I've been eating LCHF for almost 4 years now, I started doing it to lose weight, but I feel so much better when on diet that is hard to stop.
When I'm firm on the diet, I can easily go a full day without any food, and not feel any hunger or mood swings. It's great.
Intermittent Fasting Is Gaining Acceptance
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#42I have being doing IF now for a 4 months and out of all the various dieting methods I have tried over the years I'm very impressed so far. I only do one meal a day (big lunch around 2pm) and then a protein shake and maybe a beer at 8ish. I like that I can have a beer every day. I have noticed a couple of things with diet: * shockingly you can still workout hard while starving. * it seems to help regulate and improve…
IF coaches have reported that women tend to want to break the fast ~2 hours earlier than men. Men can generally make it 16 hours and women make it to 14 before the hunger really sets in. This has been my experience also, but I don't know the root cause.
From my anecdotal experience, that's approximately where the mental "hump" is. If you can push past that point, the hunger becomes background noise, and maintaining the fast becomes easier.
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IF coaches have reported that women tend to want to break the fast ~2 hours earlier than men. Men can generally make it 16 hours and women make it to 14 before the hunger really sets in. This has been my experience also, but I don't know the root cause.
My anecdotal experience is that my wife and various other females seem to loose more weight with additional meals earlier in the day. My next observation is that perhaps post fast my wife and others seem binge more often (again just an observation). For me after I fast its almost impossible for me to pack 2k calories in 4 hours IF I eat healthy. I feel disgustingly full but my wife doesn't. The other thing is my wife…
My girlfriend and I are both dancers and whenever we have a hard training session she prefers to eat about 1.5-2 hours beforehand while for me it's more like 2.5-3 to feel the most comfortable. Just an anectode.
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#44I don't think it's possible for the average person to fast in any of the ways suggested here. I think the best thing to do is have a light dinner without carbs and a healthy breakfast. If you do this daily it will be like a daily intermittent fast as you can have a large lunch to indulge yourself. This way you can actually stick to it. I have been doing this for years and am very fit. I made a video showing what I ate for lunch each day while losing weight to prove it works https://youtu.be/v0hYofwTIiw
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#45I've been practicing intermittent fasting for almost a year now. It works fine for me. I generally eat no breakfast or lunch. I drink only water throughout the day. I run a 5k every morning on an empty stomach with no ill effects. It really helps keep my body fat low and makes me conscious and deliberate about what I eat. The only exceptions are meals I eat for social reasons (e.g., work lunch meetings) and mornings…
Does your concentration suffer throughout the day due to low blood sugar? Did it at first?
Anecdotally, low blood sugar only seems to bother me when I am not physically fit. Similarly, I only get hunger pangs when I've eaten too much and haven't exercised. After a few weeks of steady endurance training both of these things went away. If I am really hungry, it presents less as pain or weakness than a very empty stomach. If I'm not training regularly, my stomach is rarely ever that empty. I'm always hungry, which leads to constant snacking and eating big meals. Exercising even lightly on a regular basis, there's a much stronger feedback loop where your body has an opportunity to let you know you've over eaten or eaten a poor mix of nutrients.
All of this is probably limited to light resistance/endurance training. This sort of goes out the window while lifting weights, at least for me. Then its very hard for me not to eat a ton. I think the fascination with protein is totally misguided though. Some people think they need 200g/day when probably 30g is sufficient.
One thing I really embraced in college was ketosis. I hardly ate, aside from a few well earned feasts. But its extremely hard to maintain if you don't have the freedom to work out multiple times a day and carbs are a convenient and cheap source of calories.
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#46I don't think it's possible for the average person to fast in any of the ways suggested here. I think the best thing to do is have a light dinner without carbs and a healthy breakfast. If you do this daily it will be like a daily intermittent fast as you can have a large lunch to indulge yourself. This way you can actually stick to it. I have been doing this for years and am very fit. I made a video showing what I at…
Why not skip breakfast and only eat lunch (at 1pm) and dinner (before 9)? You phrased your claim in such a way that it's impossible for anyone to argue with it (I manage to eat like above, but then I might not be an average person). Do you have any reasons to make such claim?
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#47I don't think it's possible for the average person to fast in any of the ways suggested here. I think the best thing to do is have a light dinner without carbs and a healthy breakfast. If you do this daily it will be like a daily intermittent fast as you can have a large lunch to indulge yourself. This way you can actually stick to it. I have been doing this for years and am very fit. I made a video showing what I at…
>I don't think it's possible for the average person to fast in any of the ways suggested here.
Really? I did a form of time restricted feeding and it was the easiest thing ever. It seems hard to consume all your calories in an eight hour window, until you realize all that really means in practice is skipping breakfast and eating a late lunch. Once you get used to it, it's really easy and natural.
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#49I have being doing IF now for a 4 months and out of all the various dieting methods I have tried over the years I'm very impressed so far. I only do one meal a day (big lunch around 2pm) and then a protein shake and maybe a beer at 8ish. I like that I can have a beer every day. I have noticed a couple of things with diet: * shockingly you can still workout hard while starving. * it seems to help regulate and improve…
> TMI but if I eat healthy and frequently I kill several trees w/ toilet paper consumption
Why would frequent bowel movements (which I assume were implied by the above) be an "improvement"? Wouldn't the best case scenario be once a day, regularly (same time every day), very low TP consumption (not too much fluid)?
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#50I don't think it's possible for the average person to fast in any of the ways suggested here. I think the best thing to do is have a light dinner without carbs and a healthy breakfast. If you do this daily it will be like a daily intermittent fast as you can have a large lunch to indulge yourself. This way you can actually stick to it. I have been doing this for years and am very fit. I made a video showing what I at…
> I don't think it's possible for the average person to fast in any of the ways suggested here.
I'm quite an average person (or at least I'd like to think so) but for many years I did what that first guy from the article did, i.e. not having breakfast nor lunch, I was eating most of the calories for the day during dinner. Not sure how that has affected my health, at least now I'm back at having breakfast again, but the culture of "three big meals a day" is certainly not the be-all and end-all of nutrition.
I also cannot eat meat before 4 or 5 PM, I can't understand how people can have things like English breakfast so early in the morning. I also love fruits, if it were to me I'd eat fruits all day, every day.