anyone here tried fasting?
weigh 250lb and want to drop as much of it as possible this summer, want to do a water fast over the summer but I want to hear some personal experience
Anyone here tried fasting?
Charles Brooks
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Isaiah Diaz
slow and steady, or you will eat it back
Aiden Torres
Honestly i have done some fasts. It seems really hard at the start but u get used to it. If i was u i would eat rice,potato, beans and loads of complex carbs. Reduce fat intake. Hit the gym. Do loads of cardio. Good luck on ur weight loss.
Jacob Taylor
>slow and steady, or you will eat it back
Aye I've heard that happens
>Good luck on ur weight loss.
dank you
Levi Cooper
dude that's fucking stupid
only way to lose weight is eat less. its calories in, calories out. Don't fall for any of the other memes.
A caloric deficit of 500 calories off of your daily needs equates to losing a pound per week, (find your daily necessary caloric intake by looking a calorie calculator on like myplate or some shit)
You can lose only 2 pounds per week before it starts getting dangerous, and losing too much weight too quickly means loose skin.
To get rid of water weight, cut the sodium in your diet. Or exercise.
But yeah, that's it. Doesn't matter what you eat (you should eat healthy anyway, but considering you're 250 lbs I highly doubt you would), just that you eat less. Even exercise isn't necessary. (again, you should exercise anyway.)
None of this is hard, it's just eating less.
yeah, so get to losing the weight. good luck
Gavin Parker
I've done a 5 day fast and it felt dangerous (I also never felt so hungry in my entire life).
I'd say it's good to re-calibrate your sense of hunger and it's better than nothing, but it can only serve as a start and not as a mean to itself.
Jack Ross
lol bullshit, ignore these fucks, OP, fasting is absolutely god-tier
first two days are the hardest, especially if you're one of those grazers who constantly snacks on something during the day, but then you get used to it and you stop feeling hungry altogether. You may get a bit dizzy, some headaches at first, so make sure you get your electrolytes in if you want to go for more than three or four days
I don't do long fasts anymore because I reached my goal weight and I'm technically underweight now, but I'll still do a 48hr every two weeks because it feels fantastic
Avoid carbs on a refeed if you don't want to feel like complete shit afterwards, and absolutely don't get a huge meal when you break your fast, maybe go with some bone broth and work up from that, because you really don't want to risk refeed syndrome
Word of advice though, if you have an addictive personality maybe it's not the way to go because you're at a higher risk of developing eating disorders
Xavier Barnes
>I'd say it's good to re-calibrate your sense of hunger
tbf that needs to be done, I never feel satiated
Oliver Johnson
Hog in the pic is prime fuck material. Whoever's plowing that, lucky dude.
Andrew Jenkins
>so make sure you get your electrolytes in if you want to go for more than three or four days
aye got multivits and electrolytes in my shopping basket
want to go as long as pos, and I mean upwards of a few months
from what I've read I should do keto-IF first for a week before going into fasts if I want to do an extended fast
Asher Peterson
I went from 180 to 140 in a month. I fasted 2 weeks and just drank water and went for walks every night. I ate one meal after 2 weeks which was just a protein shake then did another 2 week fast and was done.
Cameron Parker
Carson Thompson
doesn't work nigga
Connor Gray
>hurr eat less calories in calories out
Fasting is eating NOTHING so if less calories is better wouldn't 0 (zero) be the best? Fasting is literally eating the least amount possible. (nothing) Did you even fucking read the OP?
Brandon Martinez
i was 260 at my heaviest and am 155 now. it took years but i was smart about it for the most part. worked out and just ate less calories/junk food. it doesnt work starving yourself in the long term desu but ive been down that road before too. have patience bro, its much better to lose weight being smart and healthy and learning to love yourself is apart of it. starving will make you hate losing weight and keep hating yorself likely while doing it in a dedicated manner you can learn to appreciate your hard work instead
Jordan Cruz
this month i fasted for 72 hours and i felt like i was gonna die in the last 4 hours
Xavier Price
It works well. You have to change your habits while doing it as well. Or you will get fat again if you do the same shit that got you fat.
Gavin Gutierrez
If you fast a day or something it's okay. Hi remember that after that you'll want to gorge on something high energy next day, so you'll have to be extra disciplined. Treat it as a booster, something you do for a day every 2 weeks.
William Peterson
>fasting
You'll gain it all back. And probably more.
Just eat healthy and exercise. You know how to do that. Do it.
Parker Campbell
Make sure to do a little research, ie taking supplements and taking some salt or something, im not sure how it works exactly but you need to drink salt water or take salt tablets or something if you fast.
I'd start with intermittent fasting. I usually only eat once a day so it ends up being at least 20 hour fasts every day. There's always a time where the hunger really hits you, as long as you can make it over that hump it subsides pretty quickly in my experience. If you can deal with that easily, it should be realistic.
Lucas Martinez
>Fasting is eating NOTHING so if less calories is better wouldn't 0 (zero) be the best?
In a pure mathematical way, yeah.
In real life, no.
If you go too much into caloric deficit you're going to pay for it.
As soon as you stop it (and you'll have to stop it sooner or later) your body will be craving for calories like you can't imagine.
And most people can't handle it and go back to eating like pigs with a vengeance due to the entire time they were in extreme caloric deficit.
t. guy who in his late teens went for a while eating 500-1000 kcal per day plus some cardio every day (riding my bicycle at least 4km a day, plus what I normally walked)