Sten Ekberg has a great channel on youtube about this. It worked for me but I've since fallen off the wagon with predictable results.
A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
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Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#52For decades of my adult life I skipped breakfast, going against all conventional dietary wisdom. Having 3 meals a day just felt like turning my body into a conveyor belt that produces faeces. Now I feel kinda vindicated. A few times I traveled with a friends who did the breakfast - lunch - dinner thing and after two or three days I had to opt out of either breakfast or dinner. I remember asking "how do you even manag…
I'm exactly the same. Go away with friends and eat like they do and so I'm feeling full all the time, which feels oddly bad. Then I'm going to the toilet all the time. Have been IF for the past 12 years, aged 49 and still same weight as when I was 20.
Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Calorie counting is the one true answer. Everything else is an approximation. I used MyFitnessPal to count calories - makes it pretty easy.
Do you know how many calories you burn? Do you actually know how many calories are in your food? I have a metabolic cart, and the answer surprises me sometimes on the former - just standing at my desk all day I burn >3300kcal. I actually went to talk to the guy in the Casey Neistat video about food labels, and almost bought a bomb calorimeter. Calorie counting, while not useless, is not very helpful. https://youtu.be…
video TL;DW: seems like it's basically safe to make an assumption that the reported calories in food could be 10%+ higher than expected, especially among packaged food. Larger restaurant chains like McDonald's and Subway seem to be slightly more accurate.
The surprising part was that it took the science guy 10 hours to calculate the calories for 5 food items ? Would be nice if we could get that down to minutes and accessible to personal consumers.
Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#54I lost over 75 pounds with time restricted eating mostly just one meal a day.
How did you avoid eating more to compensate for missing out on the other 2 meals a day?
Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know how many calories you burn? Do you actually know how many calories are in your food? I have a metabolic cart, and the answer surprises me sometimes on the former - just standing at my desk all day I burn >3300kcal. I actually went to talk to the guy in the Casey Neistat video about food labels, and almost bought a bomb calorimeter. Calorie counting, while not useless, is not very helpful. https://youtu.be…
I know approximately how many calories are in my food. Like I said I use MyFitnessPal to track it. I know approximately how many calories I burn. In addition to using an Apple Watch I track my workouts. And honestly this is good enough. If I target a 500 calorie per day deficit, I miraculously lose 1 pound per week. Which makes sense because simple arithmetic says that there are 3,500 calories per pound and 7 days ti…
I'm a nerd with more money than sense, what can I say! I trust the output of the device I have, and I do truly believe I am burning 3300kcal/day just standing at my desk, walking to the bathroom, etc. I eat 3500kcal/day pretty regularly, and maintain weight.
If you can target enough of a deficit and not be hungry, good for you. It's hard for most people. The input data is wrong, the output data is wrong/unknown, and one can only be hungry for so long.
Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#56Has anybody here experienced more impulsive behaviour as a result of intermittent fasting? More internal anger, being rude or impatient with your peers or children much more often, etc. I was on IF for 2-3 years, and while I gained a lot from the mental clarity, I also admit turning into an uneasy person within. A quick google provided a 2020 paper that tackles this same question: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art…
Yes, "hangry". I try to be aware of it now and then it's usually fine, and if it isn't I eat a small meal (some fruit or a protein bar)
Mine is pronounced enough that I've had romantic partners make a mental note to have snacks for me. It's pretty incredible, I can feel myself getting irritable, and within 15 minutes of eating something my body just relaxes and I'm back to being my charitable self.
Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#57Careful with your caffeine consumption if you start IF. Many people find they are more irritable on IF and fail to realize that their body processes coffee differently when they have an empty stomach.
Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know how many calories you burn? Do you actually know how many calories are in your food? I have a metabolic cart, and the answer surprises me sometimes on the former - just standing at my desk all day I burn >3300kcal. I actually went to talk to the guy in the Casey Neistat video about food labels, and almost bought a bomb calorimeter. Calorie counting, while not useless, is not very helpful. https://youtu.be…
video TL;DW: seems like it's basically safe to make an assumption that the reported calories in food could be 10%+ higher than expected, especially among packaged food. Larger restaurant chains like McDonald's and Subway seem to be slightly more accurate. The surprising part was that it took the science guy 10 hours to calculate the calories for 5 food items ? Would be nice if we could get that down to minutes and ac…
> The surprising part was that it took the science guy 10 hours to calculate the calories for 5 food items ? Would be nice if we could get that down to minutes and accessible to personal consumers.
Bomb Calorimetery is a PITA, I almost did a startup around this. The researcher in the video has a fairly manual one, there are automated setups that reduce this time, but they still cost $40k+ and require oxygen tanks, etc.
The even more difficult case for calories is something like a steak: how marbled is it? I could see some computer vision approach working.
Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#59These threads probably attract mostly people who are dieting or looking to diet, so maybe it’s helpful to have an observation from someone who has never been overweight: I notice overweight people like low-to-no fiber foods and are unaware that they are only eating a few grams of vegetables per day. Maybe it is a good idea to make sure that every meal you have contains a real amount of it, so if you have 3 meals per…
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Re: A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
#60It's great way to lose weight if you can keep yourself from overeating when your feeding window opens. It's the same result as calorie restriction. I like stuffing my face instead of eating smaller portions. So I decided to go down to 1 meal a day doing 20/4; I lost around 48 pounds in 3 months.
Isn't part of the point that if you are doing one meal a day you can eat until you are stuffed and still avoid excess calorie intake?