Been intermittent fasting for two weeks now. Lost maybe three or four real pounds, not water weight. My stomach feels way better. I did cheat and overeat late a day in the middle, and my stomach punished me for it. I eat first around noon then snack if I want and start eating my last meal around 530pm. I fit all eating into 6 to 8 hours, usually 6. Certainly pigging out isn't going to help me, but I definitely get to eat until full. I think the fasting time let's my stomach shrink a little each day, so then I don't need to eat as much to feel full. Never sleeping on a full stomach makes my system happier. There's some speculation that it resets your metabolism, but I haven't seen that yet. After dropping a lot of weight by simply barely eating for months, my metabolism ground to a hault. Here's hoping.
Most importantly, I think I can live this way. Because my stomach is happier, why go back to feeling miserable so often? Funk dat. Also I can basically eat what I want to. Over these two weeks, I have had ice cream, fried tacos, pizza, Vietnamese food, and such. Lots of greens, of course. I haven't been denying myself, except by the rules of when I can eat.
Also there is at least some science that says the diet works. It's really not so much a diet as it is a schedule.
Anybody else doing it?
Most importantly, I think I can live this way. Because my stomach is happier, why go back to feeling miserable so often? Funk dat. Also I can basically eat what I want to. Over these two weeks, I have had ice cream, fried tacos, pizza, Vietnamese food, and such. Lots of greens, of course. I haven't been denying myself, except by the rules of when I can eat.
Also there is at least some science that says the diet works. It's really not so much a diet as it is a schedule.
Anybody else doing it?