Fasting

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Slight necro but I do a little fasts of like 2 days, but have done longer for spiritual and health reasons, and after 2 days I feel the biggest sense of hunger subsides. I read the memories of a Finnish POW who almost died of hunger, and he wrote that after like a week you dont even feel hungry, you just get really tired until you just slip away. I was introduced to fasting by a book by Teo Snellman (who also incidentally wrote Holocaust revisionist books), and according to him fasting has healing properties. I am not sure about that, but for sure our ancestors could go without stuffing their faces all the time, I don't know if constant snacking is healthy or natural. I fast every week or every other week and feel it benefits you, after a fast you feel refreshed, hard to describe.
 
Assburger Apocalypse said:
Slight necro but I do a little fasts of like 2 days, but have done longer for spiritual and health reasons, and after 2 days I feel the biggest sense of hunger subsides. I read the memories of a Finnish POW who almost died of hunger, and he wrote that after like a week you dont even feel hungry, you just get really tired until you just slip away. I was introduced to fasting by a book by Teo Snellman (who also incidentally wrote Holocaust revisionist books), and according to him fasting has healing properties. I am not sure about that, but for sure our ancestors could go without stuffing their faces all the time, I don't know if constant snacking is healthy or natural. I fast every week or every other week and feel it benefits you, after a fast you feel refreshed, hard to describe.
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As someone already mentioned in this thread previously, be careful with fasting for extended periods of time.
I used to hate eating breakfast or lunch. My first meal of the day would be around the time I got back home from work. I'd have one meal, gp to the gym and then call it a day. My macro nutrients were pretty good and I even managed to maintain some of my muscle mass.
After 7 years of eating like this I decided to bulk up and put my body in a calorie surplus (3600-4000 cal a day). And because I'm a fucking retard I didn' do it step by step, I went all in. The pain and discomfort my body felt from the sudden change is something I want to forget. I'd get cramps so bad I felt I was going to die. There were days where I couldn't keep the food I ate down. I don't wanna get into too much detail into how gross the whole ordeal was. Just be careful. As good as fasting is, I don't believe you should practice it for extended periods of time like my dumb ass did.
 
how is fasting even real? lol just stop eating whole pizzas, like put the fork down nigga
 
I like fasting for weightloss, I do Omad (one meal a day) and it works great. That being said I don't think it's that healthy. I'm super tired and its incredibly hard to get in all the Protein you need. I been on 4 day water fast as well, i think the only "fast" I would do as a life style would be skipping breakfast and avoiding snacking.
 
HorseGirlSupremacy said:
I like fasting for weightloss, I do Omad (one meal a day) and it works great. That being said I don't think it's that healthy. I'm super tired and its incredibly hard to get in all the Protein you need. I been on 4 day water fast as well, i think the only "fast" I would do as a life style would be skipping breakfast and avoiding snacking.
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I don't fast for weight loss, just to improve my willpower, spiritual reason (pretty much every religion gives spiritual significance to fasting) and that good feeling you get after you fast for a few days. Instead of eating 0 calories just eat 500 or 1000, guaranteed to burn fat faster, if you just go full starvation mode your body starts preserving the existing fat.

Gregor Samsa said:
As someone already mentioned in this thread previously, be careful with fasting for extended periods of time.
I used to hate eating breakfast or lunch. My first meal of the day would be around the time I got back home from work. I'd have one meal, gp to the gym and then call it a day. My macro nutrients were pretty good and I even managed to maintain some of my muscle mass.
After 7 years of eating like this I decided to bulk up and put my body in a calorie surplus (3600-4000 cal a day). And because I'm a fucking retard I didn' do it step by step, I went all in. The pain and discomfort my body felt from the sudden change is something I want to forget. I'd get cramps so bad I felt I was going to die. There were days where I couldn't keep the food I ate down. I don't wanna get into too much detail into how gross the whole ordeal was. Just be careful. As good as fasting is, I don't believe you should practice it for extended periods of time like my dumb ass did.
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For sure, I just fast a few days, I have no intention of going week or more to become Auschwitz inmate. I had a girlfriend at one point who starved herself and it was really rough on her. I'll learn from the mistakes of others. I merely quoted the inmate to bring up an interesting point, not to imitate him in any way.
 
I dates a competitive body builder and two to three weeks before a compation he would fast including highly restricted water as this help show the muscle definition. He won his completions but I think he suffered doing it.
 
I fast one day a year.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
how is fasting even real? lol just stop eating whole pizzas, like put the fork down nigga
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Fasting and dietary guidance is a field full of woo garbage, but calories in : calories out is only true as a generalization and in and of itself doesn't optimize health and bodily processes. Increasingly the science is showing that time restricted eating is not just something you should do for weight loss but something that has a host of health benefits. The constant grazing that most people in developed countries engage in, enabled and encouraged by huge amounts of highly processed snacks and food advertising everywhere, is in and of itself inflammatory. Most 'diseases of civilization' are more closely linked to inflammation than anything. And if you saw those studies on calorie restriction in mice, further research is showing that most of those benefits can be obtained by time restricting calories rather than restricting them wholesale.

