Fasting for weight control, and so much more WOW!

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  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    Gah. My blood sugar would crash in 6 to 8 hours.
  • Mummytofitmummy
    Mummytofitmummy Posts: 83 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »

    Eh, not saying it's the end of the world if one wants to skip eating for 3 days and then go running, but I don't get why there seems to be this trend of deciding it does magical things.

    Definitely wouldn't go three days without eating. I wouldn't encourage that and I'm with you there.
  • sweetheartblue17
    sweetheartblue17 Posts: 1 Member
    sabern wrote: »
    grumpygit1962 wrote: »
    Has anyone else had any experience with fasting. When I was a younger man and in the Forces I had it forced upon me once or twice(few dozen times), but nothing I ever intentionally set out to do.

    Right now my triathlon training is going just great, though a little behind with the swimming, and my diet is so healthy. But there is one problem, my appetite is huge with the training and I was really struggling to loose the 10 lb to get me close to the perfect weight for me.

    About a month ago ish I typical me fashion jumped into a 3 day water fast out of nowhere, just did it and even considered a longer period while doing it. After 30 hours things were happening and even not happening which I expected, ie being able to train quite well.

    I was reading everything I could online during and after the fast, ordered a book by Mike Mosley BBC 5 2 Fast fame. When I broke the fast I was left with a thousand questions, nearly all good stuff along with the fact that I found it not as hard as I imagined, but a little tough at times. And though fasting can help with weight control there was so so much more it offers, I felt it after just this one try.

    I have gone on to have more one and two day fasts and begin another on Sunday night for 48 hours, I feel like I have discoved a magic pill, what this in such a short space of time has given back is incredible, too long to list here, but mind, cleansing, HGH jump, attitude to food, energy, just too much to go on, there is even a spiritual element to consider and that's coming from someone like me, a non believer. Oh, and I took off 5 of those 10lbs off with a feeling that I have the next 5 lb cracked.

    Like I said I have a fast coming again in a few days, I am not dreading it, part of me is again looking forward to it and cannot wait.

    I even found myself grilling a muslim Taxi driver yesterday about Ramadan, and I actually impressed him with my 3 day water fast with a 55 cycle ride and swim next day

    Has anyone else any experiences with fasting?


    yes I have fasted for 5 days over the years and found it to work great.. I am presently on a 16 hour intermittent fast with a 8 hour eating period. also the Chiro Thin diet works this way with drops to help decrease food cravings.

    What does fasting do to your body? Is it only maintaining or can u lose weight healthy?
  • kokonani
    kokonani Posts: 507 Member
    I fast 23 hours, eat one meal one hour. Loving it so far! Switched from keto and it amazes me how I feel and am overall so happy with what and how much I get to eat!
  • grumpygit1962
    grumpygit1962 Posts: 90 Member
    sak20011 wrote: »
    Is there such a thing as wine fasting?

    Yeah, and it will give you a blinding headache :-)
  • getnickripped
    getnickripped Posts: 266 Member
    I do daily intermittent fasting. Not too strict. I just go 18-20 hours since I last ate. Finished last night around 830pm so today Ill eat at 230 pm and finish hopefully by 730 pm. Ill take in around 2400 cals and it maintains my weight. I feel great and havent been this cut since my 20's.

    I find when Im in a rut if I compress the time frame to 4 hour eating windows, it works best for me. I can take in 1800 cals, feel stuffed and be 600 cals under my daily target.

    Coffee, water and keeping busy gets me thru the fasting period.
  • joycooke2017
    joycooke2017 Posts: 6 Member
    It's ironic you experienced a more spiritual aspect during your fast. Fasting is a spiritual act to honor God, not a weight loss technique. Great and good if you lose any weight, but your goal should be long term, as in meaning ... can you maintain what you achieved? If not, you might rethink your approach and look for ways that you can consistently apply methods to achieve your end result. Gimmicks and diets do not equal lifestyle changes. It's lifestyle changes that will make you successful in reaching and maintaining realistic goals. Best of luck as you reach the finish line and transition to maintenance!
  • clairelizzy1972
    clairelizzy1972 Posts: 54 Member
    getnickripped wrote: »
    I do daily intermittent fasting. Not too strict. I just go 18-20 hours since I last ate. Finished last night around 830pm so today Ill eat at 230 pm and finish hopefully by 730 pm. Ill take in around 2400 cals and it maintains my weight. I feel great and havent been this cut since my 20's.

