Intermittent Fasting Support Group?

fasting is awesome...!!!!!!!!! makes me feel light and fluffy.... i'll join

Hi Yvette,

Do you follow Paleo or Primal?? There's a bunch of us on here. Not sure how many do IF. But I'm sure there's quite a few! I haven't done it yet. Still in my first 30 days of Paleo. I also understand that IF is best for people that are building muscle. I'm not doing that yet, but plan on starting to work out any day now

So I'm sure you'll get some folks that'll love to be in your support group. I hope to be soon

The last two weeks I have been attempting to transition into primal/paleo so were out here
Feel free to add me!

i fast once a week as well. sometimes liquid only (around 600 calories), sometimes only water (0 calories), and sometimes from a certain food that has been messing with my head (normal calories). feel free to friend me.
dawn

I don't really know much about intermittent fasting - do you notice it makes a difference in achieving your goals? Do you exercise on those days? I'd be interested in hearing more about it.

It has made a big difference in achieving my goals. I find it grants me much more freedom with my food choices during weight loss, thus making me less stressed and less food focused, and it really keeps me feeling "clean."

An added bonus - on fasting days I am insanely productive. It was surprising how much more I am able to accomplish in a day when I am not thinking about what I am going to eat and the actual eating time I get back.

And yes, I do exercise in a fasted state, and it has seemed to be pretty effective.

If you are looking for more detailed information, check out bradpilon.com or leangains.com. Brad and Martin are amazing!

Thanks - I'll check that out

I am really curious about this... I have not intentionally labelled a "diet" plan, but I have (for many years) had "intermittent fasts" - and often do not eat breakfast, (obviously thus far it has not helped me - however hwat I did eat outside of that was very unhealthy and far too much)
I would love any information about how this benefits weight loss and management.

Hey, we are out here!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/157274-eat-stop-eat-how-it-s-worked-for-me?hl=Eat+stop+eat&page=6#posts-2815973
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/217996-intermittent-fasting

However, there is not official support group. I'd like to join and I'd like us to keep it going! I feel like I've told my story ad nauseum, but basically I started off with eat stop eat, fasting two 24 hour sessions in a week. I lost weight and it was pretty simple. It's no problem when I'm working (busy job) and drinking water/green tea, I would even exercise. I read the book and was convinced by the studies that showed that fasting greater than 12 hours actually increases your fat burning enzymes. It also makes sense that your body would burn more fat while fasting; that's why we have fat!

I switched over to leangains because I find it easier, especially since it helps me to stop snacking every night. Hubby doesn't eat in the am most times anyway, though I will break it early on the weekends if need be. I do still do ESE sessions when hubby is out of town or its convenient for my schedule. If it wasn't for my food intolerances and muscle gain I'd probably be at goal weight even doing this stuff sporadically as I am, but I am pretty much at goal size, just continuing to get that number on the scale and hopefully lean out a bit more.

To answer your question i am a closet faster. Most of the time hubby doesn't know I'm fasting. If I'm working the next day I will start fasting after dinner and then break it at work around lunchtime and he is none the wiser. Occasionally I will tell him I'm fasting which doesn't bother him for cleansing purposes but he hates any and all dietary restrictions for weight loss (he is one of those with 6% body fat who thinks exercise alone is enough). In fact, it is worse with I'm when I'm closely watching calories than when I'm fasting!

I am the leanest one in my side of the family, so I don't get support there anyway, except when it comes to my gluten intolerance. I am also the health nut at work (mind you I work with docs and nurses, lol) so I'm always bringing my uber healthy food, drinking something strange, or unable to eat something brought in, so no one bats an eye when I'm fasting or really doing anything bizarre anymore :laugh:

Oh and if someone actually does confront me about fasting being unhealthy, I hit them with the barrage of data I have collected from scientific studies (well referenced in ESE and lean gains by the way) until they don't wanna talk about it anymore :laugh:

I love doing fat burning cardio while fasting, I try to avoid fasted weight training since Berkhan discourages it and Pilon is neutral, havent gotten the bcaas yet but probably will

In terms of Paleo (intimately linked with IF), some posters have probably noticed me sniffing around Paleo threads. I am gluten intolerant, have bad reactions to sugar and am really really into organic clean food. I buy nearly everything from whole foods and farmer's markets, am a huge Michael Pollan fan, and think the Paleo lifestyle is healthy. However, I cannot quite give up beans, potatoes, rice and rice products, and occasionally fall victim to sugar. So I cannot call myself Paleo, though I'm maybe 80-90% when eating well.

Ok I'll stop posting now. Just got so excited about the support group idea :laugh:

I also am interested in IF. I was wondering if anyone had any data showing the benefit of it vs the norm?

I love IF and have been doing it once a week for about a month now. I normally will start my fast after lunch. On days that I fast I dont eat differently or try to gorge, I eat a small breakfast and a normally lunch (chicken/veggies) then let the fasting begin around 1pm. I normally hit the gym at 5:30 and dont get home until after 7. I just drink lots of water and head to bed early and let the fat burning begin while I sleep. Its awesome and when I wake up the next day I have already fasted for 15 hours and most of it without knowing it. I again have a light breakfast (2 hardboiled eggs/coffee) and let the day begin. There are a lot of na sayers that will tell you it's so unhealthy and you will go into starvation mode, but I have yet to do that and I find I wake up with tons of energy and ready to start the day.

Stick with it!!!

Interesting. A colleague of mine lost 100 lbs two years ago and did it in around 7 months. He did not eat at all between 4pm and 8am the next morning. I had no idea this was considered borderline fasting.

Fitness blackbook is a website about reaching a celebrity-type body and getting nice and lean. He advocates combining fasting and Paleo. Here is an article in which he discusses eat stop eat vs warrior diet, but he makes much mention of IF throughout his blog: http://fitnessblackbook.com/diet-tips/eat-stop-eat-vs-the-warrior-diet/

Hey - bump! I posted on the wrong thread, meant to report I finished ESE last night and then resumed leangains which gave me a tiny eating window, but I'm on track today and feeling good. The ESE really helped to flush my system, got 2 lbs of my vacation water weight off

I do Eat Stop Eat. I have looked a Lean Gains and might try that someday.