Constantly eating means you're constantly digesting and your body is not engaging in normal and healthy human metabolic processes including autophagy and ketosis (the diet and the wisdom of staying in a permanent state of nutritional ketosis are separate from getting your body to switch to burning ketones for fuel on a temporary/occasional basis). It would be like never sleeping, but the damage is dealt over a longer period of time in this case.

If you look at human civilizations, basically every human society that emerges from a state of constant food insecurity maintains some sort of ritual or custom where particular foods, or all foods, are periodically limited. IMO, these customs would not be so common if they did not confer some sort of benefit.
 
going to start a 14 day fast tomorrow and break it on Thanksgiving. I will recount it for reference purposes ITT if anyone cares enough
 
One of the few good restaurants around here closed, I'm sick of eating in the cafeteria constantly, and it's too expensive to cook, so I might as well start dieting/fasting again.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
how is fasting even real? lol just stop eating whole pizzas, like put the fork down nigga
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Food tastes so much better if you spend a day or two not eating first. Even the most basic unseasoned stuff. Worth trying it out sometime just for the experience.

It's a great realisation as well that simply skipping food for a day does in fact not kill you. Doesn't even fuck with your gut biome really - just have some yogurt and you're good to go again.
 
Necroing the fuck outta this.
Doing day three of water fast to yeet my fattiness from having a 'crotchfruit' as the cool kids would say. Also it's been nice to my crohn's.
I started with a keto low cal for several weeks with alt day fasting (Eating once every 24 hours). It's been fantastic. Haven't needed to take my crohn's meds.

Trying to get to seven days.

This has been my best buddy with my water:
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2 hours till I break my 48 hour weekly water fast. It's a luxury to just relax. I fast for autophagy. 78 hours would be better, but I found it cut too much into training.

For me at least, fat burning doesn't really start until 48+ hours. I lose about 2-3 pounds on 48h, which I assume is mostly water weight. But fasting moderates my appetite. Less empty carb cravings.
 
I guess you could call what I do intermittent fasting, but it's very loose and I don't follow a particular plan. I just don't eat breakfast, and wait until I'm really hungry before I start eating for the day. My schedule is wacko, so it depends on the day. I might go as little as 3 hours before I eat, or as long as 8.

I've been doing this for probably a couple years now. I experimented with different eating schedules and fasting regimes after a big diet change to improve my health. I settled on what I do now after realizing, I'm not hungry when I wake up, so why force eating? I also don't like eating when I'm distracted or rushed, so don't eat if I'm in that state.

I've considered that I may need to eat at times whether I feel like it or not, for "fueling," but have found that my energy levels and mood is fine during my fasting period. I used to cram breakfast in on days I knew I had a lot of physical activity ahead of me, because "I'll need it," but stopped for a couple weeks as an experiment. When I started eating breakfast again, I felt like crap. Bloated and sluggish all day. That's when I stopped with breakfast altogether. You really have to listen to your body and decide what works for you.

Don't get me wrong, I love breakfast foods and eat them at other times. It's also not a hard and fast rule. If I wake up and want breakfast for some reason, I'll eat it. And I am not an asshole about it if someone wants to serve me, or go out for breakfast. Old people especially, love breakfast dates. I don't tell grandma to fuck off if she wants to meet at the diner, and will have a little something so she's not gobbling pancakes alone.
 
HamFan said:
I guess you could call what I do intermittent fasting, but it's very loose and I don't follow a particular plan. I just don't eat breakfast, and wait until I'm really hungry before I start eating for the day. My schedule is wacko, so it depends on the day. I might go as little as 3 hours before I eat, or as long as 8.

I've been doing this for probably a couple years now. I experimented with different eating schedules and fasting regimes after a big diet change to improve my health. I settled on what I do now after realizing, I'm not hungry when I wake up, so why force eating? I also don't like eating when I'm distracted or rushed, so don't eat if I'm in that state.

I've considered that I may need to eat at times whether I feel like it or not, for "fueling," but have found that my energy levels and mood is fine during my fasting period. I used to cram breakfast in on days I knew I had a lot of physical activity ahead of me, because "I'll need it," but stopped for a couple weeks as an experiment. When I started eating breakfast again, I felt like crap. Bloated and sluggish all day. That's when I stopped with breakfast altogether. You really have to listen to your body and decide what works for you.

Don't get me wrong, I love breakfast foods and eat them at other times. It's also not a hard and fast rule. If I wake up and want breakfast for some reason, I'll eat it. And I am not an asshole about it if someone wants to serve me, or go out for breakfast. Old people especially, love breakfast dates. I don't tell grandma to fuck off if she wants to meet at the diner, and will have a little something so she's not gobbling pancakes alone.
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I'm similar. I try and usually 16-8. So if I wake up at 8, I'll usually start eating around 6pm after I get out of work. There are certain days where I get hungry earlier but it's not very often after doing this for the last half decade or so. It's a myth that you need a big breakfast, especially for an office job. Your body has plenty of reserves it can burn for the typical day at the office and if anything eating a massive lunch always made me sleepier.
 
Necro. the holidays are coming up and Im on a day 3 of hopefully 14 day fast lasting until Thanksgiving. By day 3 u stop really being all that hungry. electrolytes are key tho
 
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