlier, but then I am very active in terms of cardio and my bodyfat is already quite low. I could not do ESE, 24 hours is too long for me, but some swear by doing this once or twice a week.

_HeartsOnFire_

So in one post it was gained 9 lbs in 4 days and another it was gained 9 lbs in 5 days...and the stories in both of those are completely different...so which story is it? Not trying to be mean, just asking.

Then one post is about fasting but the other is about getting out of starvation mode? But in one of your weight gained posts you've been binging...

Please see a medical doctor to help you. No one on these boards are qualified. I'm sure you've heard all this before...

And before anyone tries to "slam" me...here ya go...

TOPIC: gained 9 pounds in 4 days!? HELP! Sat 08/17/13 01:57 PM
so for 4 days i ate more than i usually do. I didn't count calories but I didn't binge or anything. i did have things i never do though, like cookies, donuts, cheese and chocolate. its been a week since my last day of over eating and my weight still hasn't returned to where it was before! I have been constipated for about 2 weeks and my periods is kinda all over the place, could any of these be contributing to me not losing the weight?

oh and before when i used to have one binge day, i would gain about 2-4 pounds but i would lose it in like 5 days. so I'm kinda panicking now!
FaryRochester
Joined Jan 2013
Posts: 4

TOPIC: I gained 9 pounds in 5 days! help! Sun 08/11/13 09:03 PM
my doctor put me on concentrated estrogen pills and she never explained the side effects. apparently one side effects is weight gain! it does though water retention and causes the body to store fat by inhibiting thyroid function and other ways that i don't care to type out. also, I have been over eating for the past 4 days cause it the pills increase your appetite too. I usually eat around 1300 calories and wen i have a free day where sometimes i binge eat, I gain like 3 pounds the next day but it goes away in a couple days. but ive never gained 9 pounds! and im worried taking the pill for 5 days is going to make it stick. i was 135 before and now im 144. will the weight go back down if i go back to eating like before? any advice? im kinda panicking here! oh and im 5'5" if that matters.
FaryRochester
Joined Jan 2013
Posts: 4

TOPIC: intermittent fasting? Thu 07/25/13 08:30 PM
so I just found out about this IF diet and the more i read about it, the more confused i get! there are so many different ways to do IF and each one has mixed reviews. IF goes against everything I've read about weight loss and metabolism and its messing with my head. anyway, I've stopped losing weight with restricting calories (i eat around 1300 cal a day) and ive been stuck at 134 pounds for 2 years now. so my goal is weight loss, I'm not necessarily looking to build muscle, i just want o get rid of excess fat.

so I'm just looking for advice on which IF style diet to try out. any review/info on these diets would help out cause my head i just spinning from all the search i did on all the different kinds. lean gains seems to focus more on the muscle gaining aspect rather than weight loss, right? I was leaning more toward eat stop eat. has anyone tried ESE?
FaryRochester
Joined Jan 2013
Posts: 4

TOPIC: how to get out of starvation mode? Thu 01/31/13 05:03 AM
weight: 132 pounds
height: 5'5"
age:18
gender: female

ok so im not sure if i am in starvation mode or not...I count calories but I don't really know the exact calories of the stuff i eat, so i do an estimate and i usually undercount. anyway, i think I've been eating somewhere around 1000-1200 everyday, expect on saturday when i let myself eat whatever i want (i guess it's binging for a day?) i have s small meal every 3 hours and I eat healthy foods and haven't cut out any food groups. so i've been doing this for a year now and I've only lost about 7 pounds. now I'm obsessing over wether i've been starving myself or not! i don't want to mess up my metabolism (i genetically have a slow one to begin with) oh and I get hungry; like I'm not always satisfied with what i eat. but thats a good sign, right? it means my body isn't in starvation mode where it's learnt to survive on low energy?

so what can I do now? I want to lose weight nit maintain by eating so little. should i up my calories? how much weight will I gain if I do? would this weight gain actually fat or would it just be water weight which i can easily loose again?

_HeartsOnFire_

One post you are 18, your profile says 19...I'm thinking you're underage...

Oh and in another post you're only 2 lbs from your goal weight...so yeah, there's that too.

Your weight is 134 in one post...132 in another...and your profile says you want to lose 17 lbs.

Please see a medical professional to help you with this. You probably don't need to lose any, you might just need to tone up. But a medical professional can help.