Good job, Nomad.
I am kinda making up my own.
I did a whole lot of studying about intermittent fasting and caloric restriction. These are the things that impressed me:
if you fast or near fast, the body uses up the glycogen store, and then of necessity burns fat. A lot of that fat is in places it should not be such as around internal organs.
The problem with most dieting is that because one eats much of the day and night the short-term glycogen stored is never depleted. The body does not ever have to turn to stored fat.
Intermittent fasting has been shown to be just as effective in weight loss as sustained caloric restriction. And is easier to do.
Even long-term fasting does not seem dangerous as once thought.
The reason I was not losing weight before is because my body over time had accommodated to the lower caloric total. I needed to shake things up.
Longer fasting intervals up to 36 hours are good for the body.
Ideally, I would like to eat one meal a day, or confine my eating to a 3 or 4 hour window, but I am not there yet.
I would love to eat less than 600 calories a day for the next few weeks. And then go on the alternate day diet or 4/3 where I keep calories at 400 3 days a week and below 1500 the other days, until I reach my goal weight.
This is my third day. I have lost weight (after remaining at a plateau 6 months.) I have more energy today, feel more upbeat, and my appetite is much reduced.
Glad you feel good Nomad. Hi everybody.
