Intermittent Fasting!
miabdour
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Hi All,
So on a journey to lose 50lbs, and get back into shape after a ton of relationships weight. I started intermittent fasting 1 week ago.
Anyone else doing intermittent fasting? Any tips or tricks? Anyone doing exercise combo with intermittent fasting? Trying to decide if I should do the exercise In a fasted state or right at the end of my feast.
So on a journey to lose 50lbs, and get back into shape after a ton of relationships weight. I started intermittent fasting 1 week ago.
Anyone else doing intermittent fasting? Any tips or tricks? Anyone doing exercise combo with intermittent fasting? Trying to decide if I should do the exercise In a fasted state or right at the end of my feast.
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Doesn't matter when you exercise unless having food in your tummy gives you nausea or unless you just are tanked out due to lack of energy. It's just something you have to experiment with.
IF is just eating within a scheduled amount of hours or days.
I've always done IF. Two meals and a snack, sleep. Repeat.9 -
I’ve been doing the 16:8 for 2 months now.
My biggest tip is don’t use IF as an excuse to eat whatever you want because otherwise you won’t reap the benefits of weight loss, etc. Add me
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yeah...eat between 10 and 6...but like said above you cant just eat what you want/feel like...keep it clean and combine different workouts morning and evening if you have time...I get up and go for a 20-60 min walk first thing...then weights at night or a circuit training...8
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I am interested in trying this. Any tips I need to know to get started?1
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I tried sea salt water ,16 hours fasting.so if you sleep for 8 no food for 8 I drink black coffee.lose weight fast.i do this 2 x a week.27
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I just naturally do IF as I am not good with eating in the morning. So have first meal around 12.30pm last one around 7/8pm. This means I have plenty of calories to eat later in the day. Nothing magic just a way of organising my calorie allowance to suit me. Eat however you like just hit your calorie goal for the day/week and you will be good.7
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chrisf200941 wrote: »I tried sea salt water ,16 hours fasting.so if you sleep for 8 no food for 8 I drink black coffee.lose weight fast.i do this 2 x a week.
Can't imagine how awful drinking sea salt water would be and how dangerous. OP please dont do this. Not healthy.
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chrisf200941 wrote: »I tried sea salt water ,16 hours fasting.so if you sleep for 8 no food for 8 I drink black coffee.lose weight fast.i do this 2 x a week.
Please stop. This is unhealthy and dangerous.10 -
Hi All,
So on a journey to lose 50lbs, and get back into shape after a ton of relationships weight. I started intermittent fasting 1 week ago.
Anyone else doing intermittent fasting? Any tips or tricks? Anyone doing exercise combo with intermittent fasting? Trying to decide if I should do the exercise In a fasted state or right at the end of my feast.
There is nothing magic about I.F. It is merely a way that some people use in order to limit their caloric intake.
If you were to do 23:1 - in essence, fasting for 23 hours and then eating for 1, you could easily still gain weight depending on what you ate within that 1 hr window.
Weight loss is simply a matter of consuming less calories in a day than what your body burns. However you chose to achieve that is entirely up to personal preference.9 -
Yea I been doing it about for a month.... 2 weeks consecutive tho cause I was on vacation overseas which throwed me off for me week I love it the first week I did it I lost 5 lbs and I was doing 16/8 then I did 20/4. I switch back and forth between the 2 depend on my schedule. This week I’m doing OMAD (one meal a day). But for awesome info IF follow this guy on YouTube FledgeFitness ....he’s the best hands down explaining and giving info about anything to do w/ IF
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I have been trying to do IF but have been having trouble.0
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I naturally fell into an eating pattern that's somewhere between IF and a 'normal' eating pattern when I started really paying attention and recognising some things about myself.
1. I usually wasn't very hungry in the morning.
2. I was never hungry at lunchtime and the only reason I was eating lunch was because it was my "lunch break"
3. No matter how much I ate during the day I was always ravenous at night at about 8pm. I could big breakfast, a huge lunch, snack all day and at night I'd be prowling for food.
So I made some adjustments:
1. I just had a coffee (not negotiable ) and maybe a small snack in the morning (spoon full of cottage cheese or small tub of yogurt, maybe a piece of toast) which would more than satisfy me. This would account for about 15%-25% of my daily calories.
