Anyone have luck with intermittent fasting? Where you go 18 hours without eating.

[applegrove]

Then you eat only during the other six? I've started it and it is not that hard so far. Let's see if I can keep it up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Hahahahahaha! Fast? Me???

I'm on a seafood diet. I see food, I eat it.

[applegrove]

2. LOL!

[rug]

3. You might ask one of the billion Muslims who are still in Ramadan.

[NJCher]

4. did you read a book about it?

There's one with something like 5 and 2 in the title.


Cher

[mainer]

5. 24 hours isn't hard. But 48 hours is awful.

I read somewhere that you get a biological "re-set" with a 48 hour fast, so I gave it a try. Never again. You get nauseated and weak and dizzy. But 24 hours is manageable.

[femmocrat]

6. Nah.... I have a hard time with the 12-hr. fast for bloodwork!

By morning, I feel like I'm jumping out of my skin!

I'm probably wrong, but doesn't fasting like that just get rid of "water-weight"?

[Orrex]

7. No, but I'm a big fan of intermittent slowing

Usually hits me in early evening, when I take it kind of leisurely for a few hours.

[demmiblue]

8. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. -Michael Pollan

[TuxedoKat]

9. Yes

I do it. Have realized some good health benefits. Weight loss is slow though. Will PM you some more info.

[shenmue]

10. I fast for church sometimes

[pinboy3niner]

11. I think I'm on a lifelong intermittent fast

I've never been a big eater and facial injuries in young adulthood left me with dental and other deficits whch make eating more of a challenge.

I have never been overweight in my life and never had to diet. A diet tailored to my needs would mean MORE food.

At the moment I'm trying to eat more, as I've seen the telltale symptoms that I'm not eating enough--my face starting to look gaunt with cheeks starting to sink.

Of course, the root of my problem could be that I'm just not drinking enough beer.