My brother is on a diet where he skips breakfast and lunch sometimes, but has a normal sized dinner.
He is encouraging me to do the same to lose weight.
I have to do something as I am grossly overweight and I am concerned of getting a stroke or heart attack.
Has anyone fasted before?
I’m hoping to lose some weight.
I would recommend you see a nutritionist to help you set up a healthy diet plan.
Only eating one large meal a day is not good for maintaining stable blood glucose throughout the day. It’s much better to eat three small healthy meals and a couple of healthy snacks.
I do both. intermittent fasting where I eat a lot in a 4hour window and then don’t eat for the rest of the day. and also fasting where i’ll go days without food
when you go days without food you have to be careful, because for me it triggered pyschosis, but that was when I was underweight I went from 140 to 115…now 170
both methods seem to work fine for losing weight
I wouldn’t fast everyday but maybe 3 times a week.
Less food equals less calories.
But I’ll see how I manage.
I think fasting would be counter-effective. It would increase your appetite, not decrease it.
If you’re overweight due to APs, changing meds is the best solution because as long as you’re on a med that makes you fat, any effort for losing weight can end up in failure.
Yes I realize that it’s the meds.
I will talk to her about it next week.
Yes you should.
I know how hard it is to lose weight while you’re on a med that makes you fat.
Have you heard of the Newcastle diet? it is an 8 week diet that can cure diabetes type 2, as proved in clinical tests. it is a tough diet, but rather than spend a year or so losing weight, i reckon a tough diet for 8 weeks would be easier. You have 3 shakes (each 200 calories) a day and 200 calories of vegetables like mushrooms.
You lose all the fat around your pancreas and liver in this diet, but if i was to diet i’d rather tough it out for 8 weeks than spend years doing it,
I’d given up on dieting. Now I’m back on a calorie controlled diet and I’m able to stick to it. My secret this time is decaffeinated espresso shots. Might be worth trying decaf coffee to see if it works.
Compared to placebo, decaffeinated coffee yielded significantly lower hunger during the whole 180-minute study period and higher plasma PYY for the first 90 minutes (p < 0.05).
A doctor recommended I eat 2000 calories a day. Eat a bunch of small meals throughout the day. Metamucil keeps me from over indulging. I’ve lost 17 lbs in the past 4 months without exercise.
I’ll give decaf coffee a try.
I’m really fed up trying to lose weight.
I’m getting desperate.
I’d pretty much given up. But decaf coffee has me on the bandwagon again. It’s worth a go. But like I said I’m using strong decaf espresso shots.
I have read a lot of good things about fasting, not only to lose weight but also to regenerate cells.
Fasting should never be done without medical supervision. Also, fasting if you are diabetic can be dangerous. Please talk wth your pdoc and/or your GP.
Fasting advocates make a lot of claims. It can be tempting to believe them. I used to believe them as well, that a water fast could cure all my ailments. So, I went off meds with a doctor’s supervision, and had a psychotic break. That may not be related to the fasting, but the motivation to water fast and go off all meds to facilitate that is what led to the whole episode.
Be skeptical of the claims people make, and trust trained medical professionals. They can tell better than anyone what is good for you. So I would go to a nutritionist and see if there’s a good way of doing this. Or if it’s hokum.
Start with just a sugar diet first. Try a week
yeah, I don’t think you can fast if you are diabetic! It is dangerous!
Also watch out, some meds on empty stomach cause a lot of damage.
Try portion control or removing things from your diet very slowly.
I’m going to talk to my pdoc about skipping meals @Moonbeam.
I tend to not believe in my brother.
I lost a lot of fat not having Sugar. Take note of what I write “fat” this is the key.
Muscleman @Qwerty1