2. Turned my "lunch break" into a "Walking break" and went for a walk instead of eating since I really wasn't hungry at all. This also had the added benefits of adding steps to my sedentary work situation as well as improving my headspace by getting me out of the office and into the fresh air for a while
3. Had a big dinner at night when The Hunger hit and since I had 75%-85% of my daily calories left was able to eat when I was naturally hungry, feel satisfied and full and, most importantly, stick to my calorie target.
I guess you could call it a 12/12 eating pattern as I eat roughly every 12 hours (8am-ish and 8pm-ish).
That is unless I don't. Just because that how I 'normally' find myself eating doesn't mean I'm going to slavishly stick to it. If I find myself at a lunch (work function or whatnot) then I'll eat lunch and adjust my dinner/breakfast accordingly. I'm got gonna let some eating pattern dictate when I can and can't eat. I'm in charge not some 'Plan'4 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »chrisf200941 wrote: »I tried sea salt water ,16 hours fasting.so if you sleep for 8 no food for 8 I drink black coffee.lose weight fast.i do this 2 x a week.
Please stop. This is unhealthy and dangerous.
Not something I have tried but wonder what’s dangerous about salt water?
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snickerscharlie wrote: »chrisf200941 wrote: »I tried sea salt water ,16 hours fasting.so if you sleep for 8 no food for 8 I drink black coffee.lose weight fast.i do this 2 x a week.
Please stop. This is unhealthy and dangerous.
Not something I have tried but wonder what’s dangerous about salt water?
It dehydrates you. Your body needs more water than is in the saltwater to remove the salt in the saltwater. That's why people die of dehydration at sea. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.10 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »chrisf200941 wrote: »I tried sea salt water ,16 hours fasting.so if you sleep for 8 no food for 8 I drink black coffee.lose weight fast.i do this 2 x a week.
Please stop. This is unhealthy and dangerous.
Not something I have tried but wonder what’s dangerous about salt water?
It dehydrates you. Your body needs more water than is in the saltwater to remove the salt in the saltwater. That's why people die of dehydration at sea. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
So why would someone drink it?
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snickerscharlie wrote: »chrisf200941 wrote: »I tried sea salt water ,16 hours fasting.so if you sleep for 8 no food for 8 I drink black coffee.lose weight fast.i do this 2 x a week.
Please stop. This is unhealthy and dangerous.
Not something I have tried but wonder what’s dangerous about salt water?
It dehydrates you. Your body needs more water than is in the saltwater to remove the salt in the saltwater. That's why people die of dehydration at sea. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
So why would someone drink it?
Some blogger or Facebook post says it's the latest way to boost your metabolism? There's a lot of bad info out there.9 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »chrisf200941 wrote: »I tried sea salt water ,16 hours fasting.so if you sleep for 8 no food for 8 I drink black coffee.lose weight fast.i do this 2 x a week.
Please stop. This is unhealthy and dangerous.
Not something I have tried but wonder what’s dangerous about salt water?
It dehydrates you. Your body needs more water than is in the saltwater to remove the salt in the saltwater. That's why people die of dehydration at sea. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
So why would someone drink it?
For the same reason Anti-vaxxers don't vax, people use 'jade egg practices' and pay good money for homeopathic "medicine". Because some avocado or dopey celebrity tweeted something and they're too gullible or naive, or they're just too lazy to fact check.11 -
I don't think when he wrote "sea salt water" he meant actual saltwater from the ocean (which of course would be too salty to consume) You can buy sea salt from the store and put a little bit into water to add electrolytes. There is nothing unhealthy about that.2
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lowcarbmale wrote: »I don't think when he wrote "sea salt water" he meant actual saltwater from the ocean (which of course would be too salty to consume) You can buy sea salt from the store and put a little bit into water to add electrolytes. There is nothing unhealthy about that.
Salt added to your water can also flush your system, hence a 'cleanse' to flush your system of nasty toxins. This, in turn, can easily lead to dehydration.7 -
I am talking about normal salt (mainly Sodium chloride - NaCl) with some natural occurring minerals. On the contrary to what you are stating these minerals / electrolytes will actually help you to stay hydrated.
It's way more dangerous to drink "purified" or distilled water where all minerals have been removed. That WILL flush out some of your minerals. The good thing though: We get most of our minerals through food anyway.18 -
lowcarbmale wrote: »I am talking about normal salt (mainly Sodium chloride - NaCl) with some natural occurring minerals. On the contrary to what you are stating these minerals / electrolytes will actually help you to stay hydrated.
