I lost my belly fat by intermittent fasting

Been trying 16 hours moderate fasting still no change in stubborn belly fat.

I will up it to absolutely no food meaning not even a carb free cheat like a few pork rinds.

I'll just have coffee in the morning and that's it until 2pm.

Been doing moderate Keto/low carb for almost a year and dropped 50 pounds but the last 5 pounds have taken like maybe 2 months and that's with starting a little bit of jogging and/or weights.

Last Edited by TexasPaleo on 11/29/2018 09:28 PM

Me too!

OK help me never stand your schedule.
Go though it for me. I don't understand the 22/2.
Tell me when you eat and when you don't and if you consume anything at all while fasting. Go day by day through a 7 day schedule for me please.

Help me understand. Sorry autocorrect.

Same here. 84 pounds in 6 months, with several vacation weeks of eating everything and not fasting. Doing the fasting and one meal a day I lose 1-2 pounds every day. I also have the cheat weekends.

Thanks for sharing

Everyone starts where they are - I have a friend that is not convince and wants to do something after the dorado the year.

I was the same - TOTALLY unconvinced it could possible work as I had been a gym person with six meals a day when ai was in shape in the past.

So - I saw it here on GLP - God Bless that person - gave enough background that ai took him seriously so I gave it the GLP benefit of the doubt

Started just not eating breakfast. Coffee 5-8 am whenever (and I cheat an put my organic MOLLASSES in it and a big spoon of coconut oil)
This is somewhat what I did and recommended to my friend :
Coffee and no food before 10 am (I work at home a lot)
Then a week or two later - 11 am ... Then awhile later - NOON
I have my second cup of "enriched" coffee at noon
We stopped BREAD - the worst food on earth I now think.
Then I did some more youtubes and decided to do the shortened "eating window" I didnt lose weight yet but felt good.
So then I decided I could not eat until 1, then 2 then 3 and now even if I cheat Inrarely eat anything before 3 or 4 - I watch the clock.
So let's say I decide to eat at 5 after all day no food - water coffee and tea with stevia only.
If I eat at 5 I might have a big salad - with hard boiled eggs and cheese and ceasar dressing (high fat- low CARB.
Then a meat and some veggies ... Then some sugar-free pudding made with half n half - so Ineat whatever I want and it takes a couple hours and then DONE if I eat for 5-7 then I am fasting 22 hours and eating 2 a day.

Big meals get harder and harder to eat - your stomach shrinks and you can't eat half your plate sometimes!
SHOCKER - We had MORE energy on fasting days !!!
And we worked physically at our jobs then too ( I was up and down ladders all day)
My husbands arthritis felt better! He actually wAs pleasant most of the time during fasting - not HANGRY - ( then he decided to go KETO and for KETO FLU for a couple days )
Intermittent fasting is based on the principal that you have to let the body TAKE OUT THE TRASH before you stuff more in!

We slept better
More energy even after weeks!
Didn't miss food or cleaning up
Saved money on vacation - no 3 meals out!
Spent the time taking walks instead of eating
Anything to keep from sitting or eating - worked our big garden
ONE MEAL A DAY!

Studies show after just 16 hours fasting there is a long term benefit from recovery and detox - the body REPAIRS ITSELF when it's EMPTY !
But don't get in the way when it's time to eat!

I told my friend - before OMAD you can do two meals - 5-6 hours apart - time to digest - like maybe 1 pm lunch and 6 pm dinner . Still 18 hours fasting . I had low blood sugar and NEVER could go without eating before.
There is less blood sugar spikes with NO food than with small meals - AND studies show less muscle loss - all fat loss on IF diets.

I rewarded myself with pie if I wanted it or whatever.

Always choose higher FAT lower CARB choices so you can get to KETO later . Thats another step where your body runs on FATS and not CARBS

We eat a LOT- but the fridge stays full and we don't have to get as many groceries . Husband saving on lunches at drivethru - and if he is running late or wants to eat - he gets a whole cooked chicken and eats it as he drives around for work. Cheaper than a sub .

Every meal fills you like Thanksgiving and you sleep like a baby.

