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I'm not going in for a routine check, so it's probably something I can have checked. I'm using a ketone testing meter to check if I'm in a fat burning state. When you are in fat burning mode, you produce a ton of ketones, and you can measure that. I'm also not taking any exogenous ketones which can skew the results. I'm…

There is actually a pretty good Youtube video by a doctor studying this stuff that says exactly what you said. A lot of things that work for humans regarding ketosis don't translate over to rats, and vice versa.

... I'm bringing up Ghandi to point out that doing 6 weeks of IF on between 1200-1700 calories isn't going to make turn my body into some wasteland of medical conditions. We store body fat to use as calories in times when our body feels it necessary. IF is designed to put you into a fat burning state. I'm pretty much…

Even if I am experiencing some muscle loss, (Not enough to prevent me from doing anything that I do normally, but I'd guess I've lost some.) I highly doubt that the body is so dumb to choose my heart as the first place it takes proteins from when it has so many other options. I feel like our species would have died out…

I guess I'll find out if "any length of time" is 6 weeks. Should be at or around my goat weight by then. If my body decides to betray me before then, or my labs turn up something awful, I'll make a forum post about it. I'm not currently experiencing any concerning side effects. Everything is functioning as usual except…

I thought of that after the fact. All I can do is update the after picture obviously, haha.

Like I've said before. I've done low calorie diets before. They sucked. I was pretty much always hungry because I kept trying to have evenly spaced 400-600 calorie meals. This feels different. I'm not hungry and lethargic all of the time. Week one and two was me being cranky, and generally bleh feeling, but 3, and 4 have…

UPS is only 3 hours a night, and I'm mostly gaming the rest of the day, so I figured that about evened out to lightly active. As far as underfueling goes, I have more energy than I've had in years, and my body isn't telling me I'm hungry all of the time like it did when I was eating 2500-4000 calories a day, so I'm not…

If you can deal with black coffee, it helps. Works for me anyway. About 10oz keeps me good for the 2-3 hours before my eating window starts.

A lot of the time, I'm not doing much better than 1200. The exercise puts me pretty far into deficit as well. I was doing closer to 1000 calories of cardio for the first couple weeks, and then scaled it back. I ran it through some calculators, and my daily deficit was between 2000-2500, yeah. I also don't count working UPS…

I have it set to male. It will only yell at me if I drop below 1200, which I haven't lately. I was just exceptionally not hungry for a few days, so I ran with it 1189 or whatever I was at. I'm 6'3 227 currently. I did some research on 2-3 day water only fasts to see if I could, but that probably wouldn't cut it at work.…

The thing is, I've done low calorie diets off and on over the years, and it's never been this easy to drop the pounds. Eating the same calories I am on IF as I used to on low calorie 3 meals a day took me months to make this much progress. The plateaus were rough, and discouraging. I've even upped my calories on IF this…

I haven't noticed any loss in strength. My cardio exercises haven't gotten any harder, and I can still lug around 150 pound packages while working at UPS, so I don't think muscle loss has been an issue. Honestly, this is more of a personal test of what my body can deal with. I'm going to ride out this IF/Keto shenanigans…

Eh. People have been doing proper fasts on only water for ages, so I don't think the occasional 1200 calories is going to have any lasting impact. I feel great for the most part. MFP only yells at me if I go under 1200, haha. On a side note, I'm actually bumping my calories up since I'll be trying out OMAD. I shoot for…

I've been doing IF for about 4 1/2 weeks, and I've lost 23 lbs (probably about 3-5 lbs of water weight) and 3 inches off my waist. I've dieted on and off throughout the years, and this has been the easiest plan to stick to for me personally. It's not for everyone, but the narrow eating window makes it easy for me to stick…

While I can see someone being legitimately annoyed by some of these "compliments," there is sort of a recurring theme I'm noticing in a lot, of these posts. What I'm gathering is that if someone thinks you look better at ten, fifty, or a hundred pounds less, then they shouldn't tell you, because it's an insult. The…