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He lost 45 lbs, that’s what probably removed his sleeps apnea. Not because of some other magical ability of intermittent fasting. One of my friends also lost a lot of weight and his apnea went away, he went off of his CPAP machine.
> How do you start? Agatston told me to start by skipping one meal a day, usually breakfast. (Yes, you can have black coffee in the morning, into which he adds ghee, a type of clarified butter, and coconut oil to reduce hunger pangs. It’s not your typical cup of coffee.) This may be ok to start with, though black coffee by itself has the ability to kill hunger without these crutches. Adding ghee or coconut oil in bla…
For anyone interested in weight loss and heart health, please remember that both are impaired by not getting enough sleep. Studies have shown that you're way more likely to over eat if you get less than 7 hours of sleep a night. Source: "Why we sleep" by Matthew Walker.
> How do you start? Agatston told me to start by skipping one meal a day, usually breakfast. (Yes, you can have black coffee in the morning, into which he adds ghee, a type of clarified butter, and coconut oil to reduce hunger pangs. It’s not your typical cup of coffee.) This may be ok to start with, though black coffee by itself has the ability to kill hunger without these crutches. Adding ghee or coconut oil in bla…
black coffee + ghee/coconut oil is part of keto. He must be doing keto + IF.
> How do you start? Agatston told me to start by skipping one meal a day, usually breakfast. (Yes, you can have black coffee in the morning, into which he adds ghee, a type of clarified butter, and coconut oil to reduce hunger pangs. It’s not your typical cup of coffee.) This may be ok to start with, though black coffee by itself has the ability to kill hunger without these crutches. Adding ghee or coconut oil in bla…
black coffee + ghee/coconut oil is part of keto. He must be doing keto + IF.
1. Become a weird coffee person and put some nerd energy into it so black coffee doesn't taste disgusting on it's own. James Hoffman on YouTube is a great way into this.
2. Eschew the coffee and take a teaspoon of MCT Oil before your can of zero-calorie Energy Drink (Coke Zero Energy is my favorite atm). It may be dirty and people are going to tell you Aspartame is evil and is going to make you hungry(it really might, but you are still hours away from your window so black/white discipline is easy to keep alive), but for me it worked much better than dreading the coffee in the morning.
For anyone interested in weight loss and heart health, please remember that both are impaired by not getting enough sleep. Studies have shown that you're way more likely to over eat if you get less than 7 hours of sleep a night. Source: "Why we sleep" by Matthew Walker.
This book? https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Update: he has. His reply can be found here: https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/
I am not certain how generalizable this is. Because this sorts of diet research relies most often on self-reporting, I mostly read it by prepending 'People exist for which ...'. And that is good to know, and hopefully they are not outliers by too much, but it probably won't be silver bullet for everybody.
I.e. I remember hearing two twich streamers talk about their diets an one said how she really enjoys intermittent fasting, while other mentionsh how he needs to eat something at least every four hours, or he literally sees his apm in Starcraft drop :D
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/esoe-cif0516... warns you intermittent fasting diets could increase diabetes risk. I wish I had data from before but after I attempted intermittent fasting I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It's possible I had it before, I alas haven't had blood work done for a few years prior. I changed my diet, never attempted fasting again and the 6.8 HbA1c dropped to and stayed…
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/intermittent-fasting-sur...
Interestingly, the researcher doesn't discuss skipping breakfast. I've been skipping for several years with a somewhat uneasy feeling and a growing phobia for diabetes. I'll probably try the 3pm/7pm to 7am fast instead; maybe my body doesn't tolerate skipping breakfast as well as I would like it to.