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Fasting - does it work?

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  • HonkyTonks
    HonkyTonks Posts: 1,193 Member
    why don't you ask a personal trainer? someone who has an educational background in nutrition, weight loss, exercise programs catering to certain requirements? just a thought....

    If you go to 3 different ones you will get 3 different opinions. Just compare the Weight Watchers vs. Dr. Atkins vs. Dr Fuhrmann and all have a medical background. LOL

    My experience of Personal Trainers is that they don't know much about anything except how to do exercises. Usually they have been taught a position on nutrition and don't keep up with current research.

    For example, a PT at my gym insisted that I needed to eat 6 small meals a day to boost my metabolism. I didn't listen to much after that.
  • crisanderson27
    crisanderson27 Posts: 5,343 Member
    why don't you ask a personal trainer? someone who has an educational background in nutrition, weight loss, exercise programs catering to certain requirements? just a thought....

    If you go to 3 different ones you will get 3 different opinions. Just compare the Weight Watchers vs. Dr. Atkins vs. Dr Fuhrmann and all have a medical background. LOL

    My experience of Personal Trainers is that they don't know much about anything except how to do exercises. Usually they have been taught a position on nutrition and don't keep up with current research.

    For example, a PT at my gym insisted that I needed to eat 6 small meals a day to boost my metabolism. I didn't listen to much after that.

    It's debatable whether they actually know that even. For example (and oddly enough lol) I actually had a little fun tonight at the gym (LA Fitness) by asking four separate personal trainers just how much the bar/rack on the leg press machine weighed. Can you guess the response? Let me put it this way, they all had to appeal to a higher power, and I got three different answers back (two came back with the same answer), none of which were correct.
  • mfpcopine
    mfpcopine Posts: 3,093 Member

    It's debatable whether they actually know that even. For example (and oddly enough lol) I actually had a little fun tonight at the gym (LA Fitness) by asking four separate personal trainers just how much the bar/rack on the leg press machine weighed. Can you guess the response? Let me put it this way, they all had to appeal to a higher power, and I got three different answers back (two came back with the same answer), none of which were correct.

    I've been to board-certified specialists who knew nothing about weight loss or fitness. (I consulted them about conditions unrelated to weight loss.) I found out how ignorant they were when some meds were discussed and I asked if they caused weight gain. They immediately thought I was underweight (which I am not). Even they have these one-size-fits-all weight charts in their head.

    I've been examined by doctors who asked if I was a dancer. Why? Because I'm not overweight and was stretching because I'd been sitting. That's all it took. No one who actually treated dancers would ever make that assumption. But I guess even doctors are influenced by the weight of their patients.
  • nabooru1017
    nabooru1017 Posts: 10
    Notice,

    the only naysayers are those who have not yet tried it, or have clearly failed middle school Biology.


    Please. I beg you. Stop saying "Starvation Mode" like it's an actual concept.
  • wackyfunster
    wackyfunster Posts: 944 Member
    Notice,

    the only naysayers are those who have not yet tried it, or have clearly failed middle school Biology.


    Please. I beg you. Stop saying "Starvation Mode" like it's an actual concept.
    QFT
  • staceyo1211
    staceyo1211 Posts: 163
    I think it will work for you if you have the ability to fast.
    I find if i go without food for about 5 hours i get very faint and dizzy, and i start to struggle with simple motor fuctions.
    And i will just start to shake and after about 8 hours of not eating i will start to go into like hazy trances.
    Fasting is not an option for me lol.


    Sound like you have hypoglycemia, I have it and I do they same thing you said when I go a while with out eating. My blood sugar gets too low.
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    I think it will work for you if you have the ability to fast.
    I find if i go without food for about 5 hours i get very faint and dizzy, and i start to struggle with simple motor fuctions.
    And i will just start to shake and after about 8 hours of not eating i will start to go into like hazy trances.
    Fasting is not an option for me lol.

    even when you are sleeping?
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