Intermittent Fasting

[commanderkeen]

Whenever you are trying to lose fat, you have to make sure to eat nutritious food. This is to ensure that you get all your essential vitamins, minerals and fats. This becomes especially true when you are doing something as radical as ADF. I'm glad rajagra is doing well with it.

[smalltank]

carbs+sugar is MOST important..if its calories you are counting..then eat all the salad you want (no dressing of course)...

But if youre dealing with "stress weight"..then take Cortisol pills..I have lost 12lb..my wife as well..exercise and keep a good diet as well but no need to go nuts with restrictions (assuming this is the case of course)

[rajagra]

Still doing ADF, still amazed at how easy it is. I'm not getting hunger pangs at all.
When I am eating I try to cram in as wide a variety of foods as possible, even added veg with breakfast on the fasting day!
While I'm not doing this specifically for the weight loss, it is happening...

Apparently fasting suppresses appetite. This is a real eye-opener. I wouldn't advise any form of fasting for someone obsessed with being thin. It's just too easy. I'm sure this is what happens in anorexia*. Suppressed appetite + stupid aims = disaster.

Edit> I just looked it up, anorexia literally means loss of appetite, so anorexia nervosa means neurotic loss of appetite. Good job I'm not at risk.

[commanderkeen]

So, about 6 weeks in. Got another bio-impedance reading of my body. The results were good to say the least, but still have 1.6% BF to drop.

Before After
Weight 102.4kg 98.4kg
BF mass 14.4kg 11.4kg
BF% 14.0 11.6
Lean mass 88.0kg 87.0kg

Not bad for about 6 weeks.

[Illadelphia]

carbs+sugar is MOST important..if its calories you are counting..then eat all the salad you want (no dressing of course)...

But if youre dealing with "stress weight"..then take Cortisol pills..I have lost 12lb..my wife as well..exercise and keep a good diet as well but no need to go nuts with restrictions (assuming this is the case of course)

Certain cortisol pills can have a negative feedback loop on estrogen. Be careful, as you do need some estrogen in your body. If your joints get dry, scale back a bit.

What pills are you using if you don't mind me asking?

[rajagra]

30 days into alternate day fasting and my body mass index is now 25 - so I'm officially no longer overweight! Probably for the first time in my life.
I've never been on a diet, and I don't view ADF as "a diet." It's just a way of eating that is easy and convenient and seems to deliver a wide range of health benefits. It also frees up a fair bit of time on the fasting days (especially if you cook for yourself.)

As for whether it is sustainable, I can only speak for myself, but it's a total non-issue. This feels normal to me now.



Edit> I thought I would double check the breakfast I have on the modified fasting day to make sure it matched the 600 calories advised. I've been adding lots of nuts, seeds and other extras.

Main dish: 340g (cooked) groats, 5g butter, 25g raisins, 5g goji berries, 5g cranberries, 25g blueberries, 3g walnut, 3g sunflower seeds, 3g brazil nut, 3g pecan nut, 3g pine nuts, 4g almonds.
Side nibbles: 25g radishes, 15g smoked mackerel, 85g tomato, 50g beetroot, 50g yoghurt.
Drink: 150g kefir (basically fermented whole milk.)

According to MyNetDiary, all of that adds up to ... 598 calories. Close enough!

[rajagra]

I've been doing modified alternate day fasting for 100 days now. Graph in previous post is updated with weight loss info.
My scales estimate body fat and muscle mass. I know the values aren't too accurate, but they are useful for tracking change, and easy to record, so here's a graph of that:



Calipers show my body fat to be even lower, but I don't do those measurements so often.

So, key point is, fasting hasn't lead to muscle wasting.

I hope others are as happy with their fasting experiments as I am. Doing this has been one of the best decisions of my life.
I may try incorporating features of the leangains system, it would be nice to increase muscle mass, and what I've read about it is convincing.

[azmark]

Certain cortisol pills can have a negative feedback loop on estrogen. Be careful, as you do need some estrogen in your body. If your joints get dry, scale back a bit.

What pills are you using if you don't mind me asking?

I'm curious too. Cortisol hits me about this time of year as I cleanse for a few weeks before blasting again at the beginning of winter. I have to eat a ridiculous amount of food to keep weight under control.

Zero estrogen in men is as bad as zero testosterone in women.