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Registration said:
>Fasting 24h
>yesterday when I woke up: 85kg
>still fasting
>83kg

Almost 48 hours since my last meal, I still could go if I wasn't alone in the house and there is still food to be eaten, or it will spoil.

Living alone would make fasting really easy.
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Are you doing that electrolyte water fast or just going a couple days?
 
Registration said:
But not having salt in anything makes you dizzy every time you get up.
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I tend to have a cup of bone broth about every 12 hours as I do my fasts, that seems to take care of the dizziness. Also after 18-24 hours it's fucking delicious.
 
I am a fat fuck, and sadly a manlit, will disclose weight but not height out of shame. Anyway I started seriously dieting August 23rd this year. My weight when I started was 118.6KG (yes im using metric fuck you) as of today I am 111.5kg. So a loss of 7kg. I am happy with it, but I know I could be losing more if I didnt fuck up my diet once a week to fill my cravings, and exercised. My diet plan is a pretty strict one, it was given by a dietitian because I have a condition that might require surgery. Anyway health scare has me on this path and hopefully I dont fuck it up later down the line. My diet is a high protein low carb one. My breakfast is one of those meal replacement protein shakes. I usually skip breakfast though. I also tend to just have lunch/dinner at the same time, so usually at 3-4pm. For that im allowed low fat protein, for beef its 100grams, for chicken its 120gram, and whitefish 150grams. I can have with my protein 100grams of potato, or sweet potato, or 3/4 cup Corn, or 200 gram of pumpkin. Supper is usually a small salad. Again based on the diet I should be losing more I know, but I fuck it up and have a free day where I eat out, but I try not to get too crazy. Still im happy with the progress im making, although I really need to work in a proper exercise routine. As for motivation other than my health issue, I watch the My 600 pound Life show and remind myself that if I ever reach that level, I will just kill myself.
 
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I've actually lost a decent amount of weight without trying from my appetite just randomly dying. Not sure what is causing that exactly. It's off and on, but it makes me want to actually put in effort to lose more weight.
 
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Distended Gunt said:
I started attempting to lose weight in mid January where I was ~133 kg (293 lb), weighed in this morning at 123.5 kg (272 lb). I'm actually genuinely excited to get to <120 kg (264 lb) just to see what it's like.

I used to think I'm really addicted to food and it'd be so difficult to give up etc. etc. but for a lot of stuff it really was as simple as "stop eating it". I still have chocolate in the fridge and I see it everytime I open the door but don't feel compelled to do anything with it.

It doesn't seem like a lot compared to my overall weight but it's definitely noticeable, I see less flab on my face, gut doesn't extend over my belt so much and at the rate I'm moving I'll either need to add holes or get a new belt. I came into the office the other day (I mostly work from home) and the people there noticed I looked different.
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Update: at 96 kg (211 lb) now.
 
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If you're losing inches around your waist and hips and you don't have enough money to buy new pairs of pants, buying suspenders is a cheaper option. If you don't like how suspenders look, wear them under your shirt and no one will notice.
 
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Fixthe Fernback said:
I've actually lost a decent amount of weight without trying from my appetite just randomly dying. Not sure what is causing that exactly. It's off and on, but it makes me want to actually put in effort to lose more weight.
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Crippling depression? Parasitic worms living in your intestine? STD? Gypsy curse? I'd mention it to your gp if it persists. Make sure your nutrition is ok in the meantime, make your self eat some veggies and meat
 
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Brahma said:
Crippling depression? Parasitic worms living in your intestine? STD? Gypsy curse? I'd mention it to your gp if it persists. Make sure your nutrition is ok in the meantime, make your self eat some veggies and meat
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It's more than likely the medication I'm taking now that I think about it.
 
Went up to 80kg from 68kg a few years back. Feel like such a lardass and my old clothes don't fit properly anymore. I enjoy hunting but nowadays if I do proper stalking in the forest (which usually involves 9+ hours of climbing around in steep country) my knees take a particularly terrible beating. Need to turn this around before it gets worse. Cravings at night after I take medications are the main culprit. Will be seeing a free local health coach tomorrow.
 
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When talking about weight loss a under discussed concept is how weight is gained/lost in terms of mass rather than energy. A calorie is energy in the form of a chemical bond, it has no mass. There is one way to gain weight and three ways to loose weight. Weight is gained by eating and or drinking food. If one drinks half a liter of water they now weigh an extra 500 grams. To loose weight the mass has to go somewhere. Only healthy ways to loose weight is by sweating, breathing, and going to the bathroom. When fat is used for energy the excess carbon is expelled as C02 via breathing and anything else stored in the fat that can't be used is pissed or shit out.
Thinking about weight loss in terms of the weight of what one eats helps drive home why portion control is such an important factor. Also why daily or even weekly weigh ins can make it hard to see how much fat is lost since between water and what is being digested there can be a swing of up to ~2kg. Next time you are about to take a really big crap weigh yourself before and after.
Weight loss has always been out versus in be it mass or calories. Fancy or complicated diets can't magically bypass basic chemistry oxygen + sugar = C02 + water. If there are no sugars from food available then fat is used. Find a diet and activity plan that works well with ones life style to become a routine.
 
