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[–] karmatic 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Serious question: have you tried fasting - like, serious fasting?

I'm personally a fan of "The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended". I like that particular book because it's written with input from a clinic in Toronto that does dietary intervention for people who are seriously overweight.

After about three days, hunger ends up turning off. You have to watch your electrolytes a bit, and insulin medication for diabetics, but it's one of the most sustainable weight loss approaches long-term. Our ancestors spent a lot of time with intermittent (involuntary) fasting. We aren't really wired for any food we want, all the time.

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[–] anoncastillo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Right now I'm trying the low carb thing. Going too long without any food gives me serious headaches, but cutting back on carbs was surprisingly easy. And I do construction work so not eating while having to do heavy lifting at work is probably not a good idea, most I could do is fast on weekends.

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[–] Broc_Lia ago 

Low carb worked wonders for me: I lost 20kg (44lbs) last year doing that. Probably could have done more if I really wanted.

Some tips: Cheese is a great snack food and jello makes you full. Also carbonated water. If you're craving something sweet drink diet soft drinks. They're essentially just flavoured water with sweeteners. Just a note of caution: If you're losing weight to manage diabetes, sweeteners can still screw with your insulin.

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[–] Majorfatboy 2 points 0 points (+2|-2) ago 

If You can actually get away with fasting in this day, that means You're a worthless fuck with no job to go to. Spend days not eating and still have the energy to go to work? Yeah, no. I'm not stupid enough to skip eating for a few days and stick My hands anywhere near the metal-cutting equipment I work with. "Our ancestors" weren't "fasting", they were starving peasants who's daily responsibilities involved dragging a fucking rake across Their master's fields.

Fasting is a meme for NEETs on /fit/ to jerk off to.

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[–] andrew_white_forever 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I've been eating about three days per week for a month now, but I do white collar work.

Actually in a way it makes it easier to focus because I have less physical energy.

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[–] karmatic 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If You can actually get away with fasting in this day, that means You're a worthless fuck with no job to go to.

Or, it means you've reached the point where you're keto-adapted, and your body burns fat for energy instead of carbs. You know, like it's designed to do.

Yeah, no. I'm not stupid enough to skip eating for a few days and stick My hands anywhere near the metal-cutting equipment I work with.

Good for you.

One test involved athletes doing an every-other-day fast, with caloric restriction to 600 calories on fast days. They had the athletes perform tests to exhaustion in order to measure oxygen consumption, as well as other markers like heart rate.

Fasting left the athletes less fatigued, lowered blood lactate levels (better recovery), had an increased tolerance for workloads (increased stress tolerance). They also lost a lot more fat than muscle.

"Our ancestors" weren't "fasting", they were starving peasants who's daily responsibilities involved dragging a fucking rake across Their master's fields.

Depends on the ancestors. Many were nomadic, and the ones that weren't still had to deal with winters, fires, and other threats to the food supply. The body gets more efficient during fasting, not less. We have fat reserves for a reason - people still had work to do in the winter, including trying to find food to hunt. If our bodies shut down when we didn't have food, we'd die. Instead, it makes us feel uncomfortable so we do something about it, then switches from storing fat to burning it, because that's what the fuck it was designed to do.

Fasting is a meme for NEETs on /fit/ to jerk off to.

I'll do a 50 mile bike ride fasted. If you lack the willpower to go without food, that's fine, but don't pretend that our bodies are designed to have to eat every 5 hours or be dysfunctional.