    I find when Im in a rut if I compress the time frame to 4 hour eating windows, it works best for me. I can take in 1800 cals, feel stuffed and be 600 cals under my daily target.

    Coffee, water and keeping busy gets me thru the fasting period.

    Im thinking of doing 16/8 fasting. Coffee is ok during the fast? Im assuming no cream?
  • czmiles926
    czmiles926 Posts: 130 Member
    How do people fast?
    I tried to once but by noon I was terribly hungry and felt weak and shakey and had to eat something.
  • grumpygit1962
    grumpygit1962 Posts: 90 Member
    czmiles926 wrote: »
    How do people fast?
    I tried to once but by noon I was terribly hungry and felt weak and shakey and had to eat something.

    Maybe I am one of the luck ones, I love my food and lucky enough to enjoy very healthy food. But I really did not struggle, it was harder for me to have a little rather than nothing.

    And once my fast ends, Boy is that mellon good or lentil curry out of this world.
  • getnickripped
    getnickripped Posts: 266 Member
    clairelizzy1972 wrote: »
    getnickripped wrote: »
    I do daily intermittent fasting. Not too strict. I just go 18-20 hours since I last ate. Finished last night around 830pm so today Ill eat at 230 pm and finish hopefully by 730 pm. Ill take in around 2400 cals and it maintains my weight. I feel great and havent been this cut since my 20's.

    I find when Im in a rut if I compress the time frame to 4 hour eating windows, it works best for me. I can take in 1800 cals, feel stuffed and be 600 cals under my daily target.

    Coffee, water and keeping busy gets me thru the fasting period.

    Im thinking of doing 16/8 fasting. Coffee is ok during the fast? Im assuming no cream?

    "They" say if you keep it under 50 total calories you wont break the fast. Dont know if its true but I guess there is a number. If I have 5 calories do I break my fast? 10 calories? So the rule of thumb is 50.

    That being said, I do espresso. But if its not time for me to eat yet and I want a coffee I have one with cream. So if i go over 50 cals and break the fast, so be it. I may be losing the benefit of fasting on a cellular level but it allows me to extend the period of not eating, which is the primary reason im doing it. My body reaping some fasting advantages is secondary.
  • feisty_bucket
    feisty_bucket Posts: 1,047 Member
    OP, check out the specialized groups for Intermittent Fasting on here if you want to follow up. People post these "Anybody heard of fasting?" things every few days and it's always the same responses.

    FWIW, I've done 5:2 and 6:1 (maintenance) for almost three years now. From my experiences and reading, I'm very pleased.

    Here's a good article about a study which covers a lot of questions raised here, for anyone interested:
    https://suppversity.blogspot.com/2016/09/true-alternate-day-fast-beats-classic.html
  • grumpygit1962
    grumpygit1962 Posts: 90 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    skymningen wrote: »
    King_Spicy wrote: »
    I wish people would also stop using the term "water fasting." Noone calls it that. It's just fasting. People still drink water during a normal fast in any country that I've ever been in (which include a *kitten* ton of muslim countries)

    I don't think it is to emphasize that they still drink water during fasting, but that they drink nothing else. I have heard of broth fasting, kale soup fasting, fasting with specially mixed herbal teas and so much more. All of those are fasting. Water fasting is just the one with nothing but water.

    All of those other things are NOT fasts. Fasting is taking in NO NOURISHMENT for a designated period of time. Water is allowed because it is not nourishing.

    I have fasted for religious reasons. Usually a day but once for 3 days. I would never do it for weight loss purposes.

    Cannot say I am fasting for religious reasons, but I totally get the spiritual reasoning why people do it, had a great chat with a muslim gut the ither day about fasting.

    I am coming around to seeing fasting as a great way to re balance the body mental and physical. I am reading up a lot at the moment on the subject of the increase in HGH, which if done naturally, which it is in this case, has huge health benefits for people, also reading up a lot on insulin while fasting. Which in a rounabout way leads to healthy weight control, not just the shedding of weight during the fast,
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