I didn't want extreme weightloss because I had a friend that did some injections program at a docs and was left with sagging hanging skin and it never tightened. (She had tonher surgery to remove it).

I want my skin to shrink as I do. So I cheat whenever I want. I still am down two jeans sizes and I am confident I can lose over the next year to my desired weight - maybe even a little more the next year after that to a tiny waist. Husband is down to his tightest hole on his belt - will have to buy a smaller belt soon. His arthritis is NOT flaring with the cold so far this year.

Watch Dr Berg

Intermittent Fasting and it's healing properties

We feel younger and better. We will NEVER eat all that crap and 3 meals in one day again haha.

Sorry typos - tiny phone - goodnight - late for me

I used intermittent fasting to help me lose weight in my early 20’s. I went from 210 lbs to around 160 in a year. Intermittent fasting coupled with a healthy diet and excise can work wonders. I started with 12/12, then 16/8 and all the way up to 24 hr fast. For the 24 hour fast, I would eat a massive lunch and then wouldn’t eat until lunch the next day. Would make sure to drink a ton of water to help with hunger “pains” but hey eventually went away entirely. I’d also sometimes workout in the morning before ending my 24 hour fast and those workout were always the best.

I totally suggest it to anyone struggling with weight loss or if you seem to have plateaued on your workoust. Trying to get back into it. We’ll see, life has been crazy recently.

The trick is you end at say around 8 pm

Then you go to bed most do before 10 or 11

You sleep wake up around 6 or 8 am then you start again around 11 or noon

So you are sleeping most of the fasting part

It does work, is easy to stick with once you get use to it

Helps with all kinds of problems

Improved mental clarity and concentration.
Weight and body fat loss.
Lowered blood insulin and sugar levels.
Reversal of type 2 diabetes.
Increased energy.
Improved fat burning.
Increased growth hormone.
Lowered blood cholesterol

I have done about well nearly 16 hours - still got a muffin top



#the internet lied to me

Haha and the Blessed Mother over in Medjugorje (circa 1981 to the present) that’s in the former Yugoslavia, think Marian apparitions in Lourdes, think Fatima) has stressed fasting on bread and water 2 days a week since back in 1981 as a path to holiness. My ex used to be so pissed off that I did this, that he actually had his attorneys include this “fasting” as some kind of proof of I’m not sure what in the divorce papers. He didn’t want me weird enough to give him custody, of course, he didn’t want the cost of getting custody of 3 kids, what a stingy narcissicist!!) but I guess to show how weird it was. As I said then and say now, pray for those who persecute you. I was ahead of my time, thanks to Mary’s special intercession for us from God.

i started eating only dinner when i was a child...i knew that in the future i would need this.
no sodas, as little sugar as possible.
once i eat i go to sleep.

if i try to eat a lunch, it makes me sleepy.
so only at night a couple of hours before turning in.

at any given moment, our bodies are doing ONE of two things:
digesting or detoxifying.

when you eat, your body STOPS detoxifying and begins digesting.
once digestion is over, the body fully resumes the detoxifying.


so i prefer to stay in the latter mode.
food bogs me down.
i feel better when my stomach is empty.

sometimes i drink water and think its the closest thing to the right food, the food we are supposed to have, not this stuff here we all have to eat.
maybe a mix of light and water, something like that.

you ever really watch people when they eat?
its truly disgusting.
and all the WORK we have to put into eating, the dirty dishes the energy expended gathering and fixing and eating and cleaning up after..it just seems wrong.
all that time spent just dealing with food is just wrong.
its like we are distracted from something because we are having to feed this bodies.
and its not even the right food.
idk, i have issues i guess.

i feed my husband well though, he just loves to eat.
makes me happy to see him happy and full.

ladies can also wear waist beads....

since ancient times, they have been used for several reasons one of which is weight loss.

when the beads roll up, you are gaining weight.
when they roll down you are losing it.
no need for a scale.

they are truly beautiful, im even making them at home.
im so in love with waist beads@!

