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Hack your lizard brain. The easier it is for you to sneak a snack in the easier it will be for your rotten monkey brain to grab for it. Pro-tip: Don't put a box of milanos on your kitchen tabletop. Put it on the tallest shelf behind all the god damn condiment bottles.
2. If you have 10-15 percent body fat (which is lean) you still have 5000 calories of food on your body ready to eat for a couple of days.
Look at Dr Sten Ekberg, or any oncologist for information about longer term fasting and insulin.
Anecdata you can ignore: for me, a 48h fast drops about 1% of my body fat, originally there's a 2% drop but it'll come back up to -1% after a few days.
The book "Eat to Live" explains why plant-based foods are better for you and how much of the processed food in the modern lifestyle is not good for long-term health.
Diets are temporary and so are their results. Lifestyle changes require a bigger commitment, but they will change your life.
I got a psychogenic fever and lost a few kg in a week that didn't come back https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27227051/ If you hit the right buttons in the sympathetic nervous system you activate a special population of fat cells that seems to thermalize fat without the fat cells fighting to get it back afterwards. I don't think it's reproducible because the level of psychological stress required to make it happen is e…
What an interesting anecdote. I wonder if mentally-induced fever that is _not_ associated with high stress levels could do something similar, or if a certain level of mental anguish is a prerequisite in addition to the fever itself.
Same with exercise. Walk a certain amount on weekend days until it’s a habit. Then try weekdays too. Then increase the length.
tldr: play the long game
Alcohol has calories - inhaled cannabis does not.
When this first came out well over a decade ago, I completely changed my diet and lost 45 lbs. Since then I have kept it off, strictly through diet.
My only exercise is walking, and I am not at all consistent about it. I am living proof that a correct zero-sugar diet alone works.