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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 706683" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>One of Jabber's sisters has lost a LOT of weight doing intermittent fasting. She eats something like 500 calories some day and then 1700 the rest. (That's totally a guess.) So I guess it works. But, I can't imagine doing that really. In college, one of the many fad diets was fasting every other day. Literally, water or diet soda but zero calories. Unlike most fad diets, it worked. But most like most fad diets, once you went back to normal eating, you gained. We weren't learning how not to overeat you see...still eating what made us fat in the first place on our non-fasting days.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Big time. As I've said, I'm taking Metformin because I've been told I'm pre-diabetic. I was on it 3 months, was tested again and there was no change at all. I have another check up in a couple months. They say Metformin will help you lose weight. I've gained. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> But that is what it is. Even though my sugar has never been high before this...I think I've always had problems with it being low. Even when I was in my 20's, my old boss after a long trip to court once told someone, "You have to feed Lil. She get's mean if she's hungry!" In the last several years though, its gotten worse. If I go too long without eating, I actually get shaky to the point that I have trouble putting a key in a lock. It's a scary feeling, so I watch that pretty close.</p><p></p><p>When it comes to eating like our ancestors...that only goes so far. After all, our ancestors worked hard all day so they ate a ton of calories. Copa isn't at all wrong that eating like a cave man - meaning cut out all processed food, not eating raw meat and berries <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> - is a good thing. But I like to eat like my ancestors - my hard-working farmer ancestors - which unfortunately includes a lot of bacon and gravy and biscuits. LOL</p><p></p><p>The thing I liked best about WW was that you literally could eat whatever you wanted - so long as you counted it. If you wanted cake, eat cake. You might not be able to eat anything for dinner but lettuce, so you have to plan ahead, but it's doable. You have to plan ahead. WW really DID teach you how to eat, how to change your eating lifestyle. But we stopped living that new life and went back to the old one.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yep. And I hate it more than you can possibly imagine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 706683, member: 17309"] One of Jabber's sisters has lost a LOT of weight doing intermittent fasting. She eats something like 500 calories some day and then 1700 the rest. (That's totally a guess.) So I guess it works. But, I can't imagine doing that really. In college, one of the many fad diets was fasting every other day. Literally, water or diet soda but zero calories. Unlike most fad diets, it worked. But most like most fad diets, once you went back to normal eating, you gained. We weren't learning how not to overeat you see...still eating what made us fat in the first place on our non-fasting days. Big time. As I've said, I'm taking Metformin because I've been told I'm pre-diabetic. I was on it 3 months, was tested again and there was no change at all. I have another check up in a couple months. They say Metformin will help you lose weight. I've gained. :( But that is what it is. Even though my sugar has never been high before this...I think I've always had problems with it being low. Even when I was in my 20's, my old boss after a long trip to court once told someone, "You have to feed Lil. She get's mean if she's hungry!" In the last several years though, its gotten worse. If I go too long without eating, I actually get shaky to the point that I have trouble putting a key in a lock. It's a scary feeling, so I watch that pretty close. When it comes to eating like our ancestors...that only goes so far. After all, our ancestors worked hard all day so they ate a ton of calories. Copa isn't at all wrong that eating like a cave man - meaning cut out all processed food, not eating raw meat and berries ;) - is a good thing. But I like to eat like my ancestors - my hard-working farmer ancestors - which unfortunately includes a lot of bacon and gravy and biscuits. LOL The thing I liked best about WW was that you literally could eat whatever you wanted - so long as you counted it. If you wanted cake, eat cake. You might not be able to eat anything for dinner but lettuce, so you have to plan ahead, but it's doable. You have to plan ahead. WW really DID teach you how to eat, how to change your eating lifestyle. But we stopped living that new life and went back to the old one. Yep. And I hate it more than you can possibly imagine. [/QUOTE]
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