I need to edit this but I need to sleep
My apologies I stopped posting during a planned break. I didn't see your post.
If I didn't have a tight grip on my blood sugars I wouldnt choose intermittent fasting.
I'm pleased ive lost 10lbs in the weeks leading up to the new year. Down to 250. Its not a great achievement Imo to lose the first 10 when seriously trying.
I'm happy about though. I kept on posting even though I didn't have much responses . It keeps me focussed. To me intermittent fasting can be more of a lifestyle. So I had not fasted for 6 months . Nor did try to eat healthy . So once I decided to get back on into the lifestyle. Theres the adjustments period where I planned it. But what really happened phase. Then getting the other persons in my life into the lifestyle or used to me not being at the table everyday. So there's far less temptation especially when I apply guilt on the tempters. So that period is gone and into the phase. Fasting 3 days a week. Eating nutrition dense 4 days a week combined with exercise.
only time will tell if all the antioxidants, pre and probiotics , supplements, the medication, as well as the detox habits will make much difference at the 50 years stage.
I've learned a few thing that I'll share.
when you're really hungry it's easy to fall asleep and sometimes after just a few hours of sleep hunger pangs seem to subside. Then near the 30 -36 hour mark . Some of the foods that aren't very tasty. Are like the best food ever! So eating the healthy stuff hard at all. The other thing is coming from the comfort foods and or junk food lifestyle to the full on longevity foods. Isn't as hard either. What the most struggle is taking away 5 days from junk food lifestyle and replacing them with 108 hours of fasting and then have healthy fish for dinner on two feed days. So the adjustment was to find two feed days a week that are rich in food nutrition and is completely satisfying . Satisfyingly enough to make the past completely forgetable. I don't think about how hungry I'll be. Instead I look forward to to feed days with confidence knowing that I'm sated four days a week.
I'll through in that I believe this is a partial anti cancer diet. However it would be very good for trying to maintain weight once I reach my goal.
My goal is more about body fat ration than a weight number. But I want to be 10lbs . But strong instead of scrauny. There a period of time after eating around the 26 - 32 hours where most of the sugars and proteins have been metabolized. Then at the point the shifts into a cellular repair mode referee to as DNA repair mode. At the point I'm adjust my timing to be asleep when the other natural repair functions are at optimum.
But above all else it has to be doable. Because I won't stick to it if it's not.
I can be hungry for a day if I know a great dinner will be had the next day.
I made it simple. Its like going to bed hungry and waking up to a fantastic breakfast. You get used to it and eventually start looking forward to it.
I think I'm bit in a unique situation though. I work third shift .but I have a small family that is anything but 3rd shift. It becomes an advantage to eat. Sleep go to work when I get off work I've not eaten for 18 hours. The advantage is I can simply go to sleep again instead of eating.
what I didn't expect was after 4 years of trying this for 6 months or longer at time is it was extremely difficult the very first few time I tried it. But over the years it's become much much easier.
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Originally Posted by Rosinante
Hi, I wondered how you were doing?
I do admire your intermittent way of eating! I couldn't do it, I have to be either On a diet or Off it, if I try the intermittent way - which I know has lots of benefits - it feels like the first day of a diet every fast day/low intake day.
Did you explore the metformin? I was prescribed it in June this year for type 2 diabetes. I only take a tiny amount, because higher dosages gave me dreadful gastro problems. I've lost 68 of the 100lbs I needed to lose in June, so the diabetes has improved; so we're looking at me coming off it in January: I don't need it for the diabetes (I don't think the dose was high enough to affect the diabetes really) but I'm wondering about sticking with it because of all the other benefits I hear it has.
Some people find it helps with weightloss, because it does - at least, at first - take the edge off hunger; but I don't think I've ever over-eaten due to hunger (just for all the other reasons ) so it didn't help me that way. Quite fancy some longevity though!!
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