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Old Tue, Jun-28-16, 12:34
Mpl16 Mpl16 is offline
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Originally Posted by katmeyster
To be honest, after being so strict after 3 months (really mostly in ketosis for 5 months) I was getting pretty frustrated and starting allowing in "just a few" extra carbs. Then I decided to have "just a couple" of chips, and then just "a taste" of refried beans (Mexican food is my thing). So I don't know how long I could have gone in ketosis without losing weight. It was the, "what the f*&k, I'm not losing any weight, so I might as well enjoy myself" trap. Anyway, it kind of went downhill from there where I was still relatively low carb, but even then I gain weight -- so I gained about 50 pounds in 5 years.

So now I'm willing to fast to get results. I think I'm in a better place overall, so I don't think I'll fall back into the "trap," but I'd still like to have the scale move in order to be motivated.

So what I did yesterday was have a normal low carb dinner. I ate late and stopped eating around 8:00 p.m. I got up in the morning and did some work while drinking a couple of cups of coffee with heavy whipping cream. I then left for the day and was just too busy to think about eating. Then I went to the gym to work out for an hour (a new thing for me), and got home about 5:30 p.m. I find that working out while fasting gives you a lot of energy -- just the opposite of what you would think. So about 7:00 I ate about 1/4 of an avocado to break my fast, then dinner at 8:00 -- so about 23 hours between food. So from the end of dinner the night before until the avocado I had no food and only water, coffee, and tea. I've been doing this for a few weeks now (about every other day) and I do not get very hungry at all. I might feel a slight wave of hunger, but just drinking some tea makes that go away (I especially like Good Earth spicy tea for this). It's kinda weird but I now look forward to fasting days -- I love how it feels to be so light and energetic. This type of fasting is not extreme and is actually quite healthy as long as you are in good health.

You can just try skipping breakfast to see what it feels like.

Kat


Thanks for the detail, Kat -- it is really helpful. I have skipped breakfast for two days now (foregoing my beloved eggs, but I really wasn't hungry), and it seems to be budging the scale a bit. I usually finish dinner by 6 p.m. and have lunch at noon or 12:30 p.m., so hopefully that's a bit of a fat-burning IF for me.
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