I've been doing the "Bulletproof" coffee for breakfast thing for the last few weeks (a pint of drip coffee (Taylor's of Harrogate, of course) with whipped double cream and organic coconut oil - delicious!) combined with a 5-hour eating window (noon to 5pm) during which I will eat one or two small meals.

I think it's working, and it's easy to do (if you like fatty coffee.)

drink spices in water

ginger

chilli powder will rid you of cancer

and cholesterol

baking soda

ACV

apple cider vinegar

detox teas

coffee causes MUCUS

wheat causes mucus

organic food only

sugar is a killer

get on that

Hydrogen Peroxide Food Grade

rids all candida

1. aeon (n.) (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.

I've started my New Year's resolution early. Ate way too much this Thanksgiving and don't want to get slammed with even more pounds this Christmas.

Here are my questions: I did keto over a year ago to lose a stubborn 10 - 15 lbs and have nearly gained it all back - which is so frustrating that I don't know I want to do keto again. After I lose the weight, how do I keep it off? I'm in my 40s, will I need to change my diet permanently?

Also, I haven't reached menopause yet but have friends that have and they say it's nearly impossible to lose the weight after menopause - especially belly fat because of hormones. Does intermittent fasting help or hinder a woman's hormonal balance? In other words, if I go off the diet, will the weight (and then some) come back?

What about exercise? While on keto I had a hard time losing those final lbs, my friend (who was also on keto) said it was because I exercise too much and the body holds onto the weight with too much exercise - I've googled and found conflicting information on this. With intermittent fasting, can I still engage in moderate exercise? (I walk about 3 - 5 miles a day).

Ah to be 40 again!
It gets harder to lose weight as we age - but I think people give up easier and just DECIDE they are OLD and give up

You are as young as you are ever going to get!

Physical exercise is good ! It is one of the secrets to health!

Hormones are hormones and menopause is different for everyone - but fasting is good to prevent disease - it's not just for vanity.

you need to do a RADICAL DETOX

OR YOU WILL NOT LOOSE THE WEIGHT

this will effect your body

and your Mind

stay away from GMO VEG

PESTICIDES

nitrates etc

will do you in

Chilli Powder and GINGER with water

flush flush flush

that EMBEDDED MUCUS

that you call 'fat'

caused by SUGAR

they put in EVERYTHING

FAST LIKE FFFFFFFFF

Hydrogen Peroxide Food Grade

Should destroy the cancerous cells

and

ACTIVATED CHARCOAL

LOOK INTO IT

This is decent advice.

Learning to deny the self allows more to be denied.

Eating food is only one of many addictive forms of consumption.

I thought you weren't supposed to ingest H2O2, even if it is "Food Grade?"

Also, how do you use activated charcoal, if I may ask?

After reading this thread, I decided to try keto.

Yesterday, I did keto along with eating in a eight hour window and lost two pounds my first day.

I will try this for the next six weeks, as I need to get into a bathing suit in Florida then.

So you all want skinny corpses?
Meat eating is bad for the heart, kidneys and digestion. True carnivores have short colons.
Complex carbs, legumes and veggies, all organic. Go vegan to prevent or cure cancer.
Don't forget that the Bible forbids eating blood for a reason. You'll be ripped in hell, though.

Last Edited by Menrfa on 11/30/2018 08:52 AM

Thanks man.

I drink black coffee in the morning. Start eating meal 12 pm and my last meal is around 5 pm. I drink water in the evening. I run 3 miles a day, 10 pull ups, 20 push ups. That's it. Started doing some youtube 6 pack exercises. Now only have 4 lol.

I did the same. Lost 40 lbs. total! Nothing worked prior to intermittent fasting. The first week was the most difficult. After that it was freaking EASY!

The weight loss has been since March of this year, and I've kept it off so far.

Feeling GREAT, too!

Coffee for breakfast. Normal lunch. Normal dinner, but I make sure I have a high veggie/bean healthy dense soup with whatever the meal is. This keeps me full without being high-calorie, and no temptation to snack after my eating window closes, usually around 7 pm.

I hydrate often, with water and sometimes coffee or tea.