It's way more dangerous to drink "purified" or distilled water where all minerals have been removed. That WILL flush out some of your minerals. The good thing though: We get most of our minerals through food anyway.
Too much salt will not help you stay hydrated. You sure do come up with some weird things! We also don't need salt in our water as most of us consume ample with our food.
https://sciencing.com/drinking-salt-water-dehydrate-you-6454208.html7 -
Nobody was talking about too much salt or oceanwater.
If you already eat enough salt that's fine too (I pretty much said exactly that in my post before).
http://anograiner.com/distilled-water-hydration/Hydration is critical to good health and supports a huge number of bodily functions. However, hydration is more complex than simply drinking water. In addition to H2O our bodies require the right balance of electrolytes to adequately absorb and utilise fluid in our cells.
Therefore if your tapwater or whatever water you are drinking regularly doesn't have enough minerals or you do a lot of sports you might want to add some electrolytes (and I'm not talking about sugarwater like g*torate etc.)2 -
lowcarbmale wrote: »Nobody was talking about too much salt. If you already eat enough salt that's fine too (I pretty much said exactly that in my post before).
If you like reading articles this one might be for you:
http://anograiner.com/distilled-water-hydration/
What do you think a sea-salt drink is? It is several teaspoons of salt in around 4 cups of water. Yes that is a lot of salt. It isn't just a pinch like you think. It is designed to flush your system fro rapid weight loss!8 -
Yep, OP, I'm doing intermittent fasting (20/4) and I exercise in the morning or right before breaking my fast. My endurance has increased by at least 50%. IF is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I don't find it hard to stick to it and I've lost 9lbs within the first week. Obviously most of it is water weight, but this thing is definitely working for me. I feel sharper, more energetic and happier! Once I don't need to lose any more weight I'll transition to a (16/8) regime and stick to it because I don't plan on not doing IF anytime in the future.5
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Several teaspoons is nuts. I'm talking about maybe a quarter of a teaspoon of salt that you put in like a quarter to half a gallon of water.1
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lowcarbmale wrote: »Several teaspoons is nuts. I'm talking about maybe a quarter of a teaspoon of salt that you put in like a quarter to half a gallon of water.
Which is what they were saying at the beginning advising against it before you decided to add your two cents worth to confuse what is a stupid and dangerous practice.8 -
Mine probably isnt the healthiest way, but i only eat between 2pm and 8pm and only allow myself 1800 calories per day. So far ive lost 52lbs in 5 months. have another 34lbs to go, but seems to be working. i do go the gym for about an hour 6 times a week and have cut out potatoes, rice, bread, pasta and most sugars.5
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Lillymoo01 wrote: »lowcarbmale wrote: »Several teaspoons is nuts. I'm talking about maybe a quarter of a teaspoon of salt that you put in like a quarter to half a gallon of water.
Which is what they were saying at the beginning advising against it before you decided to add your two cents worth to confuse what is a stupid and dangerous practice.
Let's agree that some electrolytes in the water are healthy and extreme amounts of salt in water are obviously harmful. This topic is about intermittent fasting and not sea salt. Let's let other people get back to it.3 -
OP there are literally hundreds of recent threads about IF that have been posted lately on these boards, have you tried searching and reading through some of those?
There’s also a lot of buzz about it in the media but as others have pointed out, there’s nothing magical about it for weight loss - it simply is a way of creating a calorie deficit by condensing your intake into a certain time period. Some people find it really easy because they have natural patterns of hunger and by eating within those windows they may be able to eat more at one time than they could by spreading out intake throughout the day.
What is it about IF that appeals to you?5 -
seanbrannan wrote: »Mine probably isnt the healthiest way, but i only eat between 2pm and 8pm and only allow myself 1800 calories per day. So far ive lost 52lbs in 5 months. have another 34lbs to go, but seems to be working. i do go the gym for about an hour 6 times a week and have cut out potatoes, rice, bread, pasta and most sugars.
Sounds pretty darn healthy to me there's nothing bad about fasting to begin with, it's actually very natural and can be beneficial to one's health, it can also reverse type 2 diabetes, help lose weight, maintain metabolism and even make it work a bit faster than usually (like up to 8-10%). It's clearly not for everyone but it works for you and me, makes me more energetic, my skin is clearer because I drink more water throughout the day, I used to struggle to drink water cause I'd feel full from eating all day, now I get to drink a lot more water and it makes a big difference too. IF is something that I wish I tried years ago. 6
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