Intermittent Fasting!
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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
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