Gained weight with intermittent fasting

[Anonymous]

It’s pretty obvious that you are losing and just don’t realize how big you were.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You need to power through that first day when you are hungry all the time. And increase your fasting window.
I mean you had all day to eat!

I'm ALREADY hungry all the time, though. If I increase my fasting window (and I have gone as long as 18 hours before), I'm light-headed and nauseated. Water doesn't help.

Here is how. In order for ghrelin non to be kicking your butt, you need to stop eating breakfast or dinner. Don't have it for a couple of days, at all. You are making yourself be hungry by eating in the evening. You are not actually needing the food, your body remembers that it eats during that time and it sends you the signals that you are hungry, but your don't need it. At all.
Since you are lightheaded, take a handful of salt, and chug that down with water. Take tea or coffee, black no milk no sugar. You are making yourself hungry bcs you are actually eating all the time. I see nothing that is IF in your routine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to power through that first day when you are hungry all the time. And increase your fasting window.
I mean you had all day to eat!

I'm ALREADY hungry all the time, though. If I increase my fasting window (and I have gone as long as 18 hours before), I'm light-headed and nauseated. Water doesn't help.

Here is how. In order for ghrelin non to be kicking your butt, you need to stop eating breakfast or dinner. Don't have it for a couple of days, at all. You are making yourself be hungry by eating in the evening. You are not actually needing the food, your body remembers that it eats during that time and it sends you the signals that you are hungry, but your don't need it. At all.
Since you are lightheaded, take a handful of salt, and chug that down with water. Take tea or coffee, black no milk no sugar. You are making yourself hungry bcs you are actually eating all the time. I see nothing that is IF in your routine.

I don't eat breakfast. Just black coffee. Is that screwing me up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty obvious that you are losing and just don’t realize how big you were.

I've seen photos. I think I realize now.

[Anonymous]

How can you eats 500 calorie salad with no dressing? Are there three portions of chicken on it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty obvious that you are losing and just don’t realize how big you were.

I've seen photos. I think I realize now.

It sounds like you should also work with your therapist around this stuff. It seems like some of this is psychological than anything else.

[Anonymous]

You have a lifetime of feeding your body and your body learned to eat a huge volume of food, whenever you wanted, no?
You have to reprogram your body to stop secreting ghrelin nonstop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty obvious that you are losing and just don’t realize how big you were.

I've seen photos. I think I realize now.

It sounds like you should also work with your therapist around this stuff. It seems like some of this is psychological than anything else.

It's actually working from home for 15 years. I have zero willpower and being near the kitchen 24/7 has killed me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can you eats 500 calorie salad with no dressing? Are there three portions of chicken on it?

A huge bowl + veggies + chicken + olives + whatever. It adds up, and lettuce isn't very filling unless there's a lot of it.

[Anonymous]

when your body is in starvation mode, it holds its fat to survive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:when your body is in starvation mode, it holds its fat to survive.

I'm not in starvation mode.

[Anonymous]

Are you always so argumentative and "know it all" like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty obvious that you are losing and just don’t realize how big you were.

I've seen photos. I think I realize now.

Okay so now you know it is working. I think this whole thread is your brain trying to trick you into not staying on track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you always so argumentative and "know it all" like?

I mean, yes, I know more about what I'm doing than strangers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty obvious that you are losing and just don’t realize how big you were.

I've seen photos. I think I realize now.

Okay so now you know it is working. I think this whole thread is your brain trying to trick you into not staying on track.

I think I'm just terrified it's not.