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I started losing weight when I traveled earlier this year and have finally dropped my weight down to the healthy BMI range with good old fashioned calorie countin' and workin' hard 5 nights a week. Had to readjust my carbs to proteins ratio a few times, but just counting with an old version of the Samsung health app that still has the weight manager and eating better quality foods has gotten me through it.
I did plateau for some stretches of time but I didn't start too terribly overweight so I think that partially contributed to the slowness that I lost weight at. Though at the same time, going super duper slow makes it easier to keep off.

But I'm happy and I did it without doing anything drastic like cutting carbs to the point of giving up my favorite foods or fasting. I have a diet now that I would be content living the rest of my life with.

If you're looking for something to replace frozen treats with I would recommend fruit bars like Outshine. Their watermelon, coffee, and chocolate bars are amazingly good and helped me kick cravings for ice cream and chocolate.
 
Successfully done intermittent fasting the last couple of days (keeping eating to a small window in the evening).
Just need to keep that up for the most part for the next few months and should see some significant loss of fat. Usually a lot of weight is lost in the first couple of days but it is not fat, it is apparently water weight. The actual weight loss occurs a bit later and it goes at a lot slower pace.
Registration said:
>Fasting 24h
>yesterday when I woke up: 85kg
>still fasting
>83kg

Almost 48 hours since my last meal, I still could go if I wasn't alone in the house and there is still food to be eaten, or it will spoil.

Living alone would make fasting really easy.
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So in this case, that 2kg lost is not all fat. Maybe a small percentage might be fat. So don't lose hope when the weight loss slows down. Probably not necessary to fast for such a long time either. Going to that extreme 2 day + fasts might backfire.
 
N hollandicus said:
Successfully done intermittent fasting the last couple of days (keeping eating to a small window in the evening).
Just need to keep that up for the most part for the next few months and should see some significant loss of fat. Usually a lot of weight is lost in the first couple of days but it is not fat, it is apparently water weight. The actual weight loss occurs a bit later and it goes at a lot slower pace.

So in this case, that 2kg lost is not all fat. Maybe a small percentage might be fat. So don't lose hope when the weight loss slows down. Probably not necessary to fast for such a long time either. Going to that extreme 2 day + fasts might backfire.
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I doubt it is water weight, since when fasting I usually double or triple the quantity of water I drink every day (normal is 4-5L).

my problem is when I finish a fast I eat more than usual, so I need to keep eating little in these intervals.
 
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Thinking about weight loss in terms of the weight of what one eats helps drive home why portion control is such an important factor.
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I see what you're going for, but this is ultimately misguided. Your body is very good at maintaining homeostasis, except when it comes to energy rich foods. Most people probably drink 5 pounds of water per day; your body doesn't hold on to that. Food is the exception, because our evolutionary history was energy-poor. Your body is good at getting rid of excess mass, that's what shitting is for.

We think about weight loss in terms of energy because that is how your body treats it--it has as much carbon as it needs to create new fat molecules; the limiting ingredient is not mass, it's energy. If I ask how much Koolaid we can make, the amount of Koolaid packs we have is a lot more important than how much water we can get our hands on.

A pound of body fat is 3,500 calories, but let's put things in terms of pounds of fat and not calories. Eating a pound of butter will add pretty close to that--about 13/14ths of a pound --which makes a lot of sense, since butter is also animal fat, minus a little for all the work your body needs to do to process it. Eating a pound of chicken breast or bread will add about half a pound. Eating a pound of carrots will add less than 1/14th of a pound. Eating a pound of spinach will add less than 1/30th of a pound.

The mass is way less important than what it is you're eating.
 
Just checking in now. I am currently at 126 pounds. Finally at a healthy BMI which took about two years going from borderline morbid obesity to healthy body weight (for my height, not body frame). Despite my ambitious goal to weigh 117 by December 9th, that ain't gonna happen. At my weight, it is best to stick to losing half a pound a week instead of a pound and a quarter when I was overweight/obese. I used to lose five pounds a month, now I lose around three pounds a month which is still progress. I can see some of my bones which creep me the fridge out. I still have a pot belly from PCOS.

Slow and steady wins the race, folks. Just keep going at it. Slow progress is still progress.
 
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Anyone just fasting 16/18 hours a day, period? I skip my breakfast and have black coffee, as I hate making breakfast, and then eat a lunch around 12-1 and dinner before 8. It's simple and easy, but I still kinda just.. feel fat and inflated. Sure I eat candy now and then which I didnt before I started fasting, but surely fasting 18 hours every single day should sort of regulate that.

I can go completely cold turkey and eat only chicken and rice for a few days and sort of hit my normal, but sometimes I just fluctuate. The less I eat, the more interested I become in cooking. Very odd, given after losing 45lb on a 1300 kcal diet, I started hating having to cook and eat.
 
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