David Harper
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For over a year I've been doing intermittent fasting. I eat once a day and nothing at all for the other 23 hours. I lost about ten lbs. from doing this but I was already pretty thin to start with (my BMI is 23-24). I'm 5' 10" and 160 lbs. I didn't do it to lose weight but to see if it offered any other benefits.
I exercise everyday both resistance and cardio ( on a bike). I'm an old guy.
The difference I notice is the way I generally feel. I feel happier most of the time. It occurred to me that the way Americans eat is unnatural. Most of us eat too much and too often. I did a lot of research about this what's interesting is for 100,000 years of evolution when humans got hungry they had to go out and kill something. If you or I had to do that we'de be eating a lot less often. Maybe once a day?
Another thing I learned is when our body isn't digesting food our metabolism re-directs it's activity to other things like eliminating toxins, burning fat, replacing old cells with new ones, and a bunch of other stuff. It is now thought that we were never designed to eat more or less constantly the way most Americans do today.
Anthropologists who studied primitive cultures (hunter-gatherers) say that obesity, heart disease, type two diabetes, etc. are virtually unknown in these societies. The same diseases that are prevalent in America today. Also, obviously, those people don't have McDonalds.
Also I quit eating garbage. Sugar, fast food, donuts, candy, cookies, cake, soda, etc.
This wasn't nearly as hard to do as I thought it would be. At first it was tough, but I quickly got used to it and now it's no problem at all. I do have an issue with alcohol I drink straight vodka in water. I never get drunk and I strictly limit the amount I drink by measuring it accurately with a one-ounce measuring cup.
I chose vodka after reading that it was one of the only drinks that doesn't contain any garbage in it (gluten, carbs, sugar, etc.) An interesting thing is that there's never a hangover from vodka in water. (If you start mixing with crap like soda, tomatoe juice. orange juice etc. then all bets are off).
Apparently it's not alcohol that causes a hangover it's all the other stuff that people mix with it. Vodka only contains two molecules; H2o and ethyl alcohol. I want to continue to blabber on and on about all this but in the interest of not boring the reader I'll end it here.
I exercise everyday both resistance and cardio ( on a bike). I'm an old guy.
The difference I notice is the way I generally feel. I feel happier most of the time. It occurred to me that the way Americans eat is unnatural. Most of us eat too much and too often. I did a lot of research about this what's interesting is for 100,000 years of evolution when humans got hungry they had to go out and kill something. If you or I had to do that we'de be eating a lot less often. Maybe once a day?
Another thing I learned is when our body isn't digesting food our metabolism re-directs it's activity to other things like eliminating toxins, burning fat, replacing old cells with new ones, and a bunch of other stuff. It is now thought that we were never designed to eat more or less constantly the way most Americans do today.
Anthropologists who studied primitive cultures (hunter-gatherers) say that obesity, heart disease, type two diabetes, etc. are virtually unknown in these societies. The same diseases that are prevalent in America today. Also, obviously, those people don't have McDonalds.
Also I quit eating garbage. Sugar, fast food, donuts, candy, cookies, cake, soda, etc.
This wasn't nearly as hard to do as I thought it would be. At first it was tough, but I quickly got used to it and now it's no problem at all. I do have an issue with alcohol I drink straight vodka in water. I never get drunk and I strictly limit the amount I drink by measuring it accurately with a one-ounce measuring cup.
I chose vodka after reading that it was one of the only drinks that doesn't contain any garbage in it (gluten, carbs, sugar, etc.) An interesting thing is that there's never a hangover from vodka in water. (If you start mixing with crap like soda, tomatoe juice. orange juice etc. then all bets are off).
Apparently it's not alcohol that causes a hangover it's all the other stuff that people mix with it. Vodka only contains two molecules; H2o and ethyl alcohol. I want to continue to blabber on and on about all this but in the interest of not boring the reader I